The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-06-16
SWEDEN MAY
 BE REPUBLIC


 If the threat of the Swedish Liberals to overthrow che monarch and estab- nsh a republic is carried into execu- tion-and there is every indication that the Repub1icans of the Seandinavian peninsula are very much in eaTnest--lt ,vsll he a case of chickens come home fo roost for the founder of the royal house of Bernadotte was in his youth z Rapublfcan who carried his passion for liberty to the point of anaTc cnasn- Unless the temper of the Syveoasn peo- pie undergoes a change GustaI VI. may lsa he the last monarch to sit upon the throne of Sweden Gustaf ", Who was born fifty-six years ago today. Jrne Is, 1858, is the great grandson of mat Marshal Bernadotte, French Prince of Poratef CoFvo, who, a century aro won the approval of Europe and the right of succession to the SFeelsn throne by turning against his noE1nsH friend and commancer, Napoleon.
 King Gustafs great-sran ofarifer. q. Bernadotte, was born or peeA7e.l41 E S,S,-,.a - in d tiny cottage near Pau He nao 7Foorfsfl blood in his veins, and oy some i4 vsz,as insisted that he was descenoeo from gypsy stock on the maternal slae- He enlisted in the army at seveaasesn' sL and al thirty became a. general or d1- --,~for i'm the forces of the first rep ub-
 ssnorox those who inveiglFed against royalty. and demanded that 1t be wiped out root and branch. none were more vehement than Citizen Jean Baptiste Jules Bernadotta. He could conceive Of no kesner pleasure than to see the crowned heads of all the rulers of the world shaved from the royal shoulders and topple into the bloody basket alr che frof of the g1fH0tine. When Louis XVI mos1rted the scadoEd to go tp h1s .7ea*r. F3ernadotte watched the specta.- cls with supreme satisfaction- He was no art1-royaIfst like the sqlleam- 5sh A4naricsn deputy Thomas Paine who would have killed the monarchy hut spared the monarch. The militant anarc411sns of today would have found a conEeulal spirit in that officer of the army of freedom who was so vora- cioEs in his lust for royal blood so Dit ter in his denuncdationg of anything that saVcrSd of kinEship~ It was at fffs period of his life. doubtless. that he had tathOoed on his right forearm a picture of the gl1inotine above the motto Mort aux Eeois ct Tyrans'-~ TsssszfF. t, .ll lxlres and tyra1lts'. This ireHaceaa51e record of his early politi- cal convtctions was discovered only after the death of Bernadotte. then King Charles XIV, in 1S44
 Bmnadotts married In 179g Mile. De- siree Caary, the daughter of a stock broker Destree's sister Julie had previously married Joseph Bona partes afte-wax-a King of Spain and New Jer- exile. and D6GfE66 herself was at ons tinne engaged to wed Napcleon. The future Emperor tilted her when he became 1nfatuatsd with Josephine ds Beauharnals- The latter. widowed by the EuiIlot1nes was a woman of un- car4aan morals. In fact. Josephfne was nung af Napo7eonsg head by man whose uzasfreHs she had been. and who was tired Of her. Destree CIary was only slxtasu. slender. graceful and re- nna4kabfy 41eaattfuI and of spotless repuEa1lcn. aB well as being heiress to a ccnsfdersb1e fortune and when Na- pOleo1 degeEosd her for the vol1pfuous Creole he was .denounce<1 by his broth- CT Joseph and by Desiree,s relatives and friends as a knave and a fool. De- siree was lAeartbrUken, but her love soon turned to hatred, and her fI1oHgl1+s were turned 70 revenge. A succession Of generals and nobles sought her hand and heart, but She chcse Baruak1Ottss as her husband. not at the dEctAbea, or affection. but because she believed he was best qualified to aid her in obtainang vengeance upon ' the Corslcan-
 urged her husband along that path throne and it was 'the woman scorri- cdr who Induced Bernsdotte to forget the titles, hoporg and wealth shower a%aange ffs benefactor in his hour of need Yet when he came to the throne. the peasant king never ceased to re- proach his wife because of her lowIy