New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-11-17
Affairs IN MEXICO.
OPPOSITION DEVELOPING TO PRESIDEyI
DiAZ.
THE REVOLUTIONARY MOVEMENTS IL GCATs
MALA-THE LOWER CALIFORNIA

QUESTION.
! rRoM An oCcAsrOSAL CORRESPONDENT OF THE TRIBryA
City of Mexico. Nov. Bel Siylo DEE ,
NuevO7 "The Nineteenth Century, one Of the biz
dailles here. whose intimate. though secret
relations with powerful functonary by-wori.
published day before yesterday an article pretending
| that the Washington Administration. led by secretary
Blaine. had hand in the latest revolutionary move
! ment in Guatemala. This cry Of " wolf" IS AWKWARD
and compos people TO look candilly around. 10 seq
| what kind Of animal must have tried 70 divert
attention from his own mschiefs This careless
Mexican organ evidently relrd the assumption that
there Will be anybody abroad cOgn zant 81
the fact that nne-tenths OF the revolutionary NOV
ments d rected against Guatemala have their origin
on the Mexican frontier at Chiapas. where too. !,
situated the district of sOcOnuscO which Is claimed
both by Mexico and Guatemala, and about whid
endless pour parlers now being conducted
tn r. are any traces OF foreign influence IN ne
Guatemalan uprising. " The Nineteenth Century may
be sure that in such the probabilities, basd
upon geographical and historical consdeai rs. 20 nj
rather to a Mexican than TO a Yankee IN 'dding.
But it was somewhat 10 be expected that these
people should have felt big right after the double
diplomatic and financial success thu have won. Ar.
Blaine had readily explained away the foolish remarks
made by the American Minister to Central AMERICA
At the same time. and I'm the way Of an answer
to the claims Of French investors I'm the lfa loans
OF the EFancO-Austl1an Umpire IN Mex 60, inc ff"i
Minister I'm this capital presented to the Government
here communication from the Paris Cabinet rafyin;
and renewing a declaration formerly mal. the
effect that France would never claim fr0n, Mex co
single dollar Of the debt contract ted under the rcin
of Macmillan.
Meanwhile. the campaign started In the states Of
Collma and Guerrero 10 obtain third term for DAY
does not run very smoothly. PoIfr0 may tire ouf
his good fortune that fortune or good luck which.
. sTpile Al I'm
stick 10 old age no matter how audacious7 it might
be- President Daz who really + q man Of value,
with moro or less political scrupe>. should rfnem'
Der that he succeeded I'm OverhrOwng Lero dc 1eiadi
only because the latter was obstinate In seeking 70
place himself in the Presidential chair for a second
term. Yet Poriro Daz IS not a lerio! lie h'
not BEEN as erdo was. the righthand man of Jusrt'
the Seward OF the Mexican Lincoln ready 10 take upon
himself tho responsibility for the execution OF tns
invader. Macmillan. still, the M"Nicans aHoWed DOL
TO crush down Lerdo and to send the old patriot ~
exile in New-York. where be died last summer
But POrfriO Is too intelligent not TO ioresee 'n7
greater danger there would be- for him IN indfe''p
violating the Constitution, greater danger tAa'
proved to be even for Lordo de 1eadI. ard II is u
timatcd that DiaZ does not thank his oNelzei""
friends In Guerrero and Collma for proposing
vision Of the Constitution with view 10 making ls"
ful the obtaining OF indefinite Presidential terms
the same individual. -
Portrio Diaz is TOO smart not 10 have dlscefhe'
what direction the wind blowing, when he e"i"
Of the recent action OF the Governor OF Vera 'rm' g.
of the electoral excitement In Yucatan. 10 'He rs
mer State, a proposition was made In the uo'e I
message TO the Legislature tending 10 give tha' Ne
lature absolute right respecting eNpmpralVs
private properties" pro bono pubHco ln,I,.Da
sign ncant attack ava nSt the doctrine Of zen siIs
which prevails at the Presidential tas'le 81 Nn,rsgs
nee I'm Yucatan IL Is said that the Nhoe W., N,
OF the Administration will not prevent me or,naly
senior CaStellanos for Governor OF ne stse' ard 10
and despite the denials OF Mr. Talbot, IN N.-Sass
the alleged Intentions OF the " Yankees, 10 pssl
Lower California the Mexican press chsfs,' asalus
dent Diaz with hesitating Ia show oolI H., p.sro VII
these schemes OF annexation. General tutu1 shrp
overcome those difficulties. thanks 10 ms ~ ~ a.
and undoubted patriotic liberalism. SIM. Ws,saa
that they are existing should render our nd ~
friends more attentive to their own AFFAIR. 81 re.h.
vent them from charging their North Nh"n - M,x-
bOrs with imaginary schemes for anneNd rr.,a,emaB
can territory and for stirring revolution IN ""''
or anywhere else