The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-05-04
WHO THE cARLIsTs ARE.
How They Raise Their Present
Claims to the Spanish Throne.

Claims to the Spanish Throne.
From the Kansas City Star.
The talk of Carlst risings in Spain, and
particularly the rumor that the person
known as Don Jaime de Bourbon proposes
to put himself at the head of the Carlist
party, may incite curiosity in some to
know who the Carlists are and what they
stand for in Spain Ferdinand ", who
came to the throne of Spain after the earth
had settled from the Napoleonic earth
quake, married. for his fourth wife. Maria
Christina, daughter of the King of Ma
pies, sister of the Duchess de Berri and
niece of Queen Marie Amelie, wife Of King
Louis Philippe Of France. Ferdinand, al
ways a miserable creature. like most
Spanish monarchs, became more miserable
after his fourth marriage. He fell con-
pletely under the domination of his hand
some energetic, ambitious and thoroughly
unprncipled wife.
Queen Maria Christina was determined
that the crown of Spain should descend to
her family But governing the descent was
the decree of Philip v, which had been
law in Spain for 120 years and which de-
clared that no woman could reign in
Spain where there lived q male descendant
of Philip ". In default of male heirs from
the marriage of Ferdinand V. and Maria
Christina, the lawful successor under the
decree of Philip " was Don Carlos Fer
dinand's brother. AS it turned out, the
first child born to this couple was a girl,
Isabella, who IA months later, was follow
ed by a sister Even before the birth Of
Jc 10
a movement for the setting aside of the
law of Philip V. Ferdinand, for a consid-
cradle period, resisted, but yielded at last,
and on April 6, $780, ordered that an incom-
plete decree by Charles w, in 1889, which
appeared to repeal the Sale law, should be
published and made perpetual All the
Bourbons protested, and the King endeav-
ored TO undo his action by what was called
a decree Of derogation," but on his death
bed he declared that his act was the re-
suit of Misrepresentation and was, there
fore, null and void. This restored his act
intended to make his daughter Isabella his
heir. When Ferdinand died Marie Christina
was reigning as Queen Regent and the lit
tie girl Isabella was the heir apparent, just
as the Marie Christina reigns IN the name
of the little boy known as Alfonso XIII.
The brother of Ferdinand usually
known as Don Carlos, but who INDUCED
in the maine and title at home of Carlos
Maria Isidor de Borbon-y- Borbon, infant
of Spain, entered his protest before the
death of Ferdinad against all the pro-
ceedings setting aside the Sale law ad-
hitting the female line, and declared him
self the lawful heir-apparent to the
throne of Spain. Immediately on the
death of Ferdinand the northern prov
inces of Spain arose and declared for
inc orIag as ba efHrial and fhpCa
people were called Carlists name which
continues to exist Those who adhered to
the existing government, the government
of the Queen Regent, were popularity call
ed Christmas.
The cause of Don Carlos, dear to the
Spanish heart as standing for bigOtry and
despotism, seemed at one time likely to
triumph, but was betrayed by one of its
generals, Morotto. Don Carlos fled from
Spain, and in 1874 abdicated in favor of
his son, the second Don Carlos. Cabrera
invaded Spain in 1S4S, but he neglected mis-
former practice of numbering and mutt
lating his prisoners, and his efforts were
not supported with the former enthusiasm
The second Don Carlos attempted to enter
Spain in 1913 and again in 1850, when he
was arrested and signed a renunciation
of his claims to the Spanish throne. The
present pretender is a third Don Carlos
grandson of the first, a son of Don Juan.
He has made several attempts to over
throw The government OF Spain; the most
formidable beginning in 1873 and lasting
until 1915. The Don Jaime, who is describ-
ed as DESTROYS of mixing in Spanish aft
fairs as head Of the Carllsts, is the son
of the third Don Carlos.
1t is a noticeable fact in Spanish his
tory that no real curse ever permanently
departs from Spain One of the perma-
nent Affections of Spain is what may be
termed Carlism. In no other country is
such a party as the Carlsts possible 1t
is a party willing to shed its blood for a
government of the worst type of the four
Ieenth century. There have been many
Carlist ris.ngs, and they are perpetually