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WHO THE CARLISTS ARE.
The rre.tpt ponhn. Innumerabie Nnm..

The RESENT Donhns InnumerabIe Names.
Anothsr Case OF nPrlnes Charlie. the
Prttender.
Chicago. Record; The name ot,pon.
Carlos. the prdtcrdst 10 the throne OF
Spain, and TINT Of hi party Of support
ers. tho Carlisle, aro familiar enough
70 every reader, and II complications
multiply IN lthut pcnInsular kingdom
az rapidly AZ seems TO threaten now
,hey viii be sun better known Carlos
has been hcatt OF but little Of late
years, except for n few words telc.
craphcd from Europe rs TO his position
IN relation 10 the various governmental
crises faced by Spain. or when Some
scardal touches his name, such lasS the
recent c!operrent OF his daughter,
princess Eiyira, with Count Folchi.
But there were tImeo when for several
wears no was one OF the most prominent
figures In European politics, and his
nosslbic influence II never lost eight of.
in any Spanish situation.
Don Carlos Is the Spanish paralietJo
"BonrIe Prince Charlie" the Scotch
nrrtender to therI English throne In the
last century. z Ills family. has made q
similarly romantic fight FOR the throne,
al thef head OF heroic l~nshianders,
trouk.ilg among them tho same enthu-
slash and devotion and among the low-
iapders to the south the same scorntul
~opposl,Ion. To-day the Carlists arc the
jbcobItcs OF Spain, considering them
selves The flower and chivalry OF the
- H.. ..ftN kkAit. Vi ltnn t.ta Htktf Il, thn
cause they havs lost more than once,
and ready at any favorable time 10 re-
sumo tho fight for what they think Is
right.
The first claimant TO the Spanish
throne around whom grew q party OF
Cnrl!sss was Don Maria Isador Carlos
de Bourbon. count OF Molina. the Sec
ond son OF Charles ". OF Spain and
grandfather OF the present p.eteEder.
This Don Carlos had been recognized
as tho heir apparent to the throne. while
Ills elder brother vas reigninE as Fer
d!nand VII. Ferdinand was barely 80
when he died, but his ITO had been a
~checkered one. Napoleon competed
him to yield his throne 10 Joseph Boua-
partc, and KEEP: him a prisoner in Paris
for many years. After his restoration
he was In a tontinual: turmoil Of polit-
zeal dissensIons and difficulties with his
own country, ard his domestic relations
we're no more peaceful. within thirty
years he married five wives In suoces-
zion. Princess Christina OF Naples, Sis
ter Of King Romba, was his last wife.
She bore a daughter to the Hitherto
chiidless king. and. being a woman OF
considerable strength Of character and
persona! beauty, gained almost bound
less sway V e her husband. The heir
apparent had been on bad terms with
lis brother for n lorg time. He had
sided with the absoiutist party when
the king had been with the consdtu-
tioral!sts. ard had even headed an in
surreciion In Catalonia with the avowed
object Of deposins the king.
Queen Christina saw that the days of
her worn-ort 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 OF the queen and those OF
the priesthood. The safic law first
stood In the way OF her ambition. but
the cortes. In which the, constitutional
party had a majority, dreaded the ac-
csssion OF an absolutist prince and re-
pealed the law. The king, however,
who. according to the state Of hts
hea!th, alternated between submission
10 his wife and dread OF the church,
was frarassed with the Qualns Of con-
science as to the e1pediency OF chag-
ing the succession. Time after time he
changed his mind until at last the queen
tiUmphed.. According to the CarlIst
opinion, the dying wishes OF the king
were wilifu!iy disregarded, and the doc
Gmen;s which would have established
Don Carlos right to the throne were
suppressed bySfraud OF violence. At
any rate, upon the death OF Ferdinand,
IN 1859. the baby Princess Isabella was
declared queen OF Spain under the re-
Bency 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
fuiness OF Isabella's title would afford
q guaranty for her fidelity to the con-
si!tutou, so they supported her cause.
France. and England. too, sided with
me dynasty which supported the prin-
c.pies Of constitutional monarchy, and
after a warfare OF almost une1ampied
teroc!ty Don Carlos left Spain in 1899,
Ceten:ed. If the new dynasty had con-
quoted the affairs Of the monarchy with
GOOD faith and loyalty 1t might have re-
mainee firm In control, with the Carl!st
preienders a vanishing quantity. But
the scandals OF Queer Christmas re-
seEcy and various other violations OF
national sentiment weakened the mon
archy and kept alive the hopes Of the
pacs!saas OF the pretender.
Don Carlos. the first pre.ender, died
IN ls6o, but a second arose in the per-
son OF his SON Of the same name, in
Whose favor his father had abdicated
MS Gains five years before. In 1860 an
attempt was made in Valencia to stir
up another Carl!st instruction, in con-
sequence Of which the pretender and
.ls brother Ferdinand were arrested.
Lhey were afterward liberated on sign
tES a announcement, Of all claims to the
Spanish throne. The second Don Chr
,1s IN the line Of pretenders died In 1851.
itseFeupon the present Don Carlos be-
zane the pretender to the throne OF
SPAN and Charles VII. in legitimate
Huecession, and the loyalty Of the Car
time. $50 -
me pretender who figures in the te,e-
s'IrlS OF to-day Is the nephew OF the
STssoEo and the grandson Of the first.
Us uie son OF his predecessors
OocneT Juan. and bears the full name
Car!os, Don Maria de los Dolores
.uah isador Josef Francesca Qulrino
sH.ohio Miguel Gabriel Raphael de
nou:oon. On his behalf. Carlist upris.
Tnss' speedily repressed. took place in
~, 40 and ISL, but the insurrectioa
Ssaaso oy him In person after the alb
n.SaiIoh OF King Ainndeo In 1873 proved
r'aeh more formidable. and kept the