The Spanish Elections have resulted in an enormous majority for
the Federal Republic. It is said that a million and a quarter votes were polled. It is also stated that there are 310 Ministerialists and Federal Republicans returned, and that there are some 70 or 80 of other shades of opinion, varying from the " Radicals " of the last Cortes to Monarchists. The Government put the irreconcilables elected below 30, and their opponents put them at above GO. The reason of the smallness of the Opposition is said to be that the opponents of the Federal Republic pursued the foolish policy of abstention, — al- leging that in suppressing the Permanent Committee of the old Cortes the Government had done an illegal act, and that all its subsequent procedure is illegal. Well, suppose it be so. Was the first revolution legal ? When a people are midway in revolution, they should not be too fastidious as to more or less of legality. And if they want their own way, they should use their opportunities to get it. Sulking never succeeds.
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