New-York tribune., 1873-05-17
TBELATE FRENCH ELECTIONS

A
tFRoM THE REGULAR CoRREsPoEDESr OF THE iADD'
PARIs April 30.-The sum OF votes cast ln
the eight departments widely distant from eacn otne'
some with a large town, some with iarge ~ oosDu1
population, was in round numbers so0Wo vi '"'
10000 were east for monarchical eandidates' ono "
whom was elected by small majority, ana IZo'oO'oA
candidates OF erent shades OF repuDicansm OF Wh"
seven elected lie Temps. after deductihe @O"u'
10000 probably belonging 20 the Right center ana
ives approximately the remaining republican eio"Os
as follows: 270,Ooo Radicals, 10000 hode'~.s
Left aud 5000 Lett Center. lie Temps Hsen
is Moderate Left and eminent in the French press ior
calrness Of tone and general sOundness OF Judgment
suppose wever that inevitable prejudice has caused
It 70 make rather little deduction account OF the
more liberal or prudent members of the Right Center
We may st safely assume that more than tbree-iourts
of ALI citizens who chose 20 exercise their nights last
Sunday whether Paris or In remote country villages
whether in the CENTER east west south Of the coun
try. pronounced for a Republican Governments ana
against. Monarchy. Although partial these eectohs
had then a distinguishing general or national and
nlcbiscitum character. And this last distinguishing
character. It Is 20 Dc remaiA'u' NN
forced on Them. as IL "ee' Wy ~
National Assembly, by that portion OF IL WI"
while claiming 10 themselves CONSTITUTIONS Po"f
have NOT only rniseraby failed to solve any eonsulf
oot estions hui have principally applied their weas
powers 10 adjourn and embarrass their solution Anu
vet IL IL they with their minority OF supporters "ho 10
face Of this last manifestation OF the haIionai "'
assert more arroganty than ever themselves 20 DO ~
only true Representatives OF the nation ana deanu
more i'm Derousy than ever that the Government snouo
rule IL by their aid alone, IN accordance win theh
views But II they are bolder than ever IN their pre-
tentiops they are propOrtionablY more scared ana
auccred than ever their fear ami hatred OF unYersal
suffrage has waxed notably since Sunday, small as was
already their trust love for that henceforth SUP
constitutional element of French public life
1t is quite remarkable that sincere emotion since then
has OBJ aimed the advantage over swaSgerng pTetene
with the Bonapartists. Que at least Of their most
influential papers came out Monday morning haty
repudiang the present the favorte Bonaparu' doc
trne OF Appeal 10 the People with them the doctrine
IL always sound but and practically II is rotieh o'
lust now evidently the good sensible masses are "ne'
II ia only when properly administered by the Io'efh-
mept that the universal suffrage test can be- saiely ex
hibed The principal thing for the moment Il TO reform
the administration giving rm. regular guidance 70 the
peope What ls absolutely necessary to the saiVaon
of France and civilization, OF "hch u y Inv
head is complete set OF conservative administrative
officers from gems d'armes and gdrdes Joresrs up %
projects. This can only be seated bya rigltmiaded
Minister OF the Interior and other members OF hono-
genous Cabinet which only be had through appoint
ments by the President acting with the hsht or the
Assembly. Therefore, II ~ Tlers Is a toer'oly intel
hcent patriot he will throw himself into the Conserve
tive arms. The Republicans argue from the ate elec-
tons that NJ Theirs, II WISE patriotic statesman VIII
throw himself into their arms
But while the three hostile monarchcal parties under
pressure OF this fright, temporarily nteriace their arms
trucuently inviting such embrace the three Ropno-
can parties stretch theirs pressing ne same SUIT
Meantime the President has 20 look 10 Ills legs on Whn
u Is doubtful lie stand at all, except Oh the de-
batable ground amid all parties where alone hitherto ne
has. swaying now this way that managed 20 Keep
foothold The apparent tendency Of the late elections
Is to weaken his hold that position. But II s singu
larry easier French partsans on either side to say
that he ought 70 theirs than 70 show no" he
safely can and much easier for the outside Lofao"
Times to write that he evidently must renounce ms
policy OF balancing compromise, ond resolutey take
ms place with the conquernG party, than 70 prescribe
| what the new policy practically could DE or define
| the new place he is TO occupy.
Tie great dividing line between Monarchists and Re
publicans s certainly more marked ana marks the nf
mericaI inferiory OF MJnarchsts n the country more
! distinctly Than it did two weeks But whatever
new light (lnd or the clearesD which me Last
elections east path that unfctercd leader Vi
an obedent people had best pursue should De Kept IN
mind that Theirs Is not American President nor Engsf
Minister. yet, though present legal chief oI the
French State, so cOncecd OF his own superiority ant
divine appointment 70 rule the world OF others, not
contemptuous feow-men, recklessly ambitiow
as 10 violate law the better conservation o.
right" President Of the French Republic he II
80 by appointment and suderance OF the Assembly.
The dissolution that out, ntatye body
is the leading OF nearly all real Republicans, th,
special pressing aim OF all radical Republicans. Well
said the President TO deputaOn OF these two days ago
Il can't dissolve the Assembly; it is It's own owner let
alone mne Engage itself TO itself; do not object
This pendant this constant argument IN answer
10 the sesypd Conservatives in aud out Of that body
who alternately him 70 govern and blame him FOR
not governing, with them for sustaining majority;
"WeIl; prove yourselves majority, and inevitably
shoIir ale bV vou ar he Il ont
Apart from this formally irrefutaDle, clevcflY p9ue
argument there lies in the nature OF French things 40
unquesonably great probability that VI. Thers 10
express his personal opinion IN favor OF dissolution Of
the actual Assembly. after the nual Liberation or the
territory with potveness he has expressed several
other opinions IN the last years and procured
their definite expires lion in legislation, he would and
thinks he could morally enforce the dissolution before
the year Conscious that the nature Of the French
case requires and that the majority of the French
people for settled republican goyernmentwhy does
not he so express his opnionl Because Is not his Be-
cause while his general conviction Is that republic
only is possible the title and form. mis- political opn-
ons batting the outer form aud title, are, as his
personal sympathies with those sensible monarchiss,
hardly past the frontier marches Left CenteF
ana the moderately Old Republican Left.
NJ. Theirs is neither ignorant nor tImOrous neither
ixedly doeTnare afflicted with class blindness OF
pretentious seconcet neither arrogant to claim every
thing and in turn cowardly ready TO yield everything.
in the way Of political control OF the country, the
great the bourgeoise vie with their cant OF the
glorious principles OF 1889. from which be sprung anu
keeps nigh above. But he is bourgeois all the same Re-
publican historic fates ntegenily questioned
will it, he is republican pOcan,as statesman eyen
fellow OF the people. Less than two years ago. NJ
Theirs. officially speaking. designated ~ GamDetta az
raving madman. The policy OF the Radicals ID setting
up Barodet against NJ Thierss friend and Minister oc
Foreign Affairs may be questioned This deVelopment
Of it was bitterly provoked advance, and needlessy