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BarbarousMexico JOHN KENNETH TURNER

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EIGHTH UNANIMOUS ELECTION OF DIAZ 195<br />

Club Anti-Re-electionista de Obreros (workers), three of whom<br />

were forcibly enlisted in the army.<br />

"At Puebla, Atlixco and Tlaxcala, where untold outrages<br />

have been committed against my followers, reigns intense excitement.<br />

The last news received shows the conditions of the<br />

working classes to be desperate; that they may at any moment<br />

resort to violent means to have their rights respected."<br />

In June, the month of election, matters became very<br />

much worse. Estrada and Madero themselves were<br />

arrested. On the night of June 6 they were secretly<br />

taken and secretly held in the penitentiary at Monterey<br />

until the truth became noised about, when charges were<br />

formally preferred against them. Estrada was charged<br />

with "sedition." Madero was first accused of protecting<br />

Estrada from arrest, but soon afterwards this charge<br />

was dropped and he was accused of "insulting the<br />

nation." Ile was removed from the penitentiary of<br />

Nuevo Leon to the penitentiary of San Luis Potosi, and<br />

here he remained 'incommunicado until after "election."<br />

The presidential campaign ended amid many reports<br />

of government persecutions. A reputable dispatch dated<br />

June 9th said that in breaking tip a gathering at Saltillo,<br />

following the news of the arrest of Madero, the police<br />

rode down the crowds, injuring more than two hundred<br />

people. Another, dated June 14th, said that in the cities<br />

of Torreon, Saltillo and Monterey more than one hundred<br />

persons were arrested on the charge of "insulting"<br />

the government; that at Ciudad Porfirio Diaz forty-seven<br />

prominent citizens were arrested in one day, and that<br />

a big exodus of citizens of the border towns, fearing<br />

arrest, was taking place to the United States. Still<br />

another dispatch, dated June 21st, said that more than<br />

four hundred arrests had been made in northern Mexico<br />

the previous day and that 1,000 political prisoners were

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