Grants of some of the demands and promises of reform were met with a dogged insistence upon his own resignation.

Then, as the rebellion spread to the southward, the masterful old man realized that his thirty-one years of rule were at an end.

On the 25th of May, therefore, he gave up his power and sailed for Europe.
Madero was chosen President five months later, but the revolution soon passed beyond his control.

He was a sincere idealist, if not something of a visionary, actuated by humane and kindly sentiments, but he lacked resoluteness and the art of managing men.

He was too prolific, also, of promises which he must have known he could not keep.