 The bid proved unsuccessful and he was the second worst-faring candidate in the district.Undeterred, Mas continued his electoral labors and prior to the national 1918 campaign he co-signed a grand "Manifiesto".Itself a lecture of Traditionalist program, the text advocated corporative instead of popular suffrage, separate regional establishments, moderate monarchy headed by Jaime de Borbón, Spain “limited only by the sea and the Pyrenees” and protectionist and regulated economy; unorthodox proposals were only voluntary military service, “properly understood” freedom of education and economic separation between state and the Church.