Arizona republican., 1900-10-16

mained dormant, and it is as lineal de- scendant of the seventh earl that MT. Cunninghame Grahame has taken
 steps to revive it.
 In the British peerage slumber many queer things. But this is perhaps the ! sL:Ingsst of them all. For it would seem that while an illegitimate royal line has filled the throne of Great Brit ain for centuries and that even it's own ilesitimate branches. such as the great 5ucal houses of Rishnond. St. Albans. etc.. have hourished. the one true and legitimate royal Iu- Els nCj o1iy pseu vigorously suppressed. but even de- prived c- its pesrage, and reduced to the state Cf a commou-r.
 While a deci sion in favor Cf MT. Gun ninghame Graham's claims to the earl dom of Monti-t th can in no way affs t | Queen Nictoria's right to the throne,
 wli1l, as stated above. is based less on legitimate descent than on the so- called act of settlement. yet such de- cision would have the effect of placing the so-Called JacGbite league. or White Rose society. in a very foolish posi- tiOn. For if Queen Victoria is descend
 ed from the illeei;imate issue of King RCoert. of Scotland, 90. tCo, is that Bd varian princess Mary whom the Jacob ite league declares to be the rigntful | heir to tce -kr0re of England as less remotely descended from King James of Great Britain than Queen Victoria. The Jacobite league i-t-ists that the act C settlement = invIiid-it may be re memberei thG', the act vas passed by ! the narrow majority of one vote-and ! that it is therefore. inadequate from ! legal Toirt of view, to affect or annul ! the superior rights of Princess Mary of l Bavaria to the English throne. But if l MT. CunninShame Graham's claim -O | the elrldom of Aontieth is admitted, the ground is literally cut away from
 the feet of the Jaeobite league, which.
 curiOusly enough, has branches in this
 country. notably at Boston. Phi!a1el- phia and New York, which celebrate each year the anniversary of the mar | tyrdom of King Charles l by religious services.
 Some of the ablest genealogisls Of the United Kingdom, and even the ScCtch and English college of h5ralds have admitted i,hat MT. Graham is able to trace in a direct and unbrok5 n line his descent from the seventh earl of Montieth, and ie is on the strength of
 these opinions, official and private, tha. he has just put forward his claim to be fifteenth earl of M0ntiath, and submit ted his position to the committee of privileges of the house of lords. The latter is proyerbialIy slow in deciding such matters, and in the present in stance matters are complicated by the fact that there are several other claimants to the elrldom of Montieth. including a George NJ. Graham, of Leijchtown, and likewise another George Graham, of Toronto, Cana Ia. formerly a commercial traveller. The ear,dom was likewise claimed by Mr. Cunninghame Graham's father, as well
 as by the late MT. Barclay -Alard.ce, and by the latter's daughter. All these FreteEsions have to be passed upon be- fore the committee Cf privileges in the house of lords can finally give a daci- sion, which, according to all indications when rendered will be in favor of the blue -blooded socialist Cunninghame Graham.-Marquise de Fontenoy in Washington Pest.