San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-04-18
BUSINESS MEN
OPPOSE GALES
FOR PRESIDENT
Fear His Extreme Radical
Tendencies and Social
list Views.
SEEK A COMPROMISE
Want Oregon to Pull
Gales Down and Pick
De la Huerta.

Mexico City, April 1S.-The conven-
ton of the Cooperative party which is
scheduled for early in May to nomi-
nate Gen. Plutarco Elias Gales for
the presidency to succeed General
Obregon, is causing considerable
thought and discussion among the
business interests of Mexico.
There is a rumor that the world
powers, which have so far refused to
recognize the ObregCn government.
basing their attitude on the failure of
the government by acts and words to
recognize and protect all foreign in
terests legitimately acquired, and to
contract by treaty a stipulation, that
no retroactive legislation will be
passed permitting the confiscation of
said interests have taken stand. that
there is TO be no recognition of Mexi-
co at the present time, due to the fact,
that opponents of the Oregon regime
charge that the government will sup
port and seat Elias Gales.
Elias Gales during the Carranza
regime was the paid agent of the cor
porate interests in Sonora, and is
charged with having executed Lazaro
Gutierrez de Lara, Union Propo-
gandist, who went to Cananea to man.
age strike for the miners union.
Strange as it may seem, when Gales
quit Carranza, and resigned his port
folio as minister of industry to cast
his lot with the then incipient Obre-
gon-De la Huerta movement in So
nora he Immediately experienced a
change of heart and became an ardent
Socialist and Syndicalist.
Encouraged Radical Laws.
He has fostered and encouraged the
most radical of legislation. since be has
been minister of the interior relations
under Oregon. and the strongest po-
litical factor in Mexico. He has is
sued DEGREES prohibiting the circulation
Of foreign money in Mexico, with pains
of confiscation. He has passed and
encouraged laws allowing tenants to
fix the rent on houses, and has stood
for the heaviest of imaginable taxes on
oil properties and production.
His support of the radical railroad
element which has been exploiting the
railroads, under government control.
has been the cause why President
Oregon has not returned them to their
private owners.
These radical tendencies of Elias
Gales have made the business inter-
ests of Mexico view with alarm the
propaganda in government circles for
his assumption of the presidency, and
there is strong inclination on the
part Of these business interests of
Mexico, national and foreign, to at
once thwart all possibilities and proba
bilities of another armed coup in the
change of presidents. With this end
in view they have almost prevailed on
the Liberal Constitutionalist party,
which was the anti-Carranza party or
ganized by Gen. Pablo Gonzales and
Gen. Aware Obregon, to place Obre-
gon in the presidency. not to nominate
any candidate for the presidency, If
these same business elements can
prevail on General Oregon to have
Elias Gales withdraw his name from
the Co-operatista party, which Gales
organized from among the Socialists,
Zapatista and Radical groups, to NOM
mate him. =
May Help in Recognition.
II this can be accomplished, these
same business elements will propose,
that General Oregon either select his
friend Adolfo de la Huerta, former
provisional president of Mexico, or
Fernando Iglesias Calderon, the son of
the Tilden of Mexico, who is beloved
by all factions as his successor, and
that nll factions and elements are to
back the one selected from among these
two men, who will agree to select a
cabinet from among the highest type
of men in the republic.
If either Iglesias or De la Huerta
are selected as the successor to Obre-
gon it is believed in many quarters,
that this assurance by Obregon that
there will be no possibility of another
military coup, and that the radical
tendencies Of Elias Gales will not be
dominant in the new administration.
will mean, that the questions involved
in the recognition of his government
may be solved, much easier, than with
Elias Gales candidacy appearing as a
red flag at the national and foreign
business interests of the republic.