Show CHOWN OF KINE IS THE STAKE present political crisis in portugal may result in a republican form of government will demand abdication of king car los lo 10 on the ground that he Is morally incapable of governing the portuguese lisbon the result ot of the present political crisis here may not only de tern termine itne whether a new and better order of public administration Is IB to prevail in portugal but remote as such a change appears to the ordinary observer whether the whole monarchial regime shall not give way to a republican form of government the republicans republic public ans small as is the influence they exercise at present under the restricted stricter ed suffrage which the people enjoy belleme that franco by exposing the practices of the monarchist parties has administered a blow to the prestige ot of the king and the monarchy from which it can never recover and I 1 made a republic a near possibility certainly franco by his revelations has hag placed powerful weapons in the hands of the republican leaders w which I 1 aich they intend to use to the best beat advantage to conjure with they have francos own avowal that the country tor for years has been the football of the monarchist parties with the sole object of distributing graft to their clients the scandal of the advances made surreptitiously from the public treasury to the royal family the arbitrary manner in which these advances have been liquidated by decree and lastly the alleged repression of the dictatorship their plan Is to push the issue as soon as aa the restoration of legality permits them to open a campaign in the newspapers and later when the cortes again assembles to play their trump card this will be nothing less than a motion to impeach franco for his action in liquidating the kings debts to the treasury and as a logical corollary thereof to demand the abdication ol of king carlos for abetting this crime under it a clause ot of the portuguese constitution which compels the abdication of the monarch when he Is adjudged morally incapable of governing |