The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-08-16
THE sCHIsM OF THE BoNAPARrIsTsx
The Quarrel Between Cassagnac ana
ROnher.

THE sCHIsW OF THE BONAPARrISTS.
The quarrel Between Cassaxnac and
ROnher.
The Paris correspondent of the Lon
don Times telegraphed as follows on
July 80;
conflicting currents have of late been
observable among the Bonapartists.
Not to speak of few who think. with
M. Raoul Duval. that the 10th of Nav
was mistake, andthat the experiment
of a republic administered by Republi-
cans should have gone on uninterrupt-
eddy until it resulted in decided sue
cess or decided failure, there is sec
tion very exacting and reserved toward
the Cabinet, and another section which is
to support 1t and to make a liberal allow
ance for it's difficulties. M. Paul de Cas-
sagnac, strangely enough, is the leader
OF this moderate wing. He strongly
condemns the conduct of several Bona
partists in becoming candidates for con-
stituencies where Royalists have prior
claims; and the GGulOis having declared
the Bonapartists and the Royalists, he
called upon the Ordre, as M. Rouher's
organ, for authoritative contradiction
of this statement. The Ordre, which
has been silent during the controversy,
was aroused by this appeal; but though
the oracle. spoke, it gave very uncer-
tain sound. In an article manifestly,
and now avowedly, inspired by M. Rou-
her, it protested Its moderate and con-
Marshal its continued cooperation;
but demanded, in return, that the
government should support its candi-
dates whenever they had evidently the
best chance. 1t wound up by warning
the Royalists that its patience might be
exhausted, and the government that by
submitting to such exigencies and APP
fpearing to encourage such violences its
own cause would be imperiled. To this
M. De Cassagnac replied in the Pays
that the Ordre had better have kept
silence than given such a response; that,
instead Of denying the alleged rupture,
it had rather leaned to the GG,tlOis than
opposed it; and that il the article rep
resented the official programme Of the
party he should refuse to follow it, for
itresembled the fatal policy by which
certain Bonapartists gave the Rspubli-
cams go life senatorships. He added that
had no right to pledge the party to the
course Indicated by the Ordre; that 1t
was nominated by the Bonapartist
members of the late Chamber, with a
migsion of Cancellation to the Conserva-
tiEes and devotion to the Marshal; that
ntne-tenths of the party thought as he
Gid; that when the Emperor began his
fatal reforms he was the only objector;
That the Bonapartists, were parties to
the 18th OF May. and could not now
f1eave 1t in the lurch; and that the best
way to serve the empire was to serve
France.
''This evening the committee, viz: M.
Rouher, the Duo de Padoue, and M.
Jolibois, intervene in the quarrel by
condemniDg M. De Cassagnac. They
tell him he has no idea Of the difficult
ties and unwarrantable claims they are
contending With, that he has inconsid-
at the risk Of endangering their sue
cess, but that they will prosecute these
negotiations with Cancellation and pru-
dence, feeling sure that the result will
Justify them in the eyes OF their party.
Tomorrow will chow. what M. De Cas-
sagnac says to this rebuke, not the least
piquant feature in the affair being that
IN. Dugue de la Fauconnerie, leading
Bonapartist, until recently editor OF the
Ordre. warmly sides with him.
Meanwhile, it deserves mention that
M. de Cassagnac conFesses this evening
that he does not count very confidently
on Conservative majority at the cleo
tions that majority Of SO would be a
signal victory; that nj. Gambetta, hay
ing predicted the return OF 400 Repub-
licans, any considerably lower figure
would show the reduced Republican
majority that il they were not quiet q
second dissolution would dispose OF
them. To secure a Conservative ma
jority, M. De Cassagnac would require
the state Of siege ia order to bride the
press mot to suppress the Mot d'Ordre
and the Lanterne-they ape our best
auxiliaries, and il they did not exist
they would have to be invented-.hut to
silence the Republique Francois, thu
Temps, the Neuuieme. Siecle-in short,
all the papers which Inherent our road
and block our Wheels M. DE Cassag-
nae pays the ministry very poor COM
pliment in saying that the Rochefort
papers are its indispensable auxiiiaries,
and that unless the Moderate Republi-
can papers ate gagged, it cannot win
the elections"