New-York tribune., 1875-11-13
FRENCH POLITICS.
TIE REPUBLICAN POLICY.

| IrpoN fuy tyeyLAR CORRESPONDENT or TIE TRIBUsE.l
PArls. Oct 27.-To begin where began my last,
with Parliament ont of session. which is still going
| on Oral and written discu son OF Tlne-ss Area
chon speech is still rife. The great and good imp9r-
ance of that discourse seems 10 increase, as ~ ~
partly proved by the deserved attention 1t receives
If not the detailed programme, 1t is the manifesto OK
| the great national, constitutional Republican party
What largely goes TO make Of it the accepted mani
festo of the harnonized organzed party helps To
make is the spirit of couciIiation TO all consequent
branches OF that party aud Of courtesy to opponents
as sagaclous as generous that breahes throughontit
NJ LockrOy,wh ut Vcna les. sits on the ftI Lett
benches. In Paris he sits in one Of the c'litor al
| chairs OF the advanced Republican Rdppoi news
| paper--a newspaper will remark In passing, that
has a considerably larger daily sale than any other
three Of the large sized, decent regular daily jour
nails OF any party published in Paris. He Is a man
of much wit. of sincere convictions (which what,
in French political slang, would now be styled red.
ard of very handsome estate-f that, ~ many
tmorous, illogical flks think, has anything to do
with IL. Arguing from his anteccdents. you would
have been apt month two ago tn class VI. Lock
roy as one of the head scholars if not teacher of
the school of so-caed lrreconcilable Republicans,
of whom Louis Blame, Naquet ETC., are the titu'ar
Leat-,nasters. What is eminently noticeable out of
the recent speech OF the unehangcdy, thoroughly
radical NJ. Loc<TOy at Treroux, is tins
essential fcature-a declaration that he radical
Lockroy) Is utterly eonstitutonaist. This essen
tal feature in the "profess.on-of-fiith' speech
of n notoriously extreme-Ieft Red" and rcvolu-
tonary Republican, is tie one that shines by it,
alb ence in the declamatory harangues OF tic two
foremost representative spokesmen of In,per asrn-
that Of the Vice-Emperor ROuher, chief Of tho old
ImporiaIists, at Ajaccio, and that of his much
Al.
pcralsts, at Rouen. Leaving questions OF tact and
tone taste and rhetorical style-n all which regards
Duval has easy advantage over the lawyer iiouhrr-
ont of the question, tho drift and argument 80 FAR
as there il any. Of the speeches are mainly denti-
cal. What both preach and teach, with saving caveat
phrases asserting their respect conservatives for
the gal constitution, is, that the only provision of
the Republican constitution worth serious obscrv-
ance is that one which admits legal rei ion of it
and that the only proper high aim of all " conscr-
vatives' s0uld hcnccfOrth be destroy the cOnsti
tuition by the constitution; TO resist the establish
ment. embarTass the working, and, watching every
opportunity, catch and the of, ring accident
for the breaking up Of that constitution aud bring
ing in over its fragments and re-reyolnlionizcd
France the recurrence Of tho happy reign of fourth
NapOle0n. That the nation never did, could, or
can get o. without Napoleon to help is assumed
and asserted as if argument by the advocate Rouher
with worly reckessness hardly conceivable 10 a
rational torrign observer who, apart from his pr
sOnal olts.ya alton Of the great prosperity of this
country. has al hand official returns from the Gus
iom-huuse and Internal Revenue Department
among other patent proofs, that France is to-day
materially prosperous despte the two years arrest
Napolc0n'a dy nistic war bought upon its industrial
and commercial productiveae.s, beyond the Empires
palnieSt days of material pro,per,typ
Having defined themselves with Temporarily quail
flying pro eot Of being Professionally st,et observers
of law for the present bat conservative revolution
lists for TIE future the two best authorized 'pokos-
en Of the Bonapar,ist faction break and burst out
in laudatinns Of universal suffrage. They urge that
il alone freely exercised can give forever ts inally
right governor and government, in the person and
consequent institutions Of Napoleon ". restored
from Ch sclAuEst. On this point, Rouher, in Ajac-
cio eloquent ~ always, and only when not exposed
To critical debate, came out with characts tsrisIic
dithyra,nbic, illogical verbosi'y. lie aud Duyal are
both agreed ole ,nay say pas5ionatey agreed. that
universal suffrage is sovereign, and that wien il is
1T freely TO express itself again it will fatally uso
its ilst use of its sov,r guty ab,lcae its
eighty tlis very vitality OF sovereign don nocracy
will commit suicide in the interest of not M rely
autocrat Int OF an hereditary antoOIacy. selling
ont for all future GENERATIONS right uiat can DO
valid only for It's own generation.
ROuher, always Arrogant, reckless and above ell
eloquent, when there is no 20 stand IN tie way,
overran Linseh, was natural. IN face of Lis
unanimously gazing aud admiring audience at
AjGcco. He likewise saw tit To dapgle he Marshal
President of the Republic before hiS Cors can public
as pos,Dy questionable honest solder. who
bad not a. yet given quite dear account of tho
"wcighty responsible ico' he once assumed. The
"weighty responsibilities resting IN pacific NJ.
ID. -, 4 md m
AZ weigh ou the Marshal for doing wnat he did and
he dd in the last ds.str days OF the war proceed
inc and ending in the - dan catastrophe.
The small, lawyer-iilc meanLrss Uf Eouher here In
alldsiycly charging blame the Marshals ex,cu-
,on of paus and orders in that crazy campaign of
which hc was himself in q sort the ed
itor and orderer, apart from its personal
meanness, was as ill-alysed the bitterly iHdg-
nant charce he makes IN tie same speech ssaii So
tho peculiarly undemocratic quality of tho Senate
a. desired by the WALTON Constitution. Ii is
chosen, this new Chamber, with its controlling
power on a scheme of election that dehes the le-
uentary principle. aud ,k,ugly evades 81 ything
like real practice Of universal suffrage. There il
grave roalon resting on elementary truth in RCuhers
indignant censure of and hardly vailed revolution
ary protest az inst the constitutional organization
of the senate of the Constitutional R,pubic that is
10 be. But thai nc, iouhcr, some time Ptcsi-
dent Of the late Imperial Seuate, should
50 boldly dare to huh il down for It's
lack Of popular, democratic base in dni',ral
suffrage, is characteristic ex'mplHcatlon of Rou-
herisn. There is uo other word. CHECK IL ui' ~
honess English slang. aad consequently inadequate.
THIS very R0uher member and Presideat of tho
Senate Of his model enrire-a Senate whose Woo
members we're the cXc.usive nominees ana elect
persioned appontees OF oro man.
But, aside from all this TIE malicious side stab at
the Marshal lnls done Rouler aud his cause must
harm. and excited the hps'Ihry Of the Marshal