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Show ARISTOCRATS ! ASSERT OnO i IS NEW KING I I Legitimist Proclamation Sets Forth Charles's Son Is Monarch HORTHY IS STRONGER Hungarian Government Gains Strength From Death of Ex-Emperor Bl DAPKST, April 4. (By The Associated As-sociated Tress ) A legitimate proclamation procla-mation dtcliiring that "with the douth r Charles, Utto. the Second 16 klntr of Hungary, although temporarily prevented pre-vented from oronation," has been issued. is-sued. Signed by 10 aristocrats, headed head-ed by I'ount Albert Apponyl. Cardinal Czernoch, primate of Hungary, Hun-gary, made the declaration toda that In his opinion Otto hud become king. .Municipal council has adopted a resolution re-solution by Count Apponyl that the former emperor ho burled In Budapest Buda-pest Through thi coming elections the; people must decide the question and olect 8 kiOS if the monnrchlnl form is preferred orm.n CANDIDATES Candidates for tli ; throno are springing up again s:rong parties forming for the support of the Arch-dukes Arch-dukes Aibrecht nnd Joseph Ferdinand, but many deputies are reviving thej proposal for the election .if an Kn-gllfh Kn-gllfh prlnee The party favoring Francis Joseph into eldest son of tho dead monarch, howeveri unquestionably unquestion-ably Ls the strongest. Although the llrrltlmtsts ;ire united on a platform upholding the olaims of Otto and their program Is growing I more radical. Ihe Indications are that J Charles' d'-ath has strengthened tlu position of the government of Ad- I mirai Horthy, the regent. The menace I of a putsch, or uprising, has lost Its I acutencss and the opinion is growing that Otto will lose the support pfj those pro-Tlapsburgs who founded, Charles' claim to the throne on thej fact of his coronation LL RIGHTS . M The government is Conceding tho legitimist le-gitimist desires for national mourning ' as for a sovi-rlgn. and also has stated then is no objection to the burial of I Charles In Hungary, If he expressed J such a wish in his testament As regards the chilnis put forward for Otto 'be government Insists lhat the rights of all the Hapsburga were abrogated bv the dethronement of Otto Which is barred by that law de-pend-i on the consent of the allied i powers. 00 I |