New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-11-06
EY-PRESIDENT 1HIERS.
THE ELEMENTS OF Ills POPULARITY

THE ELEMENTS OF Ills POPULARITY.
l,fPoRrANCE or HIS SPEECH AT ACKNOWLEDGEMENT.
NESS OF his sAGACITY-A COMMON LINE OF con-
DUCT FOR REPUBLICANS INDICATED.
FROM THE REGULAR CORRESPONDENT OF TIE TRIBUNE.
PARIS, Oct. 2O.-Decid dy, parliament out
IF session. that excellent Institution of free
,peabing III gland, has become acclimated custom in
France. Its debates grow in frequency, animation,
md interest rs we approach the date Of opening
now but q fortnight di5ant-of the last session of
tho Versailles Assembly. Among the eminent orators
who have spoken within the week, Rouher, Jules
simon, and others, Theirs stands easily first, and
his speech ut Arcachon last Sunday is The event u
The day.
This is the first time Theirs has spoken publicly on
general politics at length, in France since May "a
1873, the time when that combination Of desperate
Nonarchists maneuvered by the Ingenious DE BrOglie
fancied that they turned him ont Of power and them
selves in. What shattered grief that combination
Of i'll faith finally came to on the 2Jth 81 last Febru-
airy we pleasantly know. Theirs power. the power
If the ideas be maintained, has been constantly
gaining his authority never before more benei-
Gently great than to-day. The force of is enhanced
by the fact that he is not in official place of power aud
by the manner aud the men, and for the motives
he was cast OUT by some other facts well, and
rational consideration Of them such the recogni-
tion-very constant and general despite the dcnials
AID brawling abuse Of partisan cncmes--of the
great and peculiar services he rendered Frances the
utter failure OF those who combined lOr his over
thIOy to remain combined for the establishment Of
anything of their own devising, the certifying by
limo 10 the soundness of his experienced sagacity
and the tlu b OF his provisions reflection from the
known respect IA n great Fr nch statesman he ished
IN abroad, which hattens the pide Of the fellow
Frenchmen at home; his somewhat peculiar position
10, strictly as party much less partisan leader but
patriot chief and sage adviser in constitutional
liberalism.
Il was said long ago that France is Left Center.'
1t astruohen-thatis thephrase held as much truth
as a brief smart phrase can-and is true now but
the center OF the Left Center has been moving
alway left@ard Theirs has foreseen, kept on, been
moved on, with the movement; not Fastening before
Ills time, with the unrestraned light of genius. nor
bockshly hanging behind as though he could check
us course bat with his time, and he stands best
type and Concrete representative Of the modern
average Frcnchman. the model child rather an oil
prize baby of that Revolution of 80 out ri which
are begotten all living, 1--we Frenchmen. He takes
more certainly after healthy. commor-sonse papa
Volldire than mOrbidly sentimental papa Rousseau.
Ills Arcaohon discourse thus bears n peculiar au-
ihority and Imports efficient influence that makes
ri is delivery last Sunday event. Though every
idea H. contains had been uttered rom another
mouth, half its sovereign virtue had been lost. In
matter of fact no other could speak that speech,
1T alone the sovereign mastery 0f STYLE as
Theirs did; for the conduct OF his enemies the his
torlc course of events and other crcumsauta acci-
deuts loud to it from his mouth to his hearers and
readers a harmonious burden Of emphasis and an
explanatory chorus that his and its peculiar
compartment
Tie discourse opens with succinct review Of tho
roll. teal history of France, with especial reference
~ the part played in il by the orator from 81 20
May, 1873 Simply as statement of the condi-
tinn and movement Of things an France for more
than two most crowded eyenliul years. den know
when or how, with fifty times the reading, the stu
det of current French political history arrive at
80 inteliabe view and comprehension OF Of to
Strangcst most complex important aud interesting
chapters of it, as in this wonderfully clear fu and
compressed summary of the first lighted and enli ght
ening hall of Nj. Thl.rss last Sunday mornings talk
lhierss Arcachon speech is a cunserNatIyo-repab-
lican manifestation. Ii gives tho keynote of a
practically harmonious concert, III action. for the
now surely imminent general elections and cousc-
quent Installation of the French Republic const-
tuted as yet only on paper-a concert In which he,
typo Of the conservative Bourgeois, IL leader. Note,
rs the enbiitered r.actonists of the Royalist and
Imperial parties here sharply do, and tho decayed
| diettanti If the discarded Third Napoeonc flesh
pots do the good growth in selfresprcting manhood
| aud seI-rspecging manliness 10 which THEIRS, In
his largely sympathetic Ersn,hincss. appeals and
trustA w.u. ".