Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 21, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 December 1899 — FOREIGNERS PETITION DIAZ. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGNERS PETITION DIAZ.

They Ask Him to Accept Nomination for Re-Election. Otoe of the most notable political demonstrations in the history of Mexico occurred in the City of Mexico when the foreign residents of that and adjoining counties marched in a procession up San Francisco street to the national palace to urge President Diaz to accept the nomination for re-election by the liberal party, whose convention will assemble early in the coming year. Several thousand Frenchmen, Germans, Americans, Englishmen, Belgians, Austrians and Italians took part. Houses and business edifices were handsomely adorned with flags and Federal emblems and the American and English flags were conspicuous. The demonstration was viewed by an enormous crowd of Mexicans. Gen. Diaz replied to his callers in a brief but eloquent speech, in which he deprecated the idea that a man of his age should be selected to carry on the executive department of the Government another four years’.