New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-02-19
SPAIN.

REPUBLICAN GAINS IN THE ELECTIONS-STATE
OF PARTIEs-PRIM'S AMBITION PARALYZED-
RIvERO on DICTATORSHIP-sERRANo IN THE
PALACE-FINANCIAL RUIN PREDICTED.
fFROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT
MADRID Jan. 23-The elections of members to the
81 seats vacant IN the COrtes CONSTITUENCIES the
result of deaths. of exile and other circumstances,
commenced yesterday, and will last three days,
Sunday intervening Although the seventh day is
pretty much like the remaining six of the week, aud
not strongly hallOwed we shall not know the exact
result of the voting until Monday night, and then
shall get only the metropolitan returns. Those from
the provinces will probably not come all in until
Tuesday or Wednesday, for there is no hurry, no
dispatch even in any kind Of matter here -Four
candidates up for the one vacant seat for Madrid
We have acknowledgements the Marquis
de Perales. sustained by the Government; a
Republican, Senior don Jose GuisasOla; a Dem
Ocrat, neither Republican Monarchie. but man
of mark and an excellent writer, Senior SalmerOn
and a Carlist, Senior Lahoz The only two serious
canddatures are the fTstnamed. The Government
man has up to this time, obtained 1886 votes
than his opponent, and will probably carry the cleo
ton Senior Guisasoa is physician of considerable
ability, but of limited practice and means on the
same scale. He is providence for the poor always
at their service, and has made and is still making,
great sacrifices for the Republican cause of which he
has been from the first one OF the stanchest adhe-
rents. Salmeron would individually have been put
IN nomination on the Republican ticket, but his
course has been 50 yacillating that he rejected
in favor of GuisasOla The rebuff much vexed him,
aud led him 10 publish letter in which he endeav-
ored 70 disproYe the charge of vacaton and incon-
sistency alleged against him. He has not pOlled 500
votes. and his CaTlst opponent not SOO That the
Republican Guisasola should have secured only one
third fewer votes than the Government candidate
the numbers standing this evening l0,S27 TO 1922
speaks volumes for the vigorous growth Of the Re-
publican sentiment in the metropolis, and
il was more with the view to show that it
IS not in the least impaired than with hope
OF carrying their man into the Cortes that the popu
lar party brought him forward The fact is of i'm
pOrtanee. Here is another, which, detail OF the
voting machinery under the new law, is interesting.
The city Is divided into ten wards called bariOs, and
each ward is subdvided into ten districts for each
Of which All electoral committee is nominated desig-
mated Thus we have one hundred electoral
committees for Madrid. contest always takes
place for the selection .of these or committees
which composed Of President, a Vice President
a Secretary and two Registrars; and the numerical
prepondei snce resulting therefrom is held TO be a
good test of the relative strength of parties. year
ago the Republicans secured only two committees
This year they stand as Al to 100 fact of immense
significance, bearing in mind that Government
agency is all potent in the metropolis and that this
enormous addition TO the strength of the Repub-
lcans is developed in the teeth Of their recent defeat
in the field. They have also carried the day In all
the municipal elections in the great centers of
population, and in those places where the
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