New-York tribune., 1902-06-29
SANONY'S NEW KING.
NINE OTHER REIGNING SOVEREIGN
BEAR. LIKE HIM, THE TITLE OF
DUKE OF SAXONY.
DUKE OF SAXONY


now known as the German Empire-States that
are bound by the march of events gradually to
lose both their independence and their Identity.
their rulers sinking more and more into the pC'
| sition of mere vassals of the German Kaiser
yet the royal House of Saxony is undoubtedly
| the most important of the Old World in thes"
| modern times. For it's members occupy no less
| than of the thrones of Europe, namely
those of Great Britain. Prussia. Portugal Bel
| gium. Bulgaria. Saxony, SaXe-We Weimar, SAKE
Altenburg, Saxe-Meiningen and Saxe-Ccburs
and Gotha.
| Al! these rulers bear. in addition to their other
| titles. that of Duke of Saxony. Bound together
as they by ties of kinsmanship and OF
dynastic policy, it will be readily seen that in
| this manner the royal House of Saxony pos
| sesses prominence in the so-called concert of
| nations that is quite out of proportion TO the
| relatively insignificant kingdom of Saxony.
where new monarch reigns in the place
| of kindly, unaffected and sensible old Albar,.
whose two most intimate friends and cronias
were Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria aaI
the late Emperor Frederick of Germany. Fg,,
in the war of 1866. comrades and fellow-cuu!-
manders in the OF 1870. there was no o.c
whom Frederick trusted more implicitly than
King Albert of Saxony. and full of appreh,
sion for the future he besought the latter ;
short time before his tragic death to befrie..!
his eldest boy and to stand by his side -
mentor with all the Indulgence of a father
Albert may be said 10 have responded nob.y
to this dying request OF "Unser Fritz and
one is more ready than Emperor William himself
to acknowledge how much he owes to the pater-
nal counsels to the sagacious advice and to the
ever kindly interest and sympathy of the good
old King who has now gone to his rest. How
completely the Kaiser deferred to the judgment
of his fathers best friend is shown by the man
ner in which he withdrew from the positi
which he had assumed In connection with IL.
controversy about the regency of the primo
pality of Lppe on his Saxon majesty pronounc-
ing himself in favor of the claims of Count
Lppe Chesterfield. opposed to those of Prime
Adolphus of Schaumburg-Lppe 1t b.t-
ter pill for Emperor William to swallow. Ut
he took his medicine without murmur. al,
far from allowing it to impair in any degr
his affection for King Albert, treated him, II
the contrary. thereafter with even still mo-
filial devotion and regard than before.
King George, who has succeeded to the
throne of his childless brother was. like the
ter of the most successful and brilliant
commanders of the of 1870. holding the
rank of field marshal general of the German
army. While it be said that there ar
any such relations between him and the Kaiso
as prevailed between the latter and King Al
bert-namely, like those of father and son-yet
there is doubt but that the ruler %
Saxony is to greater extent in political and
military sympathy with Emperor William thai
his predecessor on the throne
Thus he shares his views with regard to thr
Poles. and provoked a scene during the granI
man1uvres of the German army in Posen some
two three years ago by insisting upon the
removal of the national flag of Poland, which
had been hoisted by the Polish noble owning The
chateau in which he and several other German
royal princes had been quartered during the
mimic warfare He declared that he would not
the German Empire that of SaXOny Were
raised in its stead, calling attention to the fact
that he there not as Il guest, but by virtue
of that law which compelS German citizens of i
district where military operations in prog
ress to lodge and board a certain number Of Of
icers or men. 1t this action the part #
King George of SaXony which served To c..l
public attention throughout Germany to The
gressive natfonalism the part of the PuirS,
and which precipitated the disappearance +, III
sentativcs of the Polish aristocrac.. who W"I.
charged with misusing the imperial favor Whtl
they enjoyed for the purpose of promoting tn a.,
political intrigues.
King George, who is above every thing else
soldier alike by taste and training. has been
wlGower for sixteen years, his coEsort having
been "A sister of the late King of Portugal Pas