The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1893-12-22
BRAZIL'S AFFAIRS.
The Associated Press Correspondent
Thinks the Monarchy Cry Almost
Wholly Political.
General Opinion In Brazil That the
United States Would Not Allows
Monarchy.
Germany Gives Notice to Mello That
There Must BE No Blockade ut
Rio Janeiro.

NEW YORK, Dec. 22.-The Associated
Press correspondent ON board the Nicthe-
roy, ut Pernambuco, sends the follow
ing:
We are unable here to obtain any
direct and accurate news from Rio de
Janeiro, as rumor has it that President
Peixoto maintains a strict censorship
over the news which leaks out from the
capital.
1t is generally admitted, however, that
the government has suffered one or
more reverses recently in and about the
harbor of Rio de Janeiro, and there
seems no doubt that the insurgents are
more and more confident of success.
President Peixoto is said to be utiliz-
ing the cry of a desire to restore the
monarchy as an effective weapon against
the insurgents, in spite of Admiral
de Mello's emphatic announcement that
he is a republican, and that he has no
other desire than the maintenance of the
republic on a constitutional. basis, and
the overthrow of the alleged dictatorship
of Peixoto.
No One Believes It.
Nobody here who is well informed
enough to pronounce an opinion on the
subject believes that the restoration OF q
monarchy is contemplated, much less
possible, and 1t may safely be said that
there 10 very much more Of campaign
tactics than of truth in the monarchy
cry raised against the insurgents. Presi-
dent Peixoto, Of course, is DESTROYS of
the sympathy and support OF all those
opposed TO q monarchy, and he Ia max
ing the best of this feature OF the re-
bellion, and nobody blames him for
doing it. But the fact remains that
while certain of the insurgent leaders
may be in sympathy with the old
regime, Admiral de Mello and the bulk
of the insurgent force are strongly re-
publican, and they claim that il is on
this basis that they are fighting in oppo-
sition to the alleged dictatorship OF
President Peixoto.
We hear that the government forces
recently tried to capture the island OF
G~ovelnador, in the bay of Rio, and that
President Peixoto's troops, headed by
General Telles, were led into a prettily
baited trap and that after losing a num-
Der of men they were surrounded and
are reported to have surrendered. This
report cannot>be verified here, but there
seems no reason to doubt that it is, in
the main, correct.
United States Wouldn't Have 1T.
The reports circulated to the effect
that the officers of the foreign fleets are
in sympathy with the insurgents posi-
bly, originates i'm the fact that naval of.
ficers, all the world over, have consid.
cradle sailor like sympathy for each
other and there is no doubt that the Bra.
zilians, while in New York, made many
friends, but everybody admits at Rio dc
Janeiro and elsewhere that the United
States government would not permit
restoration by force of army of the mon,
archy, and the opinion of the United
States in this matter is looked upon al
paramount, and as effectually settling
any rumors which may be circulated by
monarchists or others regarding an at
tempt to restore q monarchy. Ths
United States is looked upon as beins
the great deciding power in all thing,
American, whether in North Americs
or in South America, and this fact il
generally admitted by the representative.
OF all the foreign powers.