A elite do poder em São Borja na transição do império brasileiro a república velha (1887- 1907)

Abstract

The present work has as objective to make an analysis about the political elite of São Borja that participated during the end of the Brazilian Empire (1822-1889) in process of the transition to the beginning of the Old Republic (1889-1930). In this research the time cut begins in the year 1887, where in that time, the alderman Apparício Mariense, can approve a Plebiscitary Motion in the Council of Aldermen on the desire of a third reign or the adoption of the Republic as a form of Government after the death of Dom Pedro II. This motion made São Borja and his political class stand out nationally, since it was the first kind of proposition like this in Brazilian History. Through the positional method of Mills, the participation and the relevant political actors in the political scene were analised from 1887 until 1907, when Apparício Mariense left the Municipal Intendance. In addition to the politicians, we also considered the process leading to the Proclamation of the Republic, as well as the political institutions and the electoral panorama in São Borja, both in the Empire and in the birth of the Republic. Through this research, it can be observed that besides Mariense, these elite names such as: Dinarte Dornelles, Julio Trois and Francisco Miranda.