Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-05-22
GONZALES LEAVES AMBITION BEHIND
 FOR NATIONS SAKE
in Manifesto to Mexican peO- pie. Candidate Pleads for
 Unity
SAYS HE HAD HOPED
 TO AVOID THE REVOLT
Tells How tarranza, in Declining Days, Refused to Listen to Ad- vice to Avoid Trouble in
 Mexico

: Mexico City, May 2O The ideals which admitted General Pablo Con
 aalcs when he declared against the Carran2a government are set forth i fully in d manifesto he has addressed
 to the nation Assurances of public
 order, security of property rights,
 both Mexican and foreign owned, be
 respected and the announcement of ! his withdrawal as candidate for ! president to further assure constitu~ 1 tional public order are contained in ! the manifesto.
 | Particular interest is attached to
 the declarations contained in the man. | ifesto in view of the fact that Gene-
 ral Gonzales has directed governments
 tai affairs since the flight of Presi- | dent Carranaa from the Capital May
 ' and that his nominees Will exercise I control of government departments until congress names q provisional president. It is generally expected that General Gonzales will be the T choice of the members of congress for i provisional president.
 The manifesto follows:
 'To the Mexican people: When the position of the candidate of the Car- ranza government with it's train of i dangers for the future became clear to the eyes of the nation, having an earnest desire for the solution of our political difficulties, to be before them decided factor for conciliation and not one of division or contention.
 began to formulate q solution that later developed the realization of
 which feel I should not for one mo9
 ment delay, it being my desire to
 carry to national conscience a reas-
 surance of that which at the moment
 is not quite definite since it awaits :, with certain uneasiness the renewel of 7 the lectora campaign of the inde- . pendent candidates who have been D contending.
 1 "Fearing the possibility of friction | between the military element which 9 surrounds each one of the Independent < candidates my reverable resolution v which take down anad explain to tho
 Mexican people in this declaration is to definitely retire my candidacy to the presidency of the republic for the
 coming constitutional period (four
 years from December i, 102O).
 "These resolutions might be re- D ceived with surprise on the part of V some, but by those that have fully re- & alized my action since I became a
 candidatet and when taking part in
 revolutionary movements, now trium-
 phant, the conclusion have reeached
 cannot be considered but as the natu- I ral result of the antecedents estab- | lished by my action and declarations
 in solemn moments of national life t with which I wished to be consistent e to the end, sacrificing the larger or v smaller interest that I may have rep- r resented to the supreme interest of s the country.
 a "When at the hands of the demo- l. cratic league convention l accepted p my nomination as presidential can !. didate declared with absolut sheer
 ity that no personal ambition should l. actuate my purpose, that it was moi n my intention to become president, il ,- by doing so it in any manner should F, involve the shedding of one sinRle 1T T, drop of blood that might be consid. 4 cred as having been occasioned for my - personal elevation; that I would dt o all in my power to maintain peace and ,e tranquility throughout the nations . the Carranza government having de v, cided upon plan to brutally impose 'e office candidates, realize that thu entire country was in danger of { T. civil war. This I tried in every wal 'e to avert. proposed radical m0di 'e fication in the political situation o1 s- the moment, to-wit:
 D. Against Revolt. D. "(A) The withdrawal of all the can ts didates then before the people; il at the first place my own withdrawal. it "(B) The election of another candi
 date who by his ability to fulfill cer
 tain conditions, would be q guarant!
 of peace and order for the republic
 "Unfortunately the candidate fo v the Carranza government with an eff y frontery difficult to imagine, hurrie,
 to declare before any one else that h IT, would not order any consideration 'n from the campaign. Hence, it was i'm of possible to even initiate this proposes CT encouragement of the matter becaus
 impudent maneuvers and indoleA 'n methods continued on the part of th ne government to further carry on tk D. imposition, and it was not long befor tn the Sonora movement took place or Due to dissatisfaction, general as felt throughout the country, this wa e. serious menace to the stability . n, his power of the government. m nd exile of General Obregon became m
 cessary as his stay in the capits
 might have involved him in said movt
 ment and further aggravating the sil uation for the government.
 ne q must declare most sincerely tn, IT. as we'll justified as might have seen or ed to me the attitude of Governor D an La Huerta and Candidate Obregon, m tn first impulse was not to favor II 's- revolutionary attitude, but refrain 't- "I could rot consider but with deel ,s- est bitterness the downfall of Prea N. dent Carranza in the last stage Of n ,al constitutional period. I feared arrns
 rebellion, the disintegration of estnl
 lished legal order to upsetting
 peace, with it's fatal train of destrul
 tion, abuses, disorganization aax let damage to the economic life of q go. nation and it's productive elemenl at To avoid such destruction exhaol re- ed every effort even to the rude fH@I jed ness with which proposed to1 tl ~~o,sJork that vvbirh in my tUd GT6ol