Appletons' annual cyclopædia and register of important events of the year .. . uly (1875). The elections resulting in a Gov-ernment triumph, that circumstance was pro-claimed by the opposition party as confirmatoryof their charges. Toward the end of the year General Esco-bedo was sent to the troubled State, withforces which would have enabled him soon tosuppress the revolts and restore perfect orderand peace, had not events of a graver charactertranspired elsewhere to necessitate his beingrecalled. Late in January, 1876, the journalsof the capital published a revolutionary pro-gramme, which ha
Appletons' annual cyclopædia and register of important events of the year .. . uly (1875). The elections resulting in a Gov-ernment triumph, that circumstance was pro-claimed by the opposition party as confirmatoryof their charges. Toward the end of the year General Esco-bedo was sent to the troubled State, withforces which would have enabled him soon tosuppress the revolts and restore perfect orderand peace, had not events of a graver charactertranspired elsewhere to necessitate his beingrecalled. Late in January, 1876, the journalsof the capital published a revolutionary pro-gramme, which had been proclaimed on the17th of that month, at Tuxtepec, a small moun-tain-town of the State of Oajaca. This planproclaimed the Constitution of 1857, with allits amendments, thus showing that its authorswere not in league with the Church revolution-ists of Michoacan. It repudiated the authority to the presidency, ad interim, issued a generalamnesty, and convoked Congress. The revolu-tionists laid down their arms at once, and Con-gress ordered a presidential election, which,. THE CATHEDRAL, CITY OF MEXICO. Diaz offering no opposition, resulted in favorof Lerdo. Shortly after the plan of Tuxtepec anotherwas published, bearing the signature of Gen-eral Porfirio Diaz, and proclaimed by GeneralDonato Guerra, one of those chiefs who haddistinguished themselves in the Revolution of1871-72. In ih\splan, similar in all other re-spects to that of Tuxtepec, was omitted thearticle assigning the command-in-chief of therevolutionary forces to General Diaz. Severalother chiefs proclaimed plans in rapid succes-sion, all of whom assigned as the reason foicommencing the revolution before the presi-dential elections had begun that Lerdo wasdetermined to resort to fraud and official press-ure to secure his reelection, and by armed force render opposition- hopeless. The plan of Tuxtepec was seconded by allthe mountain-towns of the State of President Lerdo, his ministers, the judges of Th
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