San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-09-07
ObREGON AND.
GALES NEAR
OPEN BREAK
Some See Straining of Re-
Iations-Others Think
Split Feigned.
OREGON is POPULAR
Talk Even of Desirability
of Having President
Succeed Himself.

The text of Gen. Plutarco Gales
platform has been widely published
throughout northern .IeXico. although
only brief extracts of IT have been
given the foreign press.
Soon after its circulation in Mexico
City. President Oregon eft for Tam
pico TO investigate the charges made
by the business element of that state
against the radicaliSm of Governor Te-
ieda. Oregon is also scheduled to
leave Vera Cruz for 4 C'uise on the
gunboat Bravo TO Tuxpam and proba-
bly, Tampico. If Obregon reaches Tam
pico. General Gales probably will meet
him there. as Gales is due i'll Tampico
the latter part of this month, to open
up his campaign.
Prieto LOrenZ, the president of the
chamber of deputies. wired Oregon at
Vera Cruz, protesting against the dis
arming of the state forces of the state
of Nucvo Leon, now concentrated at
Monterey under the leadership of Gov
ernor RamirO TameZ. IorenZ states
in his telegram that. if the mastering
out of these forces continue. the state
VIII tt 1T Aut VI 1 u Itl
of Gen. porfirio GONZALES, one of the
candidates for governor TO succeed Ia
mez. who is bitterly opposed to the
candidacy of General Gales. Oregon
answered. refusing TO revoke the order
given for the diSarming OF the state
ruralcs of NuevO Leon.
The great wonder throughout Mex
leo now is whether the schism between
Oregon and Elias Gales is real or
merely feigned.
see SOnorians With "Side Hand"
Many believe that the split will
widen daily. while others believe that
1.-THE Sonorians have big side play
on hand" 50 as to force the natural
opposition to General Oregon into the |
Gales ranks and keep them from
aligning with Gen. Antonio !. Villa
real. who is strong in the north, or
with Gen. Salvador Alvarado, who is
strong in southern Mexico, and then
either Gen. Angel Flores or some other
Obregonista will pose as the admin
trstion candidate and withdraw at the
last moment in favot of Gales, thus
giving him the election.
However. there are others who be-
lievc and assert that the financial in
teTes, will control the selection of the
next president Of Mexico and, refer
ring to recognition assert that it was
n personal victory for Aware Oregon
and Adolfo de In Huerta. obth of whom
stand high in the esteem of the Amer
lean people for their bold stand for
law and order and the preservation
of property rights legitimately ac-
quired.
Everything is hopeful" just at the
present time, but hopeful" expresses
the exact condition. American and
foreign capital awaits the sterilization
of the Mexican nation and is anxious
to ascertain after Aware Oregon
WHAT"
Confidence in -ObregOn.
1t Is believed that the chief con-
fidence lies in Aware Obregon and
Adolfo de la Huerta. who have wrought
order uut of cha2s both in govern
mental and financial affairs; that the !
Lamont-de la Huerta agreement made
recognition possible. and nothing else |
and no one else. The good showing
made by ObregOn ana De Ia Huerta |
and the elimination of Elias Gales. '
Nalenzuela. PAM. Gasca and Morones /
from the official family will tend TO
produce feeling tranquility among
foreign investors. it is felt. and. fur
ther. the European investors will hold
back until the full terms of recogni-
ton are made public. and both the
retroactive features of article 81 and
the regulations requiring foreigners to
renouncc citizenship and the right TO
appeal to home government in case of
damage by revolutionary clements be-
fore they can legally acquire real es-
tate in Mexico. must be known.
The syndicalsis and bolshevikis