 By then, members of the Republican Party had already decided to support direct (and indirect) dissident groups such as the Carbonária (organized by elements of Portuguese Freemasonry) to force regime change.On 28 January 1908, several republican leaders were imprisoned in an affair which became known as the "Golpe do Elevador da Biblioteca" (the Municipal Library Elevator Coup).Police found republican Afonso Costa and Francisco Correia Herédia (viscount of Ribeira Brava), both armed, at the Municipal Library elevator with others who had gathered to attempt a coup d'état.