Nogales international., 1929-11-15
BY GEsFoRD F. FINE

United Press Staff Correspondent
MEXICO CITY, Nov. Is (UP0-
Mexico will select a constitutional
president Sunday from one of two
leading candidates-Pascual Ortiz
Rubio, nominee of the National Re-
volutionary Party and Jose Vascon-
celos, Anti-reelectionist. President
Portes Gil, the present provisional
executive, has promised the coun-
try a "free and fair election"
The new president will take Of
flee Feb. S for a five-year term to
carry out the remainder of the six
year period for which the late Gen.
eral Alvaro Obregon was elected.
While the government has MAIN
tanned that it is absolutely neutral
in the campaign which came to a
close today, official favor has been
almost entirely on the side Of the
National Revolutionary candidate,
Ortiz Rubio and with the election
machinery in majority Of the
states in the hands of his partisans,
his election appears a certainty
barring only complete upset in the
political framework.
Communist Also In Race
A third candidate, General Pedro
Rodriguez Triana, is the Commun-
ist nominee but is not regarded as
a serious contestant.
Violent speeches of Vasconcelos
attacking the authorities for alleg-
ed partiality and the intense feel
ing these speeches have aroused
have tended to make the campaign
vigorous from start to finish. There
have been riots in the principal
cities wherever the candidates ap-
peared, in some cases the Anti-re-
electionists taking the aggressive
and in others the National Revo-
lutionaries.
Both sides have accused the
other of initiating attacks in which
the dead and injured have at times
mounted to considerable numbers.
Vasconcelos told American news
papermen from Ell PaSo when he
was in Juarez that eight attempts
had been made on his life.
Ortiz Rubio's campaign has been
conducted with less front than that
of the Anti-re-electioniSt nominee
He has confined himself to stating
in general terms promises to carry
on the program of General Obre-
gon, Gales and the present presi-
dent Portes Gil. In all references
to these leaders by Vasconcelos, he
usually assailed their deeds al
though he himself served as Secre-
tary of Education under Obregon.
Both Are Civilians
Both VasconceloS and Ortiz Ru-
bio are civilians. In the foreign
newspapers they have frequently
had the title of General attached
by mistake. For once, this is SUI
perfluouS. No generals are sup
posed to be taking part in this
election, directly or otherwise, al
though Vasconcelos has frequently
asserted that War Minister Cen
eral Joaquin Amaro Ortiz is Ru-
bios chief financial backer.
Descended from tillers of the land,
Vasconcelos has always considered
himself near the people. His prin-
cipal reputation, however, is as an
educator and an author. He is
known all over Latin America as
writer and lecturer. Twelve books
on every conceivable subject COM
prise his works. The last "On Me-
taphysics" was finished just before
the campaign began.
Ortiz Rubio is of upper middle
class origin. Born in the state of
Michoacan, he is from a family of
judges, churchmen and high Off
GERS of state. Before accepting
the nomination of the National Re-
volutionary party, he was ambas-
sador to Brazil from Mexico for