The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1912-10-12
Mexican People Are Warned in
Speech at Banquet by
President Madero
he MAY BECOME A DICTATOR
Harsh Measures If Administration
Is Not Supported

Mexico City. Oct 12.--The Mexican
people must be- prepared to be govern
ed by a dictator who will rule by the
sword if they fail to support the pres
ent administration, according to Presi-
dent Madero.
The statement was made i'm a speech
at a banquet at which the guests were
Congressman and politicians in private
life. The banquetters retired with on
ly an indistinct idea OF just wh3t 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 tho
doctrine of equality and democracy,
there were few who would have believ-
ed there was the making of a despotic
dictator in him. Since then, however,
by his Invocation of the law of suspcn-
sion of constitutional guarantees, he
has displayed some of the signs of a
ouNNtSSiui sltpI MAN. MANY nave
suggested that President Madero was
warning them that he himself would
be the one to rule by the sword"
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 / consider it. my duty to see that il
is. The present government has full
filled it's promises, and if the govern
ment freely elected by the people can
not sustain itself it will be proof that
the Mexican people arc incapable of
democracy 1t would then be ncces-
sary to call a dictator who will gov
ern by the sword
The president also bitterly assailed
the press. an Institution for whose un-
trammeled liberty he fought. The por-
tior of the press which has surv ived,"
said the president, lis in it's majority
a relic of the cid regime. 1t tries to
alarm and to deceive the people. but il
tried to do 50 for thirty years and still!
the people revolted. and they will re-
fuse to believe it now"
Congress to Give Orders.
How much reliance the executive
can place upon the support of Con
gress this fall and winter is not known
That President Madero became wor
ried during the first days of the ses-
sion was evident. 1t had appeared that
the government party, or the Progress
when that body was gathering at the |
capital, but not a week had passed |
when it became apparent that the |
chamber had been split into many fac |
tions, giving no party the control |
Worse STILL men who had been elected /!
by the votes of one party solemnly an.
nounced their own political views as
from that of their constitu-
ents and lined up with one of the
many factions.
All that became certain early in the
session was that there was a strong /
group who declared their support of
the administration so long as they |
approved Of the governments meas
ures" The conversation most fire.
luently heard in the lobby was that
Congress now was going t. conduct
the affairs of the country that Con-
yress would give instructions to the
president rather than receive them
Many Desert Rebel Army.
Adversity has resulted i'm an altera-
ion of the personnel of Pascual Oroz-
,o's immediate following. The rough
'iding of the guerilla warfare made
necessary by the campaign o. General
Iuerta and by the efficiency of the
American authorities in preventing
he expectation of arms and ammu-
lition. did not appeal to a number of
he more fastidious rebels, and they
iave disappeared from Orozco's army.
One of the first to go was Gonzalo
cnrile. polished product of the old
had charge of the treasury
II the rebels. Jose Cordoba. who bore
he title general secretary of the revo-
ution.' was one of those captured by
americans at Ojinaga when the father
# the rebel leader was taken in Gus
ody,
Others who for various reasons have
eft the service of the rebel chief vol
intarily include Alfonso Casteneda
hief of staff Miguel Quiroga, and Jose
,erret These three left together and
established their temporary homes in
ranada. Casteneda and Serret had
,een in the regular army, the latter
L one time paymaster general. Quiro-
"a Is a resident of San Antonio, Texas,
hough q citizen of Monterey. Mexi-
o. Jose Ponce and Jose Casares, both
oloneIs In the rebel establishment are
eported to have gone together to the
United States. Casares was paymas-
er general of the rebel army His
'ome was at Las Cruces. N. VI. Ponce
vas citizen OF Mexico. but the great