Identifier: diazmasterofmex00cree (find matches)
Title: Diaz, master of Mexico
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Creelman, James, 1859-1915
Subjects: Díaz, Porfirio, 1830-1915
Publisher: New York, London, D. Appleton and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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taryelements to his support. General Reyes was then taken into the PresidentsCabinet as Minister of War. Hardly had he assumed hisnew duties when mysterious and malicious attacks uponSefior Limantour began to appear in various newspapers.These anonymous slanders became more and more per-sonal and bitter. It was evident that some mind wasdirecting a systematic and malignant attempt to discreditthe man who had been chosen by the President as hissuccessor. A Reyes movement had sprung up, but General Reyeshad given his word to support the President in his desireto see Sefior Limantour succeed to the presidency. Diazrefused to believe that so gallant a soldier could be guiltyof such treachery. The President was deeply distressed.Sefior Limantour had rendered supremely great servicesto his country, and it was a public calamity that heshould be discredited in the eyes of the ignorant masses.Efforts were made to discover the source of these attacks,but in vain. The secret was well guarded.412
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Don Jose Yves Limantour, Mexicos Great Secretary ofFinance. WILL THE REPUBLIC STAND? Finally there came into the hands of the governmentsome of the original manuscript of the denunciations ofthe Secretary of Finance, and it disclosed the fact thatGeneral Reyes was the hidden enemy who had soughtto defeat the Presidents plan while still a member of hisCabinet. Diaz at once sent for the conspirator, and con-fronted him with the evidence of his perfidy. GeneralReyes promptly resigned his office. Instead of drivingReyes into private life, the President, in considerationof his former record as a soldier, used his influence tomake him governor of the state of Nuevo Leon. In 1908 President Diaz stirred the republic fromfrontier to frontier by publicly declaring that he wouldrefuse another term of office. He invited the nation toprepare to choose his successor, deplored the fact thathis countrymen in general did not take a sufficient in-terest in government, admitted the undesirability of hav

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