New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-01-14


whose drum-beaii heard round the world.
NJ. d. C.
FRANCE
TIE vERIFICATON OF PowERs-A FARCE OF
FRAUp-RADICAL SATIRE.
IRON OR OWN CORRESPONDENCE
PARIS, Dec. PA citizen of NewYork who has
come to Paris fondy hoping that there is one point,
at least in which.his city" the center Of all intel
ligence and all human activity; the very soul of
France" as the distinguished Project of the Seine,
NJ Haussmann, oils her in his recent speech-must
yield the palm t. Gotham that is in the corruption
of politics. and he dishonesty Of her public men, can
hardly have real the newspapers during the last four
weeks with much self-congTatulation. The exhibit
ton of its dishonesty, its base subseryiency its
smaness of spirit its ignorance of the first princ-
pies Of real politics. which the Chamber has made to
all the world during the tedious yerifcation of power
not yet completed nor likely to be until the exp-
ration of the year-has done more to make people
doubt the power of The french for sef-government
than all the revolutionary talk and writing, nay
than all the revolutionary acts of the Democratic
party during the last twenty years. L en-
deavored, in my last letter, to sketch
as clearly as my limited space would permit,
the method pursued in the examination of the cleo
tions of the deputies but space and time would both
fail me if were TO endeavor to give you such de-
scrption of the several contested cases rs would
make clear to all your readers the various reasons
why these elections contested, and so put you IN
possession of the full proof of the dishonesty, the
chicanery the absence Of political morals and poht-
ica logic which must exist in body like the Cham
Der in order that elections procured by such means
should be validated. they have constantly been by
large maiorites. very clever writer IN that COM
columns of the Rappel-M Edouard Lockroy-tred
the other night to satirize the tedious but by no
means brief comedy of the Notification of Powers
and though he succeeded in being amusing, thing
difficult for him TO fail in, his satire was so near the
melancholy truth that it almost missed point.
Come" said he, eve are tired OF reading
every morning of what they did yesterday IN the
Corps Legislatif; let play at prophesy little and
tell you what they viii do tomorrow! The re-
uorter brings ND the case of NJ Tel. who is the Gov
eminent candidate. NJ. Tel has received an immense
majority but there have been certain charges against
him which (the reporter) will now examine. First,
it is charged that the Government candidate offered
every person who would vote for him p francs In
answer to this charge would say, What OF ltF In
that aecursed period of tine history of France Heart
hear! on the right In 1873! Tires Ben! Tres Bien9
In the time of the Republic! Torrents of appause
The Government candidate is accused of having
offered to build forty-two railroads leading to
the chief town of his Department, to construct
sixteen new traffic roads, and to Macadamize them,
and in fine TO level large hill in the neghbOrhood
of the town, all of which undertakings were indeed
begun but abandoned the day after his election.
Gentlemen it is true that the Government candi-
date promised all these things, and that he began
them. If he abandoned them the day after his
election il was partly for want of money and partly
because his duty as deputy[Tres Bien Tres Bien!I
his duty to France !-[ShOuts of frantic applauseI
where eagles II DelTium on the Iight.l Gentle
men, will now consider the third objection The
candidate is accused of having caused the voters for
the opposition to be fusaded in the public
square, 1t is true, gentlemen-lTres Bien !!
Tres Bien !l-true that it his painful duty
to deprive the opposition in this summary way
of several hundred votes marks of vivid approval
the right but these men were not shot down as
voters but because it was feared that they might
under certain circumstances, disturb public order!
Tires Bienl Vive Empereur!] | conclude, gentle
men, with a remark upon the last charge brought
against one candidate. He is accused, when 1T was
evident that the fusilade had not sufficiently purged
the community of the element of disorder of having
Transported several hundred voters to Cayenne This
incident has been entirely misunderstood. The
Government did not transport anybody to Cayenne
In its generosity it instituted series of pleasure
parties to that portion of the coast of South America
and invited the voters of the opposition to take
tickets. Loud applauseI Gentlemen, in that ac-
cursed period of the history of France! screams
and yells of applausel In lS4S lVive / Empereur1
In the time of the Repubc [Paroxysms of frantic
delight on the right Glory! Eagles! France~
[Several members of the right are carried out by
their Wallets in state of corruption1 The Presidents
Gentlemen, all the charges against the candidate
having been admitted and proved, declare his cleo
ton validated"
Now put against this, in addition to the facts
stated in my last letter, the two followIng In the
case of one election il found that the Mayor of
certain town not having shown sufficient ZEAL as was
thought in the interest Of the official candidate, tho
project of the Department actually sent medical
man. whose speciality is the investigation OF insanity
TO examine into his mental condition. and this ex-
animation was made in spite Of the Mayors own pro-
test and that of his family who knew him to be of
perfectly sound mind The whole of this shameful
story thanks to the courage and perseverance, OF w.
Jules Favre was dragged into the daylight Of the
Chamber: but it could not shame the Government.
and the election of the candidate Tor whose success
no means were too base to resort to was validated 10y
| a large majority. This is what FORBADE dc Ia RO-
auette means, no doubt, by diminishing the major
! ity of the opposition by moral meansW &C.
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