 Florêncio Terra also spoke, and two days later, published a notable eulogy for Lino, who he considered intelligent, illustrious, modest and coy, noble of character and a valuable medic who, although young, had already provided incalculable services in public health, referring to his work on the bubonic plague in Porto and the rest of the country.Terra's op ed served to justify the nomination.The "A União" of Angra, had little worries that Lino would be able to fulfill his duties, writing that his political naivety would serve him in bringing new thinking into a public administration.