The weekly Arizonian., 1859-03-03
Mexican Politics.

mere are Tn MeXlcO three great leaulng parties, answering to the type of party wherever that product of imperfect civilization exists
 The first because the eldest, is the CoNsERvA- TIVE, with principles cognate with its name; strenuously adhering to ancient realism as dis tinguished from modern speculaton; anxious to concentrate power in individual hands, and therefore to weaken the authority of popular constitutions and popular legislation; depend ent upon the sympathy of the Church and the superstition of the masses for its material strength; and suspected, probably without jus tice, of willingness to restore monarchy, if not in favor of the Spanish crown, of some scion of European royalty This party was in power in the person of Santa Anna, from April 20, 1853, to August II, 1855. It was again in office only few months since, ill the person of Felix Zuloaga, whose administration was an exhibition of arbitrary authority amounting to actual Dictatorship. The second great division consists of the Radicals, or Puros, who discover the necessity of reform in every department of the Governments; advocate resort to pure democracy, and regard the Church, in its. un- bounded wealth and malign influence as the mother of the manifold evils which af1lict the people. The Puros were in power in the person of Juan Alvarez, in the fall of l855g ss Apgopgi the leaders of that important faction have been Lerdo de Tejada, Vdaurri Degollado, Zarco, Arriaga, and Mata Intermediate between these extremes is the moderate party the MoDERADos-in power from 1851 to 1853, in the person of General Arista; and from De- cember, 1855, to January, 1858, in the person of General Comonfort Juarez, Zamora, Gar ga, Parrodi, Casteneda, 4anez, may be named among the more conspicuous of the moderate party, although many of the Moderados of 1856 have, by the drift of subsequent events been iad ioto tha IyC of fba immediate purposes indeed, the ModerateS and Radicals are in strict alliance, under the com prehensive names of Liberals" and "Consti- tutionalists;" the restoration of the Liberal Constitution adopted by the National Congress at the City of Mexico, Feb 5, 1857, but set aside in the subsequent December by the joint effort of Zuloaga and Comonfort, being the common object ....... ........ @
 The three great parties, thus discrimnated
 enjoyed vigorous existence in Mexico at the moment when in 1855, Santa Anna was driven out afresh- A lively contention for the success sion followed. The Radicals triumphed; Ava reg became Provisional President, surrenderng the office, however, at the end of a few weeks tenure, to Gen. Comonfort, understood at the time to be as thorough Radical as the hero of Guerrero. The earlier measures of Comon- fort answered the expectations of his friends
 His programme of reforms was undeniably rad ical It enacted the Constitution of February, it opened a long vista of legislation before which the power of the Church and the insub- ordination of the Army would alike succumb. But it was not long ere the incapacity of the new President for the great task he had as- sumed became evident He appeared terrified at the storm he was provoking. To counter balance measure offensive to the Conserva- tiyes,, he adopted measures offensive to the Radicals The law of demortization drove the Church to frenzy; he endeavored to equate the mischief by decree abridging the liberty of the Press, The Liberals bade him proceed with his mission; he drew back, and cast him. self into the hands of the Conservatives His whole Administration, its earlier days excepted was a rapid retrogression from Radcalsm tc Conservatism; from the people, suffering under the weight of an intolerable hierarchy, into the arms of the hierarchy itself It was Comon fort who aided Zuloaga and the Conservative in overthrowng the Constitution Itwas Com