THE AMERICAN.
HOHENLOHE FOR POPE.
Tripl Alliance Slates a German
Cardinal to Succeed Leo.
The famlidalr In tlie Itn.lh.r f tiv
JiNrr' Sow liHtirrllor, and itt 0
MiM'd y tlit JomiII.
15KKI.1X, Nov. a. -"ThouhaH be my
clianct'llors." So mul the convincing
cipher dlnmU h. imilttd hy lh t'niTor
In pomm, which trade the veteran who
pnly a few wick mro aked to U re
lieved of the Imin rlHl lieutenancy of
Alfaco-Irratne. HvatiMS he had Known
too old for the M-rviee, afimnte a ten
timm more burdensome and harder
tack.
Caprivl, after all, (scarcely a'xve
the commoner; Wore he w made
cbareellor of the royal army Hut used
to abbreviate the prefix of tho lower
nubility In front of h la name, tolndt
cato that hi claim to knighthood even
were doubtful. With Ilohenlohe Schtl
!!rcfuer8t It la anotherthlnc. Ilia an
cestors, two hurdred year ngo. ranked
equal with the Ilohenzol'erna in the
holy Reman empire of German nation
ality; the title of prince was conferred
upon them when tho eovereipn of Prus
sia wss still known aa "le petit Mar
quise de Brandenbourp," when the
pope denounced him aa a "church rob
ber," and the Get man kaiser refused
to address him otherwise than aa "your
excellency." Well, the preat Frederick
chanced all that, and when the Ilohen
lohe persisted In Ignoring him, forced
them to acknowledge tho suzerainty of
the margraves of Apsbaoh, who had
agreed to let their dcmlnlena be united
with Prussia In tho absence of male
heirs.
Prince Clodwlg la never been above
profiting by the experiences of his
family. When, in 18U, the hated Prus
sians assumed German leadership ho
advised his suzerain (the king of Ha
vana, whofinally succeeded In Ansbaeh
by way of an exchange of territory) to
submit to the inevitable and neck to
strengthen hia own position by an alli
ance with the victor. Four years later,
just after resigning tho Bavarian prem
iership, he again advised the king, in
his capacity as1 hereditary councilor of
stale, to declare war against France
for the benefit of Prussia.
A diplomat, then, and a business man
Is this prince of Holier, lohe-Sehilllngs-fuerst.
Yes, and above all, a grand
seigneur.
Kaiser Wilhelm, In his Kucnlgslx-rg
speech, likened the aristocracy of the
realm to evergreen Ivy entwining the
royal throne. Eugene Rlchter in con
sequence rofe to say that his party, the
Frelsinnlgo, would watch the crawling
exercises of knights and princes with
compassion, preferring to face the
spectacle standing up boldly in the
stirrups. Thereupon there was a great
uproar among the members of "his
majesty's most submissive opposition,"
the national liberals and the ultra
montane: the arlstocrataof the Ilohen
lohe stripe on the other hand rathe
enjoyed the simile. They are haughty
enough to those "below them." The
sovereign, who has it in his power to
confer higher ranks and decorations,
or, also, clip their wlnga by closing his
door against them, Is in their eyes the
true representative of the deity, whom
, they serve without asking bothersome
questions.
William has long fished for a man so
constituted. He would have nominated
Hohenlohe a'ter Bismark's fall if fam
ily tradition that la, the wish of the
dying William II had not pointed to
ward Caprivl, for with all his professed
progresslvem ss William like Brldgen,
dearly loves a lord.
Re prefers noblemen, not only for
social reasons, but, as already pointed
out, on account of their endearing ten
dency for obedience to the imperial will.
The chancellor-elect Is not only a prince
but a fuerat, that is, an actual chief of
a princely house. And he is not fuerst
In name only, but a natural toy mon
arch reigning over 6,000 souls, as thev
call it In Germany. These 6,000 are
nominally Bavarians, to whose govern
ment they pay taxes and which enlists
the men into military service, besides
administering to the post and tele
graph; but In all other respects, eco
nomically and in respect to home rule,
they are subjects of Prince Hobenlohe
SchiHingsfuerst. The principality is situated in Mid
dle Franconia near the Wurtemberg
frontier and three miles west of Ans
baeh. It comprise a territory of one
square German miles, including two
town j and several villages. ScMllings
fucrs'i, Is She capital. It has 3,000 in
habitants and a residential cattle high
up in the mountains, resembling an an
cient fortress. The prince owes evei y
thlng In the town and everybody as
well, as everybody is either a princely
tenant or official. His grace adminis
ters justice as well as spiritual advice,
fir he nominates the judge, who pro
nounces sentence in the name of the
Fuerst, and engages the pastor of "his"
Catholic church, who, at the conclusion
of mass, prays aloud "for the princely
house," adding a benediction for "our
gracious suzerain" the king of Bavaria.
