New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-12-28
NINE. ADAMS REVUE.
IT'S NEW EDITOR PI.LORIED AS A SIAN
DERER


tFRoM THE REGULAR CORES ,oSDExr TIE TRrBUNE.I
PARIS. December 10.
The patriotic" party. OF which Nine. Adam, M.
Deroulede and Dr. de Cyon are the triune head, has
received terrible blow from NJ Jourde, the honored
and honorable syndc Of the Paris press, and from lie
Voitaire" This party, from motives OF vanity IN TWO
members Of the trinity and shall say what motive
in the third person. have been by their windy NOISE
the OF the direul stua,ion N which France now
finds herself, automatically speaking M. de
Freycnet passed for being the man OF straw OF La
Nouvellc Revue.v which might fifty be termed
La Revue de Ia Russe.' IL is quite true that Mme
Adam has continually had ali the members OF the DE
Freycnet Cabinet to her dinners and that she and Do
Cyon have been In the habit of speaing OF the whole
batch of their Ministry. Prince Bismarck was
not Indifferent to this symptom and all the more so
because of the reception which NJ Derouede met with
in Russia But | think he terribly overrated its
Importance, inasmuch the Revue" and It's
cdevant Editor to all ntents and purposes things
of the past and--as NJ. Jules Ferry said the other
night at Senior Calzado's OF Nine. Adam when she
refused to shake hands with HMM the domain OF
ancient history. NJ de Cyon according to lie
Voltare is Russian DOCTOR and even an ex-professor
of the Faculty OF ST. Petersburg who was spewed out
by his pupils. He then 10 France and succeeded
in getting himself named Editor OF LIE Gaulos
when it passed into the hands of NJ Verbrouck OLA
Banque Parisenne. His editorshp was neither long
nor brilliant. Nevertheless Paris learned few
months ago. with astonishment certainly, that Mme
Adam had chosen HIM TO sit in che editorial chair OF
aLa Nouyelle Revue J" when she was withdrawing
from it. This was all the astonishing because
of the fact that Nine. Adams publication claimed to
be, above everything else. patriotic.
Before the had time to abate, LIE Steele"
published letter from St. Petersburg in which DE
Cyon was accused of systematically insulting France
and particularly the Frer ch Chambers and the Paris
press. He was accused " having written to lie
Messenger Russe" the great French review of Russia,
that the House of Deputies composed Of some
hundred tarriers, barkecpers. tcRet-of-leave men
(anciens forcats), who systematically undermined
France for the benefit of their greedy pauuches
and those OF their relatives and that the way tor
them TO get themselves reelected to ron and job
openly If one of them robbed in more prominent
way than his colleagues it all the better for him.
As to the French journalist he had political opinion
lie was rotten and, according bids offered for
hs pen. was ready to be a Republican, Monarchst or
Anarchist
This NJ de Cyon as lie Steele" was informed, was
simply Jew named Son and had been attached to the
bor sehoId OF the unfortunate Grand Duke Nicholas as
his body physician. The Grand Duke in question had
been in the late Cars lifetime under cloud because
department of his army corps during the Danuban
campaign in which he was engaged III 1857. The new
Editor of LIE Nouvelle Revue" sent a friend to NJ.
Jourde of lie Steele TO explain to hun that he was
really NJ de Cyon and not Sion and TO declare that he
had never lbelled the French press and Chamber.
" lie Steele published his exclamation and denial but
suspended judgment until its st. Petersburg corre-
spondet had had opportunity either to support or
withdraw his charge Next day Nj. Jourde received a
naughty note from NJ de Cyon, expressing astonish-
ment at his reserve This is faithful translation
SIR have been painfully surprised in reading this
morning in " LIE Steele" note that relates to me. l
trusted that You would have felt sorry a. having
accepted allegations of nature to wound fellow
journalist when their falsty was made patent
Instead OF that you give me certificate oil identity OF
which | have need and series OF ambiguous
recications which tar from satisfactory. am IN
the habit OF openly assuming the responsibility o. my
opinions and hold IN horror AL trieSery anu e9uNoe
ton Az 10 the stupid assertion Of y0nr correspondent
that wrote the French journalist down venal it IS
absolutely false.
lie Steele them Russia being far of andtelegraphe
dispatches under the control OF the Board OF Censdre
procured numbers OF lie Messenger Russo" in which
| there were the inerminated articles and got them
translated by a sworn translator lt was found that
they were all even worse than the correspondent had
said in Sd tar as they related to the House OF
Deputies As to the Journalists the articles declared
that they had under a regime OF absolute liberty traus
formed the press into machine Tor public specult
lions. Nearly all the Paris journals were IN the
hands of shady spectators. From day TO another
every journal without choDging owners ready to
change its political color and to be MoDarcbica CIR
moderate Republican, red Radical Not only did
the proprletors rema the same but they kept the
old stats who, after operating their change OF 'ront,
reved all those WHIP remained fathfnl TO what they
themselves had been adoring
This was strong. lie Steele" could not end words
10 express just Indignation at these insults to one
of the most distinguished bodies OF Frenchmen |
suppose tnere country in the world in which the
press has been served by such brilliant writers and
powerful thinkers in France, where the position
OF press OF talent is honorable. Two OF tue
most prominent Deputies Of the Chamber Camille
Lemoiune of the Debats and the Academy, refused
the post OF Minister PenpOteniiary to Brussels
the of that paper were willing To bring
mis- salary up to $4,000 year. They would give
him $4,000 yearly TO have a monopoly OF MS pen
and ask bu. one article week. unless special cases
when they Will pay him extra This agreement was
made after he began write for lie Matn,' because
he took a huff at something Nj. Bapst one oil the
owners of the Debas," said about his laziness. NJ
Lockroy il still on the staff of LIE kappel,' and NJ.
Spulier on that LIE Repubque Franchise" Indeed,
often regret that journalism OF British root or branch
all the world and no matter where mas NOT the
high literary idea which still exists in Paris. We are
used here to charming writing ana 10 Journalistic
talent that we hardly notice IT, In no other city In
the world could expect TO find day after day. and
for wears without intern upton, such sparkling leaders
as those which Camille Pelletan writes tor La
Justice" or such ournastic drains as kochetort FUR
nishes in "L'Int-ansgeant.' The financial side OF
nearly all the Paris apers ia tarmed 6nancsts. But
there is kind OF secret about this arrangement NO
doubt there is often visible the cOven foot OF that
sort OF anmaty which was in vogue ON the English
stage in the time of Charles IIbut IL Is seen in
less gross form here than 1t there Sarcey, Jules
CIarete and Reinach are not vile wreches And to
farriers there is not a single one in either Chamber.
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