Like many Carlists Caylà welcomed the fall of Alfonsist monarchy,[REF] unlike most of them he did not demonstrate hostility to the Republic and - clearly against most Carlists - he hoped that it would produce a genuine democracy [REF].
Militant secularism of the Republic started to turn Caylà into its enemy;[REF] he was also increasingly embittered by what he perceived as arrogant Republican-Socialist domination in the Valls council [REF].