New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-10-04
CLEMENCEAU.
CAMPAIGN WORK FOR To-DAYs ELECTIONS
In FRANCE

CAMPAIGN WORK FOR To-DAYs ELECTIONS
In FRANCE.
trRoh TILE PECULIAR CORRESPONDENT OF THE rRrnuxu1
PARIS, September ~
ClemeBceau astonishes France by his actvitv
He IS the only man who goes direct to universal
suffrage The meetings at which he speaks are Of
the most public character. At the Ministry of tho
Interior attempts have Teen made to battle him
because he refused to enter into for
general Republican list, or common mapger al
which men of all shades and degrees Of appetite
could eat together. Orders are given to prefecta
sub-prefeets and the Mayors of large towns (wha
are not elected but named by the Cover imentj not
to let him talk in any place thst not closed and
covered" At Dole the Opportunist Mayor pre-
vented him yesterday, by some pcttifogging
bubble, from holding a meeting in the theatre
But the committee working with hial got largo
yard and covered it over with an awning Of thin
muslin stretched over cords, which was technically
q roof. All the other heads of groups have com.
bmed to make in the psnumbra of their private
residences a union list and agreed to make no
manifesto, each being unable to lndorsc what tho
others would sign. daresay that Clcmcnccau will
bring division. But a greater than lie boasted Of
dividing the Jews in the presence of the Romano
In the North the Republicans are sharply
divided. One set calls the other the Tpnquiuois
At Dion the union list will not do unless ". Sadi
Carnot, who heads it, drops from the Opportunsts.
He has 10000 voters, the Royalists have $4,000,
and the Radicals 5000 The latter obey Cemcn-
ccau and will hear OF compromise short of the
remuneration of Ferry and his kind of Opportuuisn.
Clemenceau's health is not good, but the knee
affection by which he was laid up q fortnight ago
has disappeared. He is day in the southwest Of
France the next in the south. then in the centre,
after which run is made into Burgundy, followed
by run into the Jura. Then he is of to Blois or
some other place the Loire, and turns mp shortly
after in Auvergne, to go back again to the depart
ments along the RhOue and Mediterranean. His
activity has been in the Department OF the
Var. where he has undertaken campaign against
W. Jules Roche, in which the latter seems already
badly beaten NJ. Jules Roche is Cleincnccau's ex-
protege But since Gambetta's death he has been an
arch Ferryrst aud is employed TO push the OPP
portunist list at Tonlon. ibis Roche first o
Seninarst. On quitting the seminary he started at
Lyons rs q Red Republican. came to Paris. got into
La Justice, was hoisted by it into the Municipal
Couaeil. and then into the Chamber as Dcouty for
Dragnignon, which had asked Clemenceau to stand
for it. Roche is without opinions aud is intensely
ambitious in the bad sense of the word. All is fish
that comes to his net and he thought Opportunspi
q finely stocked fishing pond when he got into tho
Legislature. He is Industrious and a fairly good
orator. though his style is more that of the theo-
Logan protesting absolute creed than Of a
drbatcr When he deserted his patron about tirco
years ago the men who commanded the majority
took pleasure in naming Roche as reporter Of bills
opposed by Clemencean. Both thus became mortal
enemies and all the that Roche had
nsolent way Of treating his former benefactlr. who
in return made him feel the edge of his keenest
sarcasms. The visit of Clemenceau to Draguignon
on Sunday and the Grafton there were for tho
purpose of defeating the Opportunist list in the
person of Roche. A meeting at which the ex-patron
and ex-protege were to have spoken was 10 take
place in the theatre. But the Radical committee
hav ing reserved number of places for the electors
who were Republicans OF old date and venerable
ages and expected from long distances a cry was
raised by the Opportunists that they wanted to
bring together packed audience. Oa arriving
from Paris at half past the Deputy OF Nontmartre
WAS appri ed of THU and said he would not speak in
the theatre Where would he then 20 IN
" Wherever any one who Is eased 10 come aud
listen to or hiss and boot me can come" The only
available locality was tine esplanade; which Is on
the summit of Il hill and commands tine view. As
the la~ tO which have already allWsed-a law
voted by the Versailles Assembly-ordans that no
puhlC Grafton be delivered save III an lncioSed ana
covered space the Mayors permission was asked.
lie was happy, by giving a permission when hs
had no leg Al power t. grant. TO afford the towns
mrrceau went. it speedily decked out with
flags The rostrum in which lie stood and In the
front of which the president and bureau OF tho
meeting sat, TIE Octagon II platforms on which
the military baud of the garrison stands when per
forming on SUNDAYS and holidays. All the windows
looking on the esplanasc were filled with 1dies.
Clemenceau scored 4 great success on the es2lan-
AIDE. ina,much as Jules Roche and his friends arc
now not placed" la Justice only gave full
report of his speech five DAYS aiterward. Sncb IS
newspaper reporting IN France There were some
telling traits in this Grafton which will circulate
like current coin. For instance, he called tho
O2portunists-such IA they arc now" Catholics
without Cod" and said that their prevailing
characteristic " the worship OF force aud
contempt for ideas and principles The applause
here was tremendous Clemen"cau wound up
abruptly because IN such fine weather citlzsas
would be better employ ed holiday-makins IN no
country than in listening orator Iatlgled with
travelling and hoarse from cold" .
Clemenceaus oratiOnS a-e carefully matcred "
previous study. There is no flaw III his logic
Nothing IS learned by heart and when be warns Uls
brain and moral energies come tn his lpS the hrat
does not rush there with them. Clemenceau rarely
appeals to the sympathes. although he often speaks
with passion Admiral MaXsc SAYS of him How
interesting he makes pure intellect" In the lively
parts of his Grafton last Sunday he put MS hands ~
his pockets aud walked up and down the platform