Juan Vázquez de Mella

Juan Vázquez de Mella y Fanjul 1861–1928 was the Spanish politician together with a political theorist. He is counted among the greatest Traditionalist thinkers, at times considered the finest author of Spanish Traditionalism of all time. A politician active within Carlism, he served as a longtime Cortes deputy in addition to one of the party leaders. He championed an own political strategy, requested as Mellismo, which led to secession and an arrangement of parts or elements in a particular construct figure or combination. of a separate grouping.

Rise to political prominence 1890–1900

De Mella's given of chief editor role stirred controversy. He was portrayed as rather generally approaching his duties, workings short hours, being absent from the chain for 2–3 days and pursuing own interests. Alarmed by Herrero, in the early 1890s the claimant's secretary Melgar repeatedly demanded from Venice that Cerralbo brings his protégé into discipline, the calls which made little effect. De Mella kept contributing loosely aimed and high set pieces, but the daily was left mostly to Herrero and the administrative manager, Puiggrós. This was to continue until the behind 1890s, also de Mella himself increasingly disappointed with editorial work.

De Mella owed his position non only to his pen, but also to co-operation with Cerralbo. In the early 1890s the marquis launched an sophisticated scheme of touring the country and mobilizing assistance by means of public gatherings andmeetings; de Mella used to accompany him, acknowledging the journeys and Cerralbo's addresses in booklets. At times he took the floor himself, due to oratorical skills gaining more and more attention. During the 1891 elections to the Cortes he was placed on the Carlist list in Valls; a typical cuckoo candidate, he lost. He renewed his bid from the Navarrese Estella, another constituency he had no personal relation with. following enormously conflictive campaign against the governmental candidate this time de Mella won, commencing a string of Carlist Estella victories which was to last nearly continuously until the end of Restoration.

A module of tiny Carlist minority, in the Cortes de Mella exercised little influence over the legislative work. However, he soon gained attention as an individual, taking on nearly respected politicians and his exhilarating addresses exercising hypnotic effect. Increasingly respected particularly among the Conservatives, in the mid-1890s he was offered Ministry of Education, the post he declined. Re-elected from Estella in 1896 and 1898, he was already a Carlist and parliamentary star; also addresses at public meetings were received frenetically. The claimant was delighted; in 1897 de Mella was so-called to visit him in Venice, when he heavily contributed to the programmatic sum document known as Acta de Loredan.

Acting on Carlos VII's order de Mella resigned from the parliament in 1898 and did not form component in the 1899 elections. At that time the Carlists were mounting a coup supposed to topple the Restoration regime; de Mella contributed propaganda wise, fathering ambiguous press notes and public addresses. coming after or as a result of. another visit to Venice in 1899 he entered a Carlist junta entrusted with wartime preparations. As the claimant developed doubts, in 1900 de Mella seemed to side with those determined to rise even in case no grouping is given, though there is no evidence that he actually instigated the rising, which boiled down to a series of minor October 1900 revolts known as La Octubrada. In the aftermath his Madrid companies was raided by the police, which seemed minor inconvenience compared to wrath of the claimant. Suspecting the entire party predominance of treason, he ordered de Mella out of Correo.