New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-05-28
THE COALITION OF MoNARCHIsTs.

LESSONS OF THE MISREPRESENTATION OPPOSE
TON TO THE REPUBIIC-How THE MAJORITY Is
CoMPosED-CIAss PREJUDICEs.
lFRoM THE REGULAR CORRESPONDENT OF THE TRIBUNE.l
PARIS, May 14.-The elections of last Sunday are
the continuation of those of last April which were
but the continuation. repetition with emphasis, of
the lesson taught in their general course by all the
partial elections since 1871 The lesson is Of advice
to NJ Theirs and of reproof to the Assembly The
emphasis lies in this that while, in the earlier part
of these trials united republicans of all shades al
most invariably defeated monarchsts III these later
ones radical republicans triumph candidates
whose success would be preferred by the President.
The Assembly, that is, the scant majority of mo-
narchical members of that distracted body,
kick against the pungent reproOf. The more
strongly the current of opinion sets against them,
the more passionately they search for devices for
damming it. Terribly scared at its rising flood,
they are equally incapable of that large historical
survey looking back TO its deep and forward
to its inevitable expansion, which should make
them Jeld to its fatal drift in patriotic hope of
presently guiding the ship of state, and of that
poetic vision in which Hugo sees it revealed; 1T
is not tide, 1t is the deuge" Nay, if they believed
it were the deluge still their fancy would be TO ride
it out in chosen vessel of their own, taking in only
first saloon passengers.
Notwithstanding their proverbal reputation of
impotence for falsehood we air know that.fgures
can tell what George Washington in his early le-
gendary vigor could not But the returns in ciphers
Of the elections ofthe 9th April and nth May this
year. studiOusly compared withthose of the general
elections of 1871 and Of the intervening partial cleo
tions do have larger value of indicative meaning,
and on the whole, of more precise meaning than all
other experimental measures of what the French
people desire. They want quiet to be done with
the provincial state that has existed for the past
three years. TO pass out Of that into some sort of
permanency by formal assertion aud better confirm
alton of the actually legal but not formally asserted
republican form Of government.
The Monarchists more and less pure and simple,
Will not consent, nor, when confirmed assent to q
Republic IN any conditions The Parliamentary
docfrndue' could possibly be brought TO assent to
It's Bfoclanations. but only in an open or mentally
reserved condition that it be ogarchic not demo
cratic republic virtually subjected TO their superior
class rule The incompact and impoltie majority Of
the no longer National Assembly is composed of
three classes OF frankly declared Monarchiss and Of
possibly rallied Republican Parliamentary Doctrin-
aires, who are mentally reserved Monarchists. The
affections of NJ. Theirs are with these last. His
Opinions are more advanced in this. that as unwil-
ingly az they, but without any mental reservation
THANKS 10 MS superiority OF intellect and clear his
torie vision-he not only submits in passing but ac-
cePts and insists on the Republican form not as the
best but ~ the only practically possible permanent
form, which any Government of France henceforth
can bear-whch Nineteenth Century Frenchmen
will bear.
Bat ThieSs 10 an old man, legal Journalist TO his