The Wilson times. [volume] (Wilson, N.C.) 1896-19??, 1911-06-06
signed FOR
HIS wife
MRS. DIAZ GUIDED THE Pen
THAT MEANT SO MUCH
FOR MEXICO
BITTERLY HE PROTESTED

Mexico City, JUNE 5.-Maria Ocam-
po, an Oaxaca Indian woman, 35 years
Of age, who was in the service of
Nine Porfirio Diaz for nine years,
declare that Sonora Diaz guided the
faltering hand of the president to
write his resignation, and then took
the message from the reluctant old
man and sent it herself to the Cham
Der of Deputies for action on the
evening of May %. The servant de-
clares that Sonora Diaz forced her
husband to flee the city at o'clock
ia the morning, through fear that he
would be assassinated. Gen. Diaz
protested at his wife's actions, and
used every argument possible, but
finally was overcome by his wife's
pleas, and he and the family fled. The
Ocampo woman said:
"To his family, Diaz always said
that he would never resign, and that
he would not be driven to it, but
would stay and fight it out, and, if
need be, die fighting, but my mistress
argued night and day with him, and
told him that his life was worth more
to her than to the ungrateful Mexi-
cans or to a country inhabited by
such people.
The resignation had been made out
for more than a month by Diaz's at
torney, and on the afternoon of May
25th, about O'Clock, Sonora Diaz
brought the paper to Diaz, who was
seated in front of a mahogany table
IL the library of his home, on Old
Cadena street, this city, with his
head buried in his hands, and the
tears coursing down his cheeks.
Madam Diaz soothed him and
then rang the bell. 1 answered before
any of the other servants got there.
then brought fresh piece Of paper,
and then his wife led the old man,
trembling with mixed anger, grief and
regret, back to his chair, took his
right hand with the pen and guided it
as he wrote the entire resignation
and signed it. No attention was paid
to me- and I stood watching and lis
tening.
when it was signed, madam reach
ed for it with one hand, and with the
other hand rang a bell for mes
senger. She knew that at that mo-
ment the Chamber of Deputies was in
session, and that there was terrible
turmoil demanded her husbands re
signation
''Diaz thrust the paper in his
pocket and refused to hand it over to
his wife, and brushed her one side.
The original drawn up by the lawyer
lay on the floor, and it was afterward
burned up and never used.
There were tears on the bent face
Of madame, as she begged Diaz to
give her the resignation, or at least
send it at once, so as to avert mass
~~A % o4Au THUS. one d1SuSu lOI u1OI 7
than twenty minutes, and then Diaz
tore the crump1ed paper from his
pocket, thrust it into her hand, say
ing:
"Therei Do with it what you
please and threw himself on a couch
sobbing as if his heart would break
Madame rang the bell and called
the military messenger, and with him
sent the resignation to the Chamber
OF Deputies. That night the mobs
noted here, and / understood more
than 60 were killed. That night
madame started to argue to flee the
city.
At first Diaz was unmoved, and de
dared that he was going to his native
state of Oaxaca, then about midnight
suddenly drawing his wife and sor
INTO his arms, the old man said:
For your sakes~ and for your hap
plness will go; but God bears wit
ness that do not wish to CO. Mexice
mas been in my charge and care fol
80 years. and now she does not want