Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-03-21
0BREGON IS WELL. RECEIVED IN NORTH
 ON ELECTION TOUR

MeXlcan Candidates Makes
 Many Friends on Latest
 Journey
 Saltillo. Mex. March 20 For the first time in the political history of Mexico candidate for president, in the person of General Alvaro Ghre- gon, is making a campaign torr Of the country. meeting the people and making public speeches. much the same as it done in presidential! cam paigns in the United StAt,s. rr;s late Francisco I. Madero, Jr., attempt ed to do the same thing 10 years ago, but he had made only few speech es when he was arrested by order of President Portfirio Diaz and thrown into jail at San Luis Potosi. He escaped from prison and fled to the United States. where he fomented the rnvolution that finally overthrow Diaz and placed him in the presiden- tial chair.
 making tour full of excitement At some of the meetings riots between his partisans and the followers of OCHCI nave OSCuIIGus ou the whole. however, his visit to northern Mexico has been we'll re- ceived. He has been spending some time at Saltillo, which was formerly looked upon as Carranza strong hold. He called into conference here many men of prominence of the states of Coahuila and Nuevo Leon. Incidentally he has been called upon by many Americans. both residents and visitors. He has given these men every assurance of his friend ship for the United Statesc.
 Doesn't Want New Revolt.
 In all his addresses General Obre- gon has declared that he did not want new revolution in Mexico, no matter what the outcome of the pres idential campaign may be. He said in his speech at Saltillo:
 "Upon crossing the boundaries of the state and entering it's capital, the cradle of liberty and civic rights, i l had the legitimate desire of open- ing my heart to the people of Goa huila. but due to sickness, l was pre- vented until today from realizing my desire and telling you with sincere and kind words how much is expect ed fro mthe sons of this state. by the men who still continue, without fear or dismay, fighting for the def mite conquest of our ideals. Since we arrived at this capital we mo- ticed that the people of Coahulia had joined the compact ranks of the sac rificing multitudes where every fight heretofore has found them.
 "Our hands do not hold any of the gold that profane hands have brought to show the people of Goa huila, believing to corrupt the con- sciences with few gold coins. whose origin they dare not explain. We do not bring the safe conduct pass ports of impunity, because we are not relying on brute force to com ! bat our enemies. We come by the road of sacrifice, by the idealistic path, climbing over the mountains by the straight path that conducts na- l tions to the heights of liberties and progress when they know how to fol- low that path with fortitude and 1 faith. The great acts of the people of Coahuila are still fresh in history -heroic acts which began in 1910. The great figure of Coahuila's illus trious son that history has baptized as the apostle of democracy is still engraved in our hearts with inn prints of gratitude. It was that son of Coahujla who established the glorious precedent that a spurious government emanating from violence and frand ought not to be accepted by the 15OO0,00O of freemen of the i controlled by panic or complicity, ! cbou1J .riyp ;t 1a~a1 corction
 | Praise for Carranza.
 "Later when the coup d'etat of the ! utives, it was the legislature of Goa l Carranza, who refused to recognize the government emanating from fraud and violence, although the government of Victorian Huerta had received the legal sanction of the national congress. and Governor Car ranZa not only refused recognition to the federal executive. who attempted to clothe himself with pseudo-legal investiture. but refused to recognize l the three federal branches, condem- ming to death the men who usurped these functions, and submitting them. in accordance with memorable de- cree, to the penalties of the law of January 25, 1862
 "The people of Coahuila have written with their blood brilliant pages in our national history, and their present attitude is only the re- flecticn of their glorious past, which has distinguished them as the ad- vance guard of liberty and justice.
 When we reached this state we felt proud because we noticed that a majority of her sons frankly es- poused our cause, which is based on the same principles which were in- itiated by the reovlution of 1910. "We do not preach sedition. We condemn a new revolution, as we bring in our bodies the wounds and marks caused by revolutionis, and be- cause for us the revolution was not the means of acquiring wealth, there fore we do not wish or desire a new revolution as means of making money and of speculation We de- sire that the legitimate fruits and victories of the last revolution be eonserved forever. especially legal suffrage. We desire that the Mexi-