Los Angeles herald., 1908-02-09
DA WN OF
REPUBLIC
IS NEAR
BODIES OF KING AND PRINCE
BURIED
MAGNIFICENT coRTEGE FILLS
LIsBoN's STREETS
Funeral Services for Late Ruler Are
lmpresslve-Nelther Manuel
Nor Queen Appears In
H.. Procession

7 ISBON, Feb. 8, via Bajados,
IL Spain. = The republican
IA leaders today are in ex-
tremely high spirits. They assert
confidently that republic is now
a matter of months, not of years.
The correspondent today Sc
cured an opinion on the situation
and outline of the republican plan
of campaign from perhaps the
most competent spokesman of the
party.
This man said: "The end of
the monarchy is near. 1t will
come as unexpectedly as did the
murder of the king and crown
prince and the world will wake
up one morning to find republic
in Portugal.
"We are convicned that the
revolution will be a peaceful one.
1t is mistake for foreigners to
imagine that the people of Portu-
gal are not awake. There is a
republican organization in every
town, and doctors, lawyers and
even the village priests are send
ing in notices of their adherence
by the score and there are avowed
republicans in the army"
From the day on which the
king and crown prince of Portu-
gal were assassinated until the
present, strict censorship exer-
cised by monarchial officials in
Lisbon prevented the true facts
regarding the condition of the ma
ton from being telegraphed by
correspondents. Yesterday the
correspondents, by fling their dis
patches in Spain, evaded the CEN
sorship and the following remark
able story is the result;
"King Manuel is well intentioned
boy He starts his regime with ialr
words and the restoration of political
liberty, but it is inevitable that he
should fall into the hands of the man
ipulators of the two old parties whose
bankruptcy was proclaimed by King
Carlos and Premier Franco.
End Is Near
"rrhe men about the throne know that
the end is near, and when the tlIne
COMES that they realize that they can.
not fight, they will surrender' as uiu
Dom Pedro In Brazil. | don't tn1nk
shot will be fred King Carlos knew
he was making his last fight. He had
transferred every dollar he had TO Eng
i land.
omen issue in the coming campaign.
We will demand that the monarchy
which has dragged down Portugal INTO
the mire of political ana nhanGlai prtiA srii,,
ruptcy abdicate to the people. Iney
dare not tr repression again; they
can only surrender"
While the troops since last Tuesoay
have remained in their barracks during
the day time, Lisbon at night sun re-
sembles an armed camp. cavalry Is
massed in the public squares, pickets
natrol the streets, and heavily armed
Soldiers guard the state bank night ana
day. ,,n nLA
THE financial situation is viewed with
great alarm The country is stagger-
! ing under its foreign debt, ana COM
merce is almost paralyzed by the Iuc-
| tuations of the gold premium. Con-
servativa bankers consider the financial
situation to be more critical than the
The outside world, in spite of the
studied censorship, which has defeated
it's own object, should not imagine that
| the throne of Portugal Is tottering to-
ward revolution and that a republic is
imminent. The general situation IS
grave rather than alarming.
Political conditions, already chaotic
before the murder of the king and
crown prince, became utterly demoral-
| izad after the commission of these
crimes. Then CONSERVATION and panic
nrevailed anon: the police and at
| court, and the release of Frances
strong hand from the helm left the ship
of state adrift.
| But with the new cabinet pledged to
! constitutional methods and the abol-
| tion of the dictatorship and existing
measures of repression, the situation
! improved.
King Manuel openly acknowledged
the irregularity of the money advances
to the royal family under his fathers
reign, which were the original cause or
the political turmoil, and he publicly
ordered the discontinuance of this prac-
| tice.
n Is hard to forecast the future. II
things drift back to the old rut OF gov
ernment corruption whence King Car
los and Premier Franco rescued the
monarchy republic might come.
The republicans are the natural M
heritors of the mistakes of the mon
archy, but the masses are groaning un-.
der their personal burdens. They are
either ignorant or Indifferent to the po~
litical turmoil Something Is necessary
to galvanize them into action. and this
is exactly what the small but evident
ly desperate, organization Of militant
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