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Show REPUBUCANSiVIN PORTUGUESE ELECTION LISBON'. May J Perfect order prevailed pre-vailed Sunday at tne election (or the eonatltuent aaeeatbly, which wr held throughout the country. In thirty out of fifty-one eonatltuencle th eeata war dlrpulod by cajMlldatea of the directory of th Republican, the Independent Republican Repub-lican and th Social lat partla. In the other eonatltuencle th regular Republican Repub-lican were unoppoaed. Th Monarchlat abetalned (ram putting put-ting forward candidatea. declaring that the election preeented no guaranteea of liberty or alncerlty. Inatead, they circulated circu-lated all aorta of rumor of a counter revolution, rev-olution, an armed Invulon by way of th Gallclan frontier, and almllar attampu agalnat the government. I Th authorities look extraordinary precautions pre-cautions not only to preserve order, but to anticipate any revolutionary movement. move-ment. Almost th entire fleet waa eon cent rated In the north, but thus far th Intervention of armed forces haa not been necessary In any part of th republic. The polling was heavy and th first results Indicate that a majority of th 231 deputlea will be reg-ular Republican a A few Independent Republicans and Socialists So-cialists are likely to b elected, but the opinion Is that while th fovernment may have to meet certain divergencies of opinion opin-ion In th assembly, ther will b notnlns' like systematic oppoeltlon. In Lisbon police patrolled th streets all night, but ther were no disturbances. At Oporto an waa peaceful, the Republicans Repub-licans keeping cloa watch on th Social lats. The balloting continued throughout Sunday and will continue today. The regulars carried th day easily In this 1 city. One woman. Dr. Beatrix Angelo, recorded hr vole amid thunder of applause. ap-plause. It la announced tke discussion of th constituent assembly still be confined first to a law defining th political power of the republic; second, to organic laws rets re-ts tins; to each of thee powers. Including an e let core I law; third, to acta of dictatorship dic-tatorship on th part of th provisional government, and fourth, to th budget Several civil govern, rs have made replies re-plies to the government, urs-lng the ne oe salty of modification of the separation law, and It la understood a special bill will be Introduced In th aasembly dealing deal-ing with the subject. |