The church contains the grave of
thb princes of HoMnlohe which, by
their gorgeous arccpbagl, take up
more room than Is alotted to living
worshipper, always excepting the
"reigning family," of courae, that alts
In a mdiI theatrical hex embellished
with crests and baldachin to the right
of the high altar.
The townsH'ople do not benefit In the
least by the provision of the Bavarian
constitution guaranteeing to each com
munity the right of electing a mayor
ard a city council and of regulating ex
pense according to its wants. In Schil
ling sfuerst as well as In other towns of
the principality, Frankenhcln, the
prince decides about the local taxes to
bo levied and about the manner in
which they are to lw sjwnt. If the clt
irp desire Improvements to be made
they must petition hi grace and his
grace will consider the matter In course
of time. His grace likewise issues par
dons, except in the case of capital pun
ishment, when the remission of penalty
must be connterslgned by the king of
Bavaria. There Is no such thing as
municipal jKilice. The Schilling
fuei stors are kept in order by "princely
court chasseurs."
The state religion is Catholic. Pro
testants will not Ik) suffered to build
churches within a radius of sixteen
English miles comprising the princi
pallty. Jews must worship in these
elusion of their houses.
If the Fuerst is residing In his capital
100 select young men and veterans must
act as his body guard. They wear real
uniforms and real weaons. They have
a colonel, a captain, and sevoral lieu
tenants. The Fuerst himself acts as
commanding general.
All thla and more royal prerogatives
have been conferred upon the prince of
Hohenlohe, as well as twenty or twenty
five other mediatized lordlings, by the
Vienna congress that rearranged the
map of Europe after tho downfall of the
first Napoleon. The most valuable
"right" held by these worthies Is the
Immunity from taxation and from mili
tary service. The prince chancellor
may import as many got ids as he pleases,
If ho says they are for use In his family
or among his ofllclals; no custom-house
ofllcer c'are levy duty on them. Like
wise all the letters written by himself,
members of his family, or his ofllclals
pass through the malls of tho father
land free of charge. The Genran
reichstag has more than once tried to
abolish these privileges smacking of
tho middle ages, but the princes and
lords are unwilling to yield them up
excpt for a tremendous equivalent in
money.
Personally the new prince chancellor
is a very amiable man, and not unpro-
gresslve as long as the prerogatives of
bis caste remain untouched. As soon
as Eugene Rlchter and his compatriots
begin to nag his grace on questions of
regallsra, or regality (territorial juris
diction), they will find the new chan
cellor an obstinate, though silent op
ponent. Ilohenlohe has always thought
It beneath the dignity of a prince of
the ancient regime to fight hia own
battles in parliament, that most modern
of political institutions as far as Ger
many is concerned. His state secre
taries will echo his grace's views and
opinions publicly, which relieves the
c' ancellor from all embarrassments
arising through sudden attacks and the
heat of debate.
As It behooves so powerful and rich a
grand seignore, Prince Hohenlohe has
always tried to increase his importance
and family fortune by alliances with
other great nobles. His wife, the
Princess Marie Antoinette, is a daugh
ter of the house of Sayn, which, like
the house of Ilohenlohe, enjoys royal
privileges and has been declared fit for
intermarriage with princes and prin
cesses of the blood royal. His eldest
son and "Crown Prince" Philip is the,
husband of the Princess Ypsllanti,
whose family Is among the largest
landed proprietors in the world. He
has one daughter, Elizabeth, who pre
ferred becoming an old maid to marry
ing a man not above her own caste. His
two younger sons are yet unmarried.
A brother of Hohenlohe has accepted
a dukedom from the crown of Prussia.
