The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-05-30
A PLOT TO GIVE Us A KING.
That's What BOSton's JncObites Fro
pose to DO.

From the New York sun.
Boston, May S.-There are certain per-
sonages in Boston to whom the approach
of the diamond jubilee of Queen Victoria
brings no JOY. They have made no ar
engagements to celebrate it. and look with
scorn upon the programme arranged by
the British-American Society Of this city
They are the Jacobites. admirers and up
holders of the royal house Of Stuart and
couservators of its fame For them, in
common with the Jacobite League and
Order OF the White Rose of England, the
line of Stuart still exists as Il fact in
European politics, and its visible head,
as is well known. is the Princess Mary,
wife of Louis, Prince of Bavaria, son of
Luitpold, Prince Regent of Bavaria. She
Is to-day, in the language of the Boston
people and their fellows in England,
Mary ~ and III, by the grace of God of
England, Scotland, France and Ireland,
queen, defender of the faith, etc.
To the ordinary Bostonian, the fact that
there is in his city cult of this nature
comes somewhat in the nature of sur
prise. TO be sure, services have been
held in several Of the very high churches
of the city, notably that Of St. John the
Evangelist on Jan. 30, to commemorate
the taking off of him whom the Jacobites
have cauonized under the name of ST.
Charles the Martyr. The names Of this
particular saint does not appear in the
list of those recognized by the Establish
ed church, but he exists, just the same,
to the Jacobites and their friends.
There are not many of these historical
waits in Boston Perhaps twelve, all told,
would cover the number but they are in
creasing, and the honorary secretary of
the organization Alfred John Roadway of
RoXbury, says that every day letters from
not alone all parts of New England, but
also the entire United States, are pouring
into his office inquiring about the Jacob
ties and the aims they hope to attain
1t must not be supposed that al the
Boston families interested in the Jacoblte
cause are descended from families who
sacrificed their all for the Stuarts and fled
to escape the minions Of the house Of Han
over. Oh, dear, no! Some of them are
descended, according to their own account,
from Germans, Danes. Hollanders-and
there are several of them who
are somewhat doubtful about just
whom they are descended from
though their elaborate and beau
tifully Illustrated genealogical trees,
usually on exhibition in the most promi-
nent place in the halls of their houses,
would seem to deny this.
Among the more prominent members of
the Boston branch Of the Legitlmist So
ciety are Ralph Adams Cram, Robert Bah
son, William Forsyth, and Alfred John
Roadway, the secretary Mr.. Roadway is
an Englishman by birth, and a descendant
of good Old Gloucestershire family, who
took the side of the king during the civil
war with the parliament. One Of these
gentlemen said to the Sun correspondent:
Il know that the American public in
general take us to be all sorts of cranks,
and lose no opportunity Of making slur-
ring remarks about us, but that doesn [
hurt us any, and amuses them; so let
them &c on; we don't mind st. But I'll
tell you just what we mean when we call
ourselves Jacobites. We all know, and
everybody knows who is at all acquainted
with English history, that the Stuart
family and their descendants are eXcud-
ed from the English throne by the act OF
settlement, passed in 170l by the commons
OF England, but what everybody does not
know is this. that this very act was pass
ed by the bare majority Of one, and then
only after long and bitter struggles be
tween those in secret sympathy with the
fallen house of Stuart and the adherents
of the Hanoveriaus.
''The sympathy with the legitimate and
hereditary sovereigns of England and
Scotland evidenced by the closeness of
this vote found vent i'm the disastrous ris-
ings of 1715 and 17l5. But these are mat
tiers of history. The significant fact OF il
all IS this, that, although more than FOG
years have elapsed since the house OF
Stuart occupied the triple throne, the sen
timents In their favor has never really
died out, and exists to-day, perhaps as
strongly In England, and especially in
Scotland and Ireland, as It ever did, and
even in America, as you see, has il found
support
"But 1t was not altogether in behalf OF
! the Stuarts that we became interested IN
the Jacobite movement. To us this sim
| ply means a return to the principles rep
resented by the Stuarts and on account OF
which they were overthrow, namely, the
| prerogatives of the throne, or, as you
| would call e, the divine right Of kings
/ We uphold the idea that there is such
| a thing as granting too much liberty Ia
! the common people. The commons OF
/ England are to-day the real rulers OF the
countryside throne but a shadow We
! also believe that the time Is coming Vi
! the future when there must of necessity
| be a fixed, visible head in these United
] States-a something or some one In whom
/ the idea of country or the nation can b.
incarnated and idealized, which to-day
| we valnly strive to keep alive under the
! name Of the flag or the Stars and Stripes
IN other words we believe in a consti-
/ tutional monarchy for this country, not SO
/ constitutional, however, az 70 deprive the
1 monarch Of all power OF whatever nature
Society must be made over and renovated
/ There must be fixed grades and classes
| and the line must be drawn somewhere. "
/ The most curious thing regarding the
| man who comes out 50 boldly with these
| amazing sentiments IS the fact that his
family have been for more than five gem
erations citizens Of New England. In fact
/ with the exception OF Mr. Ro1man, the
/ members OF the society IN Boston come
/ from old New England ancestry.
Secretary Rodman was a member OF the
! Jacobite League for many years before
/ coming TO America. and formerly repre-
scented II at Birmingham, England. In
| his possession are letters from Don Carlos
whom the Jacobites regard as the rightful
/ king OF not alone Spain, but also France
| with medal Of membership IN the Carllsi
| order ornamented with the royal colors
| OF the house OF Spain, red and yellow. lie
/ has also a photograph Of the eldest son OF
the Jacobite queen, known IN Bavaria as
1 Prince Robert, but not all loyal Jacobites
! as the Duke Of Cornwall. which IS the sec
/ ond title OF the Prince OF Wales and used
| by him sometimes when on the continent
Tho prime mover in the Jacobite move
ment az present Is the Marquis de Ruvigny
| and Rainvalics This might be supposed
| q. 10 a French tfffq and Ia fact n r. Bifl