Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1898-05-20

throne to Joseph BOnaparte, and kept
him a prisoner in Paris for many
years. After his restoration he was in
a continual turmoil of political dissen
sions and difficulties within his own
country, and his domestic relations
were no more peaceful. Within thirty
years he married five wives in success
sion. Princess Christina Of Naples,
sister of King Bomba, was his last
wife. She bore a daughter to the hith-
erto childless king, and. being wom-
an of considerable strength of charac-
ter and personal beauty, gained almost
boundiess sway over her husband. The
heir apparent had been on bad terms
with his brother for long time. He
had sided with the absolutist party
when the king had been with the con-
stitutiOnalists, and had even headed
an instruction in Catalonia with the
avowed object Of deposing the king.
Queen Christina saw that the days of
her worn out husband were near an
end. and sought to prolOng her position
inducing him to disinherit his brother
in favor of his infant daughter. For
the last three years Of the wretched
kings life the contest ragged between
the partisans CT the queen and those
of the priesthood The salic law first
stood in the way Of her ambition, but
the cortes. in which the constitutional
partv had a majority. dreaded the ac-
cession of an absolutist prince and re-
peaIed the law. The king, however,
who. according to the state of his
health. alternated between submission
70 his wife and dread Of the church,
was harassed with the qualms of con-
science as to the eXpediency OF chang
ing the succession. Time after time
he changed his mind until at last the
oueen triumphed According to the
Carlist opinion, the dying wishes Of
the king were wilfully disregarded, and
the documents which would have es-
tablished Don Carlos right to the
throne were suppressed by fraud or vi
olence. At any rate. upon the death
of Ferdinand. in 1888. the baby Prin-
cess Isabella was declared queen OF
Spain under the regency of her mother
Then is when the trouble began. For
| the next five years the kingdom was
desolated by civil war. The Spanish
liberals believed that the very doubt
! fitness of Isabella's title would AFFORD
a guaranty for her fidelity to the con-
stitution. so they supported her cause.
France and England. too, sided with
the dynasty which supported the prin-
cjples of constitutional monarchy. and
after warfare of almost uneXampled
| feroci.v Don Carlos left Spain in 1899,
defeated. If the new dynasty had con-
| Quoted the affairs of the monarchy with
good faith and loyalty it might have re-
NAMED firm in control, with the Carlist
pretenders a vanishing quantity. But
| the scandals of Queen Christmas re-
gency and various other violations of
national sentiment weakened the mon
archy and kept alive the hopes Of the
partisans of the pretender.
Don Carlos, the first pretender, died
| in 1855 but second arose in the per-
| son of his son of the same name, in
whose favor his father had abdicated
| his claims five years before. In 1860
| an attempt was made in Valencia to
stir up another Carlist Instruction, in
consequence of which the pretender and
I his brother Ferdinand were arrested.
| They were afterward liberated on sign
| ing announcement Of all claims to the