The Topeka state journal., 1916-08-26
ARGENTINA new
PRESIDENT HAS
NATION PUZZLED
Is First Time Radical Party
Has Been Victor.
Elected without Platform or
Announced Policies.
ENEMIES FEAR HIS REIGN
Colleagues Recognize Him as
COuntry's Greatest Man.
Fair Elections Is His Only
Promise to the People.
ENEMIES FEAR HIS REIGN
Colleagues Recognize Him as
COuntry's Greatest Man.
Fair Elections Is His Only
Promise to the People.

Buenos Aires, Aug. 2s.-when Hip
otto Irisgoyen takes the oath of office
Oct IL as president of Argentina, his
country will start on one of the biggest
experiments ever undertaken by a re-
public DR.. Irigoyen will head the first
radical administration in Argentina.
What the doctors idea of radical
ism is, nobody knows He has made
no speeches. He has written almost
nothing. He has never defined his po-
sition- What he intends to do, as
president, not one of his countrymen
can guess Nobody knows whether he
is Pan-American.
The radical party was organized in
Argentina to fight for fair elections. 1t
has never had any other platform.
We have IDEALS leading members of
the party say, but no program"
There are even reports that DR..
Irigoyen will issue a manifesto soon
dissOlving the party itself, now that an
honest ballot, as he is said to believe,
has been guaranteed. This, however,
is mere surmise.
Trust Him Personally.
The doctor was elected president be-
cause a majority of the voters trusted
him. personally. implicitly and blindly.
Those who believe in him consider
him Argentina's greatest man. His
opponents regard him extremely
dangerous. and look forward to his ad-
ministration with the gravest misgiv-
ings.
DR.. Irigoyan is about go. a tall.
built. imposing man, and
very dark. His blood is Spanish
Basque, with slight Indian strain,
some say.
He is smoothly shaven, except for a
very thin black mustache. Popular
rumor is that its thinness is due to the
Doctors custom of extracting the
white hairs, which are reported to
have appeared so numerously in re-
cent years as TO leave but a scattering
representation after their elimination.
The new president began life poor.
He is self-educated but did his work
so well that, today, he is highly-cul-
tivated man.
Most prominent South Americans
possess some academic degree entitl-
ing them to the prefix of doctor be-
fore their names. Irigoyen is spoken
of as doctor because he is promi-
nent. The title is one of courtesy. He
lacks the degree
Rich Thru Land Deals.
He is now very rich. His wealth
was accumulated in successful land
ranchman on a huge scale Part of
his time he spends on his "estancia'
in the country; the rest at his very
modest residence in Buenos Aires.
For a long time, for pure recreation
he held the professorstip of ''cIvic in
struction' at the Buenos Aires Es-
quela Normal de Mujeras, or Normal
School for Women. His salary for this
work he turned over regularly to the
Sociedad de Beneficiencia, or United
Charities of BuenoS Aires. Twelve
years aFo a president who was his per-
sOnal enemy caused his removal from
this post in -he normal school and he
has never held it since.
For twenty years he has been the
Radical party's leader. His authority
has been absolute. His opponents
within the party's ranks have been