The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1920-04-19
LABOR BOARD SPuRNS RAIL STRIKERS
MEXICO SEEMS
SURE TO HAVE
CIVIL CONFLICT
United States Strictly
Neutral as Between
Candidates.
BY DAVID LAWRENCE.
Especial to The Argus. ,

VdSuluSlUu- ApTli lJ.-MCA1CO Is
experiencing a recurrence of the
trouble that started the present era
Of revolution 10 years ago after
reign of three decades of peace un-
der Porfirio Diaz. The latter as
sumed to use his presidential Office
in the elections of June, 1910, to
defeat Francisco Madero and the
country took up arms and drove
out the dictator. Now, after five
years of painful reconstruction un-
der Venustiano Carranza, the presi-
dental elections are again sched-
uled and this time the supporters
of General Alvaro Obregon. one of
the principal candidates and hero
of the revolution, are outspoken in
their charges that President Car
rama is manipulating th4 machin-
cry of the government in the in
terest of lgnacio Bonillas, his can
didate.
Is Significant Symptom.
The secession of Sonora-Gen-
eral ObregOn home state-from
1the Mexican union is a symptom of
widespread revolt though not nee
eSSarily conclusive evidence that
civil war and bloodshed will fol-
low. The people in Mexico don't
| want another era of destruction.
! and the effort to conduct fair
election will be supported by all
| the business elements, as well as
| the influential citizenry who are
not Under the thumb of any of the
government officials or candidates.
The realization that the cards
have been stacked against Obregon
has driven his supporters TO ex-
tremes. Stories of high handed
tactics in suppressing electoral
freedom have reached here and
done no end of damage to Mexico
Tor there is always a party in our
national capital who accept every
cloud that hangs over Mexico as a
! justification for American interfer-
ence. Friend of Mexico have not
lost hope that she will go through
| the election crisis without a revo-
luton. ----' a-
Manifesto Attacks Carranza.
| But from Mexico City itself come
advices that manifesto has been
issued to the naticn, signed by As
members Of the house of deputies
and 16 members of the Mexican
senate bluntly charging President
Carranza with having exceeded his
constitutional powers and with
having violated the constitution
al promises which induced the
| Mexican people to take up arms
and engage in bloody civil war"
This is all the more resented be-
cause the original revolution of
1910, the principles of which the
Carranza regime has professed to
support was waged with the slo-
gan Effective suffrage-and no re-
election There follow a series of
reasons for the movement in be-
half of Obregon, among them viola
t1ons of the ballot, the packing OF
state governorShlpS, lrregularlty In
the municipal elections in Mexico
City, conclave of governors pre-
sumably to forward the desires OF
President Carranza in handling the
election machinery, the resort by
the executive to methods Of coer-
cion, including the arrest of parts
ans of Obregon. imprisoning mem
bers of congress on trumped up
charges, and the attempt to en-
tangle Obregon himself in court
proceedings so as to incapacitate
him in the electoral struggle"
The manifesto, which was drawn
up in the green room of the cham
ber of deputies, closes with warn
ing that the responsibility for the
evils that may grow out OF the