Arizona republican., 1910-12-04

ye like to have a brief account iv ' tn life iv this gr-reat an just ruler as l pick it out iv tn journals iv | tn day? Well thin: 'P'raps tn great est an most binificent ruler in tn wurruld today is Perforated Diaz. tn | prisidint iv Mexico. Arly in his life | he took up tn cause iv liberty an ! 1t is recalled iv him that at tn age ' " two he pursooed his nurse with d ! bow an arrow. In school his ardent | nature cud not brook tn tyranny iv tn school masther, so he packed up | his books shot tn teacher in tn leg | an left tn academy. Throughout his youth an arly manhood he was de- voted to his country an be disord- { heriy conduck an acc'rate shootin he rose to be prisidint iv tn republic, ! job which he has held down iver since through tn suffrages iv q grateful people
 "Gin'ral Diaz's methods iv governin' tn people is mild but firm. He sub mits all questions to thim an saves | thim tn throubIe iv thinkin' about thim by tellin' thim tn answers first He coorts opposition as he thinks if
 
 CTS Whin a Mexican feels like crit icizin' tn govermint he's ferfecklv free to do so if he is in Paris an has slnt TT ms family Aven if he is an avowed inimy iv tn gomermint an has told his wife that he thinks Gin ral3 DiaZs pants bags at tn knees. no harsh measures ar-re adopted to'rds him. Tn prisidint on'y asks him to put his head against wall. shut his eyes an listen to reason It is tn rule iv tn gOvermint to carry in last wurruds iv aven tn most severe critic iv tn administration to tn family. onless they ar-re iv an in cindyary charackter
 We talk in this country iv our pro- gross in iliction laws but we are so far behind Mexico that we ought to he ashamed iv ourselves. Tn Diaz system is simple in tn exthreme lvry four or five years he takes in on'y copy iv tn constitution in ex- istence out iv tn garret. It is in his own handwritin' He's readin' if an admirin' it's just an wise pro- visions whin prisintly Mrs. Daz hears him exclaim: What day is tbis9 Why it's tn thirtieth iv Novimber an here tn constitution says am bound to call tn iliction iv mesilf on tn foorth iv October How cud be SO frgetful? Mother. We should nave reminded me. But, still. what diff renee does few days more or less mane? I'll put on me coat inn mejetly an go out an summon tn lilctorate to declare their choice he says. An on d certain day tn citi- zens " Mexico gather at tn poIlin' places scatthered at inthervals iv three hundhred miles throughout iii. land an registher their will No in- tlmydation is practiced Tn prisi- dint's ordhers whin a man says be is goin' to vote again tn govermint is not to shoot or intherfere with him Tn amy way ontil he has exercized his suffrage
 'Ivrything is left to tn voters in decide eXcipt tn result Befure tn polls ar-re opened tn officers in charge go through tn nicissry for maIity iv announcin' tn iliction iv Gin'ral Diaz with his majority. Thin tn ballotin' begins. Tn reader can guess what a sagacyous pollytickal phophet Diaz is when we tell him that in forty years tn gin-ral has niveer been ten votes out iv tn way. He is always very calm waitin' fir tn returns. Wanst tn issue is before tn country he goes about his daily wurruk as if nawthin' was happenin'. On tn day befure tn last iliction our corryspondint intherviewed him an ass him if he thought he wud be ilicted He looked thoughtfully out iv tn window iv tn palace to a new buildin' acrost tn schreet where a sojer was shootin' at tn feet iv hod carver to make him go up tn ladder more quickly an remarked ca'mly: I cannot tell. Tn issue is in th' hands iv tn people an they must decide Tn next month as wan mule afther another brought in it's