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Show PALACE AND LEADERS IN MEXICO REVOLT Va -nc o s At the left. General Reyes (top) and President Madero: Felix Diaz (topi right), and troops reviewing in front I of President's palace. Y hen Mexico's Iron man. Porfirio Diaz, turned a deal ear to the rumblings rum-blings of discontent and set himseli tip for the presidency once more, aft-! er having been virtually a dictator for 26 years, few were courageous enough to interpose themselves between be-tween the dictator and his ambition The bravest of the few was B young man who had won merit as a mathematician, math-ematician, poet, philosopher and author, au-thor, who had been a planter and a wine maker, who had all his life been B dreamer, an Idealist Early in 1910 this young man, whose name was Francisco Indalcla Madero, raised his voice po loudly that all Mexico listened lis-tened and thrilled. The uicl scholar dared more than the soldier enemies ene-mies of the dictator. He took his life In his hands and announced that he was a candidate for the presidency. Took It as a Joke. So certain were President Diaz and j his adherents of their hold upon the j government, so fixed was their belief that no uprising could succeed against the might of Diaz, that they regarded young Madero as a crack-brained but harmless agitator. The Mexican people were told that the Madero family was taineel with Insanity and that Francisco possessed possess-ed the delusion that the soul of Father Fa-ther Hidalgo, the liberator of Mexico, Mexi-co, had entered his body Tho world learned differently within two years, when the aged Diaz fled from Iho country, took ship for Europe and heard as he went the cannons booming boom-ing salutes for the triumphant Madero, Made-ro, provisional president of Mexlco Madero was born October 4. 1872. on the Hacienda del Rosario in thj state of Coahulla in northern Mexico Mex-ico His family was one of the richest rich-est and greatest land holders In the country, possessing plantations and Industrial interests estimated to be worth at least $G0, 000.000 Studied in Europe. Young Madero was sent abroad to study. He was first a student a", the College of Versailles. Later he took courses at the Commercial high school In Paris In 1892 and 1803 The next year he was a student in the University of California, where ho studied English literature and agriculture. agri-culture. Ho made a special study of rubber and cotton plauting. fitting himself for the task of looking after some 16,000,000 acres, composed moBtly of rubber and cotton plantations. planta-tions. When he returned to his home he settled down to be a planter, be I the dream of freeing the peons and of lifting them from virtual slavery obsessed ob-sessed him By writings and speeches he tried to Install in the laboring Mexican a sense of Justice of equality, of lib-erty lib-erty and self respect Quietly, thougn constantly spied on by 'he keen-eyed secret agents of the Diaz government.' young Madero strove to stir the natives na-tives of the northern states to relist re-list the tyrannies of the Diaz regime, and to make ready for S struggle that j would free Mexico Early in 1910 his frlevancea found 1 utterance In the book entitled 'Suc-j cession Presidential de 1910." He literally lit-erally arraigned Diaz In his page and blamed the president for the bad administration ad-ministration and the distressing condition con-dition of Mexicans lu tbo humbler walks of life. The book created a tremendous sensation. Secretly Ma-dero's Ma-dero's views were shared by most Mexicans, but so great was the fear of tho relentless hand of Diaz that even Francisco Madero Sr. the young mans father, hastened to disclaim sympathy with bib son's revolutionary revolution-ary ideas Is Thrown Into Prleon. Dliu promptly seized Madero and imprisoned him until after the elec tloim were over, giving as a reason that 'Madero had incited the people! to protest against the government, and 1 sedition." In the election of June, 1910, Diaz I was once more elected president, and Uainon Corral was chosen vice presl-dent presl-dent Madero was then liberated alt-! alt-! er giving a bond of $8000 Adopting j the disguise of a peon, he crossed ' the Rio Grande and came to New 1 York, where ho established headquarters headquar-ters at the Hotel Astor There ho gathered about him Mexicans of I Wealth and influence. His agents In Washington worked under his direc-' tion. Soldiers of fortune from many countries, including the celebrated 1 son of Garibaldi, enrolled under Ma-j dero's banner. In November of 1910 1 I 1 Madero rocrossod tho Rio Grande, eluding tho vlgllanco of the United States secret service agents and soon after proclaimed hiniBclf tho enemy of Diaz In half a dozen small battles ho defeated de-feated the government troops and drove them back with great loss. Defeating De-feating the government general, Navarre Na-varre Orozco captured the city early In 1911 and broke the back or the Diaz resistance FTom that time on Madero's march to the capital wua Irresistible The aged Diaz embittered, forsaken forsak-en by scores of men that he had enriched, en-riched, found himself in a position in which his resignation was demanded demand-ed as the price of peace. He hesitated hesitat-ed for a time aud sought to make terms, but the victorious Madero was not to be denied the full fruits of his campaign May 25, 1911, General Diaz resigned the office he bad held so many years, traveled to Vera . ruz and 6alled for Havana, accompanied by his son and his suite. |