. Mexico, a history of its progress and development in one hundred years. sumed the executive power provisionally. OnMay 5th, the people elected him constitutional president for the term endingNovember 30, 1880. Though gaining the highest office by revolutionary means, Diaz avoided allapproach to subversion of popular rights or dictatorial rule. His life was quite un-ostentatious; he declined the state residence and occupied his own modest home. One of the presidents first tasks was the re-establishment- of friendlyforeign relations; he affected an amicable arrangement of border troubles. Thet
. Mexico, a history of its progress and development in one hundred years. sumed the executive power provisionally. OnMay 5th, the people elected him constitutional president for the term endingNovember 30, 1880. Though gaining the highest office by revolutionary means, Diaz avoided allapproach to subversion of popular rights or dictatorial rule. His life was quite un-ostentatious; he declined the state residence and occupied his own modest home. One of the presidents first tasks was the re-establishment- of friendlyforeign relations; he affected an amicable arrangement of border troubles. Thetask of encouraging foreign capital to promote great enterprises, particularlyrailroads, was also early taken up. The increase of the public revenue and theeconomic and honest administration of public offices was zealously promoted bythe president whose labors resulted in marked advance in prosperity and enlarge-ment of commerce and industry and a regular businesslike discharge of thepublic service with due regard to constitutional requirements. HIS TORICAL El EN TS 115. NATIONAL LIBRARY. In 1878, an important amendment of the constitution was effected providingthat the president and the State governors should be ineligible to re-electionuntil an interval of fouryears had elapsed from thetermination of their change was absolutelyendorsed by President Diaz,who would not consent tobecome a candidate forre-election in 1880. OnSeptember 25th, GeneralManuel Gonzalez was dulyelected and he assumedoffice on December 1st,without any violence beingmanifested. Indeed, the new era had come; the transmission of executive power being accomplishedpeacefully, for the first time since the republic had been established. The newpresident secured the co-operation of his predecessor as the minister of publicpromotion, but in a few months, General Diaz resigned after initiating severalimportant public works. The new birth of the nation manifested itself in growing demands for publicimpr
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