The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-04-05

stitutional party, all known as inti-
mates of the Madero administration,
sent the message warning against his
return. the publication OF that commn-
nication aroused a protest which was in
NJ sense confined to the Catholic party.
Tie students of the national uniyer-
sity's allied schools, an erratic but in
iluential political element, We're among
The loudest in their denunciations of the
action Praise for the past record OF
tie returning ex-president rang only
less londlv than denunciatious of the
sentiments which inspired the warning
cahlegram President Madero, quick to
sense the current of popular feeling,
FASTENED to characterize the act of his
party associates as ill-judged and to add
his contribution to the praises of the
ran who had helped make him presi-
dent.
Having been an official representative
Of the Diaz regime, however, the men
who are most blindly attached to the
results of the Madero revolution hold
that Senior lie Ia Barra can never rep
resent any other element in Mexican
politics. Months Of revolutionary tur-
moil since the accession of Francisco
Madero have produced III many quarters
a rcyulsion Of feeling which is elevating
the memory OF President Daz into I'M
mistakable favor. Such feeling is like
~ to rebound to Senior de Ia Barra's
benefits, and it seems likely that in the
course of ordinary events he may be
locked To as one of the future favorites
of popular confidence.
II may at the same time. be rea-
sonahle presumption that ne 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.
Bv those who claim to know Senior de Ii
l}arra best, it is predicted that his ac-
tivities viii he devoted toNbringing to.
gcther the warning factions with the
object of giving back TO Mexico the
conditions Of peaceful security which
are its most CRYING need. They con
tend that he will powerfully restrain
any ill-iudgad activities on the part OF |
and convert such support |
into power which. while it may event |
ually land him safely in the presidency, /
viii give its first attention to estah- |
fishing order and giving Mexico another
chance to demonstrate that it can. II |
some way, rule itself
Announcement simultaneously BY Pas |
rual Orozco and Emiliano Zapata that |
they were ready to guarantee to prop |
erty holders in their jurisdictions" the
security of their possessions indicates
4 desire to call forth popular respect
upon a ground that had hitherto been
neglected They chose to make the an
at a time when the fed
,ral government had practically ac-
that it was unable to Of
'er any such guarantees.
While the ability of Iapata to make
rood his promise may be open to some
doubts. il appears that Orozco has from
the first been able to qualify as popu-
ar protector in Chihuahua, which be-
peaks radically differing state of al
AIRS in the two sections of the repub-
ic. The states of Puebla and No
clos are peopled with the folk of the
ole Mexico" A dozen generations of
witnesses of succeeding re-
zines of banditry and alien inexperi-
nee TO established popular authority,
produce a race in whose Imagination
here can linger no image of even APP
,roximate republican rule. In action
hey are not unlike the American back
woods mountaineer. who settles his own
questions of Justice and keeps a gun
u readiness for the advancement of his I
lersonal interests. Unlettered and out |