817.00/3101: Telegram
The Acting Secretary of State to the Chargé in Nicaragua (Thurston)
83. The Department has today received the following telegram from Señor Urtecho:14
“Under the President’s instructions, I beg to say the following to Your Excellency: Prominent Conservatives and Liberals earnestly desiring international concord agree on ticket Carlos Solorzano, Conservative, for President for the next Constitutional term and Juan Bautista Sacasa, Liberal, for Vice President, and ask me to receive and forward their wishes to know whether the State Department would look with favor on the alliance for the organization of National Government. This being an honest scheme I respectfully apply to Your Excellency with a request for an early answer. Distinguished consideration.”
You will please reply as follows:
“My Government has received Your Excellency’s telegram stating that prominent Conservatives and Liberals agreed on Señor Carlos Solorzano as candidate for President for the next constitutional term and Señor Juan Bautista Sacasa for Vice President and you inquire whether the Department of State will look with favor on the alliance for the organization of a National Government.
In reply I am instructed by my Government to state that it has no preferences whatever regarding candidates for the high office of President of Nicaragua. My Government supports no candidate and is hostile to no candidate; it desires only that free and fair elections may be held in order that the will of the people may be expressed without hindrance at the polls. My Government feels that the transference of the center of political activity of Nicaragua to Washington would be detrimental to that Government’s interests and this Government therefore cannot express its views regarding any ticket.
My Government desires that no candidate for the Presidency, not prohibited from holding such office by Article II of the Treaty of Peace and Amity, signed at Washington on February 7, 1923,15 may be impeded from presenting his candidacy to the electors of Nicaragua and any person who gains the office of President through free and fair elections in accordance with the electoral law and the Constitution and who is not comprised within the classes above mentioned will be accorded the recognition of the United States Government and my Government will be glad to carry on with him the friendly relations that have always existed between the United States and Nicaragua and will be glad to lend him its advice and counsel.”
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