Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 July 1909 — DOWN WITH DIAZ! CRIED DY RIOTERS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

DOWN WITH DIAZ! CRIED DY RIOTERS

Mob and Soldiers Clash In City of Guadalajara. REPORT IS TWO ARE DEAD Americans Are Injured and Their Property Damaged—Opponents of Mexico’s President Attack Orators Who Attempt to Speak In His Favor. Hotel Where Speakers Were Guests Is Demolished and the Men Rush to a Train Under Guard of Troops. Mexico City, July 27. —Over 200 arrests have been made, a number of persons injured and two reported dead as a result of political riots In the city of Guadalajara. A mob broke up a meeting which was being addressed by orators who spoke in behalf of the re-election of

President Diaz The rioters shouted, “Down With Diaz; We Want Reyes." They stormed the hotel Garcia, where the Diaz orators were guests. Every window in the structure was smashed, and the bar, office and barber shop looted. The police charged the crowds again arid :. .in but were repulsed. State tro.< is u .'te coded opt and a number of vo' , . < r f'n> d in the air without Sor:< n.em'ers of the mob e:i ’. ;■ I ii in one of the side t' ' " ' - v ere exchanged bet ' t'm soldiers. Six • > ; iid two foot po •••• ’ed. A four-year-v i ve teen killed. <■: Arc Injured. ' • <: r. pro] erty was <■ Americans wound- ■ ' e Pave asked the' An i-,; .hi ( ;: ■ if; • lor protection. The noire.- pt t' ■ .American wounded 1 are said to I • W. 11. Herton and H. i Murphy, tliokyh the dispatches were so garbled as to make their identity uncertain. The speakers who were mobbed were received sullenly when they arrived at the station in Guadalajara, and on their trip to the Del Gado theater, where the meeting was to be held, they were hooted and jeered. At the theater the crowds refused to allow a single orator to speak, drowning their voices with yells and driving them from the stage by hurling paper wads and an occasional stone. When the party emerged from the building, they were stoned and Leon Rojas, a prominent lawyer, was struck in the head and badly Injured. The automobiles, street cars and carriages In which the Diaz supporters rode also were stoned.

Rushed to a Train. Finally the speakers were rushed to a train, escorted by troops. They hurried to Mexico City. The hotel Garcia, which was wreck ed by the mob, is one of the largest hostelrles in the republic. It was leased by an American, and he has put in his claim for damages. Herton, the American who was wounded, was a guest at the hotel, and just before it was stoned, he is said to have stepped to a balcony and fired his revolver In the air in an attempt to disperse the crowd. Murphy, the other American Injured, was cut by a policeman’s saber. Guadalajara is the second city of the republic, and is ranked as the most beautiful. Subscribe for The Democrat.

PRESIDENT DIAZ.