The Arkansaw traveler., 1886-04-10
Gambetta,s Election Tour.

The April number of the North Amer;- can Review opens with an article descrip- tive of an electioneering trip made by Gambetta early in the year 1876. In the explanatory note prefixed to the ar ticle the editor says:
 At Cavaillon, in 1876, Gambetta had an adventure with rOyalist mob His friends claimed that this was an at tempt to assassinate him and said that the mob had been imported from Avignon for the purpose These same Avignnais, they said, had in 1879 slain and cast into the Rhone, Marshal Brune for offering his services to Ma poleon l. on his return from Elba; and, as they escaped punishment then, they believed they did not incur any risk in committing d similar outrage upon Gambetta. On this subject, Madame Adam has been pleased to supply Us with some pages of her unpublished Memoirs, in which our readers will find narrative of the affair at Cavaillon told by Gambetta himself in letter which now appears in print for the first time
 This letter. indeed, occupies nearly the entire space of the article In d light and gossippy style, Gambetta writes to the wife of the friend who ac- cOmpanied him the events of his jour- ney, dating his letter (which bears some what the form of a diary from the places at which they stopped-Bruyeres, Orange, Cayaillon and Marseilles-upon the respective dates of February l6th, Eth 18th, 10th, 20th, Dist and 22d:
 It has all the truthfulness of an ac- count written at the time of the occur rences narrated; and SO graphic and dramatic is the telling that the reader gains remarkable insight into the political excitement attendant upon the birth of the French republic.
 Leaving Paris with Senator Edmond Adam he says: We dined badly at the Lyons station; looked for compensation and found it in delicious smoke To wards AuXerre we made our prepara- tions for the night 1 rolled myself in my rabbit-skin furs, and fell asleep. awoke ten minutes before reaching Orange fresh as a fish
 Here an open carriage was awaiting them and they got into it with the different leaders of the local demoe- racy; and then began, throughout the length of the prettiest little town in the world, an interminable ovation in which the women took the largest share Naturally the longest route was selected and, it being market day our triumphal march was executed in slow time
 They proceeded to Cavailion, taking in Carpenter as on the way. Hence Gambetta writes:
 The whole city is afoot Every head is uncovered. Every hand applauds An immense cortege surrounds us and conducts us to the hotel prepared for our reception and in which is to be held the political meeting announced by our friends, As soon as we had retired to our rooms we heard, under our windows, shouts, hisses, insulting apostrophes. Several carriages and omnibusses had just arrived from Avignon and unloaded a band of one hundred and thirty or two hundred individuals picked up in the vilest places--panders prize-fghterS, eN-convicts, professional thieves and as sassins-whom the fine gentlemen of moral order had hired" ..-,
 The whole letter abounds in interest and the reader turns from the last page with the comfortable satisfaction of ap- preeiating that election methods and stump-speaking in France do not greatly differ from what there have been in the United States.