The citizen., 1913-11-07
GENERAL HUERTA
REMAINS DICTATOR
No Legal Choice in Elections
Held in Mexico.
CATHOLIC PARTY CLAIM LEAD
The Felicitas Mostly Abstain From
Voting Because They Believed
Their 5alotlng For Diaz
Would Be Useless.

Mexico City.-It viii be impossible
10 get even an approximate result OF
Sundays farcical election for presi
dent and yicepresident for seyera
days, and perhaps not for months
When the outlying votes viii get in is
not known. II is a fact that all the
returns for the election OF francisco
Madero are not i'm yet. HIerta has de-
creed that the returns must be com
plete by November 10, but everybody
knows that TO be impossible
one thing seems certain there has
been no legal election. The result is
about as was expected, Judging from
the results in The capital. where it was
expected the vote would be up TO the
average where less than 10000 OF the
10000 eligible voters in the republic
went to the polls
1t would be no surprise If Congress,
the members OF which also were voted
for Sunday declared the elections void
when that body is organized and re-
vises the returns
claimed a long lead, although they
were unable to estimate the number
of votes polled for their candidates,
Federico Gamboa and General Rascon.
II this claim is correct, it is gen
orally thought that Gen. Felix Diaz
and Senor Requena ran second The
Liberal candidates. Manuel Calero and
Flores Magon. had no printed tickets
at the polling places, their constituents
being Obliged to write their names in
blank ballots
President Huerta did not vote. He
spent the day al his suburban home.
Many OF the Felicitas gave as their
reason for not voting that their candi-
date, Felix Diaz. was being kept away
from the capital by Huerta. and they
believed any voting for him would be
useless.
Manuel Calero, the Liberal candi-
Rdate. who was once ambassador at
Washington, did not vote Instead, he
took his family early in the day into
the country. After he returned he
said:
Il understand the voting was eX-
ceedingly dun Nobody appears to be-
lieye in the seriousness of the cleo
ton. On account of the political con
dition many refused to vote. my
self did not Had we had indirect bal
'loting ! would have done so, but since
il was otherwise did not care to cast
a vote either for myself or any other
candidate
Federico Gamboa the candidate of
the Catholic party, on the other hand,
cast his ballot for Senor Calero.
Neither of these candidates cared to
express an opinion as to whether a
sufficient number of ballots had been
deposited to make the elections eff
fective.
Few of those who went to the polls
took the trouble to vote for either sen
ators or deputies.
There is no such thing as a secret
ballot here, everybody being compelled
TO declare for whom the vote is cast
and to sign the ballot in the presence
of the officials. This is one of the
great reasons why the Mexican cleo
tion must be a fasco. Very few Mexi-
cans under the present conditions care
to put themselves on record politically
There was a strong guard of police
and troops around the house OF Presi-
dent Huerta in Liverpool street in the
expectation that there might be some
demonstration, but nothing of the kind
happened