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Show PRESIDENT OF NEW REPUBLIC Senor Theophlle Braga, Who Wai Chosen to Hold the Reins of Portugal's Government. Lisbon. Chief among those who de throned King Manuel of Portugal and sent him a fugitive to the friendly asylum of other shores Is Senor The) ophile Braga, first president of thd Portugese republic. Senor Braga has been styled thd Victor Hugo of Portugal. He Is th son of a Lisbon doctor and was borij in the Azores in 1843. His connection with republicanism began In 1870, bu he did not become active in politic until quite recently. ' Early In th present year he was elected a deputy, for Lisbon and at once, owing to hi4 ability as a speaker, his great fund hi'' 'x"Z'tH 6enor Theophlle Braga. of Information, his standing as an educator and his power of leadership,! took a prominent part among the re-! publicans, who were seeking the re-f generation of their country. Senor Braga Is a poet and a philosopher.' For years he wai professor of literature at the High Literary College in Lisbon Lis-bon and Is an author of note. In all he has published ISO volumes and was the last man one would suspect of becoming be-coming Involved In a revolution. It is too early yet to predicate as to his future, but one would expect the re-' public to be safe in his hands. |