Barbarous Mexico . LINED UP AGAINST A WALL. AriKK TlIK VOLLEY THE CRUSHING Ol- OITOSITION TARTIES 165 announcement of Diaz that he had decided to continuein power for still another term^ a fourth one. Anattempt was made to organize a movement in opposi-tion, but it was beaten down by clubs and guns. RicardoFlores Magon, the political refugee, took a studentspart in this movement and was one of the many wliosuffered imprisonment for it. The choice of the oppo-sition for presidency was Dr. Ignacio Martinez. was compelled to flee the country, and aftera period spent in Europe he settl
Barbarous Mexico . LINED UP AGAINST A WALL. AriKK TlIK VOLLEY THE CRUSHING Ol- OITOSITION TARTIES 165 announcement of Diaz that he had decided to continuein power for still another term^ a fourth one. Anattempt was made to organize a movement in opposi-tion, but it was beaten down by clubs and guns. RicardoFlores Magon, the political refugee, took a studentspart in this movement and was one of the many wliosuffered imprisonment for it. The choice of the oppo-sition for presidency was Dr. Ignacio Martinez. was compelled to flee the country, and aftera period spent in Europe he settled in Laredo, Texas,where he edited a newspaper in opposition to PresidentDiaz. One evening Dr. Alartinez was waylaid and shotdown by a horseman who immediately afterwardscrossed into Mexico and was seen to enter army bar-racks on the other side. It is a pretty well authenticatedfact that on the night of tlie assassination the governorof the state of Nuevo Leon, who was at that time recog-nized as Diazs right-hand man in the border states,
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