Arizona republican., 1908-02-09
REPUBLICAN, LEADERS
ForeteII the Early End of the House
 cf Braganza

Lisbon, Feb. S-(Via Bajades. Spain) Republican leaders today are in eX- tremely high spirits. They assert confidently that d republic is now matter ot months, and not years.
 The Associated Press today secured an opinion on the situation and an out line of the republican plan of cam paign from perhaps the most competent spokesman oe the party. This man said: ."The end of the monarchy is near. It will come unexpectedly as did the murder oc the king and crown prince, and the world will wake up one morning to cind a republic in Portugal We are convinced that the revolution will be a peaceful one It is mistake for foreigners to imagine that the pcO- ole are not awake. There is a repub- licaa organization in every town. and doctors. law CTS and even village priests are sending in notices of ad- hercnce b. the score. There are many republicans in the army.
 \ King Manuel is a well mentioned boy. He started his regime with fair words a-d restoration of political liberty. but it is inevitable that he should fall into the hands of the manip- ulators ot the two old parties whose bankruptcy was proclaimed b" King Carlos and Franco. Men about the throne know that the end is near and when the time comes that they realize that they cannot fight. they will sur render as did Dom Pedro in Brazil. l don't think a shot will be fired. Carlos knew he was making his last fight and he transferred every dollar he had to England.
 We win make 8 chHn-e of the re- gime an open issre in the coming campaign. We w.n demand that the monarchy which has dragged down Portugal into the mire of political and financial bankruptcy abdicatc to the people. They dare not try repression again. They can Only surrender"
 PARALYSIS OF PORTUGAL
 While the troops since Tuesday have remained in the barracks in the, day time. Lisbon at night still resembles an armed camp. Cavalry is masscd in the public squares. pickets patrol the streets and heavily armed soldiers guard the state bank night and day. The financial situation is viewed with great alarm. The country is stagger- ing under it's foreign debt Commerce is almost paralyzed by the fluctuations of the gold premium. Conservative bankers consider the financial situa- ton to be more critical than the po- liticaL
 The outside world in spite of the studied censorship. which has uefeated it's own object. knows that the throne of Portugal K tottering toward revo- lution; that a republic is imminent. The general situation is grave rather than alarming. Political conditions are already chaotic. Before the mur- der of the king and crown prince the had become utterly demOralized. After the commission of the crimes cOnster- nation and panic prevailed among the police and at court and released Fran co.'s strorP hand from the helm and left the ship of state adrift But with the ncw cabinet pledged to constitu- tional methods, and the abolition of the dictatorship and the existing meas ures of repression, the situation. is i'm proved. The king openly acknowledges the irregularity of money advances to the royal family under his fathers re- gime. which were the original cause of the political turmoil and publicly ordered a discontinuance of this praC- tiCc.
 THE FUTURE YELLED
 It is hard to forecast the future If things drift back to the Old rut of gov ernnental corrU1tion a republic may come. Republics are the natural in- heritanCe of the mistakes of the mon archy but the masses are grooming under personal burdens They are either ignorant of or indifferent to the political turmoil Something is necessary to galzaniZe them into ac- tion.. This is exactly what the small, but evidently desperate organization of revolutionists in Lisbon and Oporto are trying to do. They want to drive the people to revolt
 The immediate danger in the situa- ton comes from the fact that the po- lice are baffIed and the government is unable to ascertain the extent of the | of the conspiracies
 THE HALF FINISHED PLOT
 There is not the slightest question that the plot was only half completed. [ The murder of the entire royal family l was ese scheme of the conspirator. It 1 is certain that the men had been sta tiOpp6 a Of bar r,pipts Ionc- tb, r,,to