Show CROWN Of KING W W B B B B VB CULM CARLOS AI SHE SIAK Republicans of Portugal Busy Planning Overthrow of the House Hous of Braganza MARTIAL LAW AT PRESENT DICTATOR USING POWER TO FULL EXTENT I Lisbon Dec Dc 22 The rosult of the pres present present ent political crisis here may not only de determine determine termine whether a new and antl an better order of public administration Is il 1 to prevail in but remote rem te as a change appears to the ordinary observer whether er I the whole monarchical regime shall hali not ghe give way wa to republican a 1 form torm of Jf government The Republicans s small as asIs a at Is t the Influence they C at present under the restricted suffrage which the people enjoy enjo believe that Franco by b ex exposing posing poIng the practices of the monarchist as administered a blow low to the prestige pre Uga of ot r the th king and the monarchy from which IU It I can never neer recover and made a a near possibility p Plans of Republicans Certainly Franco Franca by his revelations has hat placed powerful weapons in the hands of the Republican leaders which they In Intend intend intend tend to use to the best advantage TX conjure with they have Francos own avowal that the country countr for tor years has lias been the football toot ball of ot the monarchist par parties parties parties ties with the sole object of distributing graft to their clients the scandal of the advances made surreptitiously from froni the public treasury to the royal family the arbitrary manner in which these ad advances advances vances have been b n liquidated by de decree detree tree cree and lastly the alleged allege repression of the th tb dictatorship Their plan is to push the issue as soon as the restora restoration restoration tion lion of legality permits them to open a campaign in the newspapers and later when camf the e cortes cartes again assembles to play pIa their trump rump trump card cardWill cardWill cardWill Will Demand Abdication This will be nothing else than tha a to impeach Franco for tor his action in liquidating the kings debts to the treasury and as a logical corollary there thereof thereof thereof of to demand the abdication of King Carlos for abetting this crime under undera a clause of at the Portuguese constitution which compels the abdication of ot the mon monarch monarch monarch arch when he la is adjudged morally amorally in incapable Incapable capable of governing The opinion of conservative foreigners who nho have resided long In the country Is that outside of the capital and Oporto the masses masseS will remain absolutely indifferent ferent terent to the mutations of politics until untila a system of at general education awakens their consciences to a demand for broad broader er political rights Dictator Powerful The ate Franco the dictator who s a monarchist proC es to be tn a l reg it country will be well worth watching Franco is aman a man of at 55 5 and practically his whole life has been spent in politics Regenerator and by turn he headed h ded a split from U each of the old parties and previous to tois his is present accession to power was a member of two cabinets When he began his present war against the old parties partie as the leader of at what he called caned a next ne Liberal party he made mad public proclamation of his confession and repentance for tor his political past His Bis charges against the old parties panics and assumption of the dictatorship turned the hands of the politicians of every shade of ot opinion against him Feared and Hated The old parties fear and hate him the Republicans joining In the demonstration because he has arbitrarily stopped their agitation The only thing his hie enemies do donot donot donot not reproach him with Is a desire to line P his own pockets His wealth exclude suel a motive and as this motive seems to have been en the end and aim of things political in Portugal for tor years Its ab absence absence absence sence to the politicians Is the most mys mystifying mystifying feature of the dictatorship Bankers and business men regard the situation from tron a standpoint as 4 being Et from a po political polItical point l W Since the bank bankruptcy of when ben the foreign t debt was waa scaled one nt there have been a constant succession of r accompanied accompanIed panted the bankers say by a tI most de deplorable deplorable deplorable system of finance |