Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1915-07-02
Former President of
Mexico
KINDLY BUT FIRM
DURING HIS REGIME THE SOUTH
ERN REPUBLIC WAS AT PEACE
AND PROSPERITY MARKED
HIS RULE
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PARIS, July 2. General Porfirio
Diaz, ex-president of Mexico, died to-
day. see
The letter with which General Por-
firio Diaz announced, on May 25. 1911,
his resignation from the presidency
of Mexico after having been master
of the country for 35 years, gives in
his own words an interesting glimpse
of his remarkable career It reads
Sir: The Mexican people who gen,
erously have covered me with honors.
who proclaimed me as their leader
during the international war, who pa
triotically assisted me in all works
undertaken to develop industry and
the commerce of the republic, estab-
lish it's credit, gain for it the respect
of the world and obtain for it an hon
orable position in the concert of ma
tions-that same people, sir, have re-
volted in armed military bands, stat,
ing that my presence in the exercises
of the supreme power is the cause of
this insurrection.
Il do not know of any fact imput-
able to me which would have caused
this social phenomenon, but permit
ting, though not admitting. that may
be unwittingly culpable. such a pos
sibility makes me the deast able to
reason out and decide my own culpa.
y bility. Therefore, respecting as
have always respected the will of the
people, and in accordance with article
SO of the federal constitution, come
before the supreme representatives o.
the nation in order to resign, unre
! seryedly, the office of constitutions
/ president of the republic with which
the national vote honored men, which
| do with the more reason since, IL
order to continue in office, 1t woul'
be necessary to shed Mexican blood
endangering the credit of the country
i disipating its wealth, exhausting it
resources and exposing its policy I
international complications.
T 81 hope gentlemen, that when tn
passions which are inherent to all reN
olutions have been Gained a NOR
conscientious and just study will brin
cut in the national mind correc
! Judgment, which, when | die, | ma
u carry craven on my soul as a just e.
y innate of the life which have devo
y ed and will devote to my countr
men"
T. The revolution led by General Fra
. cisco |. Madero Jr., had brougl
ie about the aged presidents pleds
p early in 1911 to resign his office in
bargain for peace, but it was not fort
coming. Riots occurred that day
Mexico City, during which many pc
sons we're killed. The national pala'
was stoned by mobs shouting wi
l. Madero!n and demanding TO know WI
l. Diaz did not resign. The next di
he read his letter of resignation
a the chamber of deputies. A large N
ro iority voted aye the other legis
"a. tors rose and bowed their afirmati
~, as their names were called
ON The minister of foreign anai
a. Francisco Leon de la Barra, was !
mediately chosen provisional pr
,oi ident and Diaz, of whom for 30 yea
70 all Mexica had stood in awe, left I
70 capital secretly the next day, TO
in bark at Vera Cruz for Europe. Sir
then he had lived virtually an ex
tos in Paris and other European cities
ice silent observer Of still more trout
,ve some times in the land he had 70
uld ruled