Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-10-26
Nicaragua's Supervised Voting
Will Be Watched With Interest

haps. to warrant use of them when
necessary in the United States, say, IN
Chicago primary. Why give the
benefit of the talents of the corps only
to faraway lands?"
However honestly the election may
be conducted" thinks the st. Joseph
News-Press independently, sit is pos
sible that the losing side will charge
fraud and may even attempt revolu-
tionary break to prevent the departure
Of the United States forces, whose rule
each party prefers to that Of its politi-
cal foes" OF general conditions the
News-Press remarks: In Central
American elections as rule the party
in power has had a great advantage
through its control Of the troops, the
police. the local officials and the
treasury as we'll as through its censor
ship of the mails and the press. its use
of the liquor monopoly for illegal pur-
poses, and through false registrations.
dishonest voting and crooked methods
in counting the ballots Revolution.
therefore. has been the only means OF
dislodging party from power"
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"A definition of a Conservative i'll
Nicaragua is a desire to have an offce';
Tic uGIlIllJLOIl VI d LlOcIdl 10 Tie SdiAlCs
in the opinion of the Chicago Daily Tri-
bune Republican,, and that paper
comments on the Forthcoming election:
Two day before the American people
go to the polls the Nicaraguans will go
through a similar process of democratic
government and probably with no more
disorder than will attend the election in
the United States. They have been
helped to do this and the strong arm
was used where 1t had to be. What
ever intellectual horror arises at view
of the prospects the event speaks prag-
matically for itself. Nicaragua has a
chance to make popular government
work to the extend that its people have
the willingness and the ability. and they
are assured order and security in the
renewal of their experiment"
Government by the ballot" asserts
the Flint Daily Journal independent.
lis infinitely superior to government by
revolution and terrorism. What the
United States has done has been to
achieve a better condition of human
life on the North American continent.
Popular government will have a chance
in Nicaragua November 4. because the
people can go to the polls with the
knowledge that they will be able to
vote as they please without intimation
aIiu thcy VIII KNOW JnaJ JneH VoLeS
will be honestly counted"
Taking the matter in a lighter vein,
the Savannah Morning News Demo-
cratic) asks: Has anybody seriously
suggested yet that the United States
request Nicaragua to send a bunch Of
her marines over here early In Noven-
Der to supervise our national election?"
The Saginaw Daily News Gndepend-
enO finds a similarity to the United
States in the fact that predictions are
made in advance by both sides. giving
each ones certainty as to its standing
in the election: President Diaz asserts
his party will surely win by at least
5000 majority. Gen. Moncado, similar
ly confident. is not so modest, howayer.
in his claims He says his parE il
going to win by majority of prot1bly
$4,000. Almost II cou'1 be imagined
that National Chairmen Work and FAs-
kob had temporarily moved their head
quarters to Nicaragua