Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-07-18
FALL OF THE BASTILE.
Centennial Observance Of This
Event.
Disturbances In Paris on the Prohfbltio0
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PARIS, July 15.-M. Deroulede. II. De.
risse and other Boulangist members Of the
Chamber of Deputies met in the Place dc
la Concorde before the statue of Strasburg
yesterday, intending to hold a meeting.
A crowd of several thousand persons
gathered and M. Deroulede was about to
begin a speech when police commissary
named Clement forced his way through
the crowd and approaching Deroulede
forbade him to speak. Deroulede protest.
ed. but the police official was obdurate.
Deroulede then began affxing floral
wreaths to the railing around the statue,
at the same time leading the crowd In
shouts of ''Vive Boulanger." Clement
tried to arrest Deroulede, but the latter
stoutly resisted, saying that he had not
made a speech and had only cheered for
Boulanger. He refused to accompany the
officer to the police station.
Clement thereupon seized him, but the
crowd came to Deroulede's rescue and
took him away from the officer who was
being roughly handled by the mob, when
q large body of police suddenly appeared
upon the scene and charged the crowd,
driving them in all directions and rescu.
ing the unfortunate commIssary. A large
number of persons were arrested.
Laguerre and Deroulede during the
scrimmage jumped into a cab and were
driven to the Office of La Presse, where a
mob gathered and INDUCED in noisy
demonstrations. The police cleared the
streets and made many more arrests.
The incident has caused a sensation
throughout the city and dangerous devel.
opments are feared.
A band of roughs yesterday In the
neighborhood of Navors cafe. in the Rue
Royal, attacked an Italian flag. The mob
was so enraged that they tore it down
and trampled it in the mud They then
made an attack on the cafe and complete.
y wrecked the place.
BOULANGIST SCHEME.
LONDON, July 15.-The adherents of
Boulanger who came over from France to
take part with their chief in the London
celebration of the fall of the Bastile, for
the most part, express confidence in the
peaceful solutions of the problems which
the French people have before them. They
dsride the speech of NJ. Brisson, in which
he declares that the people of France often
become incapable of protecting them.
selves, ipstancing the feet that they once
alloweeAhe Republic to be destroyed and
succumbed to the Empire, and in which
he concluded that the majority should de.
fend the liberties of Frenchmen by force
of arms.
Notwithstanding their disclaimer of
warlike intentions, however, these Bou.
langists do not pretend to deny that in the
event of their own success at the coming
elections they propose to remove Presf.
of the French republic and that this will
be done at the point Of the bay onet if
necessary, unless he yields to the
wishes of Boulanger and bows to the ex-
pressed will of the people It can be very
easily surmised that in view of these and
similar expressions on the part of the
Boulangists aud the equally determined
tone of their enemies the outlook for Oc-
tober is ominous. Boulanger's assertion
in his speech yesterday that his aim was
to work for the Strengthening OF the Re-
public is generally accepted as a ruse to
divert the threatened alliance between
the republicans and the supporters of the
Count de Paris, an alliance which if con-
summated must prove a death blow to
Boulangist ambitions.
BAsTILE CENTENNIAL OBSERVANCE.
PARIS, July 15.-The one hundredth an
niversary Of the fall OF the Bastils was
celebrated by the public meetings and
fetes in Paris and throughout the prov
inces yesterday. Transparencies bearing
representations of Geaeral Boulanger
were displayed in the windows of the
League Of Patriots and other Boulangist
resorts. These devices called forth a few
hootings from passers-by, but, with the
exception of the disorders in the Place de
Concords and at the Office Of La Presse,
the day passed off without disturbances of
any kind.
The fire. works at the fetes last evening
were somewhat marred by rain, but the
Place de la Concorde, the Champs Elysee,
the