The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1913-10-20
LITTLE INTEREST
!. In MEXICAN
ELECTIONS E
.ia. ,s.s
PUBLIC DOES NOT SEEM TO CARE
WHICH PARTY OR CANDIDATE
TRIUMPHs.
TAKE WEEKS TO DECIDE RESULT
Vote Will Have To Be CanVassed by
Congress To Be Elected at Presi-
dental Election-Believed Huerta
and Banquet viii Be Candidates.

elections a week off and the assurance
of three candidates in the field for the !
Presidency there appears to be no no.
ticeable interest on the part of the
general public as to who triumphs.
Voters are lacking entirely in parti-
sanship, so far as can be outwardly
seen. There is no speech making, no
parades, no banners; only few post
ers announcing the several candida
cies.
Parades were placed under the ban
at the beginning of the campaign by
common consent of the candidates,
who feared disastrous consequences
might follow. The newspapers have
paid little attention to the approach
ing elections, printing only occasion
al deprecatory articles declaring chief
ly against the validity of the candi-
dacy of Federico Gamboa, nominated
by the Catholic party.
Senior Gamboa early abandoned his
first plan to make personal canvass.
He looks for special support from ia
lisco, Guanajuato, Queretaro and 9TH
er central States. Managers of the
campaign of Manuel Calero, Liberal
candidate, assert that much work has
been done in carrying forward the
propaganda, attention having been
given to the states of Vera Cruz. OAK
aca and Yucatan, where he expects
majorities.
Supporters of Gen. Felix Diaz APP
pear to have been more or less hamp-
cred by reason of the uncertainty as
to the course the candidate intends to
pursue. While those who are conduct
ing his campaign have insisted he is
returning to stand for elections, many
prominent members of his party
frankly confess their doubt. His fol
lowers are depending for strength on
the efforts OF the Clubs" of which
they claim some thousands have been
organized, chiefly throughout Vera
Cruz, Oaxaca, Guerrero and the South
ern states. These clubs, it is under
stood, consist in many cases of only
dozen sympathizers who are work
ing in the face Of great odds in com
munities where the friends of Gen
: Diaz are few.
There is no reason to expect results
of the balloting will be decided final
: ly until weeks after the elections
} The law provides that the ballots
J must be counted and the result an
l nounced by Congress. There is now
: no Congress in Mexico and there will
be none until new members are elect
} ed coincident with the Presidential
= election. 1t, therefore, would seem
to follow, as one of the candidates
e has pointed out, that members elect
S of the Senate and Chamber OF Depu
( ties must be inducted and these bodies
n organized before the ballot boxes car
+ be opened.
Just who will pass upon the elec
] ton of Senators and Deputies doe
not appear to be defined, but in thu
opinion of those conversant with pc
Y litical affairs the judges of the Su
D. preme Court will be called upon, o
l. President Huerta, having assume
l. unusual powers, may do so himself.
5, A report current in the capital tina
n Gen. Huerta and Gen. Blanquet, Wa
r Minister, had been announced as car
al didates in the State of Chiapas wit
n. their consent, was denied in behalf {
t, Gen. Huerta by Senior Moheno, tn
~ EForeign- Minister.