Excerpt from The Mexican Year Book: The Standard Authority on Mexico, 1920-21 The establishment of order and the maintenance of peace were effected in three ways. First, by keeping firm control of the army, starting point of nearly all revolutionary movements, and by preventing the church from becoming active in politics; second, by the complete centralization of government; and third by the organization of an effective mounted police. Every office, federal, state and local, was filled by a partisan of the administra tion. Elections became more than ever a farce. State governors and legislatures merely reflected the will of the president. Local politics were entirely controlled by jefes politicos, or district administrators, who were responsible to the state governors and under whose watchful eyes only those candidates and those meas ures acceptable to the administration ever received a majority vote. Congress, and even the courts, similarly took their cues from the executive in matters where for any reason he chose to interfere. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.