New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-06-12
cAMBETTA AT CAHORS.


-uAKING--A sEm-ALLiANCE WITH BONA
partisan - 80, r-,,. r,,,or.,rl
PES Nav 27.-Gambetta's journey to Cauors Is
-, respects an interesting and curious event
", nsrt;c,,larly happening, as II does ai'cr HIS
anu = IN the Chamber on the ScTaims question:
N''! ,,e, rs more natural than that hr should
HI.,,ycSent great position wish ~ TeVlsIl MS H.
~ IN and recur with affection TO the memories
NJ ~. turbulent Childhood and stndIonA youth
II is equally natural that MS lei
, wv, ,.spsmen and class-ielloWs should wei
low Nth enthusiasm the Leon GAmbctta
'v ,.,, 40 many Of them remember as cmid
WIZ ';ao with other boys of Cahors in the Place
P~srI oDd whose name has since become not only
h''ahol1 worl in France but in every part of
shId i,to which modern civilization has PEN
Grated .,.. !. a.. ,r,,.i,.i.I
,rbi,b his Clther kept in "A dark, mean-look-
pNr ,.a a grocery store is said TO mark n new
,ie - in the eyentful political life Of
G0p',, There is much Genocse astutcncss
well "A bollness in this statesman
:, .as all that audacty which nnpellei Coiun'uN
=. undertake his perilOus and ever-inemoranle Voy-
l.oo,erv across ,he Atlantic and the address
ana nolitic temper which enabled thai marry la''-
81. SUI 90 make his way at the Court of Ferdinand
Il feaho
.asJs ike success and that victor should never
mon his laurels until he has realized
'n. aosigns which moved him to undertake
a.. ow,,ion Tie wants 10 be the
.o ,non in France. and yet to give the indolent
III tn.st chief OF the Executive no ground for ac-
.,s;,s him of usnrpng powers TO which he has no
80 or moral right. He is tired of obscure wire
.,,,ling and of being the hidden Deus ct machi"a'
rhe opnosition which his last political step met with
- ,ho Flvsee furnished argument TO those around
rir, and they unfortunately are seit-seeking
,oIit;cians more disposed to live by their
GENTRY in q handsome. luxurious manner
than TO die for her, in favor of boder ana
$50, onen game. To have won hard fought battle
in the Chamber on the Departmental vote was they
-, moi enough. The Senate remained TO be con-
nuered. And how was that to be done Gambettas
soouence cond not be directly exercised upon that
Hons. which ia Of feeble anenic temperament
althoueh CON- osed of men of great emnence. Ihe
;ng was To assert his influence in prov iucIal tour
and 70 appear when making 1t rs the channel
through which official patronage flows anu the
Grand clector for the next Parliament.
GAMBErrAs INTRIGUEs.
A. Robert Macare shrcwdy observed. " les modes
chanoent mas les badauds resterent touJOuri In
hadapderie Franchise should be amused. The diff
entity was TO accomplish this end without ronsing
M the quiescent Grevy. Why not take advantage
acousin Of Gambetta suggested, of agricultural
chow ST Cahors TO 90 there The Lot is vrry
Bonapartst department. In the personal nego-
tistions with Deputies, as the battle on
the Scratins approached, the President OF
the Chamber encouraged that part OF the
Chamber which erst followed NJ Rouher to draw
near to him. He made the conquest of NJ. Robert
MITCHELL conquest of which he had no particular
o,,1 lJuuue
Fauconnerie so completely that he resigned his seat
for Nontairne in Normandy. to which he had been
ret,raed as "a rabd Imperialist, and demanded 10 be
reelaeted by that constituency az an Opportmi7t
Republican. Opportunist Repullicanism, he un-
derstood, was to put away every tln2e OF
Red and to hoist blue flag. 1t was 10
be an all-embracng democracy expressed in a
strongly organized one-man government. NJ. Dugne
de la Fauconnerie was beaten at MOntaigne. Bat
his friends were al-pOwerful IN the Lot. the chief
town of which is CahOrs. Gambetta, be it remem-
bered. had never revisited his birthplace since he
made a creat name for himself. His Repubicanism
was antipathetic to his feow-townsmen. believe
his last visit 10 Cahors before he made this one
took place in 1859. on which occasion he
formally renowned Italian nationality which he
inherited from his father Joseph Gambetta, and
elected for French.
THE STATESMAN AT HIS BIRTHPLACE.
The trip TO Cahors was accordingly arranged.
How il has answered the purposes for which 1T was
undertaken the world already knows. Gambetta
has been received with as much ponp and circum-
stance as if he were the President Of the Republic
himself, and yet with that aiiectionate cor
dality which we feel when a long-abScnt
and prominently successful kinsman comes
back 10 see us There is no artillery
to signify at Cahors But public works are going
o-I -, fl, etoi,h NJ hp he
engineer dirsfting them arranged that some blast
ing operations with which he is charged should be
performed a. Gambctta and his numerous following
were descending from the train. The mines, which
were rrimed and loaded beforehand and connected
with an electric wire, halin exploding the effect of
grand sayo Of artillery In the midst of the dcafcn
inc noise ch of course stimulated the enthusiasm
Of the holiday makers and rustics who had come to
sae the cattlcshow and the great orator he embrace
ell his father and mother They all three shed tears
Gsmbetta the elder is a respectable and respected
old man. His profile has exactly the same lines as
that of his ilusrious son. who takes his exubcrant
temperament and eloquence from the Gascon. or
maternal side of the house. Joseph Gambetta has
thick snowy head of hair, and beard which goes
round his neck like ruff and is shaver at the chin.
The President of the Chamber drove with his suite
to the Hotel DIES Ambassador.
REPUBLICAN COURTIERS.
In the following was the inevitable Joseph
Arnaud. his private secretary and only son of
Madame Arnaud, predominant shareholder Of the
Paris Unified Gas Works. Joseph Arnaud is tall,
handsome dandifed. II he had finely developed
forehead and the expression of intellect proceeding
cerebral strength he would be of the hand
soonest Young fellows of his time. Although ne is
called the secretary of Gambetta, never knew
an instance of his having put pen to on hs &C
count. or his own either. His principal occupation
seems 10 be to breakfast with the President of the
Chamber, and bear him company in his carriage