Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1899-12-18
FOREIGN MOTIFS
AND COMMENT

ives OF the crowned headS and royal
personages of the old world that reach
the ears of the public. there are a still
larger number that take place and con-
corning which the utmost secrecy is
observed. In fact the police and the
government authorities are the very
first to wish affairs of this kind to be
kept quiet since such attempts usually
imply popular discomfort, and likewise
a lack of precaution for the safety of
the personages whose lives are at
tempted. The royal personages them
selves, too, do not relish the publication
Of anything calculated to show that
they are objects of public animosity.
If 1 mention this it is because an at
tempt has just been made upon the
life of the crown prince and crown
princess of Italy. 1t was known that
they were about to journey southwark
to Rome. Through some circumstance
or another the departure of the special
train by which they travelled was de-
layed four hours beyond its appointed
time. Had it not been for this the
fate that overlook a mixed freight and
passenger train, which was derailed
and hurled down from the top of a high
embankment, owing to stones and big
pieces of iron being fastened to the
track, would have fallen to the lot Of
the prince and princess. The affair
took place about ten miles distant from
Rome, and several lives were lost and
a number of people injured. In fact,
it is a subject for astonishment how
any one on board the wrecked train
could have escaped.
Investigation has brought to light
the fact that the obstruction placed on
the rails was the work of anarchists,
several of the men implicated in the
affair having already been arrested,
and that their object was to destroy
if possible the life of. the crown prince
who has already become renowned
from one end of the kingdom to the
other in connection with his despotic
ideas and his inclination toward meas
UTes of the most harsh and drastic
character, especially in dealing with
the socialist and anarchist questions.
The anarchists are we'll aware that the
advent to the throne of the Prince of
Naples will be signalized by the inau-
guration of a crusade against them ex-
ceeding in "reminiscences anything Of
the kind yet known, and are resolved
at all costs to prevent him from having
the opportunity of putting his project
in execution. .r.
The irritation existing between the
English reigning family and the duke
and duchess of Orleans has been in
tensified to such an extent by certain
incidents in connection with the recent
wedding of Princess Isabella of Orleans
to her cousin, Prince John, of the same
house, that the pretender and his wife
have found it well to take a sudden
departure for Austria, changing at the
very last moment all the plans which
they have made for spending the win
ter in England.
It seems that representatives of the
press at the wedding not being admit
ted either to the chapel, where the re-
ligious ceremony was celebrated or to
the house, where the reception and
wedding breakfast subsequently took
place, had to content themselves with
typewriter descriptions of the affair,
gotten UP for the purpose by one of the
secretaries of the pretender. In these
reports. which were published far and
wide, both in the English and especial
ly in the French and other foreign pa
pers, great stress was laid on the fact
that the princess of Wales and her
daughter had been present, and, in
fact. that England's future queen had
been the star guest at the ceremony.
being as such escorted both at the
church and at the reception by the
duke himself That the princess of
Wales and her daughter should have
attended the function at all created all
the more unpleasant comment owing to
the fact that conspicuous among the
guests were the dowager duchess CT
Uzes and other royalist great ladies of
Paris, who are getting up with a great
flourish of trumpets a subscription for
the express purpose of equipping. arm
ing and dispatching a foreign legion,
or corps of volunteers, to join the Boer
army and fight the English.
AS soon as the prince of Wales heard
of the trick played by the duke of Or
leans, he at once caused a semi official
communication to be published to the
effect that neither the princess of
Wales. nor princess Victoria nor yet
any member Of the English royal fam
lily. had been present at the wedding.
at which the princess had merely been
represented by her private secretary,
as a courtesy toward her sisteT-in-law.
Princess Waldemar of Denmark, who
was there. What seems to have ang-
cred the prince of Wales more than
anything was the elaborate manner in
which the lie about his wife's alleged
presence at the wedding was fabricat-
ed. very detailed descriptions having
been given by the dukes secretary as
to the dresses which both she and her
daughter had worn, and of the ap-
plause with which she was said to
have been hailed by the public gath
cred outside of the church: and the
entire affair has served to recall to
mind the analogous piece of tactless-