The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1909-07-24
THRONE OF SPAIN
IS SHAKING FROM
BLOWS OF JAIME
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tage Of the opportunities offered by
the universal unrest which has swept
over Spain.
Today while Alfonso is posting loyal
troops in all strategic positions to
quell any uprising in its incipiency the
republican and radical press renewed
their attacks upon the government
and its martial policy with redoubled
vigor. The king is hooted wherever
he appears.
His italian Hand.
There are some who see in this tidal
wave of unrest the Italian hand of the
new pretender. Carefully cloaked I'M
der veil of republican sentiment he is
melting the people in every region
through his agents. They are posted
in the lonely mountain villages Of the
Pyrenees and in the stately coast cities
OF the east and south.
The opportunities they see they have
made for themselves. It is strongly
felt that Don Jaime is the power be-
hind the present revolutionary move
ment and that, while working under
the guise of republicanism, he really
knows that Spain can not exist as a
republic and thus sees the way paved
to the Spanish throne.
The rigorous censorship which is
being exercised throughout the prov
inces is adding fuel to the flames OF
resentment which are already strongly
burning. The fire brand Spanihs, ex-
citable of temper and strong in their
desire for liberty, are incensed over
the restrictions. The government
claims these measures justified; the
crafty republicans and radicals declare
the government is carrying out a poll
cy against the will of the people and
against the best wishes of the state.
Jails Are Filled.
The jails are being filled with politi
cal offenders. Secret agents of the
Pretenders followers and those who
are merely suspected of being agents
are being cast into prison. The fiery
| orators declaiming against the Afri
can policy of the government and the
| wasting of human lives. and pulled
from their pulpits and cast behind
stone walls: the radical editors who
unlimbered unbridled pens have been
clapped behind bars where they Ian
guish while their desire for vengeance
against an unjust government grows
| stronger every day.
In the meantime Don Jaime directs
| it's campaign. He is a restless man
of forty years. Inheriting many of his
fathers characteristics, DON Jaime
found his fathers supporters loyal to
him.
King Alfonso, the once beloved mon.
arch. may find himself ruthlessly op
posed by this middle-aged scion of the
house of Bourbon. Don Jaime is a
man of immediate action, too. In 1896
| when his sister Donna Elvira, who
eloped with Count Folchi, penniless
hunchback, wrote to her father tina,
her home life had become so unbear
| able she could stand it no longer. Dor
jaime obtained q leave of absence
from the twenty-fourth regiment Prus
sian dragons of Lubny, to which he
| was then attached and went to the
! Spanish frontier poste-haste with the
intention of killing Folchi if the latte,
crossed the border into France.
I inherited Traits.
Don Jaime could hardly help inner
iting the traits of politics and action
His father was the third in the line
of pretenders, and had fought. stub
bornly all through his lifetime for tn,
throne. Don james pretensions to the
Spanish throne are based on the
ground that Isabelle. tutor of Ferdin.
and VII, who was Don Carlos grand
uncle, and Christina, mother of Alton.
so XII, owing to the Sale law were
debarred from succession. Don Carlos
by sheer force of arms ruled northern
Spain for four years, but was later
driven over into France.
Thus the pretender comes upon the
scene. Spain is figuratively finan
! cfal corpse. Stripped by the Spanish
American war and not yet recovered
she finds herself facing a situation sc
serious that the disrupt u of ne ma
| ton may hinge upon it. The Kabyle
and Riff tribesmen are prepared tc
put an army Of $4,000 men in the field
all equipped with the latest and mos
deadly firearms. To raise equip ant
keep force of $4,000 men in the fielt
against the tribesmen would shatte1
the poor remnants of SPANS finances
Without war Spain needs money
With war the situation is desperate
The newspapers. save those OF tn,
royalists loyal to Alfonso are teachin.
the people the facts as they see tenn
The pretender is behind the curtain
The stage is set for the greatest ma,
ional drama Europe has seen in de
Icade.