Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-06-27

OF Italy-Prince Victor's cousin-sounded
President Loubet on the matter
No one knows what NJ. Loubet answer
ed. He had no need to object: One all
suficient old objector squelched the
dream-plan. the King Of the Belgians
hale and hearty sinner. He said:
Il know Victor. my poor Clementine
He will not fill the bill He is not of the
stuff with which one starts to breed up a
new dynasty!
And. while he was on tie subject. Leo
pold let out his sentiments concerning
Louis. Victor's brother. to whom Ma
thilde had left her campaign fund Louis
dashing Russian general. before the Japa-
nese defeat and revolution. had the sym
pathy of the Russian court.
Louis has been dashing that he is
=, worse Jared than Victor. event said
the hate old rounder of the Belgians.
-Four years have passed since he got his
millions: yet not the best European prin-
has been willing to accept his
chances"
Then, at Princess Marie's wedding. the
world walked up to the fact that the re-
naming European Bonapartes apart
from her old father. Roland-are all
women.
So the Bonapartist cause is douhly lost
by the mere passing of time. Victor and
Louis for known reasons. Will give no
heirs to a cause whose males have dwin-
died to them. Should France. by impos-
sbility demand a vigorous Bonaparte,
she would have to look to America TO
find one!
They are dancing the Farandole in the
streets Of Paris-on the anniversary Of
the breaking up of the Bastile, the pri-
vate prison of the Bourbon kings Of
France.
"Vive la Republique!'
The young men olink their glasses. 1t
is the fete's climax. "Vive la Repub-
liGue.''
What chances. do you think. has Louis
Philippe, Duke of Orleans. the pretender
to the ancient throne for both the Or
leans and the Bourbon branches?
There was a moment. in 1873. when the
Comte de Chambord was waiting at Yer
sailles to be crowned king. He might
have had 1t; and he kicked at the tri-
color flag!
In 1859 there were still alive enough
old-timers for the French to rather wish
Boulapger would proclaim the father of
Philippe: but neither could combine the
already diverging interests.
AS to Philippe. pronounce Philippe"
real fast and 1t is Flip Flip is his
name. and he has never had a chance:
Yet, only two years ago, he plotted!
Yes, in April. 1905. Philippe d'Orleans
knew so little Of present-day republican
France that he imagined he had bought
an option on the general strike proclaim
ed for May day.
Something ominous was in the air of
Paris.
There were labor conflicts over the
land. The General nfederation of La
Dor. holding the strings of a thousand
syndicates, had announced its long
threatened direct action to obtain an
eight-hour day.
Paris was uneasy.
Paris smelled brooding mystery.
Suddenly, the government made per-
uuisitions-and arrested high-placed peo-
pie of two categories-labor leaders and
aristocrats!
All France. then. knew: and trembled.
There's a royalist piot"' France said,
and was badly scared.
Then. just as suddenly. all France
laughed gayly. Scared? Scared OF whom!
Can a people fear itself? If all France
was afraid, who could there be to fear?
And the republic just passed to new bust
ness - without explanation - throwing