The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1873-07-26
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The Spanish Republic.

Beset by foes on every hand, with discord
in the cabinet, violent dissention in the
Cortes, and lawlessness throughout the I'M
happy country, it will be a miracle if the at
tempt to establish Republic in Spain re-
suits in anything but failure. Were the
protested friends of Republicanism united 1t
would be quite otherwise, as determined
and patriotic people are seldom conquered.
But the most formidable opposition that the
constituted authority meets, comes from the
communists and irreconciables who have
committed numberless acts Of violence. The
people are weary of plumber and violence
and are ready to bear allegiance to any re
gime that will afford peace and security. For
weeks, those who have watched the progress
Of affairs have seen matters go from bad to
worse. Dscord among the leaders has in
fused lack of discipline unto the army until
to-day it is but an armed rabble. Ministry
. has succeeded ministry in such rapid success
sion that the policy of one set has been hard
ly announced before another displaces it. In
short, the Cortes is only selected mob
which has had several divisions until at
length the minority has seeded and gone to
another town to multiply the confusion, only
setting up an independent government.
While those vino should have been the
friends of the Republic, have wasted their
energies in discord and demonstrated to the
people that they are unable to secure peace,
the Carlists, from few Insignificant edatory
bands have increased until they now have
formidable armies of well disciplined troops
which are now elated by frequent successes
over demoralized and mutinous army.
Forgetful of its last sins and the $15.500,-
600 it is now paying our government as
penalty, large sums of money have been rails
ed in England to aid the Bourbon cause in
Spain, and its agents have sold the bonds of
the Carlists as freely as ever the confederates
sold theirs in Great Britain in 1868. From
the same source, arms and munitions have
been supplied in abundance. All over
Europe the adherents of the Bourbon dynas-
ty are giving Don Carlos all the aid within
their power The Romish church has from
the first been the bitter foe of the Republic
and takes sides with the Carlists, hoping in
their success to re-establish its former power
in Spain.
France, too, is apparently drifting in the
same direction. President MacMahon is
ready to give his power in the hands of a
king or emperor whenever the Assembly
may decree. it. That it, is not done to-day
and one OF the old dynasties re-established, is
simply because the friends of the several as
pirants cannot agree among themselves as to
whom it shall be. Indeed, the present min
istfy issaid to be in favor of recognizing the
Carlist government in Spain, and is only de-
tered through a wholesome fear Of the
consequences that might follow from the act
at home.
FAIRFIELD COUNTY. Ohio has a case of the
too prevalent error of honest men using other
peoples money! as Judge McCue so charita-
bly, puts it, Ii is the Office of county treasur-
er and auditor and has been running since
1867 when honest Jacob Baker, horny hand
ed and iiterate farmer, was elected treasurer
and his promising son did the business in con-
nection with deputy auditor Towson an
officer of thirty-ive years standing. Since
1861 the usual commission appointed by the
court have made formal report that everything
was right except in 1871 when one of the
board, young republican lawyer point
ed out certain Irregularities, but he
was young and the treasurer and auditor
were venerable and above reproach,
so that his declaration was but the gossip of
a day. 1t now turns out that by various
manipulations between the auditor Towson
and the Treasurer's son, the county has lost
100000, which causes great stir. Lest
any of our contemporaries should attempt to
label this Fairfield County theft as radical
fraud, we will add, that according to the World
Almanac for 1873, the vote last November was
as follows: Greeley, 3,Sss; Grant, $40.