BarbarousMexico JOHN KENNETH TURNER

180 BARBAROUS MEXICO
Some students of the national schools of jurisprudence,
mines, medicine and the preparatory school of
Mexico City, were encouraged in forming a club to
further the candidacy of Corral. But when the students
of the Jalisco state schools of law and medicine formed
a dub to further the candidacy of Reyes the government
ordered them either to abandon their political
activity or to leave school. They sent a committee to
Diaz to appeal for fair play. But he gave them no
satisfaction, the threat of expulsion was renewed with
the result that so many students were expelled from
the Jalisco schools that the schools actually closed for
lack of pupils.
In July, a committee of re-electionists from Mexico
City held a public meeting in favor of Corral in the
Delgado theatre, Guadalajara, capital of Jalisco. The
audience, composed largely of democratic students, hissed
one of the speakers. Whereupon companies of police,
which had been held in readiness, were ordered to clear
the building and square.
This the police did after the manner of Mexico—
with sabre, club and pistol. The figures on the killed,
wounded and imprisoned were suppressed by the authorities,
but all newspaper reports at the time agree that
there were persons killed and wounded, as well as
imprisoned. The highest estimate that I have seen
placed the killed at twelve, the seriously wounded at
thirty-five and the arrested at one thousand. Following
the occurrence, Guadalajara was filled with state and
national troops. General Ignacio Bravo, notorious as the
most ruthless officer in the Mexican army, was hurried
from Quintana Roo temporarily to replace the existing
head of the military zone; and, finally, all political