The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-04-05
MADAME oRIsPI.
The Wife of the Late Premier n
Trouble Breeder of the Worst
Kind.

Whatever the fate of the present Ru-
DIM ministry in Italy it is in the last
degree improbable that Sig Crispi will
ever be permitted to return to Office as
prime minister For besides being the
bette noir of Queen Marguerite he has
incurred the very bitter enmity of the
heir-apparent, which has never been
more strikingly shown than in con-
nection with the circumstances that led
to the downfall of his cabinet
The prince of Naples of late has de-
veloped a very strong character, in
glazing contrast with his diminutive
stature, which is under five feet, and
has done some very plain speaking, ex-
pressing his views about Crispi's res
possibility for the Abyssinian disasters
in the most unVarniShed terms.
Indeed, if rumors current in court
circles at Rome are to be believed, the
dismissal of Crispi at the moment when
he was endeavoring to form new cab
met, after convincing the king that the
blame belonged entirely to his collea-
cues, is due to the prince of Naples
eXpoStulationS with his father
King Humbert has never liked Crispi
personally, but being himself too hon
est and upright either to understand
or TO consent to fathom the unclean
mysteries of parliamentary warfare in
Italy, he has been led to believe that
Crispi was the only man sufficiently
adroit to be able to secure legislative
sanction for the measures which the
king had at heart.
In this the present ruler of Italy diff
fers from his father; for Victor EN-
manuel used to enjoy nothing so much
as playing off one parliamentary party
against another, of putting rival states
men against one another for a fight,
and in upSetting at the last moent
POLITICAL intrigue the Matching of which
he had watched with much interest and
amusement
The prince of Naples is passionately
fond of his mother, and reSents exceed
| ingly the fact that she should have
been compelled by political considera-
lions and sorely against her will to re-
celve at court so notorious woman
as the present Nine. Crispi, who fig
ured in the days of her stormy youth
upon the police registers of her native
city in Syracuse
OF course the presence of Nine. Crispi
at court led to the withdrawal there
from of all those great patrician ladies
who had been led by their relationship
to the house of Savoy to become mem
bers of the court of the quirinal. even
at the expense of bringing upon their
heads the displeasure of the vatican.
But Nine. Crispi was more than they
could put I'D with, and when her hus-
| band, while prime minister, had actu-
ally the impudence to dismiss the mil
| lionaire duke of Torlonia from the Of
flee of mavor of Rome solely because
the duchess had deliberately turned her
back upon Nine. Crispi in the salons of
the German embassy, where they hap
pened to meet, the great aristocracy
realized that they could not, with any
respect to themselves, continue to an
pear at court Nine. Crispi, as wife of
knight of the Order of the Annun-
citation, outranked them all, being ad-
mitted in honors to cousinship with the
king and queen.-Marquis de Fontenoy
| in Chicago Record.