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belonged to him, either on account of his personal relations
with the president as Esteva, or on account of his greater
talent and learning as Zavala, or on account of his profound
versatility in affairs and the intrigues of the cabinet as Ramos
Arizpe, or on account of his name among the ancient insur-
gents as Guerrero, or on account of the demagogical boldness
which seemed to be a natural instinct in Alpuche and a most
recommendatory title of being one of the founders of the
Yorkist Rite. With protection so decided and ideas so radical
about the plans believed the most national, it is not strange
that it was extended throughout all the republic. Nothing
could be hoped from the Yorkists under the aspect of interest
and national honor.32
The new Masonic Order soon became a formidable power which
made Victoria suspicious although he had supported it at first.33
The majority of the ministers of Victoria did not favor it, but
Ramos Arizpe upheld it energetically and placed his hope in it
because he judged that it would be the means of destroying the
Scottish Rite Masons, the majority of whom were the partisans
of Centralism. Toro says that Ramos Arizpe remembered the
evils of Scottish Masonry in politics in Spain and desired to get
rid of those secret societies by a kind of homeopathic politics.34
The newspapers of that period either praised or condemned the
Yorkists Masons according to their political tendencies. At first
the work of the new lodges was confined to ceremonies and works
of beneficence, but they too soon became occupied with politics.35
Elections, projected laws, resolutions of the cabinet, and filling of
offices were discussed in the grand lodge where many influential
men assembled.36 The Yorkists united themselves against the
Scottish Rite lodges, and on June 24, 1826, Juan Rodriguez
Puebla delivered at Chapultepec a violent discourse against them.
In it were hints that the Scottish Riters should be expelled from
the country. The Yorkists worked hard to increase their mem-
bership and now received all kinds of people into their lodges.
Among them were many military men and this gave the Order
an immense power, but it also caused the revival of the Scottish
32 1 porvenir de Memico, III, 380-381.
33sMateos, 17.
34Toro, 54.
asMateos, 17.
s3Zavala, I, 347.206
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