The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-10-11
But THE Chief DIFFICULTY
Is Lack of Cohesion of The
Republican Leaders in
The Provinces
Catalonia The Richest And
Strongest of the Depart
ments The Chief Center
OF Revolutionary Sentiment--Castil-
ians OF Madrid Inclined TO Peace.
Alfonso a Weak Monarch.
nv Chas. p. stewart staff correspon-


ny Chas y. stewart staff correspon-
dent of the United Press.
The revolutionary propaganda In
Catalonia naturally has to be carried
on with great deal of caution, for
IL Is closely watched by the police.
Meetings are held regularly in BARGE
Iona, however a thorough and most
efficient organization exists, represen-
tatives of the central committee are
constantly at work throughout the
rest of Spain and the strongest ef-
forts are being made TO hold var
ious revolutionary groups into n COM
pact body.
Lack OF cohesion. is. as a matter OF
fact, the great weakness of the re-
Evolutionary movement just now. AL
ejandre Lerroux comes nearer than
any other individual to being its
leader. He Is a plain republican how
ever, the numbers Of his followers do
not think this enough. The Ferreri-
ties are out-and-out Anarchists The
Solidarldad Obrera. are Clerical be-
fore they are Republican.
Disagreement of Leaders.
All these different groups are In
SUNNY idullHE III hllitIflll NllftAl'il1
and Spain Senior Lcrroux has the
hardest kind of work to keep them
together. The Ferrerites even go so
far as 10 say that Republican influ.
ence contributed to Ferrer's execu-
tion last year, because the Republic
cans thought him so advanced q radi-
cal as TO endanger their cause.
Trades Unionists complain at the
high place recently given by LerrouX
IN his party to Don Terabio Sanchez,
n millionaire whom he induced TO join
the movement for the sake of the
financial assistance he could give II
The Separatists accuse the Rcpubli-
cans of defeating all efforts to carry
out the formers plan for Catalonia's
secession from Spain.
= Nevertheless the Republican lead
er is getting steadily nearer to an ef-
fectlxe working agreement of all the
larties and undoubtedly has been new
ut point where they will fight to
gether against the monarchy and tn"
church however much they may SUBJ
scnuently squabble among themselves.
The monarchists are getting all tn
satisfaction they can out of the re-
nection that the revolutionary move
inent is not so strong anywhere
else In Spain as in Catalonia. The
truth Is, however, that under Catalan
management II is growing in all tho
Industrial centers like Bilbao,
Saragossa. Nalladilid. Seville and even
In Madrid. and that, when the out
break comes. Catalonia will get very
effective support from all these places
To say, indeed, tnat the movement
Is unim portant because confined TO
Catalonia would be in itself misleae-
ing Barcelona. with $4,000 popua-
tion 10 Madrid's coo. 900, is the largest
city in Spain. II Is also Immensely
tho richest. The four Catalan pro-
vinces pay more taxes that all the rest
of Spain combined. The people arc
the best educated. and even at that
only two-thlrds of them can real
and write. They are the most en-
terprising and industrious. They are
the most Independent and liberty-loy-
ing. the best soldiers and most abl-
est politicians In King Alfonso's reach
In abort a united Catalan attempt
at separation from the rest OF Spain
would stand n fair chance OF sue.
cess and as n last resort, II the
Republican movement elsewhere
should be defcated, this is undoubt-
edly what will be undertaken.
II King Alfonso sticks to the Cam
aiejas program the fight will be be-
tween q party consisting of Conser-
vatlves. Clericnls and Carllsts under
Don Jaime. n second group of Lib
erals under King Alfonso and a third
including all the radical group under
Alexandra Lerroux.
If the King yields TO the church
he Will have the support of the con-
servatives. the Clericals and some
thing like half of the Liberals--a
limitation of the church's authority,
On the other side will be the radicals
and those of the Liberals who care
less for the monarchy than for free
dom from Clerical domination. With
whom the Carlists would east in their
lot In such a situation nobody stops
to consider. Unless backed by the
church they are not n formidable
element.
The conservatives and clericals
have enormous wealth. Alfonso has
the government organization. The
radicals have almost the whole OF