Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1885-11-17
THE POLITICAL SITUATION In
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But little has been said in any of the
American papers concerning the elections
held on the 10Th Of last month 10 France,
but from what we have been able to
learn the new Chamber that met yester.
day contains, speaking in round mum.
bers, 200 Conservatives or R~eactionaries,
200 Opportunists and $50 Radicals.
France, as far as political opinion goes.
is geographically divided into two coun-
tries, the east being Republican and the
west Reactionary. Says the London
Mail: when we come to inquire into
the exact composition of the Republican
and the Reactionary groups it is not so
easy to arrive at a very precise con-
c~lusion. The great popularity of the
recent election has been the complete
way in which Conservatives have sunk
their differences, so that, whereas the
Republicans presented themselves to the
electors carefully labeled with the par.
ticular sections to which they belonged,
the followers of the Comte de Paris and
the upholders of the Bonapartist idea
agreed to fight side by side, and to be
known, not by what they supported, Blu
by what they opposed. No doubt we
shall see, if not in this Chamber, at all
events in the succeeding one, the old diff.
f~erences make themselves apparent, for if
the Bonapartists of Charente and the
Legitimists of Morbihan can agree when
in q minority, success will inevitably
divide them again. As to the Republi.
can sections, there is, unfortunately for
the prospects of government in France,
not even this temporary doubt. Speak.
ing generally, the greater part Of the Re-
publican lists are composite, i. e., they
are neither Opportunist nor Radical
altogether. 1t will he remembered that
more than 200 seats were undecided on
the first ballot, and that almost all Of
these were subsequently won by Repub-
~licans; and the reason was that on the
first occasion votes had been divided be.
tween the Opportunist and the Radical
lists. so that on the second occasion, in q
very large number OF cases, a list com.
bining both shades was offered to the
electors. 1t is not possible to say more
with regard to the $50 Radicals, who
have found seats in the Chamber, than
that all of the 3S Deputies for Paris, ex-
ccpt one, may be reckoned among them,
and that a large number Of them are to
be assigned to the great towns of the
south. For the rest, wherever a manu-.
featuring district is to be found in the
midst of a generally Republican Depart.
ment, we may be pretty sure that some
members of that Department will be
Radicals, as in the case of the Gard for
instance. Next to the Seine, however,
the most exclusively Radical Department
is that of the Rhone, which had no OPP.
portunist lists whatever, but was fought
entirely between Radicals and Conserva.
~tives."
NJ. de Nun, the Partisan lay revival.
ist, proposes that the Reactionary Depu.
ties should form themselves into a
Catholic party, dynastic questions being
thus thrown into the background; but
M. Cazeove de Pardine, a leading Royal.
ist Deputy. protests against this, insist.
ing that sailing under false colors would
not delude the enemy, and that the best
way OF being Catholic is, and always has
been, to be Royalist. He adds: "To
postpone the monarchical solution would
be to postpone the religious and social
restoration. A twofold task will devolve
on us when the hour Of revision comes
to precipitate the fall of the Republic,
to hasten the return of the Monarchy.
The whole question lies here. 1t is our
duty; it is our purpose" This is plain
speaking, and it is not calculated to pro-
long the coalition with the Bonapartists.
As for the Moderate Republicans, the
Temps proposes that, under the guise OF
societies for celebrating the centenary of
1889, associations should be formed all
over France, composed of men wishing
the Republic to be an honest, economical
and progressive Government. These or.
CARNATIONS would study practical re.
forms, would influence the elections, and
might hold an annual congress. In plain
words, anti. Jacobin clubs are to be
formed, on the Jacobin model.
1t is reported from Northern and Gen.
trail Sweden that this year migratory