817.00/3201: Telegram
The Chargé in Nicaragua (Thurston) to the Secretary of State
[Received November 7—1:34 p.m.]
236. Department’s 134, November 5, 6 p.m.11 In a signed statement presented to me yesterday by Adolfo Diaz in his capacity as president of the directive junta of the Conservative Party it is [Page 503] asserted that elections in certain cantons of the Departments of Managua, Masaya, Granada, Chontales, Nueva Segovia, Jinotega, Esteli and Matagalpa, have been protested before the courts in conformity with the provisions of article 92 of the Electoral Law. It is further asserted in this statement and Diaz has personally so informed me that while such protests should be made generally his party is not presenting them because it fears that the new elections if held would be more drastically controlled than the last unless supervised. That his contention is not without justification may be deduced from the fact that the pro-government president of the Chamber of Deputies having been defeated for reelection at San Juan del Norte on October 5th, new elections were held there on the following Sunday by Executive order on the pretext that the election board had not taken oath of office, without any reference of the matter to the national board of elections, and the deputy concerned was victorious by a majority of 41 votes as against 21 for his opponents. The results of the first election were 70 votes for his opponents as against 25 for him. As a result of the disturbances at San José de los Remates on October 5th new elections also took place there and although 499 voters were registered the new elections according to the report published in the newspapers gave the transaction [Transactionist] candidate the victory by 59 votes as against 39 for the Conservative candidate, a total of 98.
Election figures today total 75,835 of which Solorzano has 41,075, Chamorro 26,566 and Corea 7, 184. There are 84 cantons still to report of which 44 correspond to Bluefields.
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