The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-04-24
FEW KINGS HAVE
EVER COME BACK
Ex-Emperor Karl's Fiasco
Proved a Repetition
of History

To play the man on horseback
sr,ccesSfully requires something
more than horsc. II requires most
Ss all a propitious star. King
Cb,r'es Of Hungary evidently has
,ha wrong kind star. His return
,rou Elba." however carefully
s,aeed and supported has fizzled out.
IL really looks as ~ Charles's re-
,rement from the king business
might be considered permanent
one
There was another Charles once
Who was staged as comeback
and II was a Wild and hilarious one.
charles II Of England was gal
liant and picturesque figure when ne
entered London after the death Of
oliver Cromwell. For II years he
had been a king without Kingdom.
Tho people, sick OF puritanism gave
a dciiriOusly joyful welcome to him
Who wls to become known AS the
merry Monarch
That Charles evidently had a
propit.Ous star, and he must have
emf a dashing figure in his long
hack rurs his plumcd hat and all
the rest Of it. He was more than
Fix zee; tall and woman described
MIN as well made, with swarthy
4 ecmplexlon agreeing well with his
0no black eyes, large ugly mouth.
. graceful and dlgnified carriage
and fine figure"
But he made bad king. He who
never said foolish thing and
never did wise one" does not pre-
sent an encouraging example OF the
sort Of thing Charles OF Hungary
plotted 10 do.
Napolcon's Comeback.
The notorious susceptibility Of the
French people to the attractions Of
man on horseback" had its class
&c example i'm the case OF Napoleon
Bonaparto when he reared his en-
pire on the wreckage of the revolu-
ton. and again when he escaped
from lclba, and. recapturing the al
legiance of his soldiers, drove out
his Bourbon successor and flour
!shed for the hundred days which
ended in the debacle of Waterloo.
, Louis Napoleon spent his life in
Earnest attempts to initiate his H.
lusirous uncle. lie tried the man
on horseback trick at Strassburg
when he was 2S and earned only
ridicule. He tried IT again at Bou-
logne four years later and was shut
up in the fortress of Ham. At last,
managing to get himself elected
president of the republic he engi-
neered that coup d'etat which Vic
tor Hugo so passionately dissected
in his History of a Crime" and
made himself emperor
Napoleon the Little as Hugo
called him, met his finish at Sedan
and dragged out his last years in
exile IN England Another French
man tried 10 initiate him in the
closing years of the last century.
This was Gen. Georges Ernest Jean
Marie Boulanger. a handsome fellow
with a curly moustache and close
cropped beard. whose outward APP
pearance was quite ideal for the
man on horseback role.
The Man on Horseback.
As minister of war General Bou-
LANCER effected some popular re-
forms in the army and somebody
made him the subject of very
catchy music hall song, the ''Bou-
langer March" Everybody was
whistlng il, and II actually made
Boulangor a national hero. He was
'agin' the guv mint" He was for
Ia Belle France, sword In hand.
revenging herself on the barbarous
Prussians Orleanists and malcon-
tents of all parties flocked to his
standard. and for a few years the
republic seemed in danger.
Although BouIanger longed TO ef-
feet coup d'etat he was always
afraid Of the gensdarmes or some
thing. When prosecuted for con-
spiracy he fled to Brussels, and the
Boulanger balloon just went
"Phuh." as it shrank like an empty
sausage skin. After a few years OF
wretched exile the general executed
his final gesture-that OF blowing
out his brains on the grave of a
former mistress.
Would-be man on horseback In the
person Of Don Carlos de Bourbon.
pretender TO the throne OF Alfonso.
lie many times tried 10 work the
return from exile trick. but the po-
ice or somebody always shooed him
away Don Carlos lived in a hand
some palace in Venice with all the
state Of a king eItrrptIudpd nv nm