The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-10-31
Gambetta.

The two greatest orators in France
by which is understood their power to
move the feelings of the peopIe-are
Jules Favre and Gambetta. The first
has so lost character, both in iudgem ent
and as a man of action, among his col
leagues, that he does not appear in his
seat in the assembly. The blatant de-
fiance about not surrendering a foo5 of
wall or an inch of territory TO the Prus-
SLAMS, and the breaking down and We ep-
ing at his interview with BismaI ok,
were too much for his cOuntrymen, and
they covered him with reproaches and
ridiclue. His conduct on these occa-
sions have even lessened the effect of
his pleading before the courts, where
he was once a powerful advocate. Gam
beta has not lost character like Favre,
but it Is the subject of no little discus
sion. Most of his friends aver that he
is as strong in the council chamber as
he is in the tribune or in the reunions
of the people, but there are men of his
party who distrust his judgment as a
leader. He showed, from the fall of the
| commune to the late elections, an ad-
mirable discretion, but committed a
serious blunder in putting forward ex-
| IRENE radical candidates in opposition
to the conservatives favored by Theirs
for this aroused the apprehensiOns of
the right in the chamber, and drove
them into that union which overthrow
the oil. president. The republic was
81 WY but surely gaining ground,
every day, under the rule of Theirs
who III derstands his people and his
epoch a we'll as any man living when
| the ,ru atience of Gambetta, in thrust
I'M trI ward his crude men, some OF
| whose skirts were stained with the blood
| of the commune, alarmed those who had
something to stake in the country, and
formed the present tripartite coalition.
| Those of the left center, sharing the
opinion of Talleyrand that in politics q
blunder is a crime, are naturally bitter
against this young chief for interrupt
ing as he did the growth and develop
ment of the republic. On the other
| hand, the friends OF Gambetta say that
the zeal of his followers in the extreme
left got beyond his control, and that
they imposed their candidates upon him
| and especially Barodet, whose election
| stirred up the right to relentless battle.
In this there is probably some truth,
| for Gambetta is a shrewd politician
and he ,nust have seen, by supporting
| Theirs in a sufficiently conservative
policy to maintain his power, that he
| became his natural successor. Gam
| BETA, as the fiery orator of the tribune
where he appears as if led by impulse
alone, is deceptive. He knows what he
| is doing when he looks as if burning tC
| a white heat, and his words are as dis
Greet as if he wrote them down in the
| quiet of his cabinet. He is one of those
men who, beginning their political life
as agitators, become conservatives aftel
assuming the responsibilities of power
and it is safe to predict, if Gambett'
proves successful, five or ten year.
hence, that no man will be a stouter de
fender of the then existing institution
than he. His position at this time is
singular one he strides the left and tn
! extreme left, foot in each, and ever
reaches to the edge of the left center
He is the political friend of Theirs a
well as of Jules Favre and of Ranc, ant
he has done more toward keeping tn
three divisions together in Legislative
action than any other man. His afini
ties are more pronounced for the left
and his manifestation of friendship 70
the extreme left is probably for tn
purpose of using it to arrive at the pos
session of power. The extreme left
turbulent, with something of the spiri
of the commune, in the way of sacrifc
ing its favorites, and this doubles
Gambetta is well aware of; hence, tn
dav when he shall have climbed to tn
place which he covets, if he ever does
one of his first acts will probably be t
draw up the ladder after him aud leav
his radical friends below in the lurct
whereupon there will of course be tn
usual chorus about being betrayed
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