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Show jILEEE PLAN TO Obregonistas Says Party of President Would Perpetuate Perpet-uate Him in Office. ("kwj.ro Tribune i".;re-::al Service.) WAIIiXGTOX, Dtc. -J. Urk-Os of Ceneral Aivro Obroo.n, candidate for the pivsideney of Mexico, l liars e the Car- rai!zi:?t.aj with consp'o'hi to kt.p Car-ranza. Car-ranza. i'i power, aecoruiitg to advicc-s re-c"' re-c"' i v d f i cm Mexico Cty ihrouli official chaunols. According t the (.tbr.--goni; tap, an effort is ledng mad-- under the dir'-ction of Luis Cabrera, fniaii'-e minis'er, to create such a situation as will jm-tpy the present l;ov-ernun-nt in declaring that tho state of unrest un-rest in tiiis count ry w ill not pt rmit t he holding of the national election next year, and that, therefore, pn sub'iit Carraira will have, to be maintained in power until such time as the rebellions are put down and the elections may be held. If tiiis plan fails, the Obregonistas declare-, t ho machinery of the government is to be used to insure t lie elect ion of General Pablo Gonzales, who will appoint Carianza minister of loreigri affairs, and tin n resign, thereby making Carraaza "president ad interim." In order lo be ready to precipitate the la t ter coup, it is charged. Carranza lias drafted Ambassador Bonillas into the list of Candida tes. has created an artificial party to bolster his candidacy, and t he entire Bon il las cam pa ign is to be confined con-fined to Sonora and Sina loa, the states where Obregon and L'onillas have tiie strongest following. These charges, openly made in Mexico Cit y, have d rawn violent denials from government circles, but are said to be generally believed. EL PASO, Texas, Dec. 23. Reduction of the Mexican army to a peace strength of aO.l'fO, and an increase in the Mexican navy arc anions the measures advocated by Lieutenant Colonel Alvaro Obrcgon, former Mexican minister of war, at present pres-ent Candida to for the presidency of the republic, in a manifesto issued to the Mexican army, according to Mexico City neivspa pcrs. In another manifesto Obrcgon has jco-posed jco-posed amendments to the constitution outlining tho responsibilities of the president presi-dent of the republic with regard to the upholding of the law, it is said. "Considering the high mission that is inl rusted to the army, that of safeguarding safeguard-ing our national institutions and our national na-tional liberty it is necessary that the army, by which term I include the navy as w-'cli, be organized on an absolu tejy moral basis and under the' strictest discipline," dis-cipline," the manifesto reads. Among other reforms proposed by (Colonel (Colo-nel Obregen arc equality of all men in the army as to pensions and allowances; exclusion of all criminals from the army, and the establishment of a competent inspection in-spection corps. In the other manifesto, Obregon urges that the responsibility of the president should be extended to include the prohibition prohibi-tion of attempts against the free functioning- of the congress or of the supreme court against the free exercise of the right of suffrage; against the sovereignty of the state and against the proper administration ad-ministration of the public funds. |