The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1912-11-15
COUNT ROMAN0NESI IS
new SPANISH PREMIER
Former President Of Deputies
Will Retain Cabinet
of Canalejas.
ALPHONSO IN BAD WAY
Belief in Paris Is That Days
Of Monarchy Are Num-
bered.
IN BAD WAY

Special Cable DespsscAss to Tss SuS.
MADRID, Nov. 14.-Codnt Romanones
was appointed Premier OF Spain to-day.
succeeding the late Jose Canalejas. who
was assassinated on Tuesday. The Count
is Liberal who has nevvr been very
prominent in political life.
Count Romanones was formerly Min.
lister Of the Interior and up till 4 short
time ago President Of the Chamber OF
Deputies. He has been frequently men.
toned as the logical successor Of Can
alejas. even before the latter's assas-
sinatlon on Tuedsy.
1t was announced that Count Ro-
manones had decided to retain all the
Ministers belonging to the Cabinet of
the late Premier Canalejas.
Senior Moret y Pendergast. formerly
Premier and Minister of Justice. has
been appointed President Of the Cham.
Der Of Deputies.
Count Romanones has held portfolios
in various Cabinets. He was formerly
Minister Of the Interior. Minister Of
Justice and Minister Of Public Instruc-
ton.
Spanish oficials and police az to-day
convinced that Manuel Pardinas. the an
archist who shot and killed the Premier.
Sehor Canalejas. and then committed
suicide by shooting himself. is the man
who attempted to take the life OF King
Alfonso and President Loubet In Paris.
Pardinas died without making q state
ment. For some time before his death.
in fact since the attempts on the lives of
Alfonso and Loubet, he had been
closely watched. 1t Is known that he
made q trip to South America. He was
expelled from Argentina for fomenting
anarchfstic riots. He spent some time
in Tampa, Fla.
Senor Canalejas's body has been en-
tombed in the Spanish Pantheon. King
Alfonso walking behind tho hearse from
the Chamber Of Deputies. The press
condemns the assassination.
PARIS. Nov. 14.-Former Premier Mo-
ret's refusal to resume the leadership of
the Spanish Cabinet rs successor to the
late Premier Canalejas was referred to
In Government circles here to-day as
significant Of the desperate situation In
which King Alfonso has been placed by
Senor Canaleiass death.
The Spanish monarchy's difficulty for
a long time, 1t was said. has been TO
provide an administration which was
not so reactionary as to precipitate .
revolution. without turning directly to
the revolutionists. Former Premier
Maura's administration was o: the for
mer type. 1t brought on the Barcelona
outbreak in 1910 and would have ended
in the overthrow Of the monarchy II
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riediy. Then Moret. a Liberal, tried his
hand and failed In few weeks. Cana
le1as succeeded him and did 50 we'll
that he staved of the downfall Of the
throne longer than any one here con-
sidered possible when he took office.
Moret was then the monarchy:s last
hope. however. and that Alfonso should
have turned to him again despite the
proof he had given OF his inability to
stem the revolutionary current was
looked on as showing conclusively the
hopelessness Of the outlook for the
present Government.
1t Is the belief here that with the
death Of Canalejas the days Of the
Spanish monarchy are numbered.
LONDON. Nov. 1.-THE Daily Tele-
graph in a despatch from Madrid states
that the postmortem on Sarrate. the
assassin Of Premier Canaletas. proves
him TO have been a physical and men
tul degenerate OF the worst possible
type. The correspondents OF other
London papers do not refer to the msn
as either dead or alive. The Datly
Tcle0rdph's correspondent had the man
dead yesterday: the others did not
Perhaps the Daily Tcie0raph's CORE.
spondent In acting to accommodate the
Spanish police. who may be represent
ing the man as dead IN order to avoid
the publicity Of the trial with . pos.
sible agitation similar to that which
ensued following the execution at Bar
celona of Francisco F"rrer'