Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-10-05
KING MANUEL EITHER A PRiS-
oNER OR REFUGEE AND REB.
ELS CONTROL.
REPUBLIC TO BE DEcLARED;
TROOPS WITH REvoLuTIoNisTs
Youthful King Given Notice to Quit
Recent Assassination of Republican
Leader Direct Cause of Outbreak =
Foreign Warships Being Rushed to
Scene of Trouble.

| London, Oct. S, 8:22 p. m.-The
| foreign offoce has telegram from
! the British minister at Lisbon de-
| ciaring a republic has been pro-
| claimed.
! Paris Oct. 5.-Reports concerning
| King Manuel, Of Portugal, conflict. One
| says he is a prisoner in the palace, an
! other that he is a refugee on an Eng
| lish warship, and a third that he is
| aboard a Brazilian battleship, carrying
President-Elect F'onseca, of Brazil. The
! Brazilian president must have witness
| ed scenes similar to those of 1899 in
! Brazil, when the Portuguese empire of
| that country was overthrown, the i'm
perial family forced to leave Brazil and
provisional government under Fon-
SEGA, father of the president elect, was
| established. FOnSeca received a great
ovation when he arrived at Lisbon a
regiment of infantry escorted him to
Belem palace. from the balcony of
which he addressed great crowd, fell
citating the Portuguese people as the
source from which sprung my father
| land and the Brazilian nation. The
| crowd cried Long live the republic of
| Brazil" Sunday last Manuel official
ly visited Fonseca on the Brazilian
| battleship Sac Paulo.
Assassination Causes Revolt.
1t is believed the immediate cause Of
| the revolution in Portugal was the as
| sassination in the capital of Professor
Rombarda, republican deputy and chief
| of the liberal league, by lieutenant of
| the army. So intense was the feeling
against the throne that this incident
| comparatively trivial in itself. was suf-
| flcient to start the outbreak.
| Details of the outbreak are meager
| as the. revolutionists have cut off all
| communication with the capital and
| strict censorship has been established
Army and Navy in Revolt.
1 1t is known the army and navy are
with the revolutionists. who aim to de-
pose the boy king and establish re-
public. The outbreak started yester-
| day in Lisbon.
| The plans of the revolu.ionsts had
been laid so carefully that the govern
ment was taken by surprise, altho it
had been known the country was in a
state Of extreme unrest
King Given Notico to QUIT
| 1--WE have given King Manuel notice
! to quit. The coming revolution will he
| a kindly affair. We shall kill the least
| possible number Of persons"
In these words DR.. Alfonso Costa. the
| most advanced of the Portuguese re-
publican leaders. warned the world of
| the intentions of the revolutionary
! party Immediately after the general
o1a of
Part at least of his predictions seem
T! to be verified in the brief undetailed
dispatches to hand this morning. Ever
since the tragedy which suddenly re-
! moved King Carlos and his eldest son
the political atmosphere of Portugal
| has been one of interest.
Royal Tragedy is Recalled
King Manuel will not be 21-"of age" :"
as it is termed in America-until next
| month. Already he has been on the
throne for two years, having been
crowned in February. 1908. just after
his father, King Carlos. and his elder
brother were assa ssinated.
Both King Carlos and the crown
prince. Louis Philippe. were shot by
two assassns while the royal family
were driving in the afternoon of Feb.
I, 1908, in the Rua do Arsenal, oppo-
site the town square of Lisbon and di-
| rectly at the side of the Hotel de Vile.
The assassins were caught and put
to death, and as an evidence of the
popular spirit prevailing in Lisbon and
the country the tombs of the two as
sassins have been in the months fol-
lowing the bourne of constant popular
pilgrimages and the scene of numerous
public demonstrations against the
crown. King Manuel and his mother
are obliged to submit to all this In
fact, they have been virtually prison
ers in the shabby and appropriately
named palace of the Necessidades."
Republican Cause Growing.
The republican movement which
found inspiration in the assassination
Phillip on Feb. 1, 1908, has grown in
strength steadily and the elections of
last August added materially to the re-
publican membership in the chamber.
where the republican quota has trebled
during the last three years. In dis
tricts where the republicans failed of
carrying the elections, their vote show
ed a marked increase. When the new
cortes assembled the government saw
danger of the liberal cabinet being
overthrown, and on Sept. 26 parliament
was adjourned until Dec. IL, in order
to keep absolute power in the hands of
the cabinet and tide over the trouble
some period, but more particularly be-
cause the government realized that its
majority was too small to Withstand
attack from the coalition forces.
The whole liberal press, including the
| liberal element, applauded the govern
ment's action in expelling friars and
-,,l k1y-ia 90
and other valuable properties.
King Had Warning.
DIR. Alpoim, leader of the dissident
progressists. and former minister of
justice and worship, who told the king
that IL he enforced reforms, both po-