The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-03-01
Secret Society of Portugal RESPONSE
BILE for Recent Revolution,
Threatens Old Regime
sympathizers.
HAVE ISSUED WARNINGS
Society Makes Threats Which Result
In Many People Making Sud-
den Flights From the
Country.

BADAJOZ, March 1.-The recent
sudden fight from Portugal OF large
numbers OF sympathizers with the old
regime is beginning to be explained.
The monarchists are leaving the coun-
try under threat of assassination by
the Carbonario-the secret society
which was directly responsible for
engineering the revolutions.
The heads Of the present govern
ment are not members of the organ
ization. The Carbonate consists
mainly of the bourgeois class and
OF soldiers and sailors, either of the
ranks or the bearers of the 'ower
grade of commissions. After the rev.
olution has been put through the
secret society recognized the neces-
sity of giving the high governmental
offices to men of higher standing than
any of them possessed.
Men like President Bragg. Foreign
Minister Machado, Minister of Public
! Works Gomez and Minister of the
Interior Almeida were accordingly
| placed In charge. The chief difficulty
! that these men have had to encounter
has been that they are entirely de-
pendent upon the good will of the
/ Carbonate to retain office. And the
society being exceedingly radical and
4 irresponsible in its composition the
greatest trouble has been experienced
by the ministry In maintaining order
sand establishing civilized govern
s,f,, ,<,i,
porters.
Visits to any of the ministries have
clearly shown the remarkable char.
acter of the situation, the ministerial
ante-chambers swarming with leading
members of the secret society-most
of them uneducated and often unin
4 telligent men-whose advice and crit
icisms the ministers have not dared
to disregard and to whom they have
been forced to We audience to the
exclusion of callers with legitimate
business to tr nsact, even including
the diplomatic representatives Of for
eign powers with which 1t is of the
utmost Importance to Portugal te
maintain good relations.
One respect in which the provisional
government has given especial um
. bragg to4the Carbonate has been II
its retention in office-for the sake o
their experience-of a number Of min
or officials of the days of the mon
archy and in refusing to exile forme
monarchists who have, since the rev
olution, refrained from interfering il
9 politics and seemed disposed quietl
:. to accept the new regime.
!, Finding the administration deaf t
), it's demands along these lines tn
y Carbonario finally took matters int
a it's own hands and served notice o
the Objectionable individuals tina
they must leave the country or the
; would be killed. Most of them accep
II ed the former alternative. Anon
those who remained a series of a.
sassinations may be expected at an
time. The government is not stron
enough to oppose more than pa
r. sive resistance to the society, s
there is no prospect that such assa
sinations will be punished and it
y likely that the administration Will
driven to a general confiscation {
the fugitives property very soon TT
places of the officials who have bee
! forced to flee are being filled wit
members of the Carbonate, wholly i
- = experienced in their work, and /
- extricable confusion is certain to r
- - suit in all departments.