The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1889-12-12
WAR DEPARTMENT, RIO JANE1Ro.

When that tiresome old organ of the
planters the CruZeiro, died it's anemic death
Senior BOcayuva secured the backing of
the Portuguese millionaire, IOao Jose dos
Refs, and bought up the plant, which he
converted into his present excellent jour
nal, o Paiz. The anti-slavery crusade was
at its height and Bocayuva, who had fought
as frauctireur when dismOunted from his
editorial charger, flung himself into the
contest with surprising energy and skill.
He welded the cry of "No slavery" with
that of mo monarchy" and turned the
national aspirations for Free, Brazil
into an ever growing, demand for a
Brazilian republic Throughout the
length and breadth of the empire his name
stood for freedom and progress, years and
years before Gen. Fonsecas was known,
save by small circle, as that of brave
brigadier. Grave and reticent to degree,
Senior Bocayuva is a man of singularly
courteous and polished manners, whose
small wiry frame and spare intellectual
face have the impress OF untiring energy
and devoted determination.
To test the practical strength of the Re-
publican party land, perhaps, its moral
courage), Bocayuva presented himself as
one of the candidates to parliament from
Rio little while ago. The vote he re-
ceived did not elect him by long way, but
it encouraged him and his coadjutors i'm
mensely.
"The pear is a long way from being ripe
yet, )" he said to me, when congratulated
him on his comparative success, "but the
sun shines hotter and hotter"
He had always faith in the peaceful es-
tablishment of the republic, which
amounted almost to fatalism, and would
never countenance abuse of the emperor or
his family.
"They are entitled to respect" he told
me, one day, but they are no longer
wanted in Brazil"
One of his collaborators on the "Paiz''
described him to me once as "The QuiXote
of the Brazilian press, constantly sacrificing
himself to his ideals;' but he was far more
sagacious than they, and was building bet
ter than they knew. AS all his life's work
was the result of principle conviction and
reflection, so the establishment of the re-
public is the logical result Of his life's la
bors, and he is more entitled to honor and
credit, in that he violated no oaths and be-
trayed no allegiance in giving the final
shove to the rickety throne. Quintino
| Bocayuva steps directly from his editorial
chair into the position of first minister
of-the new republic, and in that very fact
the friends of the new government will see
the greatest evidence of its stability.
The work done by DIR. Araujo and his
"Gazeta da Noticias" has been of very
| different type but still essential to the new
| order of things. Himself chief proprietor
| OF his prosperous and influential journal, a
bonvivant and lover of luxurious ease his
ready pen was ever heard on the side of re.
forni and liberalism. By turns caustic,
| humorous and pathetic. "Joe Scissors. !
as he. often signed himself gradually
created, and then strengthened some
approach toward national con-
science among the wealthy and dilet-
| tante classes of the capital and the prov
inces. Having no hobby of his own to ride,
looked upon as an easy-going good
natured, rich poco-curante, his constant
appeals to the humanity of the better classes
in favor of the slaves, and his keen, well
bred ridieule of the monarchy and all its
works, reached large and weighty client
ellie, which would have considered the
trenchant arguments of .Quintino as vision
ary and the clamorous appeals of Patrocinio
as truculent nihilism. As Portuguese
by birth, DIR. Araujo also reached this
all-powerful element in the commercial
and industrial life of the empire and edu-
Gated them into accepting the transition in
advance as a foregone conclusion. Attach
ing to his editorial staff some of the most
brilliant pens of the younger generation, be