Word: obregon
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...well to be settled on the battlefields rather than in the ballot boxes. As the week wore on the summary executions of one of the two opposition candidates and many supporting generals seemed to hold promise of a complete annihilation of the opposition to the candidacy of General Alvaro Obregon, one-armed, onetime President of Mexico, whom the Calles administration is tacitly supporting, just as the Obregon administration, when it was in power, tacitly supported President Elias Plutarco Calles. Then as now there was a revolution; then led by General Adolfo de la Huerta, at present an exile...
...immediate cause of the attempted revolution was the opposition of Generals Serrano and Gomez to the re-election of General Obregon, they being the only candidates standing against Obregon. The fundamental cause of the revolt may be attributed to the almost traditional resort to arms of Mexican aspirants to the presidential power, as witness a long line of successful and unsuccessful revolutions...
...sets of statements the truth was doubtless approximated. But there was no denying that the heavy hand of the Calles forces had discouraged the revolters for the time being and had driven them into the mountains and had therefore rendered them comparatively innocuous. This being so, General Alvaro Obregon remained as the only aspirant to the Presidency...
...felt that the President's allusions to the enforcement of the anti-religious laws would rally the Roman Catholics to the banner of "Kaiserlike" General Arnulfo R. Gomez, who sponsors religious toleration as the main plank in his party platform and who opposes one-armed General Obregon, among other reasons, because he has already been President...
Leading candidates in the elections, which take place in the middle of next year: General Alvaro Obregon, General Arnulfo Gomez, General Francisco Serrano, the latter two of whom, it is hinted, may decide to join forces against General Obregon...