Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1878-01-09

An Extraordinary Story Of the Recent
Crisis in France.

Crisis in France.
Richard Whiteing writes from Paris
to the New York World: Several ac-
counts of the marshaPs submission have
been given. They are all more or less
inaccurate or defective, and that of the
London Times has just been denied on
authority. The reason is because it
gives only half the truth. The other
half is as follows:
For the past fortnight MacMahon per-
sonally has been anxious to submit.
This IS no new discovery of mine.
have said SO over and over again in let
tiers written before this final event I
have also said that he was prevented
from submitting by those about him. |
did not then know the secret of their
power over him. [ know it now. He
was under promises to the party that
elevated him to power on the fall of M
Thiers-nOt verbal promises, written
ones. De Broglie held his bond. He
was to be purely and simply a party
chief The general purport of the ne
gotiatiOns preceding the overthrow of
Theirs was set down in black and white
The marshal was not to govern for the
nation, Or even for himself, but for the
De Broglie rings. I do not profess to
know the contents of this paper; I only
know that it existed in the form of q
letter written to the chief of the band
Of conservative cOnspiratOrs, and so art
fully framed as to contain the most ex-
pllcit assurances under the form of
general guarantees.
The letter was held IN h,ro71.na over
the marshaFs head. De Broglie had
only to produce it under given circum-
stances to prove that the marshal had
broken his word He had only to
threaten to produce it to throw the mar
shaps wife at least into an agony Of
terror-and it is she who has all along
been the chief intermediary between
her husband and his despotic advisers.
She was all the more ready to act in
their interest because she sympathlzed
with their views. The publication of
the letter would have lowered her in
the eyes Of her "set" and she would
have felt the degradation. This explains
the marshals frequent illusions to him
self as purely party chief illusions, |
frankly own, of which / at first failed to
see the full signihcance.' In the inter
views with Grevy and Audifret Pasquier,
you remember, he seemed to say that
he did not dare take the course they
suggested out Of respect, for his, g en-
gagements" This was quite unmean-
ing SO long as only verbal engagem ents
Or differences from public declarations
of policy were understood. -.
He had not pledged himself to bring
about restoration Of the monarchy.
He, with all his faults, was too loyal
and his observation-disclosures, with all
theirs, were too cunning for that. Such
a pledge would have rendered the par
ties concerned liable to an inpeachm lent
for treason He rather bound himself
to do nothing. and let the others work.
They were to be his occult chief advis-
ers, and the overthrow Of the republic
was their sole concern. "On the 24th
Of May, 1878, the. Due de Broglie told
me had been chosen as the soldier
who was to rescue the army from the
hands Of the radicals: that 1 was to de-
fend the imperiled interests of the
country, like sentinel guarding a post,
but that as to politics, he understood
all that. At that moment, and ever
after, regarded NJ Brogie as second
president. [ was the military presi-
dent" These are, the marshars latest
words as quoted by the Times CORES
pondent; and the accuracy of the report
of them is not in the least affected by
the several denials of the truth of the
letter in which they were given to the
world. It was thee" second president
who prompted and sanctioned the mar
shaPs choice of the Jules Simon min
istry, in order to have a plausible excuse
for the act of the 10th of May. After
that date the second president, who had
all along been secretly in power, came
openly to the front. -osus
Help came from quarter in which
few had thought of looking for it.
Poyer-Quertier- was one of those who
were seriously alarmed at the turn
events were taking He is man Of
fortune, and ne did not want to make
himself responsible to the extent of his
means for the illegal collection Of taxes
levied without a parliamentary vote.
He held consultation with his friends,
and at last, at their pressing solicitations,
he undertook to bell the cat-iu other
words, to get the letter He left Paris,
he saw De Bros lie, and he got the letter,
by what means have not been able to
ascertain. If one-half of the things
that are said about De Broghe's present
financial position be true, the task could
not have been so difficult as might have
been imagined. He is deeply in debt,
and he has besides as much reason to
dread social as does the marshal politi-
cal exposure. But these, [ confess. are
mere guesses. The one thing certain is
that Pouyer-Quertier got the letter, and
placed it in the marshaPs hands.
MacMahon was free. ats. 60
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Marrying for Money.