Show A COMING STRUGGLE The uprising In Mexico was some somewhat somewhat somewhat what premature but it may be taken as asa asa asa a forerunner of what is to happen down there when President Diaz 13 Is i gathered to his fathers and the struggle for the presidency of the country begins DIaz has hag ruled Mexico Mexie with a rod of iron but whether he can c n select his successor EUC and transmit his authority is a question which only ony the future can an decide dedde Ra Ba Ramon Ramon Bamon mon Corral Is the man mart on whose shoulders shoulders ders dora the mantle of Diaz Dla is destined to fall if It that grand old man can bring it about General Reyes Rees has hils many fol tol followers lowers losers and will not tamely submit if It ifan Itan Ifan an attempt be Ite made to thrust him aside without an appeal 1 to the people Of Corral and his attempt tempt to turn turn the t e tide tlde of ot public opinion In I his favor faor Current Literature says ears The insinuating geniality of his de deportment deportment deportment and anti the perpetual effervescence cence of his humor differentiate Ramon Corral from the Ule rest reat of those makers of modern Mexico upon whom Diaz Diu leans leane More than any anyone one in the splendid official life lite of the capital Ra Ba Ramon Ramon Bamon mon Corral thanks to a combination of unusual capacity with unusual charac character ter has extinguished the ancient aris aristocratic aristocratic mode of provincial sovereignty Time was when Porfirio Diaz himself could dare darl nothing against agaIn t the ruler at of nta a state Sonora happens to be the state from which Corral halls hails In his young manhood as 88 an in an Impecunious but dill dili diligent gent g nt and judicious journalist Ramon Corral Carrel waged fierce contests with the territorial aristocrat arist who swayed the destinies of his hili native state That was some me thirty years back when Mexico Mex was made up of fiefs owned wholly by s or men of Influence and means men roan who ho regarded a state as large as Sonora in the light of a per personal personal The authority of the president of the republic was set at naught t in Sonora Then it was that Ramon Corral thundered in one news newspaper newspaper newspaper paper article after another against ir irresponsible responsible n power Then too he de developed developed d that capacity for tor disappearing at the right time which has saved him himin himIn himIn in more than one OTie political crisis Diaz Diltz Is te said Hid to have helped Corral with mon money money money ey and official recognition at a time when the president pre sorely needed aId ad ajdin aIdIn adin in his hit own efforts to metamorphose Mexico from fron a group of ot separated and contending provinces into that admin administrative administrative unit which Is se so admirable a athing athing athing thing for the European investor to eon con contemplate template |