New-York tribune., 1876-02-15
FRANCE AND SPAIN.

F.RENCE IN FRANCE-THE NEW SPANISH
CORTEs.
fFroM A REGULAR CORRESPONDENT oF TiiS rRisuSSi
IoNnoN, Jan. 29-Before the Senatorial elections
In France actually take place. IT Is worth whue To
point out one facthat little reliance can be placed
on tho publish statements about the delegate cleo
tons, The French Home Oice took great pains TO
spread belief all over Europe that The immense
majority of delegates Conseryatiye-Conserva-
tive meaning in the peculiar political dialect of tn"
Government any body who is opposed to the kepub-
lie established by law which the Prime Minister
is striving to upset. Now tins may or
nav not have been true, but at the
time it was stated by NJ. Buffet neither
NJ Buffet nor anybody else could possibly Lave
known whether 1t was True or not len days nave
since gone by and it Is not yet known. IL Is
probable that a fair number of Senators to be
cho ,on will be anti Republican but that Will not ex
cuse the enormous lying which has gone ON in nd
vance. Lying. however, is believed in France to be
an Indispensable means of carrying on an Admins
tration. Even in private life, the accusation Of
living is not n very deadly insult-nothng like 20
injurious as to call a man wretch lnserablei.
And even after the elections, it viii not be easy to
describe at and decisvely the political charac-
ter of the now Senate. Perhaps the only certain
thing you can say about it is that ". Buffet VII hnd
it impossible to obtain a working majority without
the militant BonapartIsts. That is equivalent to
saving he will only be able TO rule on the terms the
Ronapartists fix. Those gentlemen viii exact the
utternost prioe for every vote they give. Not that
this will particularly distress N. Buffet. l called
him an Imperalist in recent letter, and it is, on
the whole, the name which best indicates the sure
result of his policy. He would moi himself deny that
he prefers the Empire to the Republic. |
doubt if he believes in his heart any other
Government than enc of those two possible. He has
kept notorious Bonapartst PGefoctS and Mayors III
Office and has appointed others of the same gang.
lIo has been in other ways the stanch friend OF the
Bonapartist; refusing to be party to what he calls
the persecution of Bonapartists; meaning by that
the election from Office under Republic of officials
known to be conspiring against the Republic What
else could he expected He is himself cOnspirator.
The main difference between him and the avowed
Rouaparists ia that he is either less honest or
stupider than they. Stupid if honest. because the
certain tendency Of his administration, and of almost
every act ne has done has been toward a Napoleonc
"Iestorati, H. put the word restoration In quota
ton marks. Ii is used by the BOnapartists and
Legitinists and Orleanists TO signify the violent
usurla ion of sovereignty by pTetender who never
possessed it.
Perhaps the lowest humiliation VI. Buffet has yet
had to endure is to himself paronized by NJ.
Ema Olivier. NJ. Olivier has been explaining TO
the electors OF Dragmgnan and Brignoles what a
Conservative who, for the present, is resolved TO
give his help to Marshal MacNlahOn and his cour
aceous Minister of the Interior i'll restraining So
ciastic opinions and resisting revolutionary pro
grannes." NJ. Olivier is probably the only man in
Franco whom all parties dislike and dospise A man
of brilliant abilities, perfectly devoid of common
sense perfectly certain that oil and water, Imperial
ism and Liberty. are natural friends. The succeed
ing phrase of his definition is curious The Con-
"in trying a Constitution requiring tho more attcn-
tive ordeal the it dverges FROM the generally
accepted data of political knowledge and expert
ence7 Ordeal is not -choS-n word to express
the trial by fire to which the Republic is subjected
By its paid servants who have sworn to support IT.
It's not moro than two months NJ Buffet,
questioned in the Assembly, Tepudated with well
assumed indignation the suggestion that the Gov
ernment wonld attempt TO influence the elections.
Within a month after, official candidatures were SIT
NJ all over France. NJ. Buft' known instructions
to his Projects be summed mp ia the direction to
oppose anybody who is for the i plbhc. Between
Conservatives, he il 10 bs supported who has tie
best chance of beating the Republican. la each
department tho Project is as a rule able 70 select
the candidate he prefers Nj. Buffet either leaves
tho choice openly to tho Prcfcct, necessarily
guided by the greater local knowledge Of the Pre-
feet. This is where Bonapartism gets its strength
IL is VI. Buffet, as j said, whom France Las 10 lhdnd
for the creator number of Bonapartit Projects now
in office. What might expected, happens. Here.
for example. is NJ. de Limayrac candidate for the
Senate, i'm the Lot. ". de Limayrac is a weI-known
member OF the present Assembly, and belongs to The
Right Confer. He was steady partisan, both Of
the ID. Broge and Buffet ministries He, if any
body, might be thought 10 have claims to the sup
port of the Government. Not al al. lie IS opposed
by the Project and the Home Minister in favor of a
Bonapartist, NJ. de Mosbourg. NJ. de Limayrac,
as.onished and angry. writes letter to protest lie
cannot even get his letter published in " "Conserva-
tive" papers, and Is forced TO accept hospitality for
IL in the columns of a Republican journal. The let
ter to be sure is rather utsloken. NJ dc Limayrac
writes as plainly as il he belonged 70 that Socialist
party which turns all NJ Bnfct's dreams into night
mlres. Official CandidatWes have reappcarcd,
excaims NJ. Bullets late supporter, with
all their train Of knayeres, scandals and unblush-
ing lies" Electoral corruption is once more the
,rdcr of the day. lie tells the Preect and the Min
lister that thor promises and fayors their severies
and threats are out Of place in the Lot and hateful
that it is not TO obey the dictates Of officials, but TO
make known their own will, that the people assem-
bic aud vote. Yet the Prefect summons his subor-
dinates TO receive his orders and to take insruc-
tions to offer brbes for their commuues 10 tho dele
rates The people are demoralizod. the Administra-
ton brought into contempt, the country mperiled
By such manouvers cxclains VI. DO Limayrac 1t is
evident that N de Limayrac has learnt something
SINCE he sat voting Yea and Nay IN the Assembly at
b. BIffets nod. His is not uncommon experience.
French politician finds official candfiatures good
thing when he is on the official side. When all their
tremendous pressure is brought TO bear against him
thoir evils become visible.
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