Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 May 1911 — PEACE BROODS OVER MEXICO [ARTICLE]

PEACE BROODS OVER MEXICO

Northern Section of Republic Is Really Quiet j PUTTING CONDITIONS ON PAPER ■■ * » Francisco De La Barra to Become President de Facto When Diaz Resigns—Madero to Go to Capital City. « i El Paso, May 19. —The fierce storms of shot and shell lure been ordered stopped in Mexico, and as far as the northern section of the republic and the insurrecto capital are concerned they hare been stilled. Peace, technically, now reigns throughout Mexico. Fire days is the time fixed for the armistice, but before that time has expired the men behind the scenes declare that the peace pact will be bound up so hard and fast that all the revolutions in Christendom could not break it

Francisco L Madero will go at once to Mexico City to join Francisco De La Barra, who is to become de facto president on the retirement of President Diaz and Vice President Corrall tl is month, in restoring normal conditions and launching the new governmei.;—a joint Madero-De La Barra government Madero, who last night wired Diaz congratulations on his resignation, today wired De La Barra that he (Madero) would resign as provisional president as soon as Diaz is out and De I-a Barra takes office. The insurrecto cabinet held a meeting in Juarez to discuss whether Madero should go at once tq Mexico City, whether he should remain until peace has been finally signed, whether when he goes, it shall be with an insnrrecto bodyguard or alone. It is quite probable that Madero will remain here until peace conditions are signed and his army is ordered disbanded and that he will then go direct to Mexico City and there remain at work with De La Barra in the restoration of order. Judge Carbajal and Madero will have frequent meetings during the next few days putting on paper the conditions attending the peace agreement already agreed upon. Insurrecto and federal leaders continue to express hearty belief in their ability to disband all contending armies and restore peace in a short time. News of rebel activities is still received from many regions and, in most cases where the insurrectos have taken the towns, they have been able to restore normal conditions in a remarkably short time and preserve peace and quiet. The most severe fighting is reported from Corsala, in the state of Sinaloa, where the 400 federals defending the town fought a beseiging force of 1,400 rebels for twelve days. The federals had no time to bury their dead and the corpses decomposed under the sun. Throughout Sonora the insurrectos are rapidly getting their government into CTJition. Inasmuch as the federals are all leaving the state, permission has been granted to repair the railroads and all business will soon be resumed. Information from Chihuahua, capital of the stote of the same name, says the foreigners and natives alike were overjoyed at receipt of the news of an armistice and further elated when they learned that repairs had been commenced from Juarez on the railroad. ~—