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conservative groups particularly, Aprism

conservative groups particularly Aprism
was disguised Communism.
It was, precisely, alarmed by the pop
ularity of the Aprista candidate, that
the conservative elements, the PROBES
sional classes, the army, the church. the
bourgeois" started to look out 1or
man strong enough to check the ad-
yances of the Left Wing. They found
him in Col. Sanchez Cerro, the same
ambitious, energetic leader who over
threw the Leguia dictatorship last year
and made himself provisional Presi-
dent. It will be recalled that six months
later his own mistakes In the govern
nent and his abuse of power had maze
Sanchez Cerro unpopular, ana ne, IN
turn. had been forced to resign ny
military uprising, and 1eave the country
as an exile.
Able to Maintain Order.
The conservative classes did not rally
to Sanchez Cerro's support because ol
HE noiitical prestige or the conditions
he had shown as chief executive during
his short provisional rule. They went
to him because he was the only one
able to maintain order ana 10 neao !
constitutional government WHICH Wouto
guarantee and protect the presenC s'dCe
of things. And because they knew ne
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the nation to do so.
That a man like Col Sanchez Cerro
who less than a year ago was ousteo
from power and expelled from the coun-
try, should have received sucn strone
support. and finally a majority at the
polls. can only be explained by the re-
action of the Peruvian people against
the menace Of radicaltsm.
AS in Chile, therefore, conservative
will head the next constitutional con-
veution in Peru. A sturdy conservative
who has already shown, during his pro-
Visional rule, his inclination to govern
with iron hand.
And, as in Chile and Peru, In Ecuador,
too, a conservative will be the next
Chief Executive as result OF the pres
idential elections just held there.
Probably for the same reasons that
the Chilean electorate chose Monterc
and the Peruvian Sanchez Cerro, the
Ecuadorean electorate rallied in support
of Senior Bonifaz conservative candi-
date, and gave him a large majority
over his three liberal opponents.
Here, once more, the reaction OF pub
lie sentiment against the Left must be
taken into consideration to explain the
success of a conservative candidate IN
country which for years has been gov
erned by the Liberals. Previous to the
electoral contest the Liberal candidates
and particularly the chief one, Senior
Larrea Jiron, had pronounced them
selves in favor of radical reforms which
looked too red to influential elements IN
the middle classes and in the army.
Only this, and internal divisions IN
the Liberal party, can account for the
election OF the conservative Bonifaz, to
whom the Liberal authorities who are
TNU c0Varnin0 Ecuador will have r.
hand over the reins of power.
The recent presidential elections in
these three South American republics
must have been quite disappointment
for the radicals of the world. Chile
Peru and Ecuador, like Great Britain
have gone on record as favoring con-
servatism and nationalism in a period
Of widespread economic crisis, which the
Left Wingers had expected to result In
great advantages for their cause.
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