sentences:  González Valencia was a right wing conservative and Reyes was a moderate.General Reyes, who was politically more ambitious than General González Valencia, could not forget the events of July 31, 1900, when Vice-President José Manuel Marroquín, with the aid of the military and the conservative party, had removed for m office President Manuel Antonio Sanclemente.Because President Rafael Reyes had opened the doors to a dialogue with the liberals, this made the conservatives very suspicious.