The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-11-25

Both these assertions were true
a month ago are they stlll correct & at tbs pre-
found his monarch. Indeed, by AIS hesi-
tetion and inaetiop, by his nuaooount-
country TO despair OF . mor.arch~he has
shaken the naiion's faith IA a monarcny.
Kings do not ,be1 IN Sos our IN day. fsll from
drovers looking for their fathers asses nor as
middle-eged travellers dfiviLg to town In their
as the fight of wild birds may portend. 1t is for
lime alone TO show whether 1t was owing to
mere chance or to deep calculation that Prim
has brought the country to It's present predica-
ment. But, whatever may have been, or may
be, Prim's real purpose, there can be little
Prim to cast the weight OF his sword in behalf
of q republic (and 1t is by no means impos.
in the end 1T Is by no means impossible
that he has acted upon that plan from
the beginninR), repHblic may still be- the up
shot. But II Castelars Views are TO be realized,
in spite of Prlm and the army, there must be
either conflict In which the army may be
overpowered, or a combination by which the
army may be won over or neutralized. so long
as the army exists in Spain the mastery OF the
situation lies with It; 1t lies usua. ly with Its
leaders. NO doubt republicanism has of late
advanced with great strides. Monarchy Is still
longer at 8 loss for republicans. They number
Thousands here in Madrid, hundreds of
thousands in the northeastern and south.
western provinces. Every hour that Is lost
swells their numbers enlists in their be-
half the peoples sympathies. associates with
tions, a multitude OF personal interests. Re-
publican utopianism finds ready ally In that
self, whose only principle is success, yet which
by mere weight carries success with It, Every
day the Provisional Government has less to
give; every day the applications for Its gifts
increase; every day adds to the disappointed
fo the discontinued list. Every day, for aught
we know may bring on the conflict; but there
is little doubt as to its result, 80 long as the
army maintpln lns Its compact attitude, ooedient
10 one will, devoted to one man. Prim seems
to me penetrated with the importance
Of this fact; he seems all engrossed with his own
branch Of the administration; he seems bent on
no other object than TO make the army his own
Prim's silent but assiduous work should not be
overlooked. 1t Is by Its light that one shosld
read Senior Castelars effusion; by Its light
that we should endeavor to come to an
estimate of the issue OF any possible con-
flict. There is one point in which no innovation
whatever has been effected in Spain. Spain has
still her army. She is still-she 1s more than
eyer-at the mercy OF that army. That army
may harbor no sinister designs. 1t may wish
for no conflicts; 1t may long for hearty and
thorough differentiation. Its leader may medi-
tate no encroacbment on popular liberties. He
may, on the contrary, aspire to their fullest de-
velapmeDt and consolidation. Still that army
and its leader must be taken into account in
every movement Should the movement lead
to a collision, no one can answer for the con.
sequences. 1t il not a republic that Is to be
feared; it is that three days anarchy which is
sure to lead to no one knows how long period
OF military d1ctRtOrship.