Abstract
On January 21st, 1914, Benito Pérez Galdós sent a telegram to Venustiano Carranza, First Chief of the Constitutionalist Army, in which he requested in the name of “the voice of Spain” to cease the revolutionary activities that affected the interests of Spaniards residing in Mexico. In other words, asking to restore peace in the country. Evidently, the moral and literary quality of the Canary writer meant to pressure so as to safeguard the interests of the Spaniards who were affected by those revolutionary actions. Venustiano replies in another message on January 22, 1914, saying that Spain would also be at war if conditions such as the ones reigning in Mexico were taking place in Spain. An anti-Carranza periodical, El Independiente, noted that it was useless to appeal to “the microscopic intellect” of Venustiano, asking for peace. On the other hand, other intellectuals, such as Aureliano Ezquivel Casas, form a common cause with the Varón de Cuatrociénagas, whom they consider an honest man, well educated in historical matters. Besides Galdós, other Spanish intellectuals such as Maura, José Echegaray, Rodríguez Sanpedro, etc., maintain an interesting telegraphic correspondence with Carranza, asking for the same thing: Peace.