Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1872-12-04
How n sister Republic Is Getting On

The Mexican republic at the last sdvices was
in the enjoyment OF general tranquility, inter-
Tupted, If st ALL only by uncertainty as TO the
movements OF POTfiriO Diaz, with some dis1uiet
On account OF the reported death OF Manuel Lo-
zAda, eaclque OF Topic. The President ad in
term, Dir. LeTdO lie Tejada, seems to have con-
Quoted himself with so much prudence as TO
have been subject 20 no other criticism except
from such impatient persons As choose to find
fault with him because of his abstaining from
making any political changes pending the Pres
ideDtial election, for which, as we think, he de-
serves concentration. The electoral returns
already received, tend to show that he will be
elected almost with unanimity. President
LeTdO has employed the four months of his pro-
visional government in the pacfcation of the
country, which he has effected by acting
steadily, not as the head of . party, but as the
chief OF the nation.
Congress Is occupied with constitutional re-
forms, more especially the establishment OF a
Senate and the making further provision for
vacancies in the Office OF President. IL will be
remembered that by the constitution of Mexico
there is no Vice President and the only sub
stitution is that of the president OF the supreme
court, which substitution is personal to him and
does not include the senior or other members of
the court: so that il Mr.. Lerdo de Teiada
should die to-day there is no person to take the
place OF President. In the United States, On
the other hand, we have provided for three
cases Of substitution, namely, the Vice Presi-
dent, the President of the Senate pro temDor,,
and the Speaker of the House.
There is one feature of public affairs in the
Mexican republic, which seems sufficiently
strange to us in the United States: that Is, the
readiness with which officers of the army get IN
military revolutions and still more the facility
with which their criminal and reasonable acts
arepaTdoned by the government. Thus General
PTohrlO Diaz pSOHouHess, that is, publishes a
political programme of puerile generslities,
which, however, proposed the forcibls overthrow
OF the constitution for his own personal profit
raises tTOOps-organizes civil war-he and his
lartSars levy forced contributions on the
country, commits ravage and spoliation in half
{. dozen states OF the republic, are at length
defeated by the troops OF the government and
alter al this, the vanqushed rebels aud traitors
Condesoendingiy consent to be received back into
the full enjoyment of their previous rank and
emolunents, either in the army or in Congress
Among the examples of this sort are two Der
cons, Trinidad Garcia and Garcia de la Cadena
who were among the most mschieyous of the
PARTISAN followers of POrfriO Diaz, and who
after having abandoned their seats in Congress
20 engage in the plumber and ravage OF civil
war, have dnidtly resumed their seats as il
nothing had happened, and who have even been
acquittt d OF blame by express vote of Con-
gress. Such incidents as these are well calcu-
lated to awaken solicitude as to the future peace
Of the MEXICAN republic.
MeanWhile, the caving in OF a tunnel OF the
railroad between Vera Cruz and Mexico will
delay the final Openin, of that road, and the
great rival American railroad projects of Mr.
Plum b and OF General ROsecrans continue to
be the subject OF ardent debate in Congress.