Stories of Paraná - Viva Dr. Generoso!

Stories of Paraná - Viva Dr. Generoso!

Dr. Generoso Viva!
Tulio Vargas

Lived in Parana, at the beginning of the republican regime, under the aegis of two Constitutions in the short period of ten months.
Phase was agitated and tense.
Seven intervenors took turns in power. The first election of a legal nature came in full force of the State Constitution of July 4, 1891.
He was elected Governor Generoso Marques dos Santos, former leader of the Liberal Party, then engaged in the newly founded Republican Union Paranaense.
But if foreshadowed violent storms.
Republicans historical Vicente Machado and Francisco Xavier da Silva ahead, did not conform to replace the regime and cede power to the old royalists.
It did not take the opportunity to retaliate.
With the resignation of President Deodoro da Fonseca, Vice Floriano Peixoto, to take over the government, caused a real
"Swept" national. Determined the deposition of all governors except Lauro Sodré, the Pará
Generoso Marques was thus achieved by "sticking" conference.
He settled immediately in Curitiba a Board of Governors, under the leadership of Colonel Roberto Ferreira, commander of the Military District. The order, from above, was dissolved Congress legislature, call new elections and grant another Constitution, what really happened (April 7, 1892). In this climate of stupor would develop the transition.
Unreconstructed and atonic, the supporters of Generoso plotted at any price resistance.
Grew more turbulence as Generoso was called to the quar-tel-General, in the Tiradentes Square, to convey the position to Colonel Roberto.
Drew it a fratricidal conflict.
But the military supported the coup and would be useless to resist.
No glimpse exit Generous pour manifesto to the nation denouncing the constitutional violation and surrenders.
What else goes beyond outrage, this emergency is Telemachus Borba, a former mayor and state representative Tibagy, combative temperament, fearless and virile.
Fearless man, accustomed to the risks and challenges of the hinterland.
Insensitive to you at that time recommended prudence reckless, riding horseback and galloping before parading the troops surrounding the square.
Suddenly, an outrageous attitude to officialdom gathered, takes off his hat, stylish Diodorus or Zapata, and shouts loudly: "Viva Dr. Generous!"
The protest instant and unforeseen surprises. The officers hesitate.
Recorded, at that time, before history, an act of civic courage and personal, unusual.
As a consequence of the arbitrary acts of Floriano explode later, the Federalist Revolution, with dire implications for the consolidation of the Republic, the price of lives sacrificed, we can now evaluate, a century later, was too high.

Tulio Vargas Paranaense is a member of Academy of Letters,


Source: Stories of Paraná, Brasil.