San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-07-16
FRIDAY, JULY 16, 1897.
THE JACOBITES.
A Boston Sect Which Wants an
American King.
Members Do Not Recognize the Pres
ent English Nobi1ity-Disapprove
of the Queens Dia-
mOnd Jubilee.

There are certain personages in Bos-
ton to whom the diamond jubilee of
Queen Victoria brought no joy. They
made no arrangements to celebrate it,
and look with scorn upon the pro-
gramme arranged by the British-Amer-
lean society of this city. They are the
Jacobites, admirers and upholders of
the royal house of Stuart and conserva-
tors 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 fact in European
politics, and its visible head, as is well
known, is 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 peo-
pie and their fellows in England, Mary
". and I'LL, 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 q surprise. To be sure, services have
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churches of the city, notably that of st.
John the Evangelist, on January 80, to
commemorate the taking off of him
whom the Jacobites have canonized IN
der the name of ST. Charles.the Martyr.
The name of this particular saint does
not appear in the list of those recog-
nized by the established church, but
he exists, just the same. to the Jacob
ties and their friends.
There are not many of these historical
waits in Boston. Perhaps ~, all told,
would cover the number, but they are
increasing, and the honorary secretary
of the organization, Alfred John Rod
way, of Roxbury, says that every day
letters from not alone all parts of New
England, but also the entire United
States, are pouring into the Office in
quiring about the Jacobites and the
aims they hope to attain.
Among the more prominent members
of the Boston branch of the Legitimist
society are Ralph Adams Cram, Robert
Babson. William Forsyth and Alfred
John Roadway, the secretary. Mr.. Rod
way is an Englshman by birth, and a
descendant of a good old Gloucester
shire family, who took the side of the
king during the civil war with the par
lament. One of these gentlemen said
to the Sun correspondent:
II 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't
hurt us any, and amuses them; so let
them go on; we don't mind it, But I'll
tell you just what we mean when we
call ourselves Jacobites. We all know,
and everybody knows who is at all ac-
quainted with English history, that the
Stuart family and their descendants are
excluded from the English throne by
the act of settlement, passed in 1901 by
the commons of England, but what
everybody does not know is this, that
this very act was passed by the bare
majority of one, and then only after
long and bitter struggles between those
in secret sympathy with the fallen
house of Stuart and the adherents of
the Hanoverians.
THE sympathy with the legitimate
and hereditary soyereigns of England
and Scotland evidenced by the closeness
of this vote found vent in the disas.
trous risings of 1715 and 1745. But these
are matters of history. The significant
fact of it all is this-that, although
more than 200 years have elapsed since
the house of Stuart occupied the triple
throne, the sentiment in their favor has
never really died out. and exists to-day
perhaps as strongly in England, and es-
pecially in Scotland and Ireland, as it
ever did, and even in America, as you
see, has it found support.
"But it was not altoRether in behalf