The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-10-07


namely, lnnumerable documents chief
ly relating to the efforts of the present
emperor TO eliminate his moribundm
rather from the succession to the
throne, and the publication of which
would constitute an irreparable blow
to the good name of Germany's pres
ent ruler. 1t was the knowledge that
the old chancellor retained in his
hands these as well as other equally
compromising papers, that was ac-
oountable for the relative patience and
moderation manifested by the kaiser in
the face of the Mountaineering at
taeks upon his policy made by >the
great sage at Friedrichsruh, and these
documents, the originals of which
were long ago conveyed to England for
safe-keeping there, are now at the dis
posal Of the new Prince Bismarck,
whose attitude during the last two
weeks would certainly seem to indicate
that he rejects the emperors profRers
OF friendship, and is resolved to avenge
the ingratitude and neglect which he
considers darkened the last years OF
the life OF his fondly-loved father and
FASTENED the latter's death.
The future course Of Prince Bismarck
will be watched with interest. He is
rich, powerful, utterly careless of mon
archical favor or of the opinion of his
fellow-cittzens, and has, as stated
above, in his hands powerful arms
against a ruler whom he VIGOROUSLY
hates. Perhaps his hostility to the en-
peror may lead him to undo the task
accomplished by his father, namely,
the building up Of the greatness, the
prestige and the power of the Hohen-
zollern dynasty. Or else, better feel
ings may ultimately prevail when his
grief abates, and he may be content to
remain merely aloof from court and
public affairs, in semi-obscurity. But
In neither case can he hope to achieve
either the fame or renown of his Illus
trieus father by whose greatness he
Will always be overshadowed.
THE IRON DUKES" SON.
In this he will share the same fate as
that OF the second duke of wellington,
who, although a singularly shrewd and
witty man, was popularity regarded as
a medioority solely by reason Of the
fact that he was dwarfted by the
grandeur of his father, the so-ca.lled
Iron duke" If ever man was hand
icapped by a fathers greatness, it was
the second duke OF Wellington. who
was fortunate in going down to his
grave without having done anything to
tarnish the fame of the name he bore.
Less happy in this respect are the
two sons of Russia's great chancellor
akoff, the only statesman who was able
to hold his own against Prince Bis
marck, and who was in reality the lat
ter's principal rival. lhe elder of the
two sons has had his name dragged in
the mud of almost every capital in
Europe by the eccentricities Of his
Roumanian wife, who rightly or wrong
ly, has been charged in the courts Of
Germany, of France, of Roumania and
Russia, with the most extraordinary
crimes, including forgery, and rob-
berry of her mothers corpse, to the det-
riment of her brother. Michael Gort-
chakoff, the other son Of the great Rus
sian chancellor, has likewise done his
fair share in bringing his name into
disgrace. His private life While envoy
at Madrid was of such a character as to
render his diplomatic colleagues more
than chary in their intercourse with
him and while on one memorable oe-
cason, when minister of the car in
Switzerland. the train on which he was
travelling was stopped in the Valais in
order to permit the conductor to eject
him, owing to his conduct on board
| Perhaps the most striking evidence OF
the disrepute into which the name OF
| Gortchakoff has fallen is to be found
| in the circumstance that it has been re-
moved from part III of the Almanach
de Gotha, in which it once held an hon
ored place.
THE son Of Crispi who may be re-
garded as Italy's Bismarck, is a fugi-
| tive from Justice with warrants out
for his arrest on charges of theft and
burglary, and prior to his fight from
Italy. he served time in one of the prin-
cipal houses of correction in the king
dom for stealing his fathers contlden-
| tial state papers and selling them to
his political foes. The present Duke
De la Tore, eldest son and heir of that
Marshal Serano who was in turn die
tator of Spain, president of the Span
ish republic, regent Of the kingdom
and it's most conspicuous citizen in the
nineteenth century, is a contemplate
creature, whose name evokes ribald
| laughter among those who are ac-
quainted with his history. and who fig
uFed some years ago in a sensational
lawsuit that covered him with ridicuIe.
Count Andrassys son is very charm
ing and good-looking young fellow, of
whom the best thing that can be said
is that he is as chivalrous and as high
prineipled as his celebrated father, the
chancellor of the Hungarian empire.
He is perfectly content, however, with
the purely ornamental Office which he
holds at the courts of Vienna and
Pesth, and Will never do anything to
emerge from the relative obscurity to
which he is doomed. Gladstone's ED
est son (now dead was a rather dull
quiet, retiring man, whom few knew
intimately, although those who We're
his friends spoke appreciatively of
him.
Innumerable other cases could be Cit
ed And they are by no means con-
fined to the old world. There are in the
United States men who nave been sim
ilarly handicapped by their fathers
Fn 1,n
hard and not always successful strug-
gle to prove that they were worthy
Of the traditions of the name which
they bear. Few and far between are
the sons who are able to walk with dig
nifty in the paternal shoes, or to wear
without an appearance of incongruity
the paternal hat