The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-08-20
NORTHERN MEXICO
FULL OF UNREST
Political Factions Are Causing
No End of Trouble
ON MISSION TO NEW YORK
Pedro Martinez, a Prominent Mexican
Merchant, Has Taken Trip to
New York, Perhaps on
Political Mission.

Mexico City, August 19-Te1egrams from
the northern part of Mexico received in
the capital today indicate a state of I'M
rest in the border states of Coahuila and
Nueyo Leon, which is giving considerable
anxiety to the federal government.
Gen. Bernardo Reyes, governor of the
state of Nuevo Leon. who is prominently
named as a vice presidential candidate
in opposition to Ramon Corral, the incum-
bent and administration candidate for re-
ELECTION, has left the mountain resort of
Galenana for the ranch of a friend
He is practically inaccessible. Mean
While the affairs of the state of Nuevo
Leon are really in the hands of the COM
mander of the third military zone, Gen.
Geronimo Trevino. recently appointed to
that position by President Diaz.
According to a telegram received today
by Ell Heraldo, a government organ, $780,
900 was shipped yesterday to General
Reyes by Auguistin Guerro said to be a
spy in the employ of Reyes.
The transference of this large sum of
money to a mountain resort is causing
many conjectures. The Twenty-third reg
iment of infantry, under command of
Juvencio Roble, has arrived at Monterey.
A special train carrying 400 cavalrymen
and seven carloads of horses and fodder
is under sealed orders to proceed north.
Their destination is said to be the town
of Sabinas Hidalgo in the state of Goa
hula, where it is reported recent political
disturbances have m ken plapa
A telegram to an afternoon paper says
that General Reyes has resigned his post
as governor of Nuevo Leon, but this can
not be verified.
The recently removed mayor of the
city of Monterey, Pedro Martinez, is
preparing to leave for New York. The
purpose of his mission is not known. A
number of political friends of Reyes have
gone to his mountain retreat to confer
with him. The Reyesta party has petit
toned President Diaz, asking him that
future political liberty be granted in
state elections and that district officials
be punished for arbitrary actions in de-
nying the franchise right to qualified
electors. The petitioners cite the inter-
view granted to James Creeland, an
American journalist nearly two years
ago, when President Diaz was quoted as
favoring a party of opposition and as
signifying his desire to retire at the end
of this term.
The president has announced that the
petitioners should take their grievances
to the proper state officials, and, fur
Their, that where members of the party
of opposition have been arrested, it has
been for acts committed which were
prejudicial to the general order and peace
of the republic.
The official organ of the opposition,
Mexico Nuevo, has expressed the party's
sentiment of great disappointment at the
presidents reply. The latter paper, in
a special dispatch from Yucatan, says
that present disturbances are brewing In
that state.
Ell Imparciale, the administration or
gan, publishes a four-column head, dou-
ble-leaded editorial on it's front page this
morning, entitled "A Revolution In Mex
leo Is Absolutely impossible"
After characterizing the opposition as
a band of unprincipled sedition mongers,
it points out that the intelligent body of
Mexican citizens do not want the long
peace of 80 years disturbed because of
economic reasons, but adds significantly
that the thousands Of miles of railways
and telegraph lines built during the Diaz
reign will enable the quick transferrence
of the standing army of 1900 men and
that modern artillery and rapid-f1re guns
will do the rest.