Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-02-24
Rallies the Disaffected Element.

The disaffected Of Chihuahua rallied to
his support. The sad-faced Orozco and
the trusty Blanco were among them.
'Pancho' Villa, the eX-bandit, with
hundred murders charged against him,
brought to the Madero standard several
hundred cutthroats. Abraham Gomez,
Governor of Chihuahua, also helped in or
ganization and financial affairs.
Early in 1911 Diaz sent his best troops
into Chihuahua in a desperate effort to
crush the revolution. Under the leader
ship Of Orozco the federal forces were di-
vided and often defeated. In the spring
of 1911 even the stanchest Diaz partisans
realized that the end was in sight. At the
end Of April the government sued for
May Madero broke off all negotiations,
and his army, after a, three-day fight,
captured JuareZ.
Even as provisional president, Madero
had his hands full. May Il Orozco. pistol
In hand demanded that he dismiss his
cabinet. Onlookers thught the death of
Madero was at hand. Orozco. however.
was Gained, and for several months
thereafter was loyal
Madero had not been an elected presi-
dent two weeks when he faced a revolt In
congress, his enemies charging that he
had insulted the army. a resolution call
ed on the minister of war and the interior
to explain the fiasco of the operations
against Zapata.
Orozco revolted early last year. With
him went more than half the army OF
Chihuahua He is still in the field.
Francisco 1. Madero was one OF the nine
SONS OF Francisco !. Madero. sr., who Is
still living, a very old man. The SUR
viving sons are Alfonso thirty-four years
old Emilio, thirty three; Gabriel, twenty
eight: Julio. tWenty-slX. Raoul, twenty
five; Evaristo, twentythree, and Carlos.
seventeen. There are also four sisters
two of whom are married.
Vice President Popular.
Jose Maria Pine SuareZ, vice president
the other official who was slain, was bare
ly thirty-five years old. and had never
been heard Of in public until the outbreak
of the Madero revolt, save as a lawyer in
Merida, Yucatan.' He was over six feet
tall, but of slight figure. When he got an
inkling of Madero's intentions to lead a
revolution against Porfirio Diaz he issued
small paper. or circular. In which he
came out strongly for reform. 1t did
not take long for President Diaz's SOL
1863 he fed to San Antonio. and later got
into personal touch with Madero They
became fast friends at their first meeting.
Suarez was popular among all factions.
1t may be said that Suarez's loyalty to
Madero was the indirect cause OF his cleo
ton TO the vice presidency, as we'll as of
his death. When the returns were COM
plete the result pointed to possible tie
between Suarez and de la Barra for sec
ond place, but Madero's unwayering con-
| fidence in the young lawyer-politician was
responsible for his being declared as the
| choice of the people. 1t was said at the
| time that Maderos promise to de la Bar
| ia that he would offer him an important
place in the new cabinet was satisfactory
| to the defeated candidate Suarez was
| declared vice president by a margin of
| less than fifty votes.
SuareZ married when he was twenty
| two years old. and is survived by Il wife
and three children.