BarbarousMexico JOHN KENNETH TURNER

EIGHTH UNANIMOUS ELECTION OF DIAZ
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expression of the Democrats was put down with an
iron hand.
Among the prominent leaders of the Democratic
movement in Guadalajara who were made to suffer at
this time was Ambrosio Ulloa, an engineer and lawyer,
founder of a school for engineers, and head of the
Corona Flour Milling Company. Ulloa happened to be
president of the Reyes club of Guadalajara, and, on the
theory that the club was in some way responsible for
the so-called student riot, Ciba, a week after the occurrence,
was taken to jail and imprisoned under a charge
of "sedition.
During the putting down of the student movement
in Guadalajara at least one case of the icy fuga was
reported from that city. The victim was William de Ia
Pena, a former student of Christian Brothers' College,
St. Louis, Mo., also of the Ohio State University. The
case was reported in the St. Louis papers, from which
place a dispatch was sent out through the Associated
Press. Relating the occurrence, the press dispatch said:
"He (Pena) was at his country home, when an officer of the
Rurales invited him to go with him. He mounted his horse and
went. Next day servants found his body, riddled with bullets."
September 7th Congressman Heriberto Barron, who
had mildly criticized Diaz in an open letter, fled from
the country and took up his residence in New York.
One Mexican paper has it that agents of the Diaz
secret police forced Barron upon a Ward liner at Veracruz
and compelled him to leave the country. In New
York newspapers Barron declared that lie had fled to
escape imprisonment. A few months later he begged to be
allowed to return home, but was told that he must
remain an exile until the death of the president of Mexico.
The heinousness of Barron's crime may be gath-