The Oskaloosa herald., 1911-05-25
CORRAL QUITS AS
VICE PRESIDENT
Resignation Marks Beginning Of
End of Diaz Regime.
PASSING OF A STRONG MAN
Actual II Not TituIar Leader In Gov.
eminent Policies, He Had Been
Picked as Fallen Presl-
dents Successor.

Juarez, Mex, May 24.-The actual
fall of the Diaz regime in Mexico be-
came fact when Ramon Corral, vice,
president of the republic and actual II
not titular leader In most of President
Diazs policies, resigned.
News of Corral's resignation came
In the form of telegram to Francisco
Madero, Jr, commander of the revolu,
ton. from Alfred Robes -Dominguez
special peace envoy in Mexico City.
Diaz's resignation is declared to be
merely a matter of hours. In some
quarters it is reported that it already
has been prepared, but this has not
been confirmed. AS soon as this an,
nouncement comes Madero and his
party will leave for Mexico City to ad,
wise with Senior De La Barra in the
political reorganization of Mexico.
Office "Made for Him."
The resignation of Corral, who was
regarded as the heir presumptive to
the presidency of Mexico, marks his
loss of an Office which actually was
created for him. When Corral was re-
elected vice-president of the republic,
a little more than a year ago, he was
accepted as the successor of Diaz, '"un-
less something should arise to upset
the program"
Even in the palmy days of his as
cendancy in DiaZ's favor, 1t was recog-
nized that obstacles might easily crop
up in Corral's pathway, for while Diaz
had stood apart from his fellows OF
Mexico in grandeur, influence and
achievement, and had been above the
plane of jealousies, there were others
as big as Corral, measured in the
judgment of his people.
Corral is fifty-seven years old. He
had experience as an executive in high
places, but it was not generally be-
lieved that he had the genius of Diaz
in dealing with men. In the first place
he lacked the magnetism which was
the one big force behind Diaz, and sec,
Ondly no one in official circles in Mex.
leo believed 1t would be possible to
find an equal of Porfirio Diaz in diplo-
macy and ability to play the political
chess game as it is set in the southern
republic.
Diaz Makes Him an ARMY Man."
1t was believed, however, that if he
could keep the army at his back he
would still be master of the situation
Opportunity has been credited with
making more than one man a great
general who otherwise would have re.
manned in the ranks. Corral lacked
the military ability of Diaz. He took
an active part in the revolution of the
'70s, leaving his place as a rural news.
paper man, but there was never much
braid on his uniform.
Realizing that military prestige
would add to Corral's stature In the
Mexican eye, President Diaz commits
stoned him commander of the troops
which dealt with an uprising in his
native state of Sonora few years ago.
He was brave and determined
enough, but when the excitement had
blown over, the popular conception of
him was that he was a civilian rather
than a soldier.
War Is Formally Of.
Mexico City, Mexico, May "a
Jorge Vera Estanol, acting minister of
the interior, presented to the Mexi.
can chamber of deputies re.
port of the successful termination
of the negotiations for peace, thus for
mally announcing to the body that the
war Is concluded. By an immense
majority the chamber passed the
bill providing amnesty to political