[3] The party's main goal was the annexation of Puerto Rico into the American Union as a state.
The Puerto Rico Organic Law of 1917 resulted in new elections taking place in July 1917.
[7] Partido Republicano also ended up with a minority in Puerto Rico House of Representatives, though proportionally much stronger than its representation in the Senate.
However, and seemingly encouraged in their annexation goals by the granting of US citizenship to Puerto Ricans, while a minority on both chambers, the members of Partido Republicano operated in a very combative fashion with their majority colleagues, the Unionists, whose main tenet was independence for Puerto Rico.
The agreements that formed La Alianza left Partido Republicano with much lower prospects to win in the elections of 1924.