page_title: José Sánchez Marco
section_title: Early political career (before 1905)
hierarchical_section_title: José Sánchez Marco / Early political career (before 1905)
caption_attribution_description: English: Ramon Nocedal
context_page_description: José Benigno Sánchez Marco was a Spanish Traditionalist politician, associated mostly with a branch known as Integrism and operating as Partido Católico Nacional, though active also within the mainstream Carlism. He is recognized as one of the longest-serving Integrist deputies to the Cortes, his 4 consecutive terms lasting between 1905 and 1916. He also presided over a number of Navarrese Catholic and landowners’ organizations.
context_section_description: José inherited Traditionalist outlook from the ancestors. His father was active in the legitimist ranks in the 1860s, by no means a typical path, given Tafalla and Tudela were "distritos de mayor tradición liberal". In 1865 he entered Cortes as a Carlist-Catholic candidate elected from Pamplona and in the 1880s he remained a Traditionalist militant. José's maternal uncle – at that time not yet known as Marco de Bello - served as his godfather, specifically asked to provide spiritual guidance. José was entering the Carlist realm in the 1880s; at that time the movement was divided between an intransigent ultra-Catholic faction and a group prepared to recognize political setting of the Restoration. During final breakup of 1888 he followed his father and sided with the former, led by Ramón Nocedal; the group became known as the Integrists. In the early 1890s Sánchez Marco started to appear in the party press, initially merely as signatory of various venerating addresses and than as author of brief notes, hailing Nocedal. At that time his father was member of the Navarrese Integrist executive, Asamblea Regional.
  In 1895 Sánchez Marco is first noted as taking part in a major party gathering in Azpeitia; speaking himself, he praised Gipuzkoa as a Spanish oasis, a province which preserved all traditional virtues of the country and was set to be its salvation ark. In 1896 the Integrist Madrid mouthpiece, El Siglo Futuro, published his major elaborate, formatted as a sophisticated discourse of divine role in civilization; he lambasted "absurdities of Rousseau, Kant, Hobbes and Schelling" and in what seemed like a typical lecture of Integrist outlook admitted inspiration by scholastic doctrine of the 16th century.
  In 1896 Sánchez Marco stood as an Integrist candidate for the Cortes from Pamplona. The party entered no alliance in the Carlist-Conservative dominated constituency; it is not clear whether initial reports of his success were genuine or rather formed part of the party propaganda; when eventually declared defeated, he protested electoral fraud. Active in the party ranks, in the late 1890s he grew to vice-president of Junta Regional, the Navarrese Integrist executive. There is no information on his taking part in electoral campaigns of 1898 and 1899. In the early 20th century the Integrists and the Carlists, venomously hostile during the preceding decades, neared each other. As a result, in 1901 they formed a joint Navarrese list and Sánchez Marco was its candidate in Tudela. Unsuccessful again he complained about official detentions of party electoral agents and other pucherazos.
  Active in Church-sponsored initiatives he embarked on setting up joint workers and owners labor organizations, defusing conflict by arbitrary boards and insurance funds; at that time he counted as a "respected party member" dealing with representatives of the workers. He did not run in the 1903 general elections and targeted the Pamplona council instead; the same year he was elected to the ayuntamiento. As concejal he lambasted militant proletarian initiatives promoting Catholic groupings; as a lawyer he defended priests facing legal problems.
caption: Ramón Nocedal
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