Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 88, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 February 1915 — POOR MEXICO. [ARTICLE]

POOR MEXICO.

She Has Had Seven Presidents in the Last Four Years. Kaleidoscopic shifts in the figurehead of the government seated at Mexico City continue to appear in the news which comes north across the Rio Grande, and there is no sure sign of a cessation of them in the immediate future. Seven men have held the presidential office (all but one of them provisionally) since the election of Diaz in 1910 for a six-year term. F. L. de la Barra served from April 25, 1911, to November 6, 1911; Francisco Madero from November 6, 1911, to February 19, 1913; Victoriano Huerta from February 19, 1913, to July 15, 1914; -Francisco Carbajal from July 15, 1914, to August J 2, 1914; Venustiano Carranza from August 12-, 1914, to November 10, 1914; Eulalie Gutierrez from November 10, 1914, to January 16, HU 5; and now Roque Gonzales Garza has been chosen by the conventino of generals at the capital. This record has not been beaten in recent years by any country except. Haiti, which changes its presidents as often as it does its linen. Garza, the successor of Gutierrez, is a lawyer, who served for a short time in the cabinet of the assassinated Madero. He is reputed to be one of Villa's warm and close friends, Concerning his real character we have little information, but that hardly matters, for his , occupation of the palace in Mexico I'ity is temporary and his authority practically nil. The military convention, which clipped the wings of Gutierrez, will see to it that Garza does not fly very high.'—Boston Globe.