The Sentinel=record., 1911-03-29
MEXICO MAY
HAVE PEACE
FIRST TANGIBLE MOVEMENT IN
DIRECTION or CESSATION OF
POSSIBILITIES.
ofax TO be Allowed to Retire With
All Honors Of His High Office
san Antonio Probably Scene
of Negotiations.

San Antonio, Tex. March 2S.--Ex
planation of recent governmental
changes at the city of Mexico tht
recall of Limantour from Paris; the
arrival of Francisco /. Madero, Sr.
and his son, Gustavo, at this city; the
departure of DE La Barra from the
ministerial mansion at Washington;
his new position at the Mexican cap
ital--all were explained today in in
teryiews with Don Francisco and Dor
Gustavo Madero.
Tentative peace proposals have beer
made and on the administration side
have been acted upon. In the view oi
Don Francisco peace is assured--ii
no, within ten days. then at the fnrth-
est within month Diaz, it is report
ed In q message to the Mexican con
gress, will insist that peace be CON
GUIDED.
On the one point and the vital one
Of why they were so certain that the
tentative arrangement would within a
set date result in a sealed compact OF
peace. father and son were silent
They answered freely every other
question.
When the elder Madero and Imam
tour met recently the very meeting
was common place. let alone a discus
sion OF terms for possible peace. To-
day it was admitted that the inter
view concerned peace alone.
Senor Liman tour. the government
fnancier, familiar alike with the
Bourse OF Paris. with ThreadneedIee
Street. and moneyed Vienna and Ber-
lin, responded to the presidential
summons to come to the United States
from Paris, carried out the orders OF
his superior, Porfrlo Diaz. Unofficial
ly on the surface at least. he CON
ferred with the representative of the
reyolutionists, the father of Francisco
!. Madero. now in the field, and the
head of the revolutionists in front OF
the city Of Chihuahua.
Limantour agreed to obtain every
concession possible from the govern
mentment to the revolutionists to
make possible formal negotiations foI
peace, Don Francisco the elder prom
ised likewise. Limantour moved first
The resignation of the aged Dlaz cab.
met ;Sstt followed his first interviews with
President Diaz. In itself II was moi
important; as a concession to public
opinion ii meant everything. 1t was
the evidence OF good faith for whict
tne lnsurrectos waited.
Today Senior Madero and his sor
arrived in this city. They asserted
positively their belief that real peace
Is at hand in their war-ridden land
They intimated also that the forma
negotiation would occur in this city
With only the resignation of tn.
cabinet as an evidence of good faith
would you care to trust yourself OF
Mexican soil to take up the question
Of the cessation OF warfare?' Dor
Gustavo was asked.
Well. hardly" smiled the latter
On this point nothing mere definite
was obtainable, but the inference wa
left plain that San Antonio is de
stined to be, in less important way
another Portsmouth
President Diaz. those being inter
Viewed borrowing a phrase from tn
Chinese. will be allowed to save hi
lace The men who, more than an
ether, has regenerated his country
with the white hairs of his SO year
upon his head, will retire with all tn
nonors due his distinguished services
Senor Limantour was firm upon thi
point as the basis of preliminary M
sotlations. Senior Madero agreed, ad
hitting however. that his acquies
cense is subject to possible rejectio
by vote OF his sen Francisco and tn
other army leaders. He does not fea
an adverse vote. however.
The basic concessions which It
believed will be ratified later, includ
the resignation OF the Diaz cabine
and the appointment of younger me
2 their positions has already bee
accomplished. The next is the resie
nation CT Diaz and the holding OF a
election where the suffrage shall D
meonstrained and free. This al