Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-09

coed himself, but that an intervening
term made him again eligible. There
were other candidates, in rivalry of
Obregon, but they were all arrested and
executed. leaving Obregon clear field.
Then before Obregon'S Inauguration he
was assasSinated by the cartoonist
Toral, who has recently been executed.
After the death of Obregon. several
candidates rose seeking appointment by
the Legislature as provisional President,
pending a special election. Among
these were Sencr Topece of the state of
Sonora, and when Gales threw his in
huence for the choice of Portes Gil. the
present provisional President, Topece,
grew bitter. Congress has now deSig-
mated the third Thursday of next Mo-
vember for special. popular election
OF a President, and Senior Gil will serve
only until the choice of that election
can be inaugurated. For that election
the Oregon Gales party supports
Aaron Saenz, former foreign minister
under Obregon.
Against him are two other candidates
-Rubio, Ambassador to Brazil, and
ValenzueIa, Minister to Great Britain.
Both have resigned their diplomatic
posts and returned to Mexico to contest
their candidates., but Saenz raises the
point that the constitution makes incl
lgible any candidate who has not been
in Mexico continuously throughout the
preceding year, and he contends that
that bars his rivals. They retort that
when they were abroad in diplomatic
service they were still on Mexican ter
ritory. since ali legations are the terri
tory of the nation which creates and
maintains the embassies Or legations.
and that claim appears to be in accord
with universal diplomatic law. Saenz
appears to be most likely TO win. for his
sister is the wife Of Gales son.
X x X
The territorial scope of the revolt is
indicated by the fact that on the same
day when Gen. Jesus Aguirre revolted
and tried to hold Vera Cruz his brother.
Gen. Manuel Aguirre, revolted IN the
state OF Sonora-in the extreme north
western corner of the republic. along
the American boundary. and the gar
rison Of Chihuahua revolted last week,
marched into Ciudad JuareZ, looted the
branch of the Bank of Mexico, captuT-
ing $4,000, which they sent to their
own headquarters, for the war chest.
There are today three revolving
armies in northwest Mexico, out they
are separated by impossible mountain
ranges. so they cannot join forces. If
the army of Sonora succeeds in getting
SOulI dIULIS lIlS IGCil4C OuaSJ, dIOullQ
the mountains, and joins the army of
Chihuahua, the revolt may become
serious.
The religious unrest does not affect
Northern Mexico. but exists in the cap
ital and throughout territory south of
Torreon, and there appears no disaffec-
ton where the church question is acute.
X x X X
Nevertheless, there exists real oppo-
sition to the government in the hearts
of the clericals. and if crisis should
arise wherein the addition of the church
would turn the scales against the Gales
Gil regime, it is likely that the federal
government might face very serious
trouble.
Gen. Gales is in command of military
operations Of the federal forces.
In book, Red Mexico" b. Capt
Francis McCullagh, published just be-
fore the murder of Oregon, President
elect, the author discusses the admins
tration of President Gales:
He got into difficulties Simultaneous
ly with the church, the Mexican land
owners, the foreign land owners and
the oil men. Two years ago. he foolish
ly tried his hand at foreign politics,
and attempted to organize a Central
American League against the Yankee.
but by March 1929 he had Gained
down considerably, owing no doubt to
the soothing assurances of Mr. Dwight
W. Morrow, the American Ambassador.
and was apparently without any foreign
policy at all. But that Mexico
will eventually fall under some sort of
American protectorate seems fairly GER
tain. The great increase of American
interests in the Caribbean, and in
Central America, and her determination
to dig another transoceanic canal, this
time through Nicaragua--all these facts
lead gradually and almost imperceptibly
to Mexico being caught in the same
silken tolls as Cuba. In ten years time
we shall probably see America inter-
vening in Mexico as matter of course.
and in accordance with treaty, whenever
revolution breaks out in that country.
exactly as she intervenes in Cuba and
Haiti
Surely that prophecy will not excite
Americans, for our intervention" in
Cuba merely. signifies our aid to Cuba
to achieve her independence, and of
Haiti to suppress anarchy and establish
her own independent orderly govern
ment.
Mexico is losing population; she con-
tains some 100000 fewer people today
than she did a decade ago. More than
100000 native Msxicans have come
into the United States since the World
War. for there are no quota restrictions
against the Western Hemisphere. and
their places in Mexico are being taken
by Chinese. There are only a million
white people in Mexico: the other I2.-
100000 are either Indians or mixed
bloods, mostly ignorant poems. Tho
Oheregon-Callss-Gn party Is appca!ing
to pecn. Socialis.ic surro.t.