Salt Lake Telegram | 1952-07-05 | Page 2 | Mexico Police on Guard as Vote Nears

Mexico Police I IOn On Guard GuardAs As Vote Nears MEXICO CITY July 5 UP UP- UP Steel helmeted troops and police mounted guard throughout Mexico Mexico Mex Mex- ico ica Saturday as a bloody election campaign closed with ith the government government govern govern- I ment apparently certain to crush wing left and Communist opposition opposition opposition tion at the polls Administration candidate Adolfo Adol- Adol fo Ruiz Cortines claimed he will sweep at least 70 per cent of Sundays Sunday's votes in the way four-way presidential race while the political political cal machine that has kept his party in power for 26 years was expected to roll roil up a sided lop-sided majority in Congress His leading opponent Gen Miguel l HenrIquez Guzman was conceded the support of less than one fifth of the Mexicans who iho will ill go o to the heavily- heavily guarded polls Sunday bunday Two other candidates backed labor boss Vincente Lombardo Toledano and Efrain i Gonzalez Luna head of the Catholic Catholic Catholic Cath Cath- olic Party were not considered in the running The amy detailed troops to guarantee peaceful and democratic democratic demo demo- cratic cratic balloting and prevent recurrence recurrence recurrence re re- re- re currence of violence that already has cost 22 lives Military patrols armed with ith carbines tear-gas tear grenades grenades' and sub were ordered to break up political meetings and guard against sabotage or violence at power plants water systems newspapers radio stations sta stations stations sta- sta and other public utilities Tanks and artillery were vere held in reserve