New-York tribune., 1874-12-05
BONAPAR7ISM IN FRINGE.

SUCCESS OF THE BONAPARTIsT CANDIDATE IN PAs-DE-
CALAIs-HOw THE REPUBLICANS COMFORT THEM
sELvEs-THE LEGITIMIsTs PREFER TIE MPERI-
AIISTs TO TIE REPUBLICANS.
FEoM TIE REGULAR CORRESPONDENT OF THE rRIBUNE.l
PARIS, Nov. 4-The second trial for electng a
Deputy from the department of the Pas-de-Calas
took place last Sunday. The Legitmist candidate.
who had obtained on the first trial fortnight be-
fore but 1900 votes having withdrawn from the
contest, there remained but two candidates, of
whom the Moderate Republican polled in round
numbers, 1900, and the Bonapartist supporter of
the ScptenDate, $1,000 votes. The canvass was car
red during the Intervening fortnight with great
vigOr by both parties, is sufficiently apparent from
the fact that 125OO moro electors were brought to
the polls on the 1st November than presented them
selves on the 18th October and from the accompany
ing fact (which has greater slgnifcance), that Of
the whole pumber of registered electors less than
one fourth abstained from exercising their right.
The proportion of "abstentiOns in partial elections
has usually been greater than one-third. Republ-
cans console themselves for the positive defeat Of
their sandaId-b bearer by claiming relative victory
for their cause; claim sustained with some show
of reason by the fact that in the BOnaparst depart
ments it now counts 1900 followers, while Bona
partists and all other anti-Republicans number but
81 OOO Subtractng these fragmentary all Others"
argue our ingenious Republican eXplainers of their
defeat and of the Only two forms of Government
Republic or Empire, by which France can possibly
finally be ruled aud one or other of which her peO-
pie must before many years. decide to accept, the
fixed solid majority in the Pas-de Calais, else
where, is for the Republic. The assumption here is
that all OF nearly all the 1900 who voted for the
Legitimist candidate fortnight ago went over to
the Bonapartist. The probability is that the larger
.f a. nf nl,ctin al h
stain did 80 go Over-not for love of the Empire as
second best. but for fear of the Republic.
The practical bearing of this fear (by elemen-
tarv force) on the next decision of the question
between Republic and Empire is largely over
looked in the arithmetical and other subter calcu
latous of Republican hopeful and doctrinaire ex-
planners and pundits They do not sufficiently take
into their account the large number of tnid, weary
French voting men, of all human beings the least pa
tient of ncertitude, the most easily fatigued with
struggling for thcr own full right, and the readest
TO accept from any hand temporary security OF party
if as q privilege. No Lcgtimist to-day can docs
regard the prospect of the advent of Henry V. to
the throne otherwise than as poetic vision pleasing
to his sentimental fidelity to cause that he knows
has lost all practcability. But yet the Legitima-
lists the large land proprietors In the country and
Others with influential clerical and othcr relations,
sway large body Of vOters-quite enough in this
and some other departments to turn the result OF
close election this way or that. Having mostly
vested property interests, and being mostly per-
suaded that Rcpublicanism even of the conservative
variety. is but thinly disguised communism and ag-
gressve atheism, their tendency Is and must be to
let Napoeonism pass, if not aid its triumphant pas
sage to recovered power. The same kind of argu-
ment with difference is applicable to those whom
for want of defntive political party label,
style Orleanists that caste of Frenchmen of whom
de Broge may be taken as the type. Doubtless to-day
still rankles in tho breast of that liberal Duke
the sting of that Parthan arrow shot homo at him
by retreating Tniers, "PrOtege Of the Empire"
Doubtless this most selsatisied of Dukes and doc
trinaires always prime adviser Of Ducal Rcpub-
lcan President still holds, against Voltaire, that
Monsieur Tout le Monde shall be proved to be not 30
wise as he. Doubtless he will go working for the
restoration of the Third Empire and the fourth Ma
poloon as his father did QSi7lSjl for the bringing
in Of the Second Empire and Napoleon ILL.,.
But even if the Duke do Broglie does or could re-
cognize that the democratic Spirit of the limo was
prcsuming to run ahead and win against the direct
ing classes thon, unwngly, will and must his sup
porters work for the Empire against the Republic.
New elections are impending in three departments.
In the Disc, Republicans arc doing their utmost to
secure the election Of the Bonapartist candidate in
that department through party division. The Re-
pubcaDs are AZ much afflicted with the doctrin-
are" crazo as Frcnchmon Of any other party.
". II. II.