New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-04-01
aged by the testimony Of ex-District Attorney
Davis.
ran WEEK FOB Dr. DE BROGLIE.

A BAD WEEK FOB d. DE BROGLlE'
Ybe reactionist party in France have just
suffered new defeat which, taking into con-
sidcrotion all the circumstances, is one of
the most significant they have experienced
since the accession of Marshal MacMahon to
mower. On Sunday last elections were held IN
the department Of the Gironde and In That OF
the Upper Marine to fill vacancies IN the
Assembly. In both departments the Republic
cans were again victorious. This makes nj
teen ont of sixteen seats they have carried IN
spite of the utmost exertions OF the Govern
mcpt and the majority of the Assembly. II
seems to make 10 difference where the cleo
tions are held. what is the character Of the
candidates or the constituency. No man seems
nonuI A. enough to bear the flag of reaction
successfully. The towns and large cities are
of course overwhelmingly Republican. but
what IS much more important IN half
| dozen recent elections, the rural population
has ranged itself beside the skilled artisans OF
| the towns in favor of the Liberal cause.
There are several reasons why the issue OF
tbe voting on Sunday in the Gironde should
Give especial encouragement to the Rcpubh-
cans. a. il will doubtless be the cause OF serl-
|
tbouebt themselves strong in the department.
| The Project is one of the most Jealous OF NJ.
de Broglic's lieutenants, and under his an-
| ministraton the Government has gwen Iuii
| rein to its new policy of dismlssinS all the
MAYORS who are not true to the party, and OF
sunnlying their places with stanch adherenis
Of fhe monarchy. Il is stated by the usually
well Uniformed Courier of this city that Nj.
| Pascal has operated the official gulilotine
with such zeal and industry that 40 RepuDll-
can Mayors have been removed in that single
| department and that only four have been per-
mitted TO remain. 1t is certain therefore, that II
the present system of political management was
to succeed in France, its chance was as goou
IN tle Gironde as anywhere else. The Mon
archists felt so strong that they INDUCED In
| the luxury of bolt, which is less dangerous
there than here, where plurality elects. Adj
miral Larrieu ran merely as supporter OF
| Marshal MacMahOn and champion OF moral
| order But Gen. Bertrand, son OF the faith
| full officer who followed the first Emperor 10
| st. Helena, thought that the recent ceremonies
at Chiselhurst would be an excellent adver-
tjsement of his candidature, and so announced
| himself as Bonapartist, pure and simple.
|
| The cable has not yet informed us how the
basbful Monarchst and the blatant lmperialist
stood in relation to each other, but the fact
that the Republican beat them both together
proves how ineffective has been all the DIS
| cipline to which the department has been
Subjected by the Versailles Government.
| That no element of significance might be
lacking to the defeat, the successful candi-
| date is one of the functionarics dismissed Tor
| his Republican principles.
In the department of the Upper Marine the
Republicans have made decided gain, having
elected their representative to seat formerly
occupied by NJ. Lesp6rut of the Right. Ii
would certainly seem that these repeated
blows would at last beat the idea even into
heads as impermeable as those OF the ducal
Ministry of MacSIahon, that the French people
do not want OF need King, and might better
be allowed to govern themselves. But there
! is no indication of any such result. On the
contrary everything seems to show that the
courage of the Ministers is equal to their OBJ
stinacy, and that they have made up their
minds to retain Office by every means which
| their tenure of power and the assistance of
the Assembly can furnish them. The dispatches
of this week give the clearest proof
that the punishment they received on
| Sunday exercises no Christening influence upon
their spirits. Gen. Chanzy has been directed to
place the province of Algeria under martial
law for the purpose OF dealing summary
with the colonial newspapers, and, to use the
official language, restraining their violence
This simply means that the Conservatives in
the Assembly propose to disfranchise the col
onies, and the colonies do not like it. The
murmurs of the colonial press are so loud as
to reach the Cabinet of NJ de Brogle, and he
replies by ordering them to be gagged. Other
recent incidents will not tend to quiet the
nerves of the Ministry. Henri Rochefort has
escaped from his exile and is on his way to
Europe. His transportation was blunder, and
his return, if his health endures, will be a
triumph. He will of course not be permitted
to enter France, but his Lanterne will doubt
less be relighted upon the frontier, and will
annoy the Ministry of MacMahon as much as
it did thai of Napoleon. If We add to all
these small miseries the symptoms of disinte-
grafton shown in tho Dahirel proposition of
last week, it will not be unreasonable to con-
clude that the monarchical coalition will
scarcely celebrate satisfactory anniversary
on the Gath of next May.
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