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'. . ,; ' . - i . . , - , THE OREGON ' DAILY 'JOURNAL. PORTLAND,-. FRIDAY ', EVENING. MAY , 23, lm.r V - $i; "V'' 4.". '' ;" v LAST CHAPTER OF LIFE ROMANCE ' : SHOWS-DIAZ BROKEN AND OLD Mexico's " "Despot," Priest, Soldier and President, Only Shadow of Former Self. 1 - V Following th aftrrnoon of of Vice Presl- MrxUo City. My IS. ', resignation rslMlny !'. PrrnMrnt DIM, and latr T dnt Corral. ti Mi loan capital is to- dsy refolrlnR. f President Wh'ii lttr of resignation ' was rend in tle chamber of deputies ' j lata yesterday afternoon amid profound silence. Protests were made by only ' two members. At tho ni of the lenlimatlon of trie '. old eaevutlvr. th crowd that had Mackened. th street nil day yelled themnelvin lipar. from joy. Madcro's 5 rrnresantatlve. Domlneiios, ha? taKc practical charge of the army. D la Bam Elected. r la liaira. former minister to th ' ' AJnitrd StBtea, wax elected president pro tempore unanimously. Dies, the despot, as he has been "often oatled, has been broken down men ; tally and physically by the blow. He I fcrAken In heart, and hla pride la shat j Mared. A Trealdent Dur letter of resignation - reads: V "Sirs Th Mexican people who gen Vrouslr have covered me with honors, " 5., mho proclaimed me as their lender dur ...' lnf a war. who patriotically a (tinted me e- to derelop Industry and the commerce -of the republic and establish credit, gain I j I .i j ;. ?, g 4-4l i for It the respect of the world and ob '.. V.i tain for It an honorable position In the ,t i concert of nations that same people. : sirs, has revolted In armed military bands, statin it that my presence In the ' . exercise of supreme executive power la the cause of this Insurrection. "I do not know of any fact 1mm i lately attributed to me which could liae created this feeling, but, though not admitting that I may have been un- , ' wittingly culpable, such a hostility v tnakea me the least able to reason out ' and remedy the faulta that may hare v' ..' . been committed. Therefore, respecting, ; I always respected, the will of the . people, and according to the will of the ' : people and the constitution, I come be- V. . i'ton the supreme repreeentatlvea of the ; t ration unreservedly to rellquish the of 1 ,flce of president of this constitutional 1 Tepubllo to which I was chosen in ac- , joordance with the national vote, which V ;',! do with all the more reason since It V I'.woold be necessary to ahed more Mex- leas blood, endangering the credit of the j country, dissipating Its wealth and dls ; ' - turblng Its policy and creating intern a- fk tlonal complicatlona. If I were to con yi tlnoe to hold the of floe. ' a ."I hope, gentlemen, that when the 'principles which are inherent In allpeo . plea have been developed more thor . Roughly. I will be appreciated for what I -. hare done. If not for what I have tried , t to do." ' , Born In South. Porflrlo Dlaa waa born in the city i Jf of Oaxaca, In the southern part of Mex 5 Jco, which was also the birthplace of ', d Kentto Juarea, on September IB, 1SS0. r Hit father, a planter, died In 18SI of C cholera, which. In that year, swept off 1 V i.an eighth of Mexico' population. Por . 'k flrlo's mother was also of Asturlan de- acent, but also had Indian blood in her veins, her grandmother having married - J- aflxteca, one of that superb aborlgl rnal type ot whose. beauty and dignity ? tl, rJy chronicles had much to say. f u rorflrlo'a parents wjshed to educate -Milm tot the church and. at tha age of 7 sent him to one of the parochial ele ''". mntarr' schools. Leavinv the nrimirv . j- school at the age of 11. Porflrlo bo-' , , li came errand boy In a country store. 4 f (Attp n In -that occupation he j. was again eent to school by his mother . 4- and. at the age of li, he entered a sem binary. During hla course at that Instl , p tutlon Porflrlo practically supported L Himself by tutoring In his spare time. -, ' 'At the seminary Porflrlo prepared hlm- T,seir lor the priesthood, but his Inclina tions were not fn that direction. When , : he had completed his studies at the age :..