New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-07-02
GAMBETTA'S DEFEAT.
WHAT WILL HIS NEXT MOVE BET

PROBABILITY THAT THE NEW CHAMBERS WILL
BE LESS FAVORABLE TO HIM THAN ARE THE
rREsENT-DEFECrION OF TIME-sEHVING FOL-
LOWERS TO THE WINNING SIDE
fFRoM THE REGULAR CORRESPONDENT OF THE TR1BUNEl
PARIS, Jnne 1.-THE future of Gambetta is now
the almost universal topic of conversation and gen.
eral speculation. What will he dog What new
departure will he takeY How will lie avenge him
self on the Elysee and on Jules Simon Who has
profted by all Gambetta's mistakes and by the in
temperate zeal of his courtiers and clients Il use the
word i'll the old Roman sense) to destroy in week
the position which it has taken three years of per-
severing effort to build up! VIII Gambetta anti
cipale deserton and neglect by breaking with the
fatterers and tme-servers who thronged his ante
chamber. and much more than Jules Simon have
been the cause of his defeat i'll the Senate on he
Scrutin de Liste, and in the Chamber on the pro-
posal of NJ. Bardoux for immediate dissolution
Just now. Gambetta's strategy is to fold his arms
and wait for political breeze that may fill his
sails again. He is without policy, because ever
since he has let the Bonapartiss get in upon him he
has been living on temporary eXpcdients.
RADICAL REFORMER.
Clemcn ceau occupies the Radical platform and
intends to keep it, but not to the exclusion of Gam
beta if the latter will follow in his wake. The
Deputy of Montmartre is going the Reform and
the Emancpationist ticket to stump the valley of
the Rhone and through Dauphiny. He holds that
an Augean stable remains to be cleansed, and that
administrative reform and emancipation from bar
barous press and other laws which fetter individual
liberty should he at the head of the Republican
programme for the general elections. Clemenceaus
force lies in his consistency and his oratorcal
capacity. No rarallel can be instituted between
him and Gambetta, they are dssimilar; but
Clemenceau is now the only man of Gambctta's in
teectua stature in the political arena.
Grevy aud his friends, / am also told, will not
m Of for WI
ceau pronounces, unless he suffers the Red party to
get hold of him, which is not probable.
The Deputy of Montmartre is man OF wifi mind.
Ideas start up in his brain spontaneously as wild
flowers in field in spring. But his imagination
and his active cerebration kept in check by the
pruning hook of science and a of eXtraor-
binary power. 1t is a mistake to look upon him
a rcvolutionist. He shrinks from revolution as
humane and skilful surgeon shrinks from ampu-
tating diseased knee, which with patience and
careful treatment might be cured But he has
strong faith in ideas and in principles. These he
said to me few evenings ago, are in the long
rs potent in ruling the worlds affairs the
and sun are in governing the action of the winds
and waves. Clemenceau thinks that Gambetta
must adopt his reform and emancpatlonist pro-
gramme and take Office upon it after the next gen.
eral elections. He does not apprehend that the
Republican party will be weakened or seriously
divided by the vote of the Senate and that of the
Chamber
GAMBETrA IN AMERICA.
LErpress, a Gambettst paper which was
started simultaneously with lie Henri ". l. Etoe
Francaiss LIndepeadeat. Unite Rationale and
LOpiaion, to help on che policy of which the Bar
douX measure to have been handspring gives
n piece of extraordinary advice to Gambetta. 1t is
to go and spend a year or two in the United States
Unfortunately Sarah Bernhardt's American tour
and the oyaiioEs she given when making it,
too recent for the President of the Chamber TO
cross the Atlantic. Manifestations of public en-.
thuslasm and curiosity with which he might he
greeted would not essentially differ from those
which the presence of Mile. Sarah Bernharslt
evoked. If the American people would allow Gam
beta to travel about the States unnottced save
by their foremost Hterdh and political notabilites
the advice of EErpress might be followed with
advantage. But it would be vain, SO long MS the
great orator, now under a cloud, is not completely
"used up" TO expect America would not be ire
nendOusly excited by his advent in the States
GAMBErTA's FUTURE OUTLOOK.
LErpress bears witness to the astonishment of
Gambetta when he saw the majority desert him in
the Chamber He had in every way identified him
self with the Bardoux proposal for an immediate
dissolution. LErpress, which, remember enoys no
less degree of intimacy with the Petit Bourbon
than the ReUbque Franoaise ascribes this check to
the noisy demonstrations made in Gambettas favor
by the Inpcralist population of the Lot: to the
jealousy OF Lett centre nediociities, and TO the
hckleness OF the national character Without de-
spairing of the realization of his political scheme
Gambetta, this organ of his tells u.s. well under
stands that 1t is indefinitely adjourned The ma.
)orlty which the neN general elections will send 10
the Chamber will be less Opportunis than the one
winch has kept him in the Speakers chair since the
election of Grevy TO the Presidency of the Repubc
Forty members of the Right will probably be elimi-
mated The Republican party will contain more
Radicals OF the Clemenccau shade more Grevyists
and more Left Centrists, than the existing Uouse
oil Deputies. Grevy is more than determined
not to ask Gambetta to head a Ministry unless he
Is imposed upon him by the majority in the Cham
her, which it is by certain he will be able o
Head. The majority in this Chamber has been bis
humble and obedient servant. Instead of ioinino
III sterile disputes for office, the Express opnes that
Gambetta would do better were he to BASS a few
years in the study of American democracy He
would, that journal is satisfied return calm. cooled
and master of himself, and yet possessing enough
OF southern heat to cause the souls of French Re
pubneans to vibrate During his absence the alton
Tue Centre aud the Moderate Left Ii wonld ,1e VI
sure the abyss which separates a constltutional
Pns;1{{ IRON republican democracy without a
tIesident. The revision platform would be rne ior
apphcatlon against the return to Eurone Of e. an
petta, who would come back with a clearer idea nf
the necessities OF great republican state and
would be less disposed than he has been to oivc
10 ,he prcJudces and illusions of the middle class
. ann tne financial confraternity. He would have
seecn great country without permanent arm
churches everywhere living in honorable ;ndnnnS'
t oa ine STATE citizens free to meet and to asso
oia'e' anu private initiative unfettered ~
FLIGHT OF FAIR-wEATHER FRrryns
can with difficulty realize the eclinsc ,vhio,
the Gambettist star is undergoing Courters Nv
from MN. Generals who were so indecentlv Con
ward To pay HIM homage stink out of bis WAY Tho
ALA oiece, which was foremost among his aduIo