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Things looked a little black for Governor Ignacio de la Mora of Jalisco last week. In Mexico City a strong group in the.Chamber of Deputies was demanding his removal, charging that he had reestablished peonage in Jalisco, that he had restored the priests to their original political eminence, that he was selling jobs, stuffing ballot boxes...
...attack against Governor de la Mora had just got under way. As unostentatiously as possible many of Mexico's lawmakers divided into little groups and stood near the exits eying each other. In the midst of an anti-de la Mora speech by Deputy Jose Manuel Chavez, two Jalisco deputies, Manuel H. Ruiz and Esteban Garcia de Alba, sprang up demanding to be heard. Ismael Lozano. President of the Chamber, denied them and immediately adjourned the session...
...pious rejoicings. Archbishop Ruiz y Flores and his assistant, Bishop Pascual Diaz of Ta basco, hastened from Chapultepec Palace to the shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe, five miles from the city, knelt in prayer for ten minutes. In his prayers Bishop Diaz, huge and dour, a full-blooded Jalisco Indian, had cause to be grateful to the Pope, who had signalled the peace by appointing him Archbishop of Mexico City, Primate of all Mexico. Correspondents in Mexico remembered that the Indian Archbishop had been the bitterest opponent of President Calles' religious laws, the sturdiest fighter...
...Saturnino Cedillo's grim forces continued to advance against him through the State of Jalisco. Among the corpses after one engagement was found the body of the Catholic General. Elated, General Cedillo wired President Fortes Gil that he would have the State of Jalisco wiped clean of Catholic rebels in ten days...
Peace is a comparative term in Mexico. Last week occurred a battle between Federal troops and Catholic rebels in the town of Mexticac%#225;n, Jalisco. Some 50 rebels were killed, 50 more wounded. Nevertheless, President Portes Gil continued to consider Peace fully restored to his country. Final figures were published about the revolution?4,000 dead, 11,000 wounded, over 50 million dollars damage. And the country's strong man, Plutarco Elias Calles, was allowed to hand back the Ministry of War to General Joaquin Amaro, whose temporary resignation at the beginning of the revolution was blamed...