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General Escobedo's personal appearance betrays the man of mark.
He is quite tall and commanding in figure; he has black hair and
full beard and moustaches-the beard considerably mixed with grey
-and anything but tawny, almost fair complexion. From his physi-
,ognomy it is evident that he is of pure Castilian stock. His forehead
is high and pallid almost to whiteness; eyes dark and slightly languid.
He is about forty-nine years old. He was dressed in a black fatigue
.suit with brass buttons and wore a silk hat.9
When questioned in regard to his intentions and future activ-
ities in Texas, Escobedo replied as elusively as Lerdo, his suave
superior who had remained in New York. He remarked abstruse-
ly of his desires to visit friends and places in Texas, adding that
he "was here on a trip of pleasure, but at the same time in the
.capacity of a spectator of affairs beyond the Rio Grande." "This
was his general answer," commented the cynical and discerning
reporter, "to a question whether he was not on a mission from
President Lerdo looking to measures for the restoration of the
latter to power."1
Escobedo tarried not more than a day or two in Galveston-
long enough to publicize Lerdo's formal manifesto to the Mex-
ican people which asserted the former President's superior claim
to the chief magistracy--" and then continued to San Antonio,
where he erected a revolutionary headquarters in one of the local
hotels. Despite the obvious, Escobedo retained a transparent mask
,of generalities to cover his alleged "pleasure" excursion to Texas,
which ill-concealed his true designs against Diaz. A press corre-
spondent of San Antonio found him "studiously polite, never
pausing to prepare an answer, charming you with the most en-
gaging smile," and, furthermore, his subterfuge was "more than
.a match for even the experienced terriers of the New York press."
Nevertheless, added the perspicacious writer, it scarcely seemed
oGalveston Daily News, April 11, 1877.
lolbid.
"1Lerdo's manifesto, dated New York, February 24, 1877, was translated and
'printed in ibid., April 12, 1877. Escobedo provided the press with a copy of the
'original broadside which was in Spanish. Excepting the translation in the Gal-
veston paper, the present writer has been unable to locate any other reprints of
,the document in either Mexican or United States sources. A copy of the original
was found in the Archivo de Fernando Iglesias Calder6n, Legajo 15, Archivo
'General de la Naci6n, Mexico, D. F. See also Iglesias, La Cuestidn Presidencial en
1876, 315-317.397
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