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BarbarousMexico JOHN KENNETH TURNER

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196 BARBAROUS MEXICO<br />

being held incommunicado, where they would remain<br />

until after the election.<br />

"Election day" found soldiers or ruraics in every<br />

town and hamlet. Booths were actually put up here and<br />

there and a farce of an election was gone through with.<br />

Soldiers held the polls and every man who dared cast a<br />

ballot for any but the administration ticket knew that he<br />

was risking imprisonment, confiscation of property, even<br />

death, in doing so. Finally, the government went<br />

through the form of counting the vote, and in due course<br />

of time the world was told that the Mexican people had<br />

proved "practically unanimous" in their choice of Diai<br />

and Corral.

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