New-York tribune., 1875-10-09
THE ORLEANS PRINCES.
THEIR NEW LINE OF CONDUCT.

NJ DE- BUFFET ON TIE PROSPECTS OF TIE RE
PUBLIC.
FRoH THE REGULAR CORRESPONDENT OF THE TRihUNE.l
PARIS, Sept. 22.-Some three weeks ago there was
issued from the press Of Dcntu pamphlet entitled
" Responsibilities" The noise it made and the pro-
onged echoes thereof still ll the air. Inasmuch AZ
the anonymous writer, styling himself country
gentleman, lays the responsibility for the failure oi
the famous FrOhsdori or Fusion scheme onthe shoul-
ders of the Count de Chambord, and concludes with
inviting him to abdicate as the only means of rem
dering a royal restoration possible, il much angered
honest Legitimsts Their principal newspa-
per organ La Union, denounced 1t as
partial revelation of the secret policy of
tine Right Center, and called for disavowal
The Journal de Paris principal organ of the Center
Right and the especial family organ of the Orleans
Princes, after taking time for thought, prepared a
brief carefully considered note. bearing every marx,
except the princcly signatures, of official family
note Ignoring the authorship and repudiating the
conclusions OF the pamphlet. the note says:
The Frohsdorf proceeding has had result that It s
in the power of no 10 ann, AMI that We wiz -ln NJ
in these words The monarchy Will either oe herslty
he at all The hereditary MONARCHY under niiaeT GI u
nsanccs wen known, failed Ihenceiorii iailhlni 10
the idea that dictated the fronsdGlH proetths W @
not sought To establish another monarchy We nave
Loyalty come TO the support at rst 0i ne septenna
Marshal McMahon aud then Of the Republic snfrounueu
with conservative institutions such u has Deen organ
lied by the constitutional laws Of Feb %
This is unusually plain speaking for Orleanist
Princes who are not usually plain speakers not, as
since appears in this instance more than IN Others
For their family note became immediately the OBJ
iective of cross fire of comments. While some
warmly wishing liberals spoke Of what it seemed IN
their eyes clearly To signify, the Evolution Of
the Princes and some of Us deemed 1t only maneu-
yer. the Bonapartists derded il as a hollow sham,
and the Legi.imists charged it's authors and their
party with "basc" and " "coYardly' desertion OF
principles they once pretended 70 maintain. 10 re-
turn. dodge omit or refuse to return their cross
frnrs has been the busy Office of the Orieanlst
organ for the past fortnight The dozen or 50 artI-
cles which the journal Dc Paris has devoted to the
slbiect in this make curious body Of literature
There are paragraphs which imply, almost directly
state that the Princes stanch m0narchIsIs as
when the Count De Paris did homage at FrohsdoIi
TO the hereditary chief Of his royal house. and others
ike this: We repeat our declaration; we are
resolved 20 sustain what IS, the Constitution
the Republic presided over by Marshal Mae
Mahon. We do not ask the Marshal TO
use his right Of demanding a revision OF
the Constitution ana even if we must say all We
think Ne do not desire that the Marshal shall use
this right This last phrase bears special mean
ing. Ii il addressed TO thosc-and they are many
who have suspected such Orleaulss as seem % nave
accepted the Republic, of doing 80 for the sake OF
substituting the Due dAumaie for MacMahon IN
the Presidency, purpose If the Duke ana ma
friends ever entertained it, which IT is the simplest
of foxy wisdom to rcn0unce The grapes are sour.
President MacSlahOn holds firmly to the motto OF
Gen. MacMahon: Il am here and here | will
remain
To reduce now the very yOluminOus statements,
accusations, ropl.csttous foggy explanations, and
worlv commentaries, of, and about the s0-cai.ed
Evolution maueuver. or what not Of the Orleans
Princes. To such meaning as can he discovered IA
and extracted from the verbose mass shOnd guess
il comes ~ about his The Orleans Princes that ii
the Count of Paris and his unees PAumale and
dc Joinville for Ncmours is honest, sentimental
LecIlimist bat not an active politician having
sense to see that Chambords simplicity has utterly
defeated their shrcU duess are resolved. awaiting
his death and the turning up OF chances, not 10
conspire actively against the Republic nay, rather
To sincerely support IL for the next five years,
Mcmahon lives 50 long, and if il is kept IN hedge by
monarchica institutions 1t is the old fortune mis-
fortune Of Orleans Princes not to be frankly taken
M their word as il a strange l-lucs for the
three members Of the family Just named that they
cannot write or get written for them paragraph of
two or three sentences, Enthusiastically stating
whetherthcy pretentlous princes Of Franc or ci
zens of the French Republic. statement to this
last erect made any time these last years must nave
had far more effect long ago 70 endow the country
thcv pretend TO love unsefshly with well
constituted government. They are brave men-no
one can honestly deny them that quality they
are patriotic men TO the degree Of rskng their lives
for their country. One of them tDAumale Is an
academician another de Joinville long ago proved
himself a passable master of the French language
a third tthe Count of Paris prdes himself not
uudnly on his weIl-earned title Of citizen of the
public of letters Yet with all the ability at their
command. the Princes are net able by their own
OF borrowed pens to inform the public what
their position is, or has been, or is 10 be.
This is characteristic Orleanist shrewdness, taught,
perhaps by recolections OF old family mistakes IN
the way of unquestionably plain speaking. In 1883
the Duke of Orleans aroused unqualified loyalty TO
his cousin King whose death he voted for three
years later. Louis Philippe who resigned his post
of doorkeeper at the Jacobin Club, dm both in
1903 ana 1916 avOw loyalty TO the elder branch
and his devotion to legitimacy, but every one
knows he willingly became King in 1880
The law banishing the elder branch of his
house from France forever, and the ill-tTeatment
Of the Count de Chambords mother, all befel in
the first year of his reign. The so-called "Evolu-
ton of the Orleans Princes is however real in this
sense-that il marks distinct and nearly irredeen-
able rupture between the Legltimists proper and
tine Constitutional royalists. Nothing Is impossible
in French more than IN American political comblna-
tians But effective combination between Orleanist
and Iegitimist mOnarchists becomes, after tins,
very improbable. Honest monarchists of either
party must gravitate to Imperialism. In fear of the
growth OF tins and in greater fear Of democracy the
spokesmen and file Leaders of the Center Right are
maneuyering in the same sense as their princeiy
chiefs.