BRAZIL.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 758, 5 March 1910, Page 5

BRAZIL.

—: « A PRESIDENT PROM THE ARMY. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. Rio de Janeiro, March 3. The contest for tho Presidency of tho Republic of Brazil, between Marshal Hermes da Fonseca and Senhor Ruy Barbosa,. resulted in the return of Marshal Hermes ■da Ponseca by a majority of 50,000. THE CANDIDATES. The death last year of Dr. Affonso Ponna, President of Brazil, left the VicePresident, Senhor Niio Pecanha, in the oliico of President for- the remainder of the term. Senhor Pecanha hasi been described as more interested in economic than in political and military questions. In September last the. Brazil correspondent of "The Times" wrote: "1 have been received cordially and sympathetically at the homes of both candidates for the presidency. Both men are small of stature and full of nervous energy. General Hermes da Fonscca's surroundings aro comfortable, and I noticed a life-sized portrait of tho German Emperor in the background. Ho assured me that he was deeply interested in the constitutional and economic development of.Brazil, and he had no intendesiro to inaugurate military rule. "Senhor Ruy Barbosa is a rich advocate, and in his home ho is surrounded by rare books. He declared that the principal issue was whether Brazil should have a military or civil regime. He said he was leading tho first great contest in favour of constitutional government, and ho thought that General Hermes da i'onseca was a purely military man knowing nothing of political or economic science. He believed that the navy and half the army would oppose General Hermes da Ponseca."