The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-10
Der of one of the wealthiest and most
powerful Mexican families.
Did Not Surrender Power

Der of one of the wealthiest and most
powerful Mexican families
Did Not Surrender Power
Diaz did not surrender the refns of
power directly to Madero, but to meet
the constitutional requirements of a
popular choice of the President, Fran
cisco De La Barra, at the time am
bassador at Washington, was placed
in the executive office under a provi-
sional appointment until the Mexican
people could exercise the function of
electing a President Within less than
six months this formality had been
completed and on November 6, 1911.
Madero took the oath as President of
Mexico
Seeds of discord were sown in the
beginning of the new regime, when the
President failed to accord to some of
his lieutenants in the revolution the
recognition and reward to which they
felt themselves entitled, and instead
installed in the cabinet and other high
offices many members of his own fam
lily. There were many expressions of
discomfort and even in the Mexican
congress Madero was denounced by
name as guilty of wholesale nepotism
and betrayal of the people who had
elected him. Later these murmurs of
discomfort crystallized into open rebel
lion.
The first manifestation of forcib1e
opposition to the government occurred
in the north, in the country where Ma
dero himself had inaugurated the revo-
luton which had resulted in the over
throw of Diaz. The military governor
in Chihuahua was General Orozco, who
had been the principal military leader
under Madero. He was soon induced to
renounce his adherence to the Madero
government by emissaries of Emilio
Vasquez Gomez formerly a revolutions
list with Madero but later his bitter
enemy by reason of his defeat for the
vice presidency Entrenched on Amer
ican soil, Gomez sought to foment a
revolution against his former leader
the rebellious troops and soon the north
of Mexico was in the flames of revo-
luton for the second time within
year
Campaign Against Rebels
With large credits of money and the
greater part of the late revolutionary
forces supporting him, Madero began
an active campaign against the rebels.
But the movement spread with great
rapidity and within a few months
rebel bands appeared in different sec
tions of the country. Many different
leaders appeared; their movements be-
ing semi-independent. Gen. Bernardo
Reyes, who had been in command OF
the army under the Diaz administra-
ton, made fierce but short lived DEM
onstration in the northeast. His revolt
soon collapsed and he was made a
prisoner in the city of Mexico. Capt.
Felix Diaz, nephew of the former
President, met with similar fate in
an uprising at Vera Cruz
The uprising in the north. led by
Orozco. who afterward repudiated al
egiance to Gomez in the country south
of the city of Mexico, headed by the
Zapata brothers. proved more formid-
able. however, and they have continued
with varying degrees of success until
the prement moment. Probably to them
may be attributed this last coup In the
city of Mexico.
Senior Don de la Cueva, charge d'affaires
of the Mexican embassy. at late hour
tonight denied that any official advices
of the situation in this country had been
received. An attache of the embassy,
however, earlier in the evening had an
nounced that lengthy dispatch from
Mexico City bad arrived.