The daily morning oasis., 1920-04-13
T HE SONORA
.STATEMENT
P RESE NTED.
BY ALvARAD0.
1t it seldom that there is so success

1t it seldom that there is so success
fully carried out political move
ment by which a state terminates its
| allegiance to central government
SO swiftly and so completely as was
done by the state of Sonora last
week, in declaring (by it's Congress)
itself absolved from further allegiance
to the Carranza government of Mex
leo.
Whenever such change takes
place it is matter of no small i'm
port to know upon what those making
the change base their claims or just
ify their action.
To that end some of the great
newspapers of the country wired to
Nogales for a statement from some
representative of the new movement
in Sonora. Such a statement was
given in an interview by General
Salvarado Alvarado, and put upon
wires yesterday.
Following is the statement as Civ
en- by General Alvarado:
The Progressive Parry of Mexico,
composed of the most patriotic and
energetic men, supported Venustiano
Carranza in 1913, because this man,
in protecting against the Huerta
crimes, appeared as man of charact-
er and anxious to follow and develop
the vindicatory task initiated by
Madero.
After the Carranza-V Villa break.
this Party supported Carranza be-
cause the Villa desertion represented
an effort on the part of the Con-
servative and Reactionary elements
to avoid the establishment of the re-
forms proclaimed by the Revolution
OF 1910 and for which the people of
Mexico have been struggling to es-
tablish since then. In 1917 this same
Party supported Carranza for his
election to the Presidency of the Re-
public in order that the Party con-
tinued united and without division
thus enabling Carranza to establish
Strong and respectable Govern
ment with the necessary power to at
tain the reforms inherent to the pro-
gress of the Country;but Carranza in
stead of using this power to carry
out such reforms and to solve all the
problems that were in the way of the
free development of the economic and
social forces of Mexico, has employed
all the resources of the nation to pre-
pare his plans to continue in power.
For such purposes he has employed
the Army, the National Funds, the
Railroads, the Telegraphs, the Mails
and the whole Administration ma
chine to impose by force State Gov
ernors and destroy the progressive
and honest elements with the aim in
view to continue in power against the
of our National Constitu-
tion which prohibits reelection. He
has imposed by means of corruption
and force, the Governments of the
States Of San Luis Potosi, GUIANA
juato, Queretaro, Campeche, Nuevo
Leon Tamaulipas, Coahuila, Jalisco,
Verecruz and other States, and in
those states in which he could not
carry out his plans of placing fa-
vorites, such as happened in Yucatan,
Tabasco, Michoacan, Hidalgo and So
nora, he has not ceased to promote
economic and military difficulties to
destroy by force their respective in
dependent governments which he con-
siders an obstacle for the realization
of the criminal plans he has been try
ing to carry out. In view of the fact
that the State of Sonora is one of the
most powerful entities within which
evolutive and progressive ideas are
strongly followed, Carranza has de-
termined to violate the sovereignty
of this State by ordering General
Dieguez at the head of a large con-
tingent of armed forces to oust from
power the legitimately constituted
Government elected by the free vote
Of the people. In view Of such