The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-01
Beast of Prey Crouching for New Spring

gospel of American democracy in
foreign countries, these generals
and officers and marines, have to
overcome in convincing the hard
headed Latin Americans to accept
the blessings of popular rule. Mr..
Denny complains in the following
way:
"But even then the opponents
of supervision were not done.
There existed one joker in the
supervision measure. The Amer
lean officials saw this weak spot
from the first, but knew no way
to remove it. That was the pro-
vision that if no candidate re-
ceived majority of jail the votes
cast the president would be elected
A., by congress. Since congress
would be strongly conservative,
and would act impartiaIly only by
miracle, such an eventuality
would have defeated our whole
program of supervision"
Representatives of United States
imperialism are always unfolding
the constitution" The Nicaraguan
constitution states that if no can
didate receives a majority of all
votes cast, the president shall be
elected by congress. The majority
of congress is conservative, and only
a miracle" would force these con-
servatives to elect anybody but a
conservative. But everybody knows
that United States generals and of
ficers are enlightened, progressive
people, and certainly they don't be-
lieve in miracles. 1t was clear that
something had to be done, some
thing very effective and something
very quickly, especially since very
dangerous situation was develop
ing.
Go Democracy" One Better.
These Nicaraguans have no ira
dition for democracy" and have
not the faintest idea how to conduct
free and fair" election. There
fore, they began to organize polit-
ical parties, and. what is more, all
these political parties had the am
bition to participate in the presi-
Dental elections. Of course, such
nonsense could not be tolerated, be-
cause if there are more than two
political parties participating in the
elections, then there is a possibility
that none of them will receive the
majority of the votes cast and the
whole election will be thrown into
congress. Everyone must admit
that that was very hard "joker,"
but of course, General Mccoy and
his officers, who had gone through
the school of genuine American
democracy" found some way out
of the tight situation. They found
the simplest, most democratic, most
straightforward, genuine American
way of handling the situation. They
simply eliminated, exterminated,
suppressed all political parties but
the official conservative and liberal
parties, which are already old-timers
in the pay of United States imper-
iaiism.
Organize the Unorganized.
Nicaraguans are very irregular
and disorderly people. Every 100
per cent lingo American knows that.
They tried to organize not less than
four additional parties with the sim
lister purpose of complicating mat
tiers for the American general and
his officers and participating in the
presidential elections. There was
first split in the conservative
party. Both factions held their con-
ventions and named their candidates
for president. Then, "to add to the
confusion"-as Mr.. Denny relates
'"Dr. Luis Corea revived the So
called liberal-republican party" But
not only that. Some of these Nicara-
guans went SO far as to organize an
anti-American party, which showed
clearly that they had not grasped
the most elementary rules of de-
cency. Mr.. Denny reports:
"a frankly anti American
party, called the nationalist party,