Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1879-02-14

or the executive be styled "president 81
i the council of ministers" and rcmova.
/ BILE st the will of the house. Had his
motion prevailed it is probable the sec.
ond empire would never have existed.
Three years later he was driven from
political life by the coltp & etai, and re-,
snmed the practice of the law.
In 1868, however, his old constituents
reelected him 70 the assembly, defeat.
Ing the official candidate by M enor-
NOUS majority. Ii was ono OF the signs
of the approaching downfall OF the EN-
pre-, and was regarded with apprehen-
sion 10y the occupant OF the Tuileries,
Al. 1revy, however, took no active part
in legislation, letting things dril in \
body where opposition would have been
of little avail. But he voted in 1870
against the return ofthe Orleans princes,
and declined to take part in The revola.
ton which followed the disaster nj Sc
dan.
lie maintained that tho members OF
the corps legislatif were the peoples
Representatives, though they were elect
ed through official intervention, and
their will should be law until new as
semhly was returned. In these views
Nj. TIMERS SO heartily coneurred that n
political friendship Was established
which remained uninterrupted up to
the time of Nj, Theirs death.
Nj, Grovy was chosen third time to
represent the department of the Jura
in 1871, He has presided over the as
sembly during its most tumultuous and
exciting sessions, but with such iirmness
and impartiality MS TO command the
respect OF all parties. 1t is doubtful
whether France could have supplied u
man better fitted for taat trying posi-
ton.
lie advocated conservative and
orderly republic in ISIS; he advocates
ii now. He had fears of Nj. Gamhetta -
not Of his patriotism, but of his radical
ism. When in 1871 Nj. Greyy urged
the conyocation Of the assembly to give
the republican government legal sane
ton, Gambctta resisted. and Nj. Grevy
said Do what You may, you will
never be " republican, you are iated to
die in the skin OF n rebel.
But these men have come to u better
understanding Gambetta has shown u
moderation and skill i'll engineering the
left through perllS that must ut last
have conquered the prejudices an!
won the respect, if not the entire con
fidence, Of the austero old republican Of
the Jura, What Gambetta's opinion Of
Grevy is may be inferred from his
action now. 1t is doubtless due to his
influence that NJ. Grevy is the successor
Marshal MacMahon.
His election is master stroke Of
sound policy. The alarm created by
the forced resignation of the marshal
will rapidly subside when it is known
who succeeds him. France has not n
more ilustrous name on the roll Of
living statesmen. II is an assurance
that the republic viii be firmly and
steadily administered, for nj. Grevy, n
practical man, has the advantage over
Marshal Mcmahon of. II thorough edit
cation in civil affairs, and long ex-
perience in controlling the most tumul-
tuous popular assembly i'll the world.
Nj. Grevy is man of great indepen-
dence of charN cter. As the writer in
the Ne,uS said of him, this Frenchman
may be regarded rs almost aphenome-
non, "who never sang hosanna on
Lewis Philippo's path, and spoke of
Louis Napoleon rs he deserved; who
thought Guizot n pedagogue. and Emile
Olivier poor creature, and who yet
was always prepared to admit, rather
to the scandal of the fanatics among his
set, that there were plenty of rascals in
the republican rs in other parties"
N. Grevy is now in his sixty-sixth
year. He is described as IN short, dap
perman, with face smooth-shaved all
but a thin fringe d gray whisker, thin
firm lips, IL square, bald head, grey
eyes, and n poremptory voice" He
was, as he presided over the assembly
the incarnation Of dignity and presl.
dental authority. Such, then, is the
man to whom the destinies of the
French republic arc entrusted, so far as
the chief magstracy is concerned. IL
may be his happiness 10 assist in laying
its foundations on the constitution, and
give assurance to his countrymen Of an
ara Of peace under liberal institutions Of
Longer duration than either monarchy
or empire ever give them.
A QUEER hunchback has Just died at
Rue Cuvier, Paris, at comparatively
advanced age, VINO, being rich, healthy
and unmarried, spent his life in travel
ing AMI collecting statistics on the sub
ject u people deformed like himself.
He let volunlinous manuscript CON
tanning the fruit Of his researches. He
found hunchbacks most abundant in
Spain. instancing n small hamlet in the
Sierra Morena, where every thirteenth
inhabihnt was humpbacked; next to
this he found the deformity most fire.
quent in the basin Of the Loire. One
personin thousand was, he estimated,
hunch,acked, hence he arrived at the
conclusion that there were 100000
hunciDacks in the world, whose
hnmpl-averaging 20 centimeters, or
about 5 inches each would, il placed
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