REPRODUCED AT THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES. DECLASSIFIED AIR MAIL Aphority Stateletter h2 ey meNARA Date 24981 Viva Calderon Guardian placards on their houses, che a caused the report to be investigated and found that the report was true of three employees, one a teacher, one a telegraph line guard, and another in the postal service.
The latter was discharged immediately under Article 131 of the Election Law, which prohibits public employees from engaging in political activities. The ather two, however, escaped punishment because their positions were note comprised within that law. 18 couted at forts of certain admk For a time it appeared to some political observers that the Government might bring forward another candidate; and it was even speculated that the President himself might become a candidate for reelection. In fact, tpressure from LA TRIBUNA, on the one hand, which is violently or opposed to the principle of consecutive reelection, and the enthusiasm of admirers, on the other hand, who?
proclaimed during the latter part of January their desire that he stand for reelection, eventually forced the President to declare his position on this issue. oran earlier statement by the Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs to the effect that neither he nortany of the Presidentis sincere adherents, nor Señor Cortés himself, had any ance.
thought of continuing into ano, ther term the present een administration we s, unsatisfactory toi LA TRIBUNA. whichie attaeked the President for not making his position clear and alleged against him that he intended to convoke aut constituent assembly under an old Congressional deoree whereby he could maneuver his reelection notwithstanding that the Constitution prohibitsi a president succeeding o long as it existed it would be a potential berhimself