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Show MEDEIROS IS AGAIN ELECTED PRESIDENT Shows That Power Is Not Waning in Kecent Elcctioa iu F.io Grande do Sul. rOKT AUa'.HK. Uraa 1. l eh. IS, 'or respoi.de noe of t he Asociaied rres. I'r. poises ue Medeivos. wh.o has just been aa m re-o!e--ted a s president of the state of H!o Grunde do So!, is t he man the Germans intended t'" overthrow over-throw when t hey v'.a nned to take over southern Hiar.il as a Gorman p tot ec tor-ate, tor-ate, lie hiLs his state so w ell organized under the power p ran ted him by the constitution that it is doubtful if anyone ever coul i de; ea t him a t an e'ect ian as ion if as ho cares to rule the state. In so: to of this he ha s been aci used many times of favormc the liermans for the sake of their votes. 1 r. loi'es was in cont rol of the izov-ernment izov-ernment tiurlr.i; th.e wild anti-German rids In the state nf Hio Giar.de lo Sul. while labor troubles w ere panlvzinsr for t:ie moment several other induct -i a I enterprises. en-terprises. The situation was rapidly petti pet-ti nf i eyond control w hen 1 : . Hordes, without cvnsiftimr the federal co eminent, em-inent, called out his state trps and put the principal oit h-s uniier ma rt ia ! law, takltiif sr.ca energetic tteps that tiie disorders dis-orders wei e soon stepped. The federal povernrnent demanded an oxplaration. I list reply was not an apvil-op-v and H-aively an esphmatlon. i't. Korxea was bitterly criticised by the people of has own stat. who were ber.t upon driving ti-.e Germans out of their midst and destroytnic their property, but his action In putting an end to the disorders dis-orders was apmauded in the rest of the republic "d the matter was allowed to1 cir..p. I Ilia confidence in his strength evi- dent i v wns arrant "d. for he was re- i elected by an overwhelming majority and ! is now suppnrtin- the measures taken by j the federal government for controlling t ho Germans in southern Brazil. |