The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1877-06-28
TIE TURMOIL IN FRANCE.

Ing anu DuDOlliB AuiiOuoiJ "hN biA'b
promise of infinite toll and trouble in
the not remote future, Not the least re-
markable and significant feature ofSatur'
days stormy 8eance was the luminous and
spontaneous tribute paid to M. Theirs by
the Republican deputies. It is under
stood that the octogenarian statesman is
now Gambetta's candidate for the Presi-
dency, and the late French mails contain
abundant eviderce not only that the Re-
publicans regard it as desirable that he
should once more be brought to the front
but that the Government fears he may
suCcumb to these overtures. The latter
with disinterested earnestness insist upon
recalling the fact that Thiers styled Gam
BETA at the era of the war furious
madman," and that Gambetta in the
Steele spoke contemptuously Of Thiers as
having been overreached in the negoti-
ations which closed the war, as having
insufficiently defended the interests of
France, and as proving himself to be a
superannuated intriguer whose faculties
age had dulled. Theirs, beyond doubt,
declared, as late as July 8, 1871, in a
speech at Bordeaux, that "the republic
had never succeeded in the hands of Re-
publicans," and glorifed as Indispensable
to France the constitutional monarchy
which he had toiled for so many years to
assure to her. The lampoons of 1912 are
revived, in which Theirs is described as
"ropewalking Judas" and as vain
and presumptuous orator "who Cackles
to the universe and gambols on the tri-
bune like a monkey on coCoanut tree"
Meanwhile lie Francois declared that his
family have endeavored for the sake of
his health to keep the ex.President out
of politics, but in vain, as he declares
that he will be President once more, if
only for a week. lie Francois laments
that M. Theirs should pursue with such
personal rancor the Marshal-President.
M. Theirs is credited with replying to
some one who asked him why he had
abandoned the 0rleanist Princes for the
Republicans: eff the Orleanists came
bacE they would take me back, and if
they took me back l would send them
back again, so where's the useW And a
certain Partisan, named Renaudin, has
been fined thirty-fye francs and had his
cane confscated for pounding with the
latter on the shutters ofM. Thiers's house
and crying, "Why don't you die, you old
rascal?" Marshal MacMahon is too well
bred a man to put such question in such
way to his predecessor; but the Elysee
really ought to pay the fine ofthe Sieur
Renaudin.
The arrest Of M. et-Duyerdier, of
the Municipal Council of Paris, also
threatens to be permanent source of
scandal and unplesantness. He was ar
rested at midnight and allowed to see no
one but his wife and daughter, his inter-
views with whom were limited to five
minutes each. His offense was making
speech of which the peroration ran as
follows: "Let us wage war with our bal
lots, and if we are defeated then let us
employ the legal methods that we have
right to use against traitors" Mean.
while the Gazette de France mourns that
while the heavy hand of the law is laid
upon the rank and file of the Republican
party "Gambetta, the, leader of resist
ance and revolt" is spared. The Radical
has been suspended by the authorities,
its suspension being announced by the
editor in an article concluding: Before
long the country, sitting in its high court,
will apply severer law to this Govern
ment and suspend it forever" The
Radical was founded on the 18th OF
February last. Between that date and
the LIST of June it has been prosecuted
four times and its editor fined l4,5OO
francs and sentenced to terms of impris-
onment aggregating fifteen months, 1t
is, by the way. to be started anew under
the name of Moral Order. The Cologne
Zeitn,,g asserts positively that the Due de
Broglie's official circular to the district
attorneys las we may call them was ac-
companied by confidential note 1nvlt-
ING communications as to the feelings OF
the electors and advice as to which can
didates the Government should support.
M. Tripier, the Prefect of the Disc, has
refused at public dinner to drink the
Marshal's health. The manager Of the
theatre at Brest has had to abandon a
new enterprise, his hackers thinking the
outlook too doubtful. Gambetta is set
down to deliver lecture at Amiens for
the benefit of the city library, and the
conservative press demands that the
meeting shall be refused permission to
assemble. Altogether there is an angry
buzzing in the hive and every prospect
of a sensational swarming-time before
long. Meanwhile it is pretty plainly in
timated that the Marshal-President has
it in his power to show, whenever he
chooses to do so, that the Simon govern
ment was througbly approved by Ger.
many, and that German influences had
more to do with the recent attitude Of
the Left than was either desirable in it.
self or compatible with the safety of