Show THE WAR IN CHILE ENDED THOUGH the tati patches from chile relating to the revolution in that coun try are somewhat conflicting yet it to i almost universally accepted that ba balmaceda A is defeated and the cong siona lists triumphant that nate country has been torn asunder for the past seven months by a fearful slid and desperate civil war on both sides the conflict was characterized by acenet of 49 t ruthless and savage ferocity balmaceda was elected to the 4 dency just five years ago he was vath i candidate candida te of the liberals as opposed to 96 1 the conservatives or the 1 party the latter was composed of th aft prelates pr elates of the church and of taft wealthy families of the country por or years it controlled oled the political affairs chile and ruled with a rod of irm balmaceda Balmac eds was wag one of the first to iff I veigh against its abuses and he did ao fearlessly vehemently and effective effect lve he succeeded in welding together th t dissatisfied and discontented elemen clementt tt of the nation A party was thus thoa r formed and balmaceda elected Pr flat dent shortly after his election the patty fell back into its original faction ims and the president found himself op posed by his former supporters th TB quarrel then commenced between we VOM executive and Con congress grem the latter havdal went so far as to declare the preely pr dentinal chair vacant though it ha oot even the power of impeachment this irtle shows that much of the trouble dija h be attributed to the defectiveness defective nees of the chilean constitution it appears that Balmac balmaceda eds was ou supported p ported by england and that she is lively to have another alabama 1 controversy on her hands bands but what is rather strange about 0 this N matter is minister egans conduct it is if stated that he supported and thus endorsed his old demy england that balmaceda developed into a dictator is more or less believed by the people of this country but of the situa E wn which led up to his bis final rupture fth C congress congre it is to is very difficult to arm a settled opinion the political status of these south american coun 1 ww thes is not very well understood even if intelligent residents res identa |