The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-04-07
A POLITICAL CIRCUS.
The Event Predicted in the
Balkan States.
PRINCE FERDINAND, THE USURPER,
He has Ever Been a Sore Finger for Russia
England Becoming Aroused at the
Late Turn of Affairs.

CoNsrAETINoPLE, March Is, 1888
Especial Correspondence of The HERALD
There will yet be political circus in the
Balkan states. The abdication of the King
Of Seryia is what German papers term the
beginning of the neue spiel.
KING MILAN
was he who led the Servians on to the glory
Of their independence, during the Russo
Turkish war, and he has since mixed
number Of patriotic acts with his otherwise
profigate career. He is yet young man,
being but thirty-ive, and for some years
he has been possessed of what most of Eu-
rope term a virtue, in that he has not
played for the good of Russia knowingly.
Emperor Francis Joseph has been he on
whom he fondly leaned for support in the
stearing of his governmental canoe. He
even became so anti-Russian that he could
not endure to live with Queen Nathalie, on
account of her Russian procliVities, and
last year he prevailed on the ecclesiastical
authorities to grant him divorce, on the
ground that the Queen was constantly en-
gagged in some political cabal detrimental
to his interests.
But King Milan is no more. All the
glories of SerVia's realms belong to his dear
son Alexander, when he passes his min
GRITTY; until then, three older denizens of
Servia's soil will draw half Of the young
Kings salary.
This regency is what appears ominous, as
part has an odor not unlike that united
by the Panslavists themselves.
EUROPE LAUGHED
when Russia brought her sons in arms to
the southern frontier, and implied that she
had gotten "too big for her pants" when
no action was taken. But Russia has not
played her cards so badly after all. 1t was
little Illuminating for her TO hold the posi-
ton she did, and then be compelled to 90 to
her opponent for that vital force of modern
governments-gOld. She felt that she had
made an embarrassing move, and saw no
other way out than to go for the poor Turk.
Him she told, because she burst, in good
strong Russian terms, that he must get a
move on; that Prince Ferdinand, the
usurper, mustuaVaUnt, or some such mean
ing; that the Turk must tell him so, and
that Turkeys honor mot Russia's,) should
see that the command was instantly com
piled with.
POOR osMANLIs!
What is Turkeys honor these days! But
the note had to be sent, because Russia said
so; and it was sent. All Europe waited in
suspense; but it proved, as they now say,
brutem fuImen, and Ferdinand still sways
The sceptre.
What was Russia to do, seeing that
Turkeys honor availed her nothing History
shows her good at intrigue, as this old
weapon she resorted to with signal success, |
Her army in the south proved moral
force, not calculated upon by Europe, and
by it she brought her influence to bear with
potency in the petty Balkan states. In
Servia, friends made the life OF King Milan
so troublesome that he could nearly eXclaim, |
in words of Pope:
Vital spark OF heavenly fame!
Quit, on, quit this mortal frame.
He was going to leave the government |
last winter IN all its tolls, to go, for all he |
cared, into eternal serfdom. And it nearly |
grieved him that he had made glorious |
Servia what it is. The papers said he |
wanted to seek rest in travel, as the strain |
occasioned by forming new cabinet every |
other week was too much for his rather |
nervous makeup. Francis Joseph, good |
friend,
CAME TO CO3IFORT HIM,
and pictured to him what a calamity it |
would be to both Austro- Hungary and proud |
Servia, should he thus ruthlessly run away. |
go to- was his advice, form new con- |
stitutiOn whereby you can abdlcate IN favor |
of your son. Glorious counsel! thereby |
King Milan's progeny will be able to enjoy |
the fruits of his valor forever and forever. |
The constitution, by the help Of the grand |
skupschina. was revised, and willy clause |
inserted, whereby King Alexander l., to- |
gether with the regency, now reign su- !
preme over all the realms Of Servia. This |
accomplished, ex-King Milan telegraphed |
his thanks to Emperor Francis Joseph, and |
sank into peaceful rest from the cares of
Servia's throne. And he-is gone.
But there is Prince Ferdinand, of |
Bulgaria; he has evidently come to stay, as
of late he has gotten matrimony on the
brain, a sure sign that young man is about |
to settle down. Ee has ever been
A SORE FINGER FOR RUSSIA;
and to dislodge him, she has labored with |
hearty desire, but not with the success met |
with in Seryia Here her labors have been |
more spiritual than political, and she has |
never ceased to tell her Bulgarian brethren
what a deSecrati0n it was for them to be |
ruled by Catholic of so pure extraction as
Ferdinand. The Bulgarian bishops saw |
it was bad, and in holy synod lately held |
at Sofia, they said it was bad. But that |
was not all; they said it was Just awful |
that the prince had stayed one whole night |
at a nunnery,-a thing which they, as
orthodox, had never done. The prince |
thought his government could whip the |
church, so he entered the crowds Of holy |
fathers, and played sad havoc with the |
strong hand of law. Some as traitors were
thrown in Jail; others were placed under |
big bonds, while the more reticent were |
sent home There ended the holy synod. |
Awful disgrace! Long petitions have been |
sent to their exarch here in COnstantinOple, |
but he is powerlessl tO1aid. Prince Ferdi- |
nand's minister wants
A WRITTEN PUBLIC APOLOGY
from the holy fathers. And SO matters |
stand in Bulgaria.
But it is generally acknowledged that |
Russia Is on top, and England has become |
quite aroused by the late turn of affairs. |
stro-Hungary influence is gone in |
Servia, and she feels stunned in the matter |
Russia she had nearly forgot, and came |
next to an acknowledgment of Prince |
Ferdinand's government, by soliciting an |
agent-not a minister or cOnsul-but a |
simple agent to come and reside at Vienna. |
But now there is a rumor of Russia |
strengthening her forts near the frontier, |
and the eastern question is yet live issue. |
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