El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-10-12
DICTATORSHIP
THREATENED
BY MADERO
Says if Government Is Not
Supported, the Sword Will
Enforce Order.
CONGRESS is NOW
GREATLY DIVIDED

Mexico City, Mex, Oct. 12-Mexican
people must be prepared to be governed
sword" if they fail to support the pres
ent administration, according to presi-
dent MaderO.
The statement was made in a speech
at a banquet. at which the guests were
congressman and politicians in private
life. The banqUeters retired with only
an indistinct idea Of Just what II was
the president had meant and since then
the public generally has done much
guessing as to his real meaning
When MaderO was spreading the doc
trine of equality and democracy, there
were few who would have believed
there was the making Of a despotic die
tator in him Since then, however, by
his invocation of the law OF suspen-
sion of constitutional guarantees, he
has displayed some OF the signs or
successful iron man" Many have sug-
Eested that president Madero was
warning them that ne himself would
be the one to rule by the sword.
Long ago. said the president, when
first began my work, L decided that
the will Of the people was the VIII OF
God This will must be respected, and
consider it my duty to see that It IS.
The present government has fulfilled
its promise, and if the government
freely elected by the people cannot
sustain itself it will be proof that the
Mexican people are incapable of democ-
racy. 1t would then be necessary to
call a dictator who viii govern BY the
sword"
The president also bitterly assailed
the press, an institution for whose I'M
trammeled liberty ne fought The por-
ton Of the press which has survived
said the president, is in its majority a
relic of the old regime 1t tries to
alarm and deceive the people, but IL
tried to do so for 80 years and still the
people revOlted, and they will refuse
to believe it now
Congress Badly Split.
place uDon the support OF congress this
fall and winter is not known. That
president MaderO became worried dur
ing the first days of the session was
evident. It had appeared that the gov
eminent party. or the PrOgreSSiYes,
had the control Of the chamber when
that body was gathered at the capital
but not a week had passed when 1t be-
came apparent that the chamber had
been split into many factions giving
no party the control Worse still, men
who had been elected By the votes OF
one party SOlemnly announced .Lnelr
own political views as different from
that Of their constituents and lined up
with one Of the many factions.
All that became certain early in the
session was that there was strong
group who declared their support OF
the administration so long as they ap-
proved OF the governments measures
The conversation most frequently heard
in the lobby was that Congress nov
was going to conduct the affairs Of the
country; that congress would give IN
structiOns to the president rather than
receive them"
Rebel Leaders Quit OrozcO.
Adversely has resulted in an altera-
ton Of the personnel of PGscua1 OroZ-
cos immediate following. The rough
riding of the guerilla warfare made
necessary by the campaign of Gen
Huerta and by the efficiency OF the
American authorities in preventing the
expectation Of arms and ammunition
did not appeal to q number OF the more
fastidiOus rebels, and they have d1sap-
peared from OrOzcO's army
One Of the first to go was Gonzalo
Enrile. a polished product OF the old
regime, who had charge of the treasury
of the rebels. Jose COrdOVas who pore
the title general secretary OF the reVo-
luton" was one of those captured by
Americans at Ojinaga when the father
of the rebel leader was taken IN GUS
tody.
left the service Of the rebel chief vol
unfairly include Alfonso Castenda, chler
of staff, Miguel Quiroga and Jose Ser
ret. These three left together and es-
tabIished their temporary homes IN
Canada Casteneda and Serret had been
in the regular army, the latter at one
time paymaster general Qulroga IS
resident Of San Antonio, Texas, though
a citizen Of Monterey, Mexico Jose
Ponce and Jose Casares, both colonelS
in the rebel establishment, are reported
to have gone together to the United
States. CaSareS was pay master sen
eral of the rebel army. His home was
at Las Cruces, n. NJ. Ponce was
citizen of Mexico, but the greater. part
of his life was spent in the United
Two others who are out Of the fight
ing are Ricardo Gomez RObelo and
David de Ia Fuente, both residents OF
the Mexican capital. Both have. been
spring to violate the neutrality laws
and eXonerated. Due to the injury OF
an arm by a bursting shell at the bat
tIe of Villa Lopez de Ia E'uente prob
ablv never will return to the field.
All these men were Of the type. who
can wear evening clothes without ap-
pearing dressed up" There remain
in the field many of their type, but the
dominant element at present is the
palmer and perhaps sterner material,
though at no time did the departed ele-
ment show signs of less courage as
long as they were in the revolution