Arizona republican., 1912-04-09
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MEXICO CITY. April No other event holds as much of speculative interest in the Mexican political sit uation as the arrival of Francisco Leon de la Barra after an absence of four and one-half months. All sorts CT 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 iG the main there are expectations that Senor de la Barras influence will he of benefit.
 Even the members of the progres sive nationalist party. the men who sent the cabled dispatch to the ab- sent eN-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 adminstra ton. Their fear is that his name will be rallving 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 4 matter of fact. generally impossible to predict for any period of time. for the plain reason that there have nev- CT previously existed free political organizations
 While popular support for one all legiance or another. however. is as Yet q matter of the personal popular ity of the leaders. Senor de la Barra las been differentiated from the oth- CTS by his ability to command con tinuous attitude O: respect on the part of Mexico at large Whether from a sense of fairness toward Francisco 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 pre-eminence in his country. Senor de la Barra declined the nomination as an opposition candidate which the Catholic party tried to force upon him.
 When. two days previous to his de rarture from Paris on his return to Mexico. the members of the progress sive constitutional party. all known as intimates of the Madero admins tratiOn sent the message warning against his return. the publication Of that communication aroused a pro- test which was in no sense confined tG the Catholic party. The students of the National Universitv's allied schools. an cratic but influential po- litical element. were among the loud est in their denunciations of the ac- ton. Praise for the past record of the returning eX-president rang onlX less loudly than denunciations of the sentiments which inspired the warn ing cablegram. President Madero. quick to sense the current of popular feeling. hastened to characterize the act of his party associates as ill., judged and to add his contribution 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- ton hold that Senor de la Barra can never represent any other element in M MeNlCdn pollllCS. MolllHS pl I'Npiu tionary turmoil since the accession of Francisco Madero have produced in many quarters a revulsion of feel ing which is elevating the memory of President Diaz into unmistakable favor Such feeling is likely to re- dound to SenOr de la Barra's benefit. and it seems likely that in the course of ordinary events she may be looked to as one Of the future favorites of popular confidence.
 It may at the same time, ne a reasonable presumption that he ls too old a man in politics tO permit the wine of personal popularity so to enter his head as to wrongly af- feet his actions. By those who claim to know Senor de la Barra best, 1t is predicted that his activities will he devoted to bringing together the war