Entre a legalidade e a anarquia

o discurso de O Combatente e a oposição do Partido Republicano Rio-Grandense ao governo da dissidência republicana

Abstract

This article analyzes the political representations produced by the newspaper O Combatente, from Santa Maria, RS, during the republican dissident government (1891-1892), pejoratively called governicho by its opponents. The study focuses on the newspaper's coverage of the political events that followed the November Revolution of 1891, which ousted Júlio de Castilhos from the state government. The sources used are the editions of the newspaper published between January and June 1892 (23 issues). The study is based on the notions of social imaginaries, representations and the staging of political drama, linked to the problematization between the narration of events, the event and historiography. The analysis reveals that the newspaper constructed a narrative that denied the legitimacy of the dissident government, characterizing it as illegal and anarchic, while defending the legality of the Castilhos government and the Rio-Grandense Republican Party (PRR).