The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-05-09
A PLOT TO GIVE US A KING.
THAT'S WHAT DOsToN,s JAooBITEs
PROPOSE TO no..
There Are About = Dozen or Thom. ana They
want to Renovatc Society and Draw n Limo
disclosures In Connection with Their Dis-
nnproNnl Of Onccn NIcfnr,n,a Lnhilrr.

Wv" SeShOOs
Boston, May s.-Thcre nre certain personnges
in Boston to whom the apuronch of the diamond
Jubilee OF Queen Victoria brings no toy. They
have made no arrangement TO celebrate II, md
look with scorn uron tho nrournmno arranged
by the British. Amcricon soc;ety Of this citv. They
are the Jacobitcs. admirers and upholders of tho
royal house OF Stuart and conscryators of its
fame. For them. In common with tho .Jacobito
League and Order of the White Rose OF England.
the limo of Stuart still cxists as n fact In Euro.
pcan politics. md its visible head. as IL well
known, is tho Princess Mary. wife OF Louis
Prince of bavaria. son NJ Iuiino,d. Prince Re.
gent of Bavaria. Sho Is today. in tho language
OF the Boston peoplc and their follows in Enr.
land, Mary ". and III. by the grace OF God OF
England. Scotland. France. and Ireland. Queen.
defender Of the faith, SC.
To the ordinary Bostoninn. tho fnct TINT there
Is in his city a cult of this nature comes some.
what in the nature oto surprise. To be sure,
high churches of tho city, notably that Of st.
John the Evangelist. on Jan, 80. to com.
mcmorate the taking on OF him whom the Jaco-
bites have canonized under the name of st.
Charles the Martyr. Tho name of this particular
~" AN 49,. - W. u ~ p "i'.
SAINT uocs not appear IN the hst OF thosc recoe-
nizcd by the Established Church. but he exists.
just the same, to the Jacobitcs and their friends.
WI 60 ~. a.sa.s, -. h,.,a.;a., ;..,s,
incf' Nv Ao many .hese nisVori."i "ai.s
in Boston. Perhaps twelve, all told. would
cover IN, number. hut tbcv orc increasing. and
IVY Az ou. .n's ~ e."".e,
inc 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 lnquiring about tho
Jacobites and the MINIS they hone TO attain.
III must not DC supposed that all the boston
families interested in the Jacobite cause are de-
80. "No
ior inc stuar's ana hea TO escape the miniohs OF
them orc descended ACCORDING IN their own oc.
conn, from, Gnr,nana Danes IJo,,anders",nd
thoro = aor"ra, 49, ,hon, n,n = son,ovhat
douhtfu, abou, ius, whom thcv ,ro descended
go, - ,i -, ",a haan,t"',n.
illustrated genealogical trees, usually on exhibi.
finn in III, most nr,,ninc,t rlocc In III. halls NJ
.,on III 'no must prominent Il"co IN II "'ns "
their houses. would seem to deny this.
Among the more prominent members OF tho
Ralph Adams Cram, Robert Babson. William
Forsyth, and Alfred John Roadway, the Sccre-
and "A descendant of n good did Giouccstcrshirc
family. who took the side OF the King during tho
civil war with the Parliament. One OF these
III know that the American public in general
take us to be all sorts of cranks. and lose no OPP
portunity OF making slurring remarks about us,
but that doesn't hurt us any. and nmuscs them;
so let them go on; we don't mind it. But III tell
Won inst Nyhnf wn tlHnr when we Gull nIrSRlNpg
Jacobitcs. We MI know and everybody knows
who is al all ACQUAINTED with English history,
that the stuart family and their deScendsnts are
Settlement. PASSED in lIOl by the 'ommons of
England, but what everybody does not know is
In,i io rhat ~ Lhi a,c very ayd "t tsc wa" Sb Iia9 Sf,e p' lone ons p n,T
bitter struggles bct those in secret sym.
pathy with the fallen house of Stuart and the
adherents OF the Hanovcrians.
The sympathy with the legitimate and
oriInn.n6 ~ thn ,Ing,,ns ~ ,b;a r,,n found
vent in the disastrous risings OF l7l5 and lT45.
But these are matters Of history; The signiti.
than 300 years have elapsed since the house of
stuart occupied the triple throne, the senti.
and exists TO-DAY pcrhHps as strongly in Eng,
land. and especially in scotland and Ireland. as
il found SUPPORT. III y Q NA'
But II was not altogether in behalf of the
bite movement. To us this simply means u re-
arts and or account of Which they were over,
thrown, namely, the prerogatives OF the throne,
or. as you would call it, the divine right OF
kings. We uphold the idea that there is such a
thing as granting too much liberty to the com.
mon people. The Commons OF England arc to-
day the real rulers Of the country-,hc throne
coming in the future when there must OF ncccs-
sity be a fixed, visible head in these United
Statcs-a something or some one in whom the
idea OF country or the nation can he ;ncarnntod
and idealizcd. which to-day we vainly strive
To keep alive under the name OF the flag or the
llE anu slTlIptS.
I'm other words, We believe in u constitutional
monarchy for this country. not so constitutional.
however, as TO deprive the monarch OF all power
OF whatever nature. Society must be made over
and renovated. There must he fixed grades and
classes, and the line must be drawn soinewherc."
The most curious thing regarding the man
who comes out SO boldly. with these amazing
for more than five generations citizens of New
England. In fact. with the exception Of Mr..
Rodway, the members OF the society in Boston
come from old New England ancestry.
Secretary Roadway was a member OF the
Jacobite League for many years before coming
TO h,herieai and foriheriS representoa IL al ,s
from Don Carlos. whom the Jacobites regard rs
the riRhtful King OF not alone Spain. but also
France, with a medal of membership in tho
Carlist order. ornamcnted with the royal colors
OF the house OF Spain, red and yellow. He has
also a photograph of the eldest son of the
Jacobito queen. known in Bavaria as Prince
Robert, but TO nil loyal Jacobites M the Duke OF
OF Wales. and used by him sometimes when on
the Continent.
Tho prime mover in the Jacobitc movement at
present is the Marquis dc Ruvigny and Rain.
valles. This might be supposed to &c u French
title. and in fact It is. but lis ownor is English,
born in tho south OF England. and descended
from a Huguenot family which settled In Eng