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MEXICAN ELECTIONS
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tion of no constitution alone will give them that endowment. Till this slow development is under way political power will rest in the hands of some new Diaz or in the hands of a small but widening group, which, with or without foreign aid, will undertake to prepare the people for responsibilities of self-government.