He is known as the Duke of Ratibor,
Lord of Klefers t:v-dtel and Zembowltz,
two territories in Prussian Silesia,
where hunger-typhus appears every
winter with dreadful regularity. The
great social drama by Gerard Haupt
mann, "Die Weber," represents types
and scenery from the dukedom of Rati
bor. Indeed, the grace's starving
tenants are the dramatist's persona'.
The piece has been played in Berlin
recently, but it is doubtful if it will ever
be seen again on the public stage here,
now that the feudal slave driver's
hrother has assumed the German chan
cellory. The leading politicians of Europe
contend that Hohenlohe will never be
a Gladstone in regard to retaining ca
pacities for work. At the very best
they gave him five years in office. Ia
1899, they say, the present crown prince
will be old enough to assume the throne
of Alsace Lorraine, which is to be
raised to a grand duchy, or kingdom,
for the benefit of the eldest son of each
king of Prussia during his sire's life
time. But in these five years of his
regency one great epoch-making event
will occur that is liable either to con
vulse or pacifv Europe for times un
known the election of a successor to
Leo XIII.
Fuerst Hohenlohe's second brother,
Gustave, 1 the well-known cardinal
and arch priest of Santa Maria Mag
glore, who boes to be the next pope,
and In this aspiration Is bricked by the
Italian government, as well as hy his
relatives. theemnror of Germany and
Aus'rla.
In September last eruUsarie of a'l
thcr MitentatJ-8 met in secret session
in Buda-Pesth during Emperor Francis
Jo'teph'a sojourn then;. The object
was to ffect a combination mil tig
themselves and O'ber friendly sover
eigns, notably the rulers of Belgium
and England, that would lead to Car
dinal Hohenlohe's election to the holy
see, the projectors claiming that such a
scheme, if carried out, would presup
pose a formal and lasting truce between
Vatican and quirinal, as well as a bet
terment of the relations betwcei Aus
trla and Paly. If tho differences be
tween Austria and I aly are once set
tled, It was argued, the triple alliance
will stai d firmer than ever before, es
pecially as a German pope would enlist
the sympathies of the Catholic British
ers for the triple a liance and brln the
chief political party of Belgium to an
appreciation of German leadership and
influence.
It is said that Francis Joseph, Will
lam, and Umberto agree to accept none
other but a German as a successor to
Loo XIII, and that of all the candidates
Cardinal Ilohenlohe was voted the one
best fitted for the office. Since then,
the Westphalian Catholics, who play a
leading part in Germany, have en
dorsed Hohenlohe's can Udacy, and the
cardinal has also secured the backing
of Prin3e Alois Liechtenstein, chief of
the Austrian Catholics. With the sup
port of emperors and kings, political
par lies and leaders, and a brother at
the head of the leading power of the
world, Cardinal Hohenlohe's chances
for the three crowns of St. Peter are
indeed most brilliant.
Who knows but these considerations
have played a part in tho selection of
Prince Hohenlohe-Schlllingfuerst for
tho post vacated by Caprivl. One thing
Is certain, Cardinal Hohenlohe's can
didacy kept the Jesuits out of Germany
for several years, when the Kaiser and
Caprivl personally were not opposed to
their readmittance. The Jesuits have
an interest in seeing an Italian crowned
pope. They are fighting Cardinal Iloh
enlohe, and Prince Hohenlohe-Sehil-licgfucrst
has made it his business to
fight the Jesuits whenever an oppor
tunity offers Itself. He fought them as
Bavarian Prime Minister from ISiifi to
1870; he fought them In the Bavarian
Chamber as a Deputy, and he continued
to fight them as a member of the fed
eral government and as imperial lieu
tenant in Alsoce-Lorraino. That is one
of the reasons why the ultramontane
press of Germany is not satisfied with
the Catholic chancellor.
Berlin society is delighted with the
change, for the prince will make the
old Radzlwlll palace on Wilhelm strasse
his official residence, once more the
center of aristocratic entertainments.
He Is Immensely rich and inclined to
outrival even his sovereign In pimp
and circumstances. Half the great
manufacturers in Alsace-Lorraine sport
signs Inscribed, "Purveyor to the
court of Prince Hohenlohe-Schllllngs-
fuerst." It has been announced already
that his grace's sons. Prince Philip,
Maurice, and Alexander will take up
their residence In the Radzlwlll palace.
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