New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-10-22
THE GILLIAN ELECTIONS.
o,rpwHELMNG DEFEAT OF THE CLERICAL
PARTY.
,,cr NAJoRITIEs FOR THE LIDERALs n TIE

,,pGE MAJ0RlTlES FUR IhE
r,rcroRAL COLLEGE THE SENATE AND
THE CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES.
.ouo do Chilli. Oct. 21.-As has been pre-
'",,. announced. the elections for Presidential
W0.aS ond members of the Senate and Chamber
eT+ios were held last Sunday. The day passed
l.i,. q fact no doubt due to the precautions
gI."' h,, the Provisional Government 10 prevent
~AN .br.oLs The entire proceedings were
any = b due regard for the constitutional rights
m'i n.o-s and tra result shows an overwhelming
s- - tho Clerical party. The returns show
liberals have a large majority in the Elec-
'""V ', C.uoco the duties of the members of which
'0i'i root evtenu similar to those Of the Pres
a.. ,.,.I roctors in the United States with the i'm
pe.Y, . di9erenoe that the members themselves
i.,,o, and appoint the Chief of State.
- -. members of the Chlian Senate serve a
- six years, and are elected directly by
~'m :, The members of the Chamber of
carve three years, and are elected by de-
-.r,ments. The popularity OF the Liberal party
sbown by the fact that it has elected thIr'y oil
~. candidates for the Senate. while the Clerlcas
,'o,e elected only two In the Chamber OF
na.,,,ios the Liberals will have majority OF at
ioor+ thirty. the returns showing the election oil
';T,y-tyyo Liberals aud thirty-two Clericals-
,..,-,.o ,ictorv Of the Liberal party in the
items for the senate and the Chamber
O ~ ,,neibin- more than the popularity OF that
.hicb was represented by the revolutionary
20. NOW the Provisional Government. That pop
.,a,,+r had already been demonstrated by the moral
..I srnport given TO the Junta by the people
- csu whenever the late Dictator's satellites dd
VI. tar,o-,,e tlcm and by the enthusiasm displayed
az no
congressional army. But the electoral victory OF inc
,n,s oyer the Cericais who are usually influential
,o,r the strongly religious people 9f Spanish America
res tbe lie 10 one Of the two principal calumnies
io,merlv hurled at the Consttuonalists by the BAL
,,ocedist organs. They daily represented the Con
yessionallsts who were fighting for the Constitution
and the laws as being the tools of ultra-cercaISH
and Of milOnalrcS. To give some color to the lal'e'
rbsr,e Bslmacedas secret agents melted several riots
among miners and other wOrkingmen. The quiet re
.nmptlon Of work throughout Chill, after the fall
be dictator shows that the labOrers there know tha
their rights as workingmen Will be respected by th
alleged minonaires of the Liberal party, as well al
their political rights which have been restored to then
bv the efforts Of that same party.
As IN the accusation OF ultra clercasm it is suf
dsntlv proved to have been meDdacous, since The
Constitutionasts have presented themselves 10 INK
electors as Liberals, and as opposed 10 the Clenca
party. OF course their programme is not antagonis
,c 10 the Church and the best evidence of that fact
Is that Archbishop Casanova, me Primate OF Chill
did not advise the Catholic clergy TO fight the LIB
ersl ticket but only 10 remain neutral and not tC
dra, into the electoral struggle religion which would
he peeled by The Liberals, according 10 the die
toioS of the Constitution and the sentiments Of the
peope The ClencalS succeeded in c!ecting only tWo
members against thirty Liberals, in the senate, ana
only onethrd Of the Deputies OF the Chamber. such
a result proves that the Chians aware that the
party which has overthrOwn the dictatorship is not
composed, as alleged by the BamacediSt organs OF
ultra aud of monaires inclined to crush the
laboring people