The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-10-07
Morrow and the Mexican Revolution

By one of those inscrutable quirks of fate what
might have been simply banal meeting between
Secretary of State Kellogg and our new ambassador
to Mexico Dwight w. Morrow, assumes genuine
international Importance.
Mexico today is on the brink OF revolution In
fact revolution started though it seems to have
been pretty much stopped in its tracks by tne
sudden death melted out to one of its mansprings,
Gen. Francisco Serrano of three candidates for
the presidency.
Likewise at this writing Gen. Arnulfo Gomez, a
second candidate, is somewhere in the region OF
Vera Cruz. either in fight before the wrath of
President Gales else recognizing his revolt while
the third aspirant Gen. Alvaro Obregon, former
President and friend of Gales is watching, prepared
at a moments notice to lead the Federas against
the Rebels.
Hence the Importance of the conference between
the American secretary of State and the new ambassa
dor as the latter prepared to take up the duties OF his
post in Mexico City. For far more than we iks to
think the success failure of revolution In Mexico
lust now hinges to a considerable extent upon the
attitude of the United States
Ordinarily of course the United States holds itself
aIoof from the purely domestic of foreign coun
tries With Mexico and Central America, however,
the situation is slightly different In the event OF
revolution down there we have, in the past been
known to be neutral, or to lean this way that.
We frowned the Carranza government and Car
rama lost out in the revolt which overlook him. We
smiled on Oregon and the revolution against his
regime Hoped partly because of the bullets supplied
him from our side of the border and partly because
our moral support of his put damper upon his
enemies.
Today Mexico has her eyes on Washington.
Whether we like it or not, our every official move
will have a meaning all its Whether active or
passive sympathetic to this that faction or i'm
peccaby neutral attitude must inevitably carry
meaning, far Mexican revoutionaries are
concerned, and events down there will shape them
selves somewhat accordingly.
To an indetermnate degree Washington cannot
escape some of the blame for the present revolt
against Gales The bitter wrangle between the two
governments over Mexico's oil and land laws, the
insinuations emanating from State Department
that the Gales regime is tinged with red and the
intimations that the Mexican government was fos
terng Bolshevist activities against us In Central
America could not fail to lead Gales enemies to
believe his elimination from the would not be
distasteful in the U. S. A. and along with Gales,
.Obregon since Obregon and Gales appear to share
the same views. 1T
Of late however President Coolidge seems actively
interested in Latin American affairs AS early last
spring. upon the occasion of the United Press dinner
in New York the President signifed renewed faith
in Mexico and expressed his belief in early settle
ment of our dispute with her. The resignation Of
Ambassador Sheffield and the naming of Dwight
Morrow in his place further enhanced the impression
that perhaps Keloggism is doomed south Of the Rio
crande and that change of tactics if not change
of policy may be expected
Thus in the meeting between the secretary OF
State and the ambassador to Mexico, on hand
to receive his instructions, like to believe that
while Secretary Kellogg lent his voice to the occasion
it was really the President who did the talking For
as we see it, Mexico's immediate future-between
and next summers elections-depend whole lot on
the infusion of brand and friendly spirit
into our relations with that country.