The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 55, July 1951 - April, 1952 Page: 396
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that a decade had intervened before he first reached the state in
1877.
Though an exile in New York, Lerdo by no means had
quenched his ambitions to recapture the presidency of his coun-
try from the "usurper" Porfirio Diaz.5 The design could not be
compassed, however, by issuing sterile manifestoes from a com-
fortable hotel room in distant New York, and therefore Lerdo
dispatched to Texas General Escobedo, his trusted, loyal friend
and the only logical member of his coterie to direct the measures
toward restoration. Lerdo's purposes and those of Escobedo were
never admitted openly, but the discreet remarks which the exiles
released to the press apparently deceived no one. Least deluded
was a New York reporter who visited Lerdo and Escobedo in
early 1877:
President Lerdo expresses his intention to remain here for a short
time until he can receive correspondence from Mexico and put him-
self in communication with his friends there. He will await a favor-
able turn of the political tide, and profit by the first good opportunity
which offers itself to go back and maintain the constitution of 1857
in its original integrity. Such is the sense of what could be gathered
from Sefior Lerdo's conversation.6
Escobedo, who was present with Lerdo during the interview, fur-
ther informed the reporter that:
President Lerdo will no doubt return to Mexico as soon as favoring
circumstances admit and then assert the undoubted right which last
year's elections gave him to preside over the destinies of his country.
Still another journalist appended the following statement:
The President [Lerdo] laughed and shrugged his shoulders when a
question was put about his future movements. "I have not decided,"
he said. "They will depend entirely upon future events."s
If Lerdo's plans for the reconquest of Mexico hinged upon
"future events," the future was near and the events soon crystal-
lized, such as they were, since General Escobedo was discovered
at Galveston in April, 1877, by an alert local reporter who
described him as follows:
5See El Siglo, March 5, 1877; Valadds, El Porfirismo, Nacimiento, 127.
ONew York Herald, February 12, 1877, p. 3.
7Escobedo quoted in ibid.
SNew York Daily Tribune, February 12, 1877, p. 8.396
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