The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-10-05

/ cember u in order to keep absolute
power in the hands of the cabinet ami
/ tide over troublesome period. but
| more particularly because the govern
| ment realized that its majority was too
! small to withstand an attack from the
| coalition forces.
| President-elect Fonzeca of Brazil
received great ovation when he ar
| rived at Lisbon. A regiment of in
| fantry escorted him to Belem pail
ace. from the balcony of which he
| addressed a large crowd, felicitating
! the Portuguese people as the source
! from which sprung my fatherland and
the Brazilian nation" The crowd
cried, Long live the republic of
| Brazil"
| Last Sunday King Manuel official
/ " visited Senior Fonzeca on the Bra
lillian battleship San Paulo. Accord
/ ing to advices received at the Bra
lillian legation here today. King Man
| uel has now taken refuge on this Bra
lillian warship. The whole liberal
press, including the republican ele-
| ment. applauded the government ac-
tion in expel1ing the friars and con-
fscating the converts and monasteries
and other valuable property.
He Warned the King.
DIR. Jose De Alpoim, the leader of
minister of justice and worship, who
told the king that if he forced re-
forms, both political and financial, on
/ the same lines as had Premier Can
! alejas of Spain, the monarchy was
doomed and a republic assured, de-
| clares that his majesty answered he
would do his best to rule the country
| in a liberal spirit DR.. Alpoim add
ed: THE king is wise and of h"-
| name disposition, but is badly advised
| by the clerical clique at the palace"
| The government has been aware
-+n Of a I \ IL
ton and bombs were kept in Lisbon
! and the other chief towns of the coun-
| try, but all efforts to discover the
| hiding places We're fruitless.
| The greater part of the army and
navy was avowedIy republican and
| tary cabinet was formed they would
| join the ranks of the republicans.
| Notwithstanding the liberal govern
ments promises of reforms and the
recent decree of amnesty toward the
press offenders, as well as the efforts
to settle the clerical problems. the
Republicans claimed the progressists'
cabinet really was reactionary and al
lied with the court party, which. in
turn, it was insisted, was dominated
by clerical influences. The kings Gre
alton of additional peers was regard
ed as reactionary move. Alfonso
| Costa, the republican deputy. who,
| with Bernardino Machado. the re-
publican leader. was paving the way
for a revolution. recently declared.
I'VE will kill the least number of
| persons possible. but at the psyche
logical moment, a republic quickly and
| effectively will be proclaimed Six
republican soldiers will guard the
king against violence and all the
ministers will be imprisoned.''
/ Washington Expected 1t.
I Washington. Oct. 5-The revoIu-
/ tionary outbreak in Portugal has been
expected by state department officials
| as such an occurrence was indicated
| by reports of the American diplomatic
representative at Lisbon. who has kept
in touch with the situation. Discon-
tent was in evidence everywhere and
rumors of plots were thick through
| out the country.
Four months ago the arrest of an
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