New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-06-16
NEGOTIATIONS BETWEEN THE RIGHT AND

POINTS UPON WHICH THE TWO PARTIES AGREE
THE OBSTACLES IN THE WAY OF COALITION
GAMBETTA's SPEECH AT AUxERRE.
fFRoM THE REGULAR CORRESPONDENT OF THE TRIBuFEl
PARIS, June 3.-The week brings no noteworthy
change in the political situation. The Ministry con-
tinues to set forth no programme and to have no
policy of its own. There have been two perform
ances at Versailles. enlivened by highly animated
scenes, in which NJ Bullets powers as bellringer
were severely taxed. The proper business OF the
House marches no more swiftly than does commerce
under the guidance of the Ministry Of affairs"
which declines to guide. The rupture between the
Legtimists and constitutional royalists shows no
signs of heaingseems thus far rather to grow wider
and more definite and to make the reconstruction OF
the old majority hopeless. The position of the 81
Legitimist seceders is simple, sentimental, and
not illogical. They are necessarily opposed
to constituting the Septennat which would be the
negative of their monarchy. Bad or misguided men
can suppress for a time the exercise OF divine
right by its ordained representative, but believers
cannot sanction the suppression even for transit
tory period. 1t is not permitted to them to remove
a few links from the indissouble chain by which
earthly kings hold from Heaven. 1t is religious in
its binding worth. Their religious duty aceords
with their passions, and they combine peace of
science with lively entertainment of political feel.
ings, in fulfilling their sacred office of keeping the
door free of constitutional lock and bolt and inde
nitely ajar for the entrance of the Duke de Cham
bord, whose pOsthumous birth they regard as
specially providential performance, rather than
natural phenomenon
But the constitutional observation-disclosures
for the most part only because the candidate for
constitutional monarchy in France can only be
found in the Orleans family, whose claims and lam
ily qualities are in no of divine qualty-are
not much restricted in their political conduct by
religious scruples. Many of them are sincerely lib
eral within the parliamentary constitutional limit.
Some of them would gladly accept conservative
republic if they could persuade themselves that ii
could be so constituted as to be surely conservative
of the Bourgeois interests aud firmly combative OF
the popular democratic wants. few of them are
almost ready to run the grand venture OF frankly
trying the Republican experiment. under due
restrictions If I might use the phrase to their
address, and without disrespect. 1 would say
that, since last Sunday week. they are
more and more disposed to abandon their royal
hobby. Fear pushes them Unable to sustain the
late Ministry foiled in their hope of seeing new
one composed of nearly the same elements and pol
lev that would recover sustaining majority.
greatly alarmed by the triumph of the Bonapartist
candidate at the last popular election, certain OF the
moderate Monarchists have anxiously revived busy
negot iations with certain OF the milo hepuDiicans
for a fusion of the Right and Left Centers. mat
fusion once accomplished majority would exist
strong enough to make and uphold new ministry:
the Government would become parliamentary.
would get a constitution for ITSELF and commerce
would prosper.
rangement and that is obstructive French logic"
Another name of the Enthusiastically national i'm
pediment is principles" France suffers here and
now as so often and grayely before now, from the
vices that follow the virtues of her sons. IL l am
right YOU are wrong! Not because il is i and you
and wrong. Right, by beautifully clear reasoning,
running in logically straight lines swift TO ITS con-
clusiOn just cannot, must not, run IN Win the par
allel line of wrong. AS to seven out Oh Ten
are both right As to the three remaining divcrgent
points each thinks that nothing can be palmer
and wants the other to yield. Rather than con-
struct a working platform on the seven common
points they prefer to set up hostile batteries on the
three contested points and Indulge ID tn Sta s"rce
NJ. Gambetta uttered three days ago ~ Au1errs:
fornidably long republican mapifesto speech. ~
il the politcal incident of the week The authorized
report Of it in the Repseqm franedse tn,s mornns'
dertake to analyze this ingeniousiy thoughtfnlly,
ably prepared address but Will only say Of II that.
On 't6e mere rhetorical sde-and 1t is quite too
rhetOrical-it will bear comparison with almost any
afterdinner speech yet reported Foreign conserva-
tiyes who have not yet recovered from their shud-
dering horror over his theory Of the new social
straaDenunciated and. by reporters, Enthusiastically
distorted two years agOwill be agreeabiy surprised
to find him to-day cOnservatively celebrating that
same historical theme. How many Of those who
Gambetta, his acts, and his speeches know anything
OF them except by the dscolOred distorted represen
tations of yrnleDtv passionate politically hostile
ycUOrtersl v. H. ~