Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1911-07-08

| VIGO. Spain, June 16-Aboard the
steamship Ypiranga this morning, an
Associated Press representative talk
ed at length with Porfirio Diaz, Mex
president. No. trace of defeat show
! ed in his bronzed features. With
slow, deliberate, dispassionate speech
Diaz described his flight from Cha
pultepec Castle.
IL shall never return to Mexico"
| said DiaZ. And then, with a flash of
those warrior eyes of his, he added
"Unless my country calls me to her
aid because of war with some foreign
nation"
my sun Has Set" Says DIaz.
my future plans are not definite, "
said Diaz. 81 shall go from Havre to
some quiet little chalet in Switzer-
land. My day is done, my sun is set
and I am an old, old man."
MY bitter enemies have evolved out
of my warmest friendships. have
been betrayed by those | trusted most.
I have suffered but few injuries from
those for whom have done nothing.
| All my troubles have come from those
I helped" .t
II have learned much from Amer
lea and Americans. You are a great
nation and you have what is often
| lacking In I,atin-Americans, unde-
Waiting loyalty. We love military
pomp. but when put to the supreme
promises with little hopes of fulfill
found wanting. ....
81 had hoped that my country could
self-seekers. men who make large
promises with little hops of fulfill
ing them.
Resigned 10 Prevent Intervention.
| 81 have dreamed of Mexico peace
full and prosperous during my own
time and gloriously progressive in the
future. OF course. In way ! saw
this impending trouble. BY strenu-
Gus means might have held my gov
eminent together, but with a dis
satisfied majority Of the people, end
less outbreaks would surely have
brought upon us the Intervention OF
some other nation. That would have
been repugnant to me.
II am far better satisfied to be the
retiring president of the Mexican re-
public than the tool and playthine
Of an alien and unsympathetic pow.
err" rH.'.w p.
Would you return to the presi
dency II the American nation espous
ed your cause and put an end to thu
rioting In the capital?' asked.
Would Not Rule Again II He Could.
Quickly Diaz answered.: mo. EN-
phatically no. l have been Gale,
dictator; / have been denounced a
l'unjust and unfair to my political riv
ais. but is not that kind Of slande
part OF every mans life who Is boil
enough to enter the arena OF affairs?
THE man without enemies is tn,
man who has never accomplished any
thing. Once placed in positions o
power and affluence the very mel
who are today reviling my name.
lose control of myself, the poison o
It gets into my soul and grow furi
Gus when | think of It,"
Declares Chnrlatans Control Country
And here | am" he went on, run
ming away from the land of my birth
my Mexico. my poor deluded country
now In the hands of charlatans an,
mountebanks. and never will re
.. turn.
mo political clamor. no reversal o
sentiment on the part of the ma
!. mob which now prOwls In the fai
thOrOughfares of the capital, could In
duce me to go back. Nothing can In
duce me but the threatened invasion
of some alien race" ~
TELL me of your escape from Mex
n leo City"
!, 1T Is burned in my memory as
nightmare all too WELL" the forme
president explained. After tw
: nights Of wild riding, the women g
@ my household. screaming wildly wit
l ouu Shou'
:, ing unprintable things against me,
finally determined that discretion wa
the better part of valor.
"a eve Fled Like Hunted Rabbits"
i,i 1--WE packed few belonging abst
|. lutely necessary and dear to or
hearts. My sons wife. ten-day-ol
child at her breast, was hurried frol
her bed. We scurried like hunted raj
bits through dark alleys and street
We raced in automobiles for the raj
way depot and thence aboard Il
Ypiranga ut Vera Cruz,
I'VE were shot at all along the wa
A bullet grazed my face here" A
most with pride the old man place
81 a finger on his high cheekbone, wheI
nt red streak showed Diaz new,