The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-04-19
UNITED STATES
STRICTLY NEUTRAL.
Will Not Favor Any Candi-
date for the Presidency
of Mexico
MORE REVOLUTION
SEEMS PROBABLE
Charged That Carranza Is Misusing
Governmental Powers to Promote
Cause of Bonillas - Stories of High
Handed Proceedings.
BY DAVID LAWRENCE.

(Iopynght 1921 by The Reformer)
WASHINGTON, April l9-Mexico isl
experiencing a recurrence of the trouble
that started the present era of revolution
ten years ago. After reign of three dec
AIDES of peace under Portirio Diaz, the
latter assumed to use his presidential Of
fee in the elections of June 1910 to de-
feat Francisco Madero and the country
took up arms and drove out the dictator.
Now after five years of painful recon
struction under Venustiano Carranza. the
presidential elections are again scheduled
and this time the supporters of General
Aware Obregon, one of the principal can
didates and hero of the revolution, are
outspoken in their charges that President
| Carranza IS manipulating the machinery
OF the government in the interest of
/ lgnacio Bonilas, his candidate
i The session of Sonora-General Obre-
/ CONS home state-from the Mexican
union is a symptom of widespread revolt
though not necessarily conclusive evil
denee that civil war and bloodshed will
follow. The people in Mexico don't want
another era of destruction, and the effort
to conduct a fair election win be supported
by all the business elements as we'll as
the influential citizenrv who arc not I'M
der the thumb of any of the government
officials or candidates.
The realization that the cards have been
stacked against Oregon has driven his
supporters to extremes Stories OF high
handed tactics in suppressing electoral
freedom have reached here and done no
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ways party IN our national capital who
accept every cloud that hangs over Mexic-
as justification for American interference
Friends of Mexico have not lost hope that
she viii go through the election crisis
] without a revolution.
But from Mexico City itself come ad
vices that manifest has been issued tt
the nation, signed by IS members of the
house Of deputies and IS members o.
the Mexican senate bluntly charging
President Carranza with having exceeded
his constitutional powers and with having
violated the constitutional promises
which induced the Mexican people to tax,
up arms and engage in a bloody civil
war" This is all the more resented be
cause the original revolution OF 1910, the
4 principles of which the Carranza regime
II
the slogan Effective suffrage-and no re
election There follow a series of rea
sons for the movement in behalf of oh
8 RECON, among them the ballot, the pack
j ing Of state goycrnorships, irregularity II
3 the municipal elections in Mexico City
4 conclave of governors presumably to for
ward the desire of President Carranz
m handling the election machinery. tn
4 resort by the executive to methods o
! coercion including the arrest of partisan
d of 0brcgon, imprlsoning members Of cor
4ness on trumped up charges, and Tn
attempt to entangle Oregon himself II
1 court proceedings so as to incapacitat
4 him III the electoral struggle.
j The manifesto which was drawn mp Il
the green room of the chamber of deputie
closes with warning that the respons
i bility for the evils that. may grow out o
the present situation will rest solely upo
III President Carranza and his associates.
8 Meanwhile the Washington government
4 Is keeping a watchful eye on events be
low the Rio Grande and anticipate
trouble along the international line If Oh
hualua which has always been hot-bed 0
8 revolt, should decide to accompany tn
3 state of Sonora in the secession move
ment Naturally the Carranza govern
ment wants to transport troops through
American territory so as to reach int
4 the northern states of Mexico from tn
4 American border states but there is yer,
little doubt Of what the decision of til
United States government will be. III
American government has had its finger
burned by allowing Mexican troops t
cross through American states, the raj
on Columbus, \. NJ, by Villa being "a
tributed to resentment produced by tn
substantial aid given the Carranza govern
ment through permission to use thu
American railways for military move
ments Subsequent to that occurrence
the Washington government incurred The
resentment of the rebels and very. little
I gratitude from the Carranza government
Indeed. the Washington government