Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 June 1894 — DON CARLOS OF BOURBON. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

DON CARLOS OF BOURBON.

Sketch of tbe Claimant of the Sponlzh Throne. The announcement of the betrothal of Don Car.os to a princess of Bohan is confirmed by a statement in tbe leading organ of the Carlist party in Madrid, the Correo Espanol. Don Carlos is now in his forty-sixth year and is a widower, having lost his first wife, who was a princess of Bourbon and a niece of the Comte de Chambord, last year. S nee 1869 he has been a prominent figure in Spanish politics. He has made several armed efforts to establish his rights to the throne of that .country, and the agitation on his behalf is carried on with unremitting activity by an organization specially subventioned by him. His claims to the Spanish throne are genealogically well founded. He is the direct male heir of the Spanish line of and

It is urged that legitimists have no choice but to indorse his rights. On the death of Ferdinand VII. in 1833, without male issue, the succession passed, according to the legitimist theory, to his brother, Charles V. In 1855 the latter renounced his rights in favor of his son, Charles VI., count of Montemolin, who was succeeded in 1861 by Don Juan, the father of Don Carlos, and Don Juan renounced his rights in favor of Don Carlos in 1868. Meanwhile the throne was ascended in 1833 by Ferdinand Vll.’s daughter, Isabella, grandmother to the present King Alfonso XII. The contention of her supporteis was that the Salic law In Spain had been abolished by a decree issued in 1830 by Ferdinand VIL, but, on the other hand, it is alleged that he was without the right of altering the constitution. The contemplated second marriage of Don Carlos Is not uninfluenced by his position as a pretender. , The princess of Rohan, upon whom

Don Carlos’ choice has fallen, does not belong to either of the royal categories which fill the first two divisions of the Almanach de Gotha, and hence some amount of opposition to the match is to be expected from his leading supporters. The Rohans are a Don-sovereign princely house, although by descent they may claim to consort with the ruling houses of Europe. They are the descendants of the former sovereign dukes of Brittany.

DON CARLOS.

PRINCESS OF ROHAN.