Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1911-03-30
SITUATION IN MEXICO
Direct Information from the Interior
conditions In the Mexican
Capital.

| am sorry that I have been remise in
not keeping you advised as to the politi-
cal situation in this country, but our To-
cal reports from day to day down here
have been of such a nature, that no re-
lance whatsoever could be placed in
| them.
We locally here in Mexico city, up to
a week or ten days ago. when the United
States started the movement of troops
| to Texas, have felt as safe as you people
have in Columbus, and we have all along
felt that President Dinz was able to hand
le the situation and that in due course
OF time would win out but, when we re-
ceived word that the Uniteed States was
sending troops to the border with the
view Of later on coming across, that
was different and locally tho situation
changed. the natives could not under
stand why the United States should In
tervene and resented It to such an ex-
tent that it was not at all pleasant for US
| locally. and it looked really serious here
for n few days and the trains were pack
cd every night with people going back
| TO the States. To-day the situation locally
is normal again as the natives have de-
clded that 1t IS not the intention OF the
United States to invade Mexico. IT. how
ever the United States docs come across
tho border, we are going to have trouble
here in the city, but YOU can probably
guess as we'll as I can what the United
states intends doing in the matter
know that we down here have exhausted
our supply of Cuesses since tho move
ment Of the United States troops started.
| AS to tho general situation throughout
| the country. the ma jority of the people
are dissatisfied with a great many Of the
| men appointed by Diaz to the local offices
| of the various state governin ents. and l
| would say, If all reports are truo. that
| they were justified in being dissatisfied,
| as a great many of the office-holders have
used their office for selfgadn in a thou
sand and one different ways AS these
men are appointed by Diaz. or are under
his orders, the natives blame him and
ask for now men to be placed in office,
| which Diaz is doing as fast as he finds
out the facts in the case. He has already
removed three governors and any num-
| Der of local officials throughout the
various States, and personally / think if
| he is let alone. he will in time. have a
| thorough cleaning ont OF all undesirable
office-hoders, but he is fair and just
and asks for time to prove that they are
either innocent or guilty.
| Report has II, that there is to be sew
eral changes in Diaz's cabinet. but how
true that is no one here really knows.
| VtcePresident Corral who has been
reported as being seriously sick for the
past four months, is not liked by the
people. Corral knows it and has on that
account, or on account of his recent i'll
ness offered TO resign, but Diaz would
not accept his resignation, for which he
is severely criticised by the majority OF
the better class of Mexlcans, they claim
ing that with Corral out of the Way,
would go a long way towards satisfying
the people, yet when YOU ask them what
there is against Corral, they have no
| answer to give, except that the people
do not like him
AS TO the revolution proper. l do not
| think, az this writing, that 1t will ever
develop into a general uprising through
| out the country at large 1t is true how
ever that they did have what you might
call general uprising in tho State of
Chihuahua which was brought about en-
| trely by local conditions in that State
but the recent change of governor, as
well as majority of the smaller office
holders, has gone long ways towards
satisfying the people in that particular
| State, so that to-day the majority Of the
so-called revolutionists have returned to
! their homes, leaving in the field small
armed bands. scattered here and there.
| who are reported as robbing the people.
| committing deprodations, and are really
more OF The nature of bandits than revo-
lutionists. They hide out In the noun
tans they know the country perfectly,
and it Is going to take this government
long time to round them up, same as it
took the United States to control the In
dams, and to subdue the Fiipinos, but in
The end as l said before. l think IL Diaz
is left alone he will eventually handle
the situation to the entire satisfaction
Of the majority OF his people. as well as
all the foreigners.
Reports from the States has had Presi-
dent DIaz as being a very sick man. all
the way to dying and being dead but we
see him riding back and forth in his
automobile every day, and he appears to
| be as hale and hearty as ever, and would
also say that 1t Is not at all uncommon
to see both Mr.. and Mrs. Diaz walking
! through Chapultepec park unaccompa MED
by anyone, which goes to show that he
| himself Is not much afraid from a per
sonal standpoint.
| As another illustration OF reports from
the States, l read one of the San Antonio
| papers yesterday IN which 1t stated that
! Diaz's house had been stoned, that all
the windows were broken, and that the
mob got entirely beyond control of tho
police, all of which is made out of some
ones Imagination, and there Is nothing
10 1t at all.
| AZ to tho situation in Guerrero YOU
| Will remember in one OF my letters | men
! toned the fact that the report vas that
the rcvolutiOnists had captured Chilpano-
ing and that they had Governor Flores
| placed in prison. Well 1t finally de-
vcloped that the truth OF the matter was
| that some Hefe Poltico in one of the
! nearby towns had used the soldiers to
try and impress some poems to work on
his new house, they resisted. the soldiers
| fired on them, captured half dozen men,
and later on that night the natives got
together. rescued the prisoners. captured
| the soldiers guns, and that was the extent
| OF the revolution In Guerrero with this
exception, that when tho governor heard
the truth he had that Hefe Poiitico who
had caused all the trouble, arrested and