The Taney County republican. (Forsyth, Mo.) 1895-1992, 1898-05-12
The Coming Storm in Spain.

Spain's political sky is full of por-
tens. In the Cortes and in some of
the most influential papers in Madrid
the Ministry has been denounced,
and enc man in the Cortes, Salmeron,
attacked the monarchy, Rioting has
occurred in many parts of the king
dom, lnstiga;ed in some instances by
tho high price of bread which the
war has caused and preeipitated in
other cases by the rcverses which the
war has brought, especially the defeat
at Manila. The fact that WeS ler,
while in the Chamber Of Deputies,
sits near the Carlist aud Republican
groups, which are avowed and pro-
nounced foes of the dynasty has cre-
atcd sensation and aroused fore
bodings among the superstitious.
The disturbances in various towns in
Valencia have impelled the author
tiles to proclaim martial law in that
province.
These are omlninous signs. Spain
has seen them often in the past fifty
or sixty years. Generally they fore
shadow the overthrow of,he existing
regime. 1t saw them in January,
1874, aud they brought the collapse
of Margall's, Salmeroa's and Caste
lars seven-mOnth-Old republic, and
the establishment OF Serrano's dict
atOrship which immcdia atcly preceded
the placing of Alfonso XII, the father
Of the present 12-year-old King, on
the throne. 1t saw them in a milder
form in February, 1873. when ANA
deus of Savoy threw down his crown
and departed in disgust for his home
iu Italy. 1t saw them in more dan
gerous shape in 1863, when Prim and
Serrano engineered the uprising
which sent Isabella H., Alfonso's
mother, and the cause of the Carlisr
wars, to France, where she has re-
manned ever since. Several times
between Isabells's expulsion in 1868
aud tue seizure of her father, Fcrdi-
nand's, throne by the French in 1908,
Spain saw the same portents, and
they always brought peril to the
existing order.
Peril to the dynasty comes to-day
from three sources-f-Om "Nharles
FII.,@ the Carlist prc:ender, whose
cause is always strong in the basque
provinces, and who has the support
OF the clergy, the advocates Of legi-
tinism. and the absolutists; from the
Republicans, who are led by Salm-
eron,' and from the general odds aud
ends of the Adullamite malcontents
and impracticables who are likely to
center on Weylcr. There may be
serious danger in the Weylcr menace.
Weyler has been sulking ever since
the present Liberal Ministry, under
pressure from Washington, removed
him from Cuta, and those who are
angered at their country's rcverses
may learn to love HIM for the ene-
mics he has made, and 10 turn to nim
as a savior in the present crisis.
Military men have been the head aud
front of nearly all tho uprisings
which have occurred in Spain in the
present century. There is a strong
probability that in revenge for what
he evidently considers unjust treat
ment by the Ministry aud the dynas-
", Weyler would raise his hand
against both the moment the oppor-
tunity offers. The role of Esparte-
ro, O'Donnell, Prim and Serrano
would naturally lave attractions for
a man like Wcyler, suffering under
a sense of wrong. But aside from
Weyler there Is enough in the Carlist
and Republican periIs to justify the
grave fears which Sagasta and Chris
tina evidently feel.-Ex.