Francisco I Madero, 37th President of Mexico

Mar. 27 Francisco I. Madero. He was a small, quick-moving lawyer with kind eyes: he had his portion of the Madero estates, which he seemed to be dissipating in benevolent experiments. co-operative, for example. he was a vegetarian, an ascetic; his heart was wrung by the condition of the Mexican people. He had just published a sensational book - La Sucesion Presidencial (The Presidential Succession, 1908). In it he opposed the re-election of Diaz - mostly things that had been said long ago by Diaz himself, in the days when the example of Benito Juarez was still strong. But now the news of this man Madero was spread abroad. Village people understood that he lived in the capital or some such distant place and was married to a probably divine creature called the Constitution. Clearly he was not the same as other city people, whom it was always best

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