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the presidency from Francisco Madero. Certainly he had sup-
porters in the key city of Monterrey and wanted to strike Madero
at a vulnerable time before the recently inaugurated president
could consolidate his position. Reyes was prevented from carrying
out his coup d'etat solely because of the vigilance of United
States and Texas authorities. Reyes had hoped to count on a
sympathetic or complacent United States, for he knew American
authorities had permitted Madero to remain for four months in
late 191o and early 1911 actively plotting against the Diaz gov-
ernment.22 But the United States, unpredictable in such matters,
failed to oblige in the case of Reyes. Striking while the iron was
hot, its authorities annihilated the revolution before it began.
Commenting on the United States' change of policy, Governor
Colquitt wrote President Taft as follows:
The energetic measures employed by both the state and Federal
authorities have, in my opinion, effectively stamped out the embryo
revolution in so far as the plotting in Texas is concerned. Had the
same energetic measures been employed . at the outbreak of the
revolution agitated by Madero, I am convinced that the situation
would have been much different.m
The San Antonio Express acknowledged that the action against
Reyes was "A most remarkable illustration of the sternness of the
United States in dealing with a revolt . a step far in advance
of any ever taken by the United States government under similar
circumstances."24 Don Bernardo could only lament that "the
enmity of the United States was unloosed against me without
example in times past. .. "25
Bernardo Reyes' frustrated invasion was not his last appear-
ance in the Mexican political arena. Confined to a military prison
in Mexico City, a disillusioned and embittered old man, the
object of scorn and ridicule for his failure in Texas, don Bernardo
22Charles C. Cumberland, Mexican Revolution, Genesis Under Madero (Austin,
1952), 124-128.
28Colquitt to President William H. Taft, November 27, 1911, Decimal File of
the Department of State (MS., National Archives, Washington, D. C.), Vol. XI,
812.00/2581.
24San Antonio Express, November 24, 1911.
25Bernardo Reyes, Defensa que por si mismo produce el C. general de divisidn
Bernardo Reyes, acusado del delito de rebelidn, Mexico, octubre de 1912 (Mexico,
1912), 21.224
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