Show Y N MORROW WILl FIND D ELECTION FIGHT IV IS MEXICO II XICO LIKE OURS IF COOLIDGE StAN RAX Editors Note Noe This Is s the last of a series of four articles on the appoint appoint- appointment meat ment of Dwight Morrow as a Mexican ambassador BT SIT RODNEY EY NEt NEV Service viC Writer ri cr-ri WASHINGTON w ASu Oct OcL 12 Dwight Dwight Morrow will find hind Mexico in hi the midst of a a- presidential campaign which will Ill remind d him of the e third d term battle battie which would d have been ds seen s af In this country had bad his IsIs friend Calvin Cool- Cool Coolidge CoolIdge Coolidge idge chosen to run for re The difference is that in Mexico a a. president under the constitution can can- cannot cannot cannot not even have two successive terms let alone three In fact the main sur stir surface surface face Issue of 01 the Mexican campaign Is Is' Is whether a president having served I If one term te should ever be re-elected re as f i f I IThe long g as he lives The question of real importance to the United States however is 13 not I Ione one of re election but of whether the I next president will be strong enough I and wise enough enouch to protect Amer tuner American lean ican lives and property meet Mexico's financial obligations and guide Mex Mex- Mexico Mex-I Mex Mexico ico toward the day when she will wUl be i ione one of our biggest export markets as asa asa a result of buying b power The candidates are former President President President dent Alvaro Obregon Obregon and ond General Arnulfo multo Gomez Gomes Obregon is the man whose force foree and diplomacy stopped the post Diaz series of rev revolutions and who put the government on a a. com corn comparatively comparatively sound basis before handing the reins to Calles Calico General Serrano who was regarded as a 11 presidential possibility was slain in the uprising In Mexico City the other day The no re election cry is directed at Obregon principally by the fol fol- followers followers lowers of Gomez These point to the 1917 constitution which stipulated that a president should never be re elected The Obregon folks say that this only meant a president dent couldn't succeed himself and that anyway the last congress for for- formally formally formally mally interrupted the law liw to te permit pern t successive non-successive re election The an answer nn- nn answer of the opposition is that Obre- Obre Obregon's Obregon's Obregon's gons gon's election might mean a return of the old days daS of the Diaz Dias dictator dIctator- dictatorship dIctatorship dictatorship ship Hit 1 hough Obregon Is a liberal The Obregon Calles-Obregon faction had charged ed that Serrano and Gomez Gomex were financed by foreign oil companies Gomez has shown marked favoritism to the oil Interests during his Vera Vcra command but Calles Calies and Obre Obre- Obregon Obregon Obregon gon were said fald to favor Serrano In Incase Incase incase case It appeared 1 that Obregon cant can't make the grade In the government at Washington there has been one group which favored Obregon and another which favored Gomez Gonez Gomez Comes incidentally has hinted that he will lead a a. revo revo- revolution revolution lution if he is not elected Latest ad ad- advices advices vices Ices are that Obregon Is definitely the outstanding candidate One rea rca reason reason son is it the fact let that Mexican elections arent aren't like ours Mexican politicians may be no no nomore more crooked than our own but their methods are cruder and the party In power Ter at Mexico City Is 15 likely to determine the result Obregon and Morrow ought to get along very ery well principally because both of them presumably will be In Ina ina a mood to compromise rather than to pursue courses of action where where- wherefrom wherefrom from froin from both sid would likely lose Obregon saved himself l in the de do la Ia revolution only with arms anns ob ob- obtained obtained ob- ob tamed from the tile United States and although he has opposed ed the tile Kellogg policy he probably will be guided by byan byan an en Intelligent gent self Interest |