The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1912-04-11
Is One to Which a Grea.
Amount of importance
is Attached.

uation as the arrival OF francesca
Leon de la Barra after an absence
Of four and one-half months. All
sorts OF predictions as to his future
part in national AFFAIRS are being
made, according to the light in which
the maker views the local situation,
but in the main there are expecta-
tions that Senior de la Barras in
fiuence will be OF benefit.
Even the members of the Progress.
siye Nationalist party. the men who
sent the cabied dispatch to the absent
ex-presldent advising him for the
country's good not to return to Mex
leo. do not contend that he comes
with the purpose OF fomenting new
difficulties for the administration.
Their fear Is that his name will be
q rallying cry for the powerful dis
contents, among them the church
party. The influence OF this party in
Mexico is difficult to determine. Po-
litical party life in Mexico is, as a
matter of fact generally impossible
to predict for any period of time, for
the plain reason that there have
never previously existed free political
organizations.
While popular support for one al
legiance or another. however, is as
yet matter of the personal popular
ity OF the leaders. Senior de Ia Barra
has been differentiated from the
others by his ability to command q
continuous attitude of respect on the
part of Mexico at large. Whether
from sense Of fairness toward Fran
cisco Madero when the latter was
making the political campaign that
predicted his formal election to the
presidency, or from an astute sense
that the future held possibilities OF
more lasting pre-eminence in his
country, Senior de la Barra declined
the nomination as an opposition can
didate which the Catholic party tried
to force upon him.
When, two days previous to his de-
parture from Paris on his return to
Mexico, the members of the Progress
sive Constitutional party. all known
as iutimates of the Madero admins
tration sent the message warning
against his return, the publication Of
that communication aroused a protest
which was in no sense confined to the
Catholic party. The students of the
National Universltys allied schools,
an erratic but influential political ele-
ment, were among the loudest in their
foundations OF the sentiments which
the past record OF the returning ex-
president rang only less loudly than
denunciations fthe sentiments which
inspired the warning cablegram.
President Madero, quick to sense the
current OF popular feeling, FASTENED
to characterize the act of his party
associates as ill-judged and to add
his contribution 10 the praises OF the
man who had helped make him presi-
dent.
Having been an official representa-
tive OF the Diaz regime. however, the
men who are most blindly attached
TO the results OF The Madero revolu-
ton hold that Senior de la Barra can
never represent any other element in
Mexican politics. Months of revolU-
tlonary turmoil since the accession OF
Francisco Madero have produced in
many quarters a revulsion of feeling
which is elevating the memory. Of
President Dlaz into unmistakable
favor. Such feeling is likely to re-
bound to Senior de la Barra's benefit,
and it seems likely that in the course
of ordinary, events he may be looked
TO as one Of the future favorltes OF
popular confidence.
1t may, at the same time, be a
ItdsOhdple pIesuiipLloH Luut ne 10 tOU
old man in politics to permit the
wine of personal popularity so 20
enter his head as to wrongly affect
his actions. BY those who claim to
know Senior de la Barra best, 1t ID
predicted that his activities will be
devoted to bringing together the war
ring factions, with the object of Civ
ing back to Mexico the conditions Of
peaceful security which are its most
crying need. They contend that ne
will powerfully restrain any i'll.
Judged activities on the part of en-,
thuslsats and convert such support
into a power which, while it may
eventually land him safely in the
presidency, will give its first atten,
ton to establishing order and giving
Mexico another chance to demonstrate
that 1T can, in some way, rule itself