Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Address of the President to Congress December 4, 1917

File No. 818.00/123

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American Legation,
San José, April 2, 1917, 4 p.m.

Election held yesterday without disorder or opposition. Government claims fifty thousand plurality total electorate of seventy thousand. Voluntary vote small. Reports of flagrant ballot box stuffing. No enthusiasm and strong reactionary feeling apparent.

Hale