The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1912-04-06
What Former Diaz Official Will
do is Matter Of In
terest
WILL HE MIX IN WAR?
Was Choice Of Catholic Wing at
Election and May Get
Into Harness

Mexico City, April 5No other
event holds as much of speculative
interest in the Mexican political sit
uation as the arrival here of Fran
cisco Leon dc la Barra after an alb
sence of four and one-half months
All sorts of predictions as to his fu-
ture part in national affairs are be-
ing made, according to the light in
which the maker views the local sit
uation, but in the main there are eX-
pcctations that Senor de la Barra s
influence will be of benefit.
Even the members of the Progress
siye Nationalist party, the men who
sent the cabled dispatch to the alb
sent cX-President advising him for
the country's good not to return to
Mexico, do not contend that he comes
with the purpose of fomenting new
difficulties for the administration.
Their fear is that his name will BE
rallying cry for the powerful dis
contents. among them the church
party, The influence of this party
in Mexico is difficult to determine.
Political party life in Mexico is, as
matter of fact, generally impos
sible to predict for any period of
time, for the plain reason that there
have never previously existed free
political organizations.
De la Barra Different.
While popular support for one al
lcgiance or another, however, is as
yet matter Of the personal popu-
larity of the leaders, Senor de la
Barra has been Differentiated from
the others by his ability to command
continuous attitude of respect on
the part of Mexico at large. Whether
from serse of fairness toward Fran
cisco Madero when the latter was
making the political campaign that
preceded his formal election to the
Presidency, or from an astute sense
that the future held possibilities of
more lasting prc-eminence in his
country, Senior de la Barra declined
the nomination as an opposition can
1idate which the Catholic marty tried
0 force upon him.
When, two days previous to his
departure from Paris on his return
% Mexico, the members of the Pro-
3ressive Constitutional party, all
known as intimates of the Madero
administration, sent the message
warning against his return, the pub
'ication of that communication
.roused protest which was in no
onse confined to the Catholic party.
The students of the National Uni
'crsity's allied schools, an erratic but
influential political element, were
tmong the loudest in their denun-
'iations of the action. Praise for
he past record of the returning ex-
president rang only less loudly than
foundations of the sentiments
which inspired the warning cable
yram President Madero, quick to
sense the current of popular feeling,
hastcned to characterize the act of
his party associates as i'll judged and
% add his contribution to the praises
If the man who had helped make
lin president
Represents Diaz Element.
Having been an official represen-
ative of the Diaz regime, however,
he men who are most blindly at
tached to the results of the Madero
revolution hold that Senior de la
Barra can never represent any other
element In Mexican politics Months
Of revolutionary turmoil since the
accession Of Francisco Madero have
produced in many quarters revul-
sion of feeling which Is elevating
the memory OF President Diaz into
nnmistakable favor. Such feeling is
likely to rebound to Senior de la
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