The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-03
Successor to P0rfiriO Diaz to Be Chosen on
 October 15
MANY OBSTACLES TO
 BE ENCOUNTERED
Said to Be Many Communities in Mexico That Will Not Know Meaning of EIection-Results
 Will Come Slowly

Mexico City. June By official de- cree issued today by Mexico's provi- sional President, Francisco De La Earra, a special presidential election was called. In all states and terri tories electors will be chosen on Oe- tober 1 and these will select the suc- Ieessor of Porfrio Diaz on Sunday, Oc- tobef IS.
 Governors. are instructed to define and publicly announce prior to June go
 electoral districts in their respective
 states and territories. using for pur-
 roses of apportionment the census of 1910.
 De La Barra fully realizes the iu1-
 Eense responsibility he has assumed
 and men who were prominent in the l conduct of the revolution do not un- derestimate the difficulties that will be
 encountered in holding open eectionss
 in Mexico. In small towns and dis l tant rural communities there doubtless
 are thousands to whom the word elec- tior conveys little or no meaning. Election returns may be slow in
 coming in and it is not improbable, admit representatives of both the old government and the new, that in few districts the result will be hopelessly tangled.
 However, those of both factions have tacitly agreed that since this is the
 first attempt at genuine voting in more
 than 30 years they will not be over particular; that they will do the best
 they can.
 1t remains for the various parties to select their candidates. At present Francisco l. Madero, Jr, is the only man whose name Is certain to be printed on ballot. Reyes will lae in the capital in a few days and it is evident that his coming has made some of the
 MaJerists nervous. The general has not declared that he will not be a can | didate and until he answers the ques- tion supporters of Maaero will not be entirely at ease. General Reyes friends
 are not so numerous as they were ,s,e- lore be was sent out cf tue ,~.eufJfg' but none, deny that he would be Il for-
 lnidable opponent in the presidential l election. That any effort will be made to prevent him from reaching the capi-
 tai is not expected, but stories of plots both in his favor and against him are heard daily. This afternoon a newspa- per published d story that group of army officers had planned to proclaim
 lim president and use their forces to place him al the head of the nation. No official cognizance has been taken of the alleged plot but late today resident De La Barra Tn receiving d large group of Officers of the army. made a statement which might be con- .irued hint.
 Acts Are Known
 Your acts are known to tine president and will continue to be known," said he.
 However, few minutes before he had
 referred to their meritorous conduct in
 the war.
 Jose Yves Limantour expects to leave
 Mexico for France June F. He will carry with him a letter signed by scores of business men representing almost every large banking, commercial and industrial concern in the capital. In this letter he is praised for his loyalty to the inter- ests of his country. Reports of disorders continue to reach the capital, but they are for the greater part those of insig- nificant character and government offi- cials express themselves as saSsfed With the progress being made in the restora- tion of peace.
 | The only serious report received today l is that from Tapachula, a town near the | lGuatemalan frontier There state bor- | dering on anarchy Is said to prevail. l Mobs are reported in possession Of the l place the old authorities gone and none 1 vet named to replace them. The Amer | ican consulate has been used as refuge i hv dozen of frightened Chinese who fear l such fate as befell their countrymen at | Torreon. The Chinese colony at Tapa- l chula numbers 50O
 l The Chinese legation has lodged with | the Mexican government a claim for D. | Ooo,Ooo pesos. alleging this amount of damage was incurred by Chinese residents of Torreon His reports show that 303 Chinese were killed in Torreon and 50 in the surrounding country. r Today the war department sent or ders to General Vilar to evacuate Chi- huahua.
 Peaceably the revolutionary troops took possession of Tlaxcala and new gover- nor succeeded Prospero Cohuantzi. the ex- ecutive who has been referred to fro- auently as the only genuine indian on the list of governors" Governors of the various states have been instructed to ascertain the number of families whose heads fell during the lrevolution on either side and to report as 1 soon as possible to the executive of the l federal government. The president pro poses that the government shall care for the widows and orphans as well as aS- sisting ex-soldiers of Madero in finding work.
 | When Madero arrives at the capital he Twill be the guest Of the city OHlclaily he will be accorded only such a reception as is given a distinguished citizen, but there is no doubt it will be as brilliant as
 permissible under the law and as noisy las the police will allow. The working | class will shout its approval from ranks of marchers and those high In society will icompete for the honor of entertaining him.
 Meetings are being held nightly by vari- ous clubs formed to honor the "liberator of the country to perfect plans for hs
 reception Among these clubs there Is one
 formed today whose membership is en-
 tirely femine. It is named the sara
 Perez de Madero club" after Madero's , wife
 Another is the 'Aquiles Serdan club named after the first man to fall in the : revolution Serdan,was the man in whose
 house in Puebla was stored quantities or
 arms and ammunition and which was de- . tended by him and his family against the , police in November. This club has sent to
 Mrs Serdan the widow. and to the sis- ters of Serdan invitations to be present at the reception of Madero. These women took an active part in the defense of tho ! house and were later imprisoned by the