817.00/5803: Telegram
The Minister in Nicaragua (Eberhardt) to the Secretary of State
[Received 6:20 p.m.]
272. My 271, July 6, 5 p.m.51 Text of resolution and statement follows:
“Resolution: Be it resolved, by the National Board of Elections:
- 1.
- That the National Board of Elections has given careful consideration to the statements of fact and the arguments upon which have been based the conflicting claims for recognition, as representing the Conservative Party, of the two factions of that party which held separate conventions in the city of Managua, on May 20th, 1928, and each of which purported to name the Junta Directiva Nacional y Legal of the Conservative Party; one of the said juntas directivas being headed by Don Adolfo Diaz with Don Alejandro Cardenas as secretary, and the other of said juntas being headed by Don Emiliano Chamorro with Don Ismael Solorzano as secretary.
- 2.
- That it is the decision of the National Board of Elections that neither of the two factions in question has duly established its right to be recognized as representing the historical Conservative Party to the exclusion of the other faction; and that neither faction is entitled to name the Junta Directiva National y Legal of the Conservative Party or to designate the candidates to represent that party in the 1928 elections for Supreme Authorities.
- 3.
- That the National Board of Elections is disposed to give prompt and responsive consideration to any definite and practical plan that may be so presented to it as to evidence an expression of the will of the historical Conservative Party and that may open the way for the participation of that party in the 1928 elections for Supreme Authorities, and that, notwithstanding the statement contained in paragraph 2 to the effect that neither of the two factions is entitled to name the Junta Directiva Nacional y Legal of the Conservative Party, the National Board of Elections will consider as “de facto junta directivas” for the sole purpose of treating with them regarding [Page 501] means that they may propose for arriving at an adjustment of differences, the two juntas directivas which have heretofore been designated by the respective factions.”
Statement:
“In announcing the decision of the National Board relative to the difficulties of the two factions of the Conservative Party the president of the board desires to set at rest once and for all any possible misconception on the part of any portion of the people of Nicaragua to the effect that either the United States State Department or the personal representative of the President of the United States in Nicaragua is in any way committed to the candidacy of any particular individual or to the fortunes of any particular party or faction. It has been the earnest effort and hope of the American Government and of the National Board of Elections that the 1928 elections for Supreme Authorities might be held under conditions that would involve the full participation therein as such, of the two great parties whose difficulties the agreements effected by Mr. Stimson sought to compose by peaceable means. The factional division within one of the parties has to date presented serious obstacles to that purpose; but it continues to be the desire and purpose of the chairman of the National Board, approved and shared by the other members of that board, that the 1928 elections for Supreme Authorities shall be so conducted as to give any opportunity for the full and free expression of the will of the Nicaraguan people and that any such choice registered at the election shall in accordance with the Nicaraguan Constitution and the Executive decree of March 21st, 1928, be duly certified to the Nicaraguan Congress in order that it may be given effect.”
- Not printed; it informed the Department of the passage of the resolution by the National Board of Elections and the issuance of the statement by General McCoy.↩