Bisbee daily review., 1919-04-25
SONORA ELECTION SUNDAY

2 TUCSON, April A. = With each Of the three candidates expressing confi- dence that he will be elected, the hot test gubernatorial campaign in the his tory of Sonora is now drawing to a close, says the Arizona Daily Star. The election will be held next Sun uay, April 27. and although it will be 15 days before the official returns will be available, it will be know;. within two days who has won. The candidates are Adolfo de Ia Huerta, Conraio Gaxiola and Gen. i Ygnacio L. Pesqueira All are holding meetings nightly and as the campaign enters it's last lap the charges made ! by each candidate against the two oth- CTS increase in bitterness. Soldiers are being stationed at the larger towns throughout the state to prevent dis {, order on election day. The Agua Prieta garrison has been increased by 50 the past few days, as the people of that little border town take politics very seriously.
 The PeSqHeira campaign committee claims that state troops are being used to intimidate the Pesqueira followers. The committee has issued a circular containing telegrams from Huatabam- DO, in the Alamos district close to the Sinaloa state line, that at a Pesqueira meeting held there on the 18th, state troops charged the meeting with swords and wounded 14 Pesqueira fol lowers. They express the fear Of similar treatment in other parts of the state.
 It is generally admitted that HueBta is the Gales candidate, and he is term ed the official candidate" by ms az ponents Gales has never come out openly in favor of Huerta, but it is an i open secret that he is throwing all his strength to Huerta. In Spanish the diminutive of Adolf is FitO, and the Huerta followers are known as Fitis- i tas.
 A month or two ago the Pesqueira and Gaxiola followers were on fairly friendly terms and united in common fight on Huerta. Today the situation has changed and the Pesqueira follow
 CTS arc almost as bitter against Gax- iola as against Huerta. They term | Gaxiola the reactionary candidate and
 claim he is a tool of Huertas and is
 being kept in the race to split the anti Huerta vote
 Both Huerta and Pesqueira were identified with the revolutionary movement and this means that the vote will be split Just who will get the majority of this vote is hard to
 say, but it appears that Huerta will
 poll more of the civilian part . and
 .'esuue:ra more of the military.
 For the first time in Sonora, the sol
 diers will vote at the coming election
 under the recent amendment to the
 federal constitution. There are about
 5000 soldiers in the state.
 Gaxiola, whose home is at Villa de
 Seris, near Hermosillo, is making his
 headquarters at Nogales, where he i' very popular That town is conceded to him, but his opponents will conced'
 no others.
 Pesaueira and Huerta have thei headquarters at Hermosilla It Is gen orally conceded that Huerta will carry Cananea, Nacozari, Fl Tigre and al
 the mining towns. Pesqueira, whose
 campaign manager is C. G. Soriano
 for many years prominent politica ! lfigure in the state, claims he will car : ry both Hermocillo and Guaymas, a. well as Alamos. Magdalena. Agua Pri eta and numerous other smaller towns Americans who are familiar with tho r situation say that taking all thing 7 into consideration. Huerta is the bes . bet in the race.
 ? It is. expected that approximate, ' 5O,000 votes will be cast. The sue 3 cessful candidate will take his sea