Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-10-12
A RULE BY SWORD.
Mexico.Must Be Prepared for
It, Madero Says.
HE HAS CHANGED HIS TUNE
Speech He Makes Sets Auditors
Thinking He Is Preparing
Role for Himself.
MEXICO CITY, October ). 1912.

MEXICO CITY, October ). 1912.
The Mexican people must be prepared
to be gOvernered by a dictator who will
| rule by the sword" If they fail to support
| the present administration, according to
President Madero
The statement was made in a speech
| at banquet at which the guests were
| congressman and politicians in private
life. The banqueters retired with only
an indistinct idea of just what it was the
president had meant, and since then the
public generally has done much guessing
as to his real meaning
When Madero was spreading the doc
trine Of equality and democracy there
were few who would have believed there
was the making of a despotic dictator
in him. Since then, however, by his in
vocation Of the law of suspension Of con-
stitutiOnal guarantees he has displayed
some of the signs of successful iron
man." Many have suggested that Presi-
dent Madero was warning them that he
himself would be the one to rule by the
sword
ITO Call a Dictator"
Long ago." said the president, when
l first began my work, / decided that the
will of the people was the will of God.
This will must be respected, and l con-
slider it my duty to see that it is. The
present government has fulfilled its prom
Uses, and If the government freely elected
by the people cannot sustain itself 1t will
be proof that the Mexican people are in
capable Of democracy. 1t would then be
necessary to call a dictator who will gov
ern by the sword
The president also bitterly assailed the
inst Co.,
meled liberty he fought. The portion of
the press which has survived said the
president 'is in its majority relic OF the
old regime. 1t tries to alarm and to de-
ceive the people, but it tried to do SO for
thirty years and still the people revolted,
and they will refuse to believe it now
Chamber in Factions.
How much reliance the executive can
place upon the support Of congress this
fall and winter is not known. That
President MaderO became worried dur
ing the first days of the session was evil
dent. 1t had appeared that the govern
ment party. or the progressives, had the
control of the chamber when that body
was gathering at the capital, but not a
week had passed when it became APP
parent that the chamber had been split
into many factions, giving no party the
W
elected by the votes of one party SOL
EMMY announced their own political
views different from that of their
constituents and lined up with enc of
the many factions.
All that became certain early in the
session was that there was strong
group who declared their support of the
administration so long as they approved
of the governments measures. The
conversation most frequently heard in
h1. 101Nh hot v1rOc
going to conduct the affairs of the coun-
try; that congress would give instructions
to the president rather than receive
them.
Fastidious Quit Orozco.
Adversely has resulted in an altera-
ton of the personnel of Pascual Orozco's
immediate following. The rough riding of
the guerrilla warfare made necessary by
the campaign of Gen. Huerta and by the
efficiency of the American authorities in
preventing the expectation of arms and
ammunition did not appeal to number
of the more fastidious rebels, and they
have disappeared from Orozco's army.
One of the first to go was GonZalo
Enrile. a polished product of the old
regime who had charge of the treasury
the title general secretary of the revo-
luton, was one of those captured by
Americans at Ojinaga when the father
of the rebel leader was taken in GUS
tody
Others who for various reasons have
left the service of the rebel chief vol
unfairly include Alfonso Casteneda,
chief of staff; Miguel Quiroga, and Jose
Serret. These three left together and
established their temporary homes in
Canada, Casteneda and Serret had been
in the regular army, the latter at one
time paymaster general Quiroga is a
resident of San Antonio, Tex, though
citizen OF Monterey, Mex. Jose
Ponce and Jose Casares, both colonies
in the rebel establishment, are reported
to have gone together to the United
States. Casares was paymaster general
of the rebel army. His home was at
Las Cruces, y. M. Ponce is citizen
of Mexico, but the greater part Of his life
| has been spent in the United States.
Two Charged With Conspiracy.
Two others who are out Of the fight
| ing are Ricardo Gomez Robelo and
| David de la Fuente. both residents of
| the Mexican capital. Both have been
| tried at FL Paso on the charge of con-
| spring to violate the neutrality laws and
| exonerated. Due to the injury of an
arm by bursting shell at the battle of
Villa Lopez, de la Fuente probably never
will return to the field.
All these men were of the type who
can wear evening clothes without APP
nearing dressed up" There remain
| in the field many of their type. but the