Sacramento daily record-union., 1881-09-24
PARIS.
TIE LATE ELEcTIoNs-THE NEXT CHAM
BER AND ITS COMPOSITION.
AG1ance at the Political Issues and Parties
in France this Year-GamDetta
and His Constituents.
PARIS, August 2S, 1881.


history of this Republic. All foreign pow
ers have perceived in the result the unmis-
taxable desire on the part of the French
people to maintain the present form of
government, whereas the French people
themselves note the fact that the country
by force of simultaneous impulse has rushed
to the wheel of progress and given it
turn which short time ago would have
been witnessed with fear and trembling by
the most ardent advocates of liberty. No
one can longer doubt of the firm establish
ment of the Republic in France, and the
elections have proved how unfounded have
been the hopes of the numerous pretenders
to that invisible throne. 1t is really pitiful
to perceive in the tables made up Of each
reimbursement of Paris and of those of the
provinces, the miserable figure cut by
those who until the last moment predicted
the triumphal entry of their king into
Paris, or the near arrival of Bonaparte to
take the reins of government. Whereas
the Republicans were divided among
themselves into generally three parties,
the one Monarchist, the one Legiti.
mist or the one Bonapartist had sue
ceeded in barely getting together hundred
or SO votes, and the figures sometimes
dwindles down to the tens, and even units.
The Bonapartists have lost thirty five seats
In the Chamber of Deputies, the Royalists
nineteen and the Republicans ten. hence a
gain for the Republicans of forty-four seats.
THE FUTURE CHAMBER
Will contain AGO Republicans and 81 Re-
dictionaries. 1t is the Bonapartists who
have experienced the greatest defeat, and
it may be said to have been veritable
rout of the entire party. They lose 80
seats-very near the half of the effective
force they possessed in the former Chamber !;
and those provinces which they have
through habit come to consider as their
impregnable fortresses have abandoned
them to come over to the republic. The
Pas. de- Calais, which was called "Conti-
mental Corsica" has to-day eight RepublI-
can Deputies and only two Bonapartists !;
four Bonapartists were evicted at
one time. The same with the Haute-
Garonne, where three Bonapartists
were defeated and Republicans only
were elected. La Dardogne has now
seven Republican Deputies and only one
Bonapartist the Hautes.Pyrenees as well
claims but one Bonapartist. Calvados,
which alone in France shared with Cor
sica the sad privilege of having only Bona
plrtis ard Royaists, has conquered at
one time four seats and given
them to Republicans. But the most strik-
ing example is that of Corsica. Corte and
Calvi have vigorously dismissed Mr.. Alb
batucci and the Duke of Padone, and have
elected Republicans. Ajaccio, the cradle
of the dynasty OF the Bonapartists, has
seen the Bonapartists desert the struggle
and leave the field to three Republican
candidates. If the Royalists have suffered
less in appearance it is because they were
less numerous. The Bonapartists have
lost So seats out of S5, while the Royalists
have lost 10 out of 50, which renders the
proportion nearly the same. By the side
of this defeat of the party of reactionaires,
it must be pointed out as a remarkable
character of the ballot of the 2lst of Au-
gust the marked accentuation which the
Republican msjority have undergone. 1t
may be said that the center gGuche has
CEASED TO EXIST,
For its best known representatives, as Mr.
Bardeaux, formerly Minister of Public In
struction, and Leon Kenault, former Pre-
fet de Police and the most distinguished
lawyer of the day, as well as the most OBJ
scure mem bers, have been put aside and
replaced by more resolute Republicans and
of more accentuated shade. The center
gauche have completed their task, which
seems to have been the rescuing of the Re-
public from the grasp of her enemies and
placing her upon her feet, and this very
act, this close contest with conservatism,
has rendered them unfit to accompany the
goddess on her onward march. The Re-
publicans of the gauche who were already
members of the Chamber, have all been
reelected, whereas less advanced Republi-
cans have been replaced by those who will
take their seats at the extreme gauche. 1t
must not be supposed that France has vio-
lently run to an extreme; she has but
taken step in advance, yet firm, reso-
lutte step. In all the circonscriptions of
the different ACCOMPLISHMENTS of Paris and
In the provinces there were generally four
candidates, the center gauche, the ga,tcte,
the Republican workman, and the Bona
partist or Royalist. The Republican
workman, who would represent the radical
ideas of the Democratic party, received but
a few hundred votes at the most, and often
out of twelve thousand votes did not attain
the number of fifty. 1t may thus be seen
that the majority of the French people are
moderate Republicans, but on this occasion
have expressed themselves as decided and
frank Republicans, desirous f calrying out
atrue and complete Republican programme.
Mr.. Gambetta offered himself as candi-
date in two circonscriptions of the same
arrondissement, and although elected but
in one, and by very feeble majority, his
election may be considered as a great per-
sonal triumph. The arrondissement of
Belleville is that of the most democratic of
the working classes, and although Gam
beta has never identified himself with the
center gauche, but with the party called
Union Republican, which is the balancing
power between the center gduche and the
extreme gduche he can scarcely be said to
perfectly represent the ideasj of his con-
stituents. However, his personal popular
ity has always given him large majority
of votes at each election. Since the return
of Louise Michel and Rochefort to Paris
they have endeavored to exercise their rev.
olutionary and socialist ideas in this quar-
ter. as containing exclusively the working
classes with the strongest democratic tend
encies; yet they found much opposition
whenever they attacked Gambetta, and
each tune Louise Michel attempted to de.
nounce him from the lecture stand she was
KISSED AND HooTED AT,
That she was obliged to leave the hall.
The circumstances of the quarrel between
Gambetta and Rochefort are still fresh in
the minds of the public, and it may be re-
membered that Rochefort came out of the
scramble with very limp feathers; in fact
his influence then ceased, the number of
subscribers to his journal diminished by
more than half. and although from time to
time one smiles at his witty articles, he ex-
erted no longer the slightest influence over
any party. He was certainly not of ma
ture to quietly submit to defeat without
seeking some means of revenge, and al