New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-08-02

is strangely excited and sorely tempted, and
vet has not lost his self-command. Passion
would have kindled riot in the streets; ana
! in Paris riot ends in revolution, ana IN
France revolution opens the way for reactloh
and usurpation. But there has been neither
revolution nor anarchy. The Republican has
done Just what his enemies did not want nm
to do-kept his temper. While the Cossack
horde has swarmed upon the Danube, ana
Bulgaria has resounded with the din of war,
the Republican voters of France have held
their peace, making no sign, biding their time,
waiting patiently for a chance to send back
their representatives to Paris.
Their triumph is now assured. While the
Cossack has been put to rout In Armenia ana
is kept kept at bay in Bulgaria, the KepuDl-
can is master of himself and of France. Mar
shall MacMahon has done what he could. lie
has appealed to the army for support against
his political foes, and has assured his country
men that his only aim is the maintenance
of constitutional order. NJ. de Broglie has
struck a theatrical attitude and warned France
against revolutonsts who attack morality, re-
ligion, property. and the foundations OF socie-
ty. NJ. Fourtou has strained the Constitution,
perverted the pTess-aws turned Republicans
out of office and replaced them with his own
creatures, bringing the complicated ma
chinery Of the Government to bear upon
public opinion in every department.
These conspirators have done what they could
TO repress. coerce and intimidate France.
Their appeals have not commanded respect;
their threats have not inspired terror. SO long
az the Republicans held their peace and there
was no outbreak in Paris, these panic-makers
could only beat the air and shout themselves
hoarse. They could not convince their coun-
trymen that the Repubicanism of 1877 was
the Terrorism of 1893 or the Communism of
1871. The threat that the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
would resign if the people did not rally to his
support fell upon deaf ears for Gambetta
had pointed to Theirs as the man who had
saved France once and could do it again.
The Republicans are not only moderate and
self-contaned, but they are everywhere united.
There are no divisions in the party; there Is
nothing equivocal in their policy; they are
directed by one of the master minds Of Europe.
NJ. FourtOu is clever man, but he cannot
reconcile the warning factions in his camp.
Legitimist may wear the livery of COnserva
tism, but he will not serve the B0napartists.
He will tolerate the Marshal-PTesident,
but he will not raise Napoleon ". to
the throne of France. The Orleanist and the
Legitmst may pull together without kicking in
the dashboard of the coalition carryall, but they
will not follow a Bonapartist leader. NJ Four
tou has issued a private circular to the pre-
fects, enjOining them to support Only those
candidates whose creed is fidelity to the Mar
shall pure and simple. But MacMahOn party
is a political travesty. In the eyes of Legiti-
mist and 0rleanist, the Bonapartist cannot be
ANYTHING but BOnapartist. He may swear
that he will wear the mask of Conservatism,
vanished with MacMahOnism, but they will
not put faith in him. II is hollow truce
not an alliance. Nor is this all There is not
only an open rupture between the allied three
camps, but there is also bitter feud in the
ranks OF the BonapartIsts themselves Against
these turbulent factions the Republicans pre-
sent united front. They cannot fail. The
Mar,ha-President will have to face a
larger Republican majority than the one
which he defied in May. AS Gambetta pre-
dicted, the three hundred and sixty-three will
return four hundred.
Is the Cossack TO triumph as well as the
Republican Whatever may be the issue of
the present war, his prestige has faded in Eu-
rope. The dilatory movements of the Russian
army and the numbering tactics of the gene
rails have robbed the Cossack of his ira
ditiOnal tcl1Ors