The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1911-11-13
AFTER THE
REVOLUTION
A Story Showing How Magnanimity
Comes TO Follow Victory
By EDWIN PENNINGTON
Copvrlcht nv American praea Aeso
By EDWIN PENNINGTON
Copyright by American Press Asso.
citation. 1871.

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After every struggle resulting in
change of government there are score
TO he paid of by those who have RI
VOTED. As revolutionists, instead o
being favored by the law they hav
been hampered by it, Having estah
lished themselves in power. the othe
| edge OF the sword Is brought into pa,
and cuts in the opposite direction. In
stead Of being used to imprison or exc
cute revolutionists it is used TO execut,
the advocates of the government over
thrown.
When the recent revolution in Mex
leo became the de facto government tn,
revolutionists stood ready to use the
law TO punish those who had used II
to punish them. During that period
when President Diaz held his own In
the city of Mexico a young lawyer
Alfonzo Fernandez. sympathizer
with the insurgents, left the city to
join the forces of Madero. During the
fighting he was captured by the gov
eminent troops, and, being q man of
influence, every effort was made to in
duce him to return to the support of
President DiaZ. He was turned over
TO one Jose Sierra, a man deeply inter-
ested in putting down the rebellion,
with orders to persuade, force or buy
him to the government support.
Sierra took the captive TO his hacien-
da, put him on his parole not TO leave
it and treated him like guest instead
Of n prisoner. The jailer host was an
adept at winning over an enemy and
used every art Of persuasion that sug-
gested itself TO him.
Concia, Sierras daughter, n girl of
twenty, possessed one of those oval
faces Of dusky shade, large liquid
eyes and especially the long lashes of
the Spaniard. Her father noticed soon
after Fernandez's arrival that he was
attracted by his daughter and she was
attracted by Fernandez. 1t occurred
to Sierra that Fernandez's conversion
might be accomplished more readily
by means Of the girl than by his own
arguments or threats. He gave the
young people every opportunity TO be
together and when he saw that the
pear was ripe undertook to pluck 1t.
He offered Fernandez n prominent
position under the government, which,
OF course, would be tantamount to Sc
curing his adherence. Fernandez de-
clined the offer. Then Sierra inform
ed his prisoner that he would be tried /
for treason, which meant that he would |
be found guilty and executed In love
with the daughter of the man who had
made the threat. the temptation to
yield and desert the cause I'm which he
had embarked was well nigh reslstless.
Fernandez seemed to have every
thing to gain by giving his adher-
ence 10 the established government.
President Diaz then appeared to be
hrmly fixed in the presidency. and 1t
would he difficult to unseat him. By
Fernando would acquire n
position of prominence that might be
permanent. That position he might
make more enduring and more promi-
lent by throwing his influence on the
tide of the man who had done much
or Mexico. These arguments were re-
enforced by the fact that on one side
TODD death, on the other love. But
honor forbade.
Fernandez now considered the parole
lie had given void and began to take
measures to escape If possible. Concia
rocured for him woman's dress and
rove him in her volante past guards
7ho had orders to be watchful and on
% account permit his escape. Had 1t
OF been that she accompanied him he
7ould not have succeeded in deceiving
hem. AS it was. he made good his
scape and returned TO Mexico City.
Not even Sierra knew how Fernan- /
ez got beyond his clutches. Concia
ept her secret, and directly after the /
'cape changes occurred that rendered S
he episode a thing of the past and 1
BON TO be forgotten. I
After Diaz's departure and the ap.
ointment of provisional president of
lie republic the work of retaliation
Jose Sierra, who had been o
lptured by the revolutionists. was
Fought to the capital. To accuse q
an OF treason against n government :,
lat was not established when the act :. =,
as committed would not come with y
'od grace from the government that :,
I'd been In rebellion. Those whom =,
ezra had made to suffer brought :.
IN to trial for having murdered n :,
an whom he had shot during the "
ruggle. -"
And so IL was that the law which
III before enabled Sierra 10 punish O.
wv afforded tho same machinery for .,
lnishing him. AS to his having or 10
red shot the man he was accused of q,
ordering, there was no denying the sv
ct. That he had done the deed le hi
lily did not concern the jurymen who In
ere on the other side. The trial. m
erefore. was merely a judicial re- til
nge, and verdict of guilty was rem. ca
red accordingly. tb
The jury. the lawyers. the spectators. 70
w nothing. but the bare facts Of the III
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