Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-02-08

rades, who had grown afraid of him.
Since his return to Brest, Lullier has made
a very elaborate and eloquent speech, but
which has left much to be desired with re-
gard to pacific intentions. He finished his
speech by saying that many obstacles re-
manned to be yanquished, many shackles
to be broken; that many barriers still rose
up before them, but the barriers would
fall-ou mdlhem. ara barTieresf Many
persons profess in these words to interpret
a direct threat against the life of Gam
BETA, and as Lullier is estimated as half
lunatic by the greater number Of persons
who are acquainted with him, much fear Is
entertained that he may at no distant day
draw revolver on the eminent orator OF
France.
RocHEFoRT
Does not seem after all to have lost much
ground with the Socialists, who appear to
regard him, since his skirmish with Gam
beta, as a victim Of importunism and
jealousy. At the funeral the other day of
Theisz, former member of the Commune,
Henry Rochefort made an eloquent speech,
which was very enthusiastically applauded
by all present. Theisz was employed on
the IntranSigednt, and was much esteemed.
Rochefort said, in his little speech, that
Theisz had remained a workman until his
last hours, which title he had loudly boast
ed of, and that in fact his loyal nature
possessed all the virtues of the working
people-perseverance courage and mod
esty. Should Louise Michel leave the pc.
litical field, Rochefort will remain the
principal leader of the Socialist party At
the arrival of the last amnestied Louise
Michel was at the depot to meet them,
where she encountered Clemenceau, whom
she reproached for not attending Blanqui's
funeral, when he then informed her he was
not at all with her-that their ideas and
opinions of political subjects widely diff
fered. There then ensued lively alterca-
tion, when Louise Michel ended by calling
Clemenceau renegade. This last election
has been another great triumph for the
Republic, for out of eighty candidates for
the Municipal Council three anti-Republi-
cans only have been elected, and one of
these refused TO consider himself elected on
political grounds, but as responsible to Re-
pubIicans as well as Mouarchists, whose
votes he had demanded, so that the reac.
tionary party can count but two members.
THE SALON.
1t was some time ago suggested by the
Government or the artists that the artist
themselves should manage the salon each
year according to their own desire and
tastes, elect their judges of admission and
those who are to award the medals. The
artists have been so long dependent on the
ID o%r e.,
rangement with regard to their EXPOSE
tions, that, like children who are left to
walk alone for the first time, they
found themselves in difficulty and tot
tered right and left before they could strike
a straight line. One group after the other
net at different places and made out a list,
and as they all differed more or less,
and personal animosity or grievances could
be discerned in the omission of certain
artists, it was feared that the Government
would at last be obliged to come to their
rescue and steer their bark as in the past,
but order has been produced out of chaos
and everything has been as satisfactorily
arranged as possible under the circum-
stances. All artists who have exposed
once have been permitted to vote, and on
Friday last meeting was held at the
Palais de PIndustrie for that purpose.
The artists have for long time
formed different groups, according to
their more or less advanced opin-
ions in art, and it was these groups
which furnished the lists. In these lists,
which were SUCCESSFULLY published, many
an old artist felt his laurels tremble, for
the audacious hands of younger confreres
threatened to snatch them from their brow.
In one of them the names of Benguereau,
J. P. Laurens and Manet were altogether
omitted, and in the election OF artists for
the jury, the name of the great paysagiste.
Jules Dupre, came next to the last, while
neither Meissonier, Gerome Leon Glaize,
Gustave Moreau, Manet and some others,
out of fifty artists elected, were at all
mentioned. There are to be considerable
changes made in the manner of awarding
the medals, as well as in the hanging and
distribution of the pictures, which are to
be limited to comparatively small num-
Der, besides the halls or rooms are to be
decorated according to the taste of the ar.
lists, who propose carpeting the floors,
draping the walls with velvet, filling the
corners with flowers, and so on, so that the
salon may in fact resemble the entertain
ments given at the Royal Academy OF Art
at London. W.