El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-08-31
REYES FACTION PROTESTS At HOLDING
ELECTIONS IN MEXICO At PRESENT
Continued from page l.,

Of the Evolutionists and Of Reyes as
an indication of weakness and declare
that in the face OF certain defeat they
are merely looking for a soft place on
which to fall. The Evolutionists are
well within the letter OF the law In
their protest against the legality OF
the October elections. The law pro-
vides that the division of the states
into electoral districts shall be COM
pleted at least three months before
the elections, dating from the publ
cation of the terms of the division
in the official newspaper OF the re-
spectiye states.
Late Notices Printed.
Taking the stand that in many of
the states the division had been COM
pleted later than June 80, which was
the date fixed by law, they sent Pc
tition to the department of goberna-
cion asking tht the data be furnished
them and requesting in particular the
dates on which the terms OF the d.
vision were published in the official
newspapers. On the statement of the
minister of gobernacion it was shown
that in the state of Campeche the
terms of the division were not pub
lished until July 4.
Further than this they point out
that the division Of the federal dis
trict and of the territories of the ma
ton was never published in the Diario
Official of this city, of which they have
complete files. The Diaria Official is
the official organ of the federal gov
eminent, and, therefore, official matter
of the federal district and the terri
tories which depend directly on the
central government, must be published
in it.
Objection Declared a bubble.
The department of gobernacion took
the stand that the letter of the law
had been complied with except in the
single state of Campeche, and that
here the objection was merely quib-
BILE and that in spirit, the full require
ments Sof the law hard been met.
The contentious of the Evolutionist
party were set out in a paper which
was read before the central club OF the
party in this city by Lie. Vera Estanol,
the organizer of the party, and acting
on the arguments presented in this
paper, the club decided to postpone the
party convention and to refrain from
participating in the elections as
party should the date of elections not
be postponed.
EstanoPs Reasons.
The gist of the argument is con-
tanned in the following extract from
Lics Vera Estanops paper:
In view of the reasons set forth,
and with the purpose of avoiding post
election disturbances disastrous to the
tranquility and welfare Of the nation
growing OUT Of these glazing irregu-
larities, since it is hardly to be ex-
pected that the defeated candidates !
will accept the results at the polls, the |
board of directors of the central club !
presented a petition to the department |
of gobernacion, setting out that the |
executive was obliged to carry out the |
laws as passed by congress and that |
to set aside these same laws would |
be in direct opposition to paragraph /
1 of article SIS of the federal constf-
tuition For all of these reasons, the /
board of directors asked that the pc
tition. either original or in copy, be |
transmitted to the permanent commits !
sion of the federal congress. with a |
request that the commission be as
sembled in extraordinary session, in |
order that, without loss Of time, the
proper legal steps might be taken in |
view of the grave Irregularities in the |
division of the republic into electoral
districts, growing out of the tardy
Of this division. the fall
ure to name the capitals Of the cleo
toral districts, and of the use of the
census of 1900 as a basis of division
where that OF 1910 should have been
employed.
Unfair Elections.
ION the other hand, the condition
If general inquietude and unrest which
las prevailed and which unfortunately
still prevails In the country is such
Is to prevent the holding of elections
in all that the terms con-
-eys
Abundant examples of this are
found in the violence, the threats and
he pressure brought to bear in the
generality of the elections for governor
which have been held since June 1.
There are states in the republic in
which none of the preparatory work
or the election has been carried out,
because men of peace and order fear
or their lives If they take an active
art in the political campaign. This has
happened in Sinaloa, Colima, in Aguas-
,alientes, in some of the towns of
veracruz, in More1os and in Yucatan.
1.-The passions of overweight par
isans Of opposing candidates have car
led them to such extremes that aban-
IOn1ng the proper ana pedcelu1 metn-
IDS OF propaganda, they have waged
var with cries of death to their rivals.
bandoning the most elemental notions
Il democracy.
Oppositions Manifest.
ION the slightest pretext, manifesto
ions are organized for no other pur- |
ose than to show the hostility of the |
artisans of one candidate toward the
Their or for the purpose of heaping in
ults upon or provoking acts of vio-
snce against him.
What sort of a campaign will it
e, then, by the time we have arrived ,
t the decisive moment of choosing the ,
lectors in the primary elections?
TT will certainly not be a demo- ,
ratio contest. 1t will not limit itself
o the mere 'balloting, the counting of ,
he votes, to declaration of the one
Tho has obtained a majority and the
onorable, open and disinterested sub /
1ission of the minority, to the end
hat the goyernment-although com
ng into being through the success