The daily sentinel., 1912-04-05
A STIR
IN MEXICO
All Sorts of Predictions as to the Eff
feet of De La Barra's Return
Name May Be Rallying
Cry-The Outlook.
Associated Press

Assorted Press.
Alex! Q City. Apr. NO other
,veat holds as much of speculative in
t1. est in the Mexican political situa-
ion as the arrival here of Francisco
Leon de la Barra after an absence
of y months. All sorts of predic-
tions as to his future part in nation
al affairs are being made. according
to the light in which The maker views
| the local situation, but in the main
there are expectations that Senior de
la Barra's influence will be of ben
efit.
Even the members of the Progress
| sive Nationalist party, the men who
sent the cabled dispatch to the absent
ex-president advising MIN for the
country's good not 20 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
a 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 a
matter of fact, generally impossible
to predict for any period of time. for
the plain reason that there have new
er previously existed free political
organizations.
| While popular support for one al
legiance or another, however is as
yet a matter of the personal popu-
larity of the leaders. Senior de la
Barra has been differentiated from
the others by his ability to command
a continuous attitude of respect on
the part of Mexico at large. Wheth-
er from a sense of fairness toward
Francisco Madero when the latter
was making the political campaign
that preceded his formal election to
another, or from an astute sense
that the future held possibilities of
more lasting re-eminence in his
country. Senior de Ia 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 Pro-
gressive constitutional party, all
known as intimates of the Madero
administration, sent the message
warning against his return. the pub
| lication of that communication arous-
ed a protest which was in no sense
confined TO the Catholic party. The
students of the National University's
allied schools. an erratic but influen-
tial political element. were among the
loudest in their denunciations of the
action. Praise for the past record of
the returning eN-president rang only
less loudly than denunciations of the
sentiments which inspired the warn
| ing cablegram. President Madero.
quick to sense the current of pop
ular feeling, FASTENED to character
ize the act of his party associates as
ill-Judged and TO add his contribu-
tion to the praises of the man who
had helped make him president.
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-
tion hold that Senior de la Barra can
never represent any other element
in Mexican politics. Months of rev.
olutionary turmoil since the accusa-
ton of Francisco Madero have pro-
duced in many quarters a revulsion
of feeling which is elevating the
memory of President Diaz into un-
mistakable favor. Such feeling is
likely to rebound 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 favorites of popular conf
dence
1t may. at the same. be a reason
able presumption that he is too old
a man in politics to permit the wine
of personal popularity so to enter his
head as to wrongly affect his actions.