$.ot 17, he volunteered to serve in the , war against the United States, but was (: not sent to the front Then he decided '"; "-.vto become a lawyer, and after a course ','ot four years entered the law office of j-.t Governor Juaree.and Maroos Per. ' . ' Bebel, OnerlUa and Soldier. . "t. It was in the "War of Reform" in M864-l that young Dial first saw ac- tlve service In the ranks of the Liberals. -Owing to his open opposition against " i Santa Ana, Diaz came Into conflict with the party upholding the dictator. Orders g were given to arrest and shoot Diaz, but he escaped and became advisor to the ' patriotic guerilla leader Herrera, then I In revolt against the usurper. Soon after that Dias entered the army as a . student volunteer. Through his bravery Porflrlo Dial. and tact he won his military degrees one by one. and the close of the war In 18(1 found him a brigadier general with a splendid record. He began by estab lishing a military force at Ixtlan.' with which he overthrew Garcia, who had Issued a pronunclamento in Oaxaca. As captain in the national guard he crushed the rebellion of Jaralltepec and still later Juarez put Diaz In control of the district of Tehauntepec, where he not only held his own In the field, but be gan to put In practice his Ideas of pub lic education and good government Serves Against the Trenoh. Upon the outbreak of the War of French Intervention In the latter part of 1881, Diaz, in command of a brigade, fought .bravely at the front while Juarez waa gathering forces In the In terior. On May 6, 1862, Diaz won the splendid battle of the Clnco de Mayo against the trained European soldiers of Lorencez. After a heroic defense at Puebla. he was obliged to capitulate to the superior forces of the French, but refused to take parole with the other officers and soon escaped from prison. At this Juncture President Juarez of fered to make Diaz his secretary of war, but Diaz declined tho honor on the ground that' he waa too young a man for such a promotion. But later he was forced to yield to Juarez's solicitations nd became commander-in-chief of the rmy and general of division. Again In Frlsoni Xsoapes. Again the combined forces of Eng land, France and Spain were concen trated upon him and General Bazaine took-the-field against him In person. Diaz was obliged to surrender to su perior force and, refusing parole, was put in prison. After a short while. owever, he escaped by scaling th prison walls, and reached safety, al though a reward of 810,000 waa offered ior ins apprenension. tor two years more he carried -on a guerilla warfare with the Invaders In the northern part 6f Mexico, during which he had many hairbreadth escapes. Then he appeared in the south again and recaptured hla native city of Oaxaca. Gathering forces s best he could, he advanced on Puebla and, on April 2, 1S87. made a desperate assault upon the city and captured It after a brilliant encounter with the de fending forces. Rebellion Against Juarsz. After the downfall of the 111 fated Maximilian, and hla execution at Quere- taro. Juarea resumed the rains of gov ernment. Diss. In abtte of the offers of a grateful people, preferred to retire from service to a small farm in hla native state, known aa La. Noria. Thero he re- malnnd until poll t lot 1 events again called him Into nubile view. When, for the third time, Juarez was elected pres Ident, ' Diaz. Ilk many other Liberal leaders, opposed him. It was at 1 Norla that Dlas finally issued his man Ifesto. entitled the "Plan of the Nota- hJa." which was MUlvalent to a declar at Ion of rebellion agalnat the Juarez government. Juarez most opportunely died Just then, and Lerdo de Tejada was elected president. When, after three years, the rule of Lerdo had become In sufferable, Diaz Lcame the .leader of the opposition and was proscribed. He wss compelled to seek safety in the United States. Makes KlnsMl president. Soon he returned to Mexico, however, and gathering a force, began a long campaign against Lerdo's army. After months of uphill fighting, marked by executive genius even rarer than his personal daring, Diaz defeated Lerdo and forced him to leave the country. On November 23. 1876, Diaz marched! Into the national capital without meet trig resistance, and five days later as sumed the executive power of Mexico, proclaiming himself provisional preal dent. In April. 1877, he was elcted con stitutional president Batter Says for Mexico. Then began a better day for Mexico. For 300 years the unfortunate country had been under Spanish misrule and during the first 80 years after Its emancipation from the Spanish yoke. Mexico had been the scene of almost nceasant domestic warfare and revolu tions in which the land was drenched with blood and progress was practically mposslble. It was at this stage that the strong hand of Proflno Diaz aa- sumod the control of Mexico's ship of state. The man whose whole previous earner had been spent among revolu ttons and civil wars, knew what course to adopt. With hla perfect knowledge of Intrigues he outwitted the revolu tionists at every point. He appeared to trust no one. Of boundless energy, early at work, and untiring in devising plans of action, he became practically the head of all the departments of state. He understood their manifold ramifica tions, and mastered their details. Or der and the restoration of the finances were