Show POLiTICAL TAlK BRIGHTENS IN MEXICO Pr Presidential side Election in 1 1924 Creates Interest in iri Candidates MEXICO CITY 7 i B Ex A A. P. P Assuming that Mexico will be We withOut with with- Out revolution during the next twenty twenty- two months a new president of the republic will be elected by popular vote In September 1924 But already aready there are political murmurings possible possible can can candidates are being discussed and at least one ambitious Individual has announced an announced an- an flounced his c candidacy Party lines have never been tightly I drawn In Mexico and political alliances are made and unmade overnight as the I exigencies of the occasion demand it Is difficult to say at pree present pre pres e ent t jutt jUDt wh what t w well ll fl defined groups will willbe willbe be in the field to cont contest st for high national national na na- na- na honors next year Among political observers it Is considered considered considered con con- an undoubted fact tact that President President President dent Obregon Secretary of ot Interior Calles and Secretary of ot Treasury de deIa dela la Ia Huerta will stand as a unit In the next election President Obregon is barred by byan an article of ot the constitution constitution constitution tion from contesting for for tor reelection Secretary Calles considered by Jy y many manyas as his logical successor will Doubtless enter the race race unless his health which of ot late has hag given him much concern forces him him to abandon politics alto alto- gether In the event that Secretary CalIes Caes is eliminated It is believed that Secretary de la Ia Hurta formerly provisional provisional provisional pro pro- visional president will be the administration administration admin admin- candidate Whether the he he administration administration ad ad- ministration choice runs runs runs-as as as- asa a cooper cooper- tista which party now claims President President President dent Obregon as a member or as an Independent depends entirely on politics politics poli poll tics as they pertain at the time the active campaign opens WILL ENTER CANDIDATe CA At any rate the st s will enter a man In the race and if an alliance with the administrate is not made 1 i itis is considered quite possible that Jorge Prieto Laurens Lauren youthful leader of ot the party at present a federa federal federal fed fed- era eral deputy and the mayor maOr of ot Mexico City will be the party choice l Gonzales Garza a former president presidents Is also talked of ot in this connection Sen Senor or Laurens Laurens' youth may prove a barrier barrier barrier bar bar- rier but constitutional prohibitions have been winked at before when po rio rio- expediency was urgent It Is a foregone conclusion that the con conservatives united either under one ope party or campaigning as aSt several I groups will wm be represented In the race J The Catholic party part at the last election elec- elec I r tIon supported Alfredo Robes Robles DominI Dominguez Domin- Domin I I guez who in the old days day acte acter as a sort 61 liaison officer between the Porfirio Diaz and the Francisco Madero Madero Madero Ma- Ma dero groups He contested with small hope of election and polled but a few tew votes But the Catholics are growing grow grow- ing inS In power and the Filippi expulsIon expulsion sion Incident has as served to unite them against the administration espe especially lally against Secretary Calles Dominguez may be their standard bearer but hut many many predict the Catholics will ally lly themselves with the fascist Who asyet ris as as asyet yet have not revealed their sentiments for president A review of possible conservative material finds th these se names always mentioned I Francisco o Leon do de la Ia Barra former fomer president and now living In France Prance Because of ot his' his present happy con connection zion Ion with the French gov government It Is not believed he would even allow his name pame to to- tobe be considered Alberto Garcia Granados former army general under President Diaz Dias now living In the United States Manuel Calero former ambassador at Washington and now in the United States Fernando Iglesias Calderon former I ambassador a at Washington and at present a a. federal senator Pedro former president and now living quietly in Mexico City Eulallo Eulalio Gutierrez former president now a resident of ot Mexico City Carlos B B. a fed federal ral senator ator anc an and a prominent merchant of or Mexico City There are others now flow residents of the U United States who alro figure In the General Manuel Pe- Pe General Pablo Gonzales and General Gen Gen- eral Esteban Cantu former governor lot of Lower California are among the most prominent And then there are are others who are not definitely allied with any group but who may be requisitioned as candid can can- did tesa tes I There Is Roberto V V. Pesqueira Pes- Pes queira who represented the Obregon government at Washington during during- the early stages of ot the recognition o Senor Pesqueira is close to the present and is known as a broad gauge man who might tit fit In well to break the recognition dead dead- lock There Is also Eduardo Edu-ardo Iturbide grand nephew of ot Emperor of ot Mexico He Is a sound business man sane In his political convictions allied with no particular group roup up and and well thought of by all here He also h ha has 8 a a. certain standing In the United States due duo to his position a as counsellor counsell to Secretary de la Ia 80 Huerta during the debt negotiations J. J last st summers summer Felix FeUx F F. editor of ot El Universal also has hag been as a possible civilian candidate as opposed to the military de' de Emeterio de Ia la Garza already has formally announced himself et from Havana as a presidential candidate saying that Mexico needs 3 a. a Messiah and that he proposes to be cast In that role rote His antecedents however are not such as to lend seriousness to his announcement It Is also assumed that tha Senor Miranda y I perennial candidate who has contested in every election since the early days das of ot the Dies Diaz regime will again enter himself Issues and platforms to have never In Intruded d much In Mexican I politics where the contest is largely personal In a a. general way relations with the United States will figure figure In party declarations with constitutional re reforms reforms re- re forms particularly In regard to article article ar ar- ar- ar t tide 27 and the agrarian law as points of or discussion t |