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Show BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF MADERO. Francisco Madero. although mi more than 40 years of asc when killed, kill-ed, had a most eventful career. He was bom In the state ot Coahulla. the son of Francisco I. Mancro. a farmer of great wealth His biographer presents pre-sents this sketch of his Wc: After a short time at a private BOhOol, yonnp Madero wns ent to a Jesuit college at Salrillo. whore he r--msined until he was 14 ears old Tin fol'owlng year he attended St Mary s school at Emmeusburg. Md When 1C years old he entered the University Univer-sity of California to stud, agriculture I He Ft tidied onlv one year In the Amer ican university, the entire Madero family moving to Europe in 1SR9 to escape a threatened political unrii-dng Madero spent six years In France an, took a thorough course in the schoo' of commerce at Paris. Returning with his Family to Mexico Mex-ico in 189.". he took charge of his fathers cotton plantations, anr remained re-mained a successful planter until four year? ago In 190"2 he married the daughter of a Mexico City lawyer. Madero first apieared actively in pclitics eicht vears ago in the municipal mu-nicipal elections at San Pedro. Coa-huils Coa-huils He first opejily attacked President I'nrflrio Dia;: In a book, 'The Presidential Presi-dential Succession, which was pub-lishe, pub-lishe, in !WiS In 1903 he went to Mexico City and organized a central antl-reelectlonlst club, of which he was elected vice president. In September of the same yc3r Ma. dero s antl-riaz propaganda bore fruit in the calling of a general con vention of the anti-reelectionists in Uexico City. Madero was made the popular candidate can-didate for the presidency with Dr Vasquez Gomez as his running mate. Then came the elections of June. 1910 Madero was arrested while making a speaking tour in Montercj on the order of Dlas, charged with -edition He was soon released only to be rearrested on the same Charge and taken to San Luis Totosi. After two weeks in Jail he was released on a $10,000 bond. He fled to San Antonio, where he j was joined h: his family and his po-jlliical po-jlliical associates, and there forniu- i lated plans for an armed rebellion. The first uprising resulted only in i riots Undaunted, Madero gathered! eboul him 200 hardy ranchmen oJ northern chihuahua at Guadalupe, a l-order village noir EI raso. Tex., and this band swelled to an armv. In the meantime Diaz had exiled ' M'deros (atlior and eight sons The1 family, for the most part, constituted the revolutionary committee that vis. ; iteil New York and Washington in December, 1910, and January, 191 The younger Madero meanwhile had slipped back across the Rio Grande on November 19. and assumed active command of the bands of rebels reb-els who by this time had begun to harass the Diaz authorities Success followed success until March 6, when the situation in Mexico Mex-ico City became ?o acute that Presi-I dent Taft dispatched an army of troops to San Antonio to be In ai position to cross the border. The revolution was ended on Mav 9 1911, when the rebels decisive! de-' feated the federals at luarez. On May 25 Diaz resigned, and on Ma, 31 sailed away from Vera Cruz to European exile. ! Madero was elected president of Mexico and inaugurated on November 6, 1911. General Reyes, the defeated candidate, candi-date, and .anata and Orozco. rebH leaders, immediately started guerrilla I campaigns against Madero. In October. 1912, Colonel Felix Diaz ' nephew of Porfirlo Diaz, appeared in Vera Cruz as the leader of a new revolt. re-volt. He was raptured, tried by court-j martial and sentenced to be shot. I Against the wishes of his brother I,' Gustavo and Ernesto, Francisco Madero Ma-dero spared Diar. s life and sent him to San Juan de Ulloa milltan prison St Vera Cruz. Later he was lernoved to the fed-era' fed-era' peniteniiaiv at Mexico City, from v. Iilch he was released on February v by revolting soldiers and military cadets. ca-dets. Da Imme Hatch took possession of the arsenal and began a bombardment bombard-ment of the national palace. After ten days 0f sangulnarx fighting fight-ing Madero whs arrested in the palace by his commander. General Huerta. and imprisoned in the palace. Madero was about to he exiled, when member- of tho Diaz cabinet preferred charges of murder and embezzlement em-bezzlement against him and he was lieiained to stand trial. Don Jose Pino Suarez was governor or Yucatan before he was elevated to the vice presidency by the votes of the people He was elected bv the scant majority of forty-five votes, Senor He la Rarra ran second to him and Dr Vanques Gome, third. The Influence of Madera was responsible for his election, which was in doubt for some davs, his candidacy having been unpopular. |