his Immediate objects. To achieve the former he dealt heroically with rev olutions, and In the face of general up roar ordered nine revolutionists hanged Vera Cruz at tho beginning of his term of office. Bandits Beoonte "Borales." At that time Mexico-was Infested with countless brigands, who levied tribute from all travelers, high and low. With characteristic boldness and cun ning Diaz sent for a number of the most powerful bandit chiefs: shortly after! had become president He asked I hem how much they gained by their trade apd after they had Informed him offered them an honorable career In the service of the government and mu nificent pay If they would abandon thele trade, and, devote .their, energy to th suppression of brigandage. Th chiefs accepted tho tempting offer and formed that body of rough rid era nnd flghera known And respected throughout Mexico under the names of rurales. , ? Oonsalea SbOwa 0umtrjra Seed. When hla term of office expired In 188C, piaa did not aek reelection but secured tho election of hla secretary of war. General 'Gonaalea, Tho latter waa not able to cope with tha difficulties and problems of tho time, and when he went out of office In 1814, leaving to his successor an enormous national debt and a disordered administration, tho country was only too glad to have the strong hand of Diaz onoe more at the helm. He waa elected with an over whelming majority and remained at the head of the government ever since, be ing reelected at the expiration -of each ono of his numerous terms. In the same year Diaz marnea sen ore uona Carmen Komero Rublo, the daughter of Romero Rublo.' Rubio was one of Diaz's opponents, but was defeated by him and later became minister of the interior under Diaz. reaoo and Prosperity. Under the rule of Diaz Mexico bo- . . . I , m . ame a new iann. lie iniroauceu sweeping and practical reform measures, Increasing revenues without seriously Increasing the burden of taxation and set on foot plans for the development of the national resources. He main talned peace at home and established friendly relations with foreign powers, The results of the new policy oon appsrent. Diaz saw that political dustrial prosperity; wero alike ' depend tnt upon railway communlcatlon.vWhsn Diaz waa elected president for tho first time. Mexico had about- 880 mile, of fall roads. ' .Twenty, yeara ? later It had nearly 7000 miles and now consider ably more than 10,000 mllea. Much of this- work waa dona by a costly aye tern of subsidies, but thero can bo.no question aa to tho wisdom of that in. vestment Aside from tho affect of tho railways en tho Industrial growth of Mexico, without them It would 'have been practically impossible for Prest dent Dlaa to put Into effect those po litical reform which converted tho eountry from a land of -almost unin terrupted domeatio war into a land of peace and law and order.. Recognizing the- importance or popu lar education, Dlaa extended and devel- oped the school system throughout tho country 1 and fostered progress In sci ences and literature. . Feed Manufacturer Meet ' Indianapolis, Ind, May 18.The an nual convention of th American Feed Manufacturers' association met In this cltr today for a two days' seenlon. Mem bers of th association from many part of the country are in attendance. Helped to Make Dime Novel. Baltimore, Md., May 28. Mrs. Mary Anderson Denison, ono of the last sur vivors of the little groan of author whose sentimental stories established th auccesa of the dim nnvnl minv were years ago, celebrated her lath birthday M today at her home at Normandte peace and In- 1 Heights, a suburb of Baltimore. Mra. Danlson la tho author of mora than 80 novela. many of which attained wide popularity. When she began to write, tho sentimental novel waa all th rage. and from tbe first her. work was sue cessruL Axoong nor; contemporaries wero Mrs. South worth. Mary J. Holmes and Amy Randolph. These and several others now forgotten formed a galaxy ot writers who mad fame and fortune for tho dims novel publishers as well as for . themselves.,; . ' , ,.. tr .: $ Wall Paper Special For Saturday Only IMPORTED HOLZMEHLS, 30 Inches wide. Special for Satur day, 45c per roll. IMPORTED DUPLEX, in plain and figured designs. Regular 75c roll. Special, 25c per roll., THOUSANDS OF PATTERNS to select from at from 5c per roll up to $5.00 per roll, and many at SPECIAL PRICES FOR SATURDAY. SPECIAL PRICES on Wall Felt and House Lining for Saturday buyers. GOLD PAINT, including liquid and brush. Regular 25c. Satur day special, 15c set. PICTURE MOULD HOOKS, regular 15c to 30c per dozen, at 5c to 15c per dozen. . GOOD PAINT, Saturday special, $1.65 per gallon. ODD LOTS OF PAINT in pint cans. 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