The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1898-06-02

EIOTt " OfcTluIOW INC TICSCuA
Honarchy and Establish Himself
Upon the Throne.
Baltimore SUM-
The troubles of Spain are being in
creased by the revival of Carlist
activity. The Madrid Government
fears that Don Carlos is once more
preparing to raise the standard of
insurrection, and, taking advantage
of the desperate mood of the people
and their feeling against the reigning
family, re-establish his own family
upon the throne.
Don Carlos is, like the reigning
King of Spain, Prince of the Bour-
bon house. When Ferdinand VII, of
the Bourbon line, was elected from
the throne of Spain by Napoleon l,
who put his brother, Joseph Bona
! parte, in his place, it looked for the
time being as if the Bourbon dynasty
in Spain had come to an end. But
in March, 1914, the power of Napoleon
in the Iberian Peninsula having been
broken, Ferdinand VII came back to
Madrid and the Bourbon line OF
monarchs went on again and, with
occasional Interruptions of short
duration, it has been going on ever
since. The Spanish revolution of
1920 again deposed Ferdinand, but
in 1922 the famous league called the
Holy Alliance-composed of France,
Austria, Russia and Prussia-inter-
vened in the affairs of Spain and re-
placed him firmly on his throne. An
army of 100000 French soldiers was
kept on Spanish soil for five years to
make sure thing of it. 1t was this
Intervention in the affairs of Spain
which caused that country the loss
of it's Spanish colonies, because the
British government, having protested
in vain against the entervention on
the soil of Spain itself, manifested
its displeasure by recognizing the
independence of the revolted Spanish
American colonies. 1t was out OF
this episode in the affairs of Europe
that our Monroe doctrine came, Eng.
lands great minister, George Can.
ming, passing the word to our Gov.
ernment at Washington, through oul
minister at London, Mr.. Rush, that
if the Holy Alliance attempted to
restore to King Ferdinand the revolt.
[ ed Spanish colonies, England would
assist our Government in preventing
it. The result was that while the
house of Bourbon was firmly restored
in Spain itself in the person of King
Ferdinand, the colonial empire OF
Spain disappeared except for few
remnants, of which Cuba and the
Philippines were and still are the
leading items.
King Ferdinand, being childless
married his fourth wife, Maris
Christina of Naples, intending to
keep the throne for his own direct
descedants, Ferdinand at the same
time issued decree abolishing tn.
Salic law in Spain, thus making i
possible for daughter, if one were
born to him, to inherit his crown.
No one at the time expected any
result to follow the edict, but The
Kings brothers, Carlos and Fran
cisco, of the French and Neapolitar
branches of the house of Bourbon, made
a formal protest against it. The nex'
year, however, Queen Maria Christin:
gave birth to a daughter, who wa.
named Isabella, and this daughter
was proclaimed Queen on the deatt
of her father, Ferdinand, in 1888
while her mother became Queen Re
| gent. Don Carlos. brother Of tht
late King Ferdinand, thereupon pro
claimed his intention to uphold the
Salic law, which forbade the oc.
cupancy of the throne by a woman.
He at once headed a rising Of all
supporters of absolutism and the
inhabitants of the Basque provinces
rallied to his standard with grea,
enthusiasm. The Carlists won some
notable success in the field for a
time, but after five years of fighting
were compelled by General Espartero
in 1889, to lay down their arms ane
acknowledge Queen Isabella. The
original Don Carlos then renowned
his claims in favor of his oldest son
another Carlos, and retired to Trieste
where he died in 1855. This seconC
Carlos was the uncle of the Dor
Carlos of to-day, now believed to bt
preparing another rising against the
reigning family, whose Legitimacy
he denies, as did his farther and hi.
uncle before him, and on the same
grounds. This second Carlos made
one of two feeble efforts at insurrec
tion, and died in 1861.
The present Don Carlos was borr
March 20. 1913, and is therefore il
the fifty-tirst year Of his age. He i
the son of Don Juan de Bourbon, {
younger brother of Don Carlos the
second His father died in 1897, bu
he renounced his claim in favor o
his son in 1868. On February 4
1867, the present protender, Dol
Carlos the third, was married tt
Princess Margaret Of Bourbon, daugh
ter of Duke Carlos Ill of Parma. q
this marriage five children wer'
born. four daughters and one son
Prince Jaime, (born June p. 1870,
and who, assuming Don Carlos to b.
the rightful King of Spain, is hei
apparent to the throne. Prime eJ aim
is now survivor two feeble effort
st insurrection, and is said to be
favorite of the CZar.
The last Carlist rising OF impol
tance took place in 1870. Quee
Isabella had been driven from Spai
by the popular uprising unde
Serrano and Prim in 1868. The Gov
ernment had been carried on pre-
yisionalIy until 1870. when th