The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1884-05-10
LATE FOREIGN NEWS.
tue CoMING PARIS COMMUNE.
Startling Results Of the Municipal Elec.
t~icns-Future Barricnde and Boncres.

tieBs-fufurc Barricnde and Bencres.
A Paris special says Never In her his
terry has Paris polled SO iaany votes as in
the elections now going on, the total being
1000 In excess OF that Of the year 1881.
The NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Is to say, the Au-
Economists, Socialists, Anarchists, and Col.
lectivists-poll this year over 10000 votes,
being nearly 10000 more than in 1881.
Although only forty-eight OF the eighty
municipal councillors have as yet been
elected, the political significance Of the
elections may now be fairly gagged, and
the keynote to the next legislative cleo
tions Is already sounded. The Oppor-
tunists, or the ministerial party, have had
a most decided check. The Conservatives
have scored a slight progress, but so slight
that, as the Gdutois, a royalist paper says,
+" 1T would take two hundred years at their
present rate of progression before the
monarchy could be peacefully restored"
II REv0LUTIONIsr vICTORY.
The Reyolutionists have won a brilliant
victory; the enormous. numerical increase
Of the Socialists and their unexpected con-
sistency, solidity. and political unity now
furnish q storm-signal not only for France,
but for Europe.
The ministerial papers seem TO feel that
their candle Is burning at both ends;
the Bonapartists now utter a snarl OF dis
content, like the traditional dog in The
manager; the Royalists cry, GAN goes
WE'LL" while the Revolutionists already
chant their pecan Of victory.
The Repubiique FRANCHISE says: One
good thing about the elections is that Paris
has shaken off the political indifference
with which it has been sometimes charged,
but the Parisians should learn that the
municipal elections should be guided not
by political but by purely administrative
considerations.
CONSERVATIVE CRY.
The Journal deS Debdts says: "The
Paris elections are by no means s~atisfac-
tory to men OF common sense who love Or
der and domestic security. The only par
ties which have gained are the Revolution
lists and the Monarchists."
The PdrtS says above all things, it
Is OF vital necessity that the French PEG.
pie, and especially the Parislans, should
understand that revolutionary votes only
serve the cause OF our only real enemy,
which is lie RyO."
The Temps says: "The elections are
uOt NnOOAlhStuS iOi thooN WhO W
order and prosperity"
The Pays says 1.-THE Government lacks
backbone and initiative. NJ. Ferry has
drained to the dregs the cup OF the Auto
nomists,"
VIA "FIGARo" SAYS.
The Royalist Figaro says: Sin exact
proportion rs the republic backslides into
the dark deeds OF the revolution, the mon
archy mounts to the surface, and in its
protecting folds offers TO society the sole
means OF reparation and safety"
The FrdncaiSe, the organ OF the Due de
Broglie, says "Whatever may be the put
come OF this complex social movement, Its
logical conclusion will certainly not ter
inmate in the maintenance Of the repub-
lic."
NJ. Cornely, formerly editor Of the ex-
tinct Clarion. declares in to-day's GduloiS:
The election demonstrated-first, that the
republic has sprung a bad leak and is
waterlogged second, that a ROyalist party
exists in every sense OF the word; and
third, that France will not go to the mon
archy unless via the Commune, toward
which she is advancing with rapid strides"
%PRoPHEsY OF THE COMMUNE.
" DtllCUlDtJ llIlL III IL CllslS Oht NiiA
chist Is more than a match for five hundred
bourgeois. The Anarchists know exactly
what they want, and they wantit sufficient
ly to risk their necks for it. But the Re-
publicans of other stripes have neither n
programme. enthusiasm, nor fanaticism.
In short, Parisians, everything promises
the return OF the Commune. The Hotel
de Vile Is the revolutionary centre recon-
structed. Open your eyes to the eXtraor-
binary foresight OF the Administrator,
which is rapidly covering all the streets OF
Paris with wooden pavements. which is
such q splendid resource in case OF riots
the same kind of wooden pavement that
has already proved its utility, peaceably
however. during the great fire in Cincin-
natl. With a few blows OF a pick and a
handful OF matches, the new wooden
paving blocks, saturated with tar. can be
used most effectively and economically as
tirebrands to inaugurate n conflagrat.on OF
the magnificent buildings OF Paris.
A SUGGESTION OF BARRICADEs.
"Or else these wooden paving blocks
can be transformed in a moment into bar
ricades, forming an impossible and blazing
rampant between an attacking army and
the rioters. Paris can proceed to elect
Autonomists with the utmost tranquility.
The Autonomists will establish the Com
mune. The Commune has the greater
part OF its ammunition already prepared
for action. 'All goes well'-all right, as
Gordon Pacha says"
The IntranSigednt says: "The grand
struggle is soon to be at hand; against the
Opportunists we strive merely for a dem
ocratic organization OF the republic; but
against the Royalists it is Il very eX-
istence as Republicans that we defend"
The Cri du Peupie says: 1.-THE grand
issue is framed; it is a struggle between
the Old World and the New World. On
one side are the cannons OF the church. on
the other side are the canons OF Mont
matre. CeSt l Roi on IL Commune ," (" 1t
ia tho King or fbp m "