Show PORTUGUSE flEPURIICANS SAY THRU IS TOTTERING Leaders Are Jubilant Over Prospect of Downfall of the Monarchy I Financial Crisis an Important Import-ant Factor Lisbon Tho republican loaders In Portugal are In extremely high spirits i spir-its They assert confidently that a republic Is now a matter of month riot of years One of tho republican lenders Is quoted as saying The end of the monarchy Is near It will como as unexpectedly as did the murder of tho king and the crown prince and c the world will wako up one morning Jo find a republic In Portugal We are convinced that the revolution will bo a peaceful one It Is a mistake for foreigners to Imagine that the people of Portugal are not awake There Is a republican organization In every town and doctors lawyers and oven village priests are sending In notices of their adherence by the score and I there are avowed republican officers I n the army t King Manuel Is a wellintentioned boy Ho starts his regime with fair words and the restoration of political liberty but It Is Inevitable that lie should fall Into the hands of the manipulators ma-nipulators of the two old parties Whoso bankruptcy was proclaimed by King Carlos and Premier Franco The men about the throne know that the fend Is near and when the time comes that they realize that they cannot fight they will surrender as did Dom Pedro In Brazil I dont think a shot will bo fired King Carlos knew he was making his last fight He had I transferred every dollar ho had to England The financial situation Is viewed with great alarm The country Is staggering under Its foreign debt and commerce Is almost paralyzed by tho fluctuations In the gold premium Conservative bankers consider thq financial situation to be more critical Ithan the political > < > J |