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Show I FEELING IN CAPITAL j IS ONE OF RELIEF i i Special Cable to The Tribune. I MADRID, Aug, G. A decidedly cas-f cas-f ier feeling prevails in official circles ji today boc.iu.so of tho announcement j that" the proposed Catholic demonstra-J demonstra-J tiou has been abandoned. Tho authori-j authori-j ties had taken ample precautions to J preserve the peaco. .Fully 25,000 troops 1 would have .been in reach of San Sc-3 Sc-3 bastian and available if needed. Genii Gen-ii oral WeyJer. in command, said formaly before his departure for San Sebastian j that the govcrumeid could take care of any disorder, and he meant it. Premier CanalejaB is fully aware of the plans and hopes of tho Carlists. 3 Every known Carlist leader throughout 4 Spain is under close surveillance and a close watch is kept on the movements 3 of the pretender and it will be impos-I impos-I sible for him to enter Spnin without i being apprehended. Militarj' steps have been taken which, it is confidently a Relieved, will enablo the government tr cope promptly and effectively witli any attempt at an uprising, an overwhelm-; overwhelm-; ing majorit- of Spaniards arc Alfonsists in sympathy and refuso to identify Alfonso. XIII. with the present im-; im-; brogho. ; Not Taken Seriously. Don Jaime, the pretender, is not regarded re-garded as formidable personally from nny point of view. Tho late pretender was an able and resourceful man, who commanded the respect 'of his Jieuten-, Jieuten-, .ants and was able to inspire popular enthusiasm. 1 The son has never been taken seri- ously. His advisers in tho Carlist or- ganizat'.ion aro not politicians who rank with those upon whom Don Carlos rc- lied. I Tho republican leaders in Madrid ! laughed at the pronouncement of Don Jaime. Their presB is brutally candid 3 in ridicule of his qualifications for I sovereignty. One journal asscrt the i "lad Alfonso is far better fitted to I wear the crown than tho 'preposterous Carlist.' " Another says that "if any , form of monarchy is to survive in tho fi peninsula it must not .bo of the Carlist I species." |