The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1871-04-29

Tho Mexico of To-Day.
From the information received from Mexico
by the last three or four steamers it Is evident
that that country is again on the eve of
another bloody and exhausting revolution
exhausting, if such word be admissible
when treating of people without proper
social and political organization, without
treasury and without most of the moral ele-
ments which are indispensable to the existence
of healthy and prosperous government.
The three principal candidates for the Presi-
dency-Messrs. Juarez, Lerdo and Diaz-to
considerable extent represent different social
grades. Mr.. Juarez has his circle of admirers,
among whom are great portion Of the Office
holders of to-day, including those of the army.
Such of the latter as have been hesitating
as to where to cast their weight have been
compelled, as a general thing to support Mr..
Juarez by the recent bills introduced into the
Mexican Congress to restrict the voting privi-
leges of the army. Mr.. Juarez has consider
able strength, not only in the liberal party,
but also in the conservative and Church ele-
ment of the population.
Mr.. Lerdo, it appears, has failed to caN
around him the old supporters of the empire
and of the Church, who profess to have more
confidence In Mr.. Juarez, but the personal and
political friends of Mr.. Lerdo are evidently nu-
merous and powerful; they pertain to the liberal
and moneyed ranks are good wire-pullers, and
know where to use their funds in the coming
election. His partisans, evidently believing
it would be stroke of policy in obtaining
votes for their candidate, have been recently
attacking the government of President Juare1
in various directions, and especially accusing
it of making fatal land contracts with American
companies and even of actually contemplating
the absolute sale of Lower California, and per-
haps Sonora and Chihuahua, to the United
fish have been thereby added to Mr.. Lerdo's
piscatory string. As will be remembered, the
I" Free Zone element in the country Identifies
itself with Mr.. Lerdo, whose greatest friend is
Mr.. Emelio Vilasco, of Tamaulipas, who was
the special champion of the "Free Zone"
Porfrio Diaz is emphatically the candidate of
the officers who have been eliminated from
the liberal army since the fall of Macmillan
and of greater portion of the lower class in
life. He is evidently good soldier and an
honest man, but his opponents say he lacks
experience in governmental affairs, and that
he would, if elected, inevitably be surrounded
by applicants for Office less fitting than such as
would be named by either Juarez or Lerdo.
The friends of Messrs. Lerdo and Diaz in
Congress recently united and called an extra
session of that body in order to pass certain
bills intended to throw Mr.. Juarez out of the
contest, leaving thus only two Kilkenny cats
to devour each other. They claim that
Juarezs fourteen years of Presidential service
should satisfy him, and that he should retire
from the field, lest he be further accused OF
attempting to establish himself as dictator.
From advices we learn that the contest has
been violent and resultless one so far, that
there has been Congressional Touchdown,
and that profting by the illustrious example
set our Mexican neighbors in Indiana and
Arkansas, when voting on vital questions has
been forced, the minority have fed from the
hall in sufficient numbers to occasion want OK
quorum. Fines and punishments have been
threatened to the delinquents; but the shout Of
sGod and Liberty" has been thus far success
fully raised. We see that the opposition press
of Mexico desires Mr.. Juarez to inform the
nation what is meant by recent resolution
presented to the United States Congress,
inquiring as to whether the United States
wants Lower California. Is not Mexico salts
fed with her tri-monthly or semi-annual revolu-
tions, or is she going to declare WARP The
Mexican press is pointing the nation to the
approaching demon of civil war, armed with
A. .rrord md tho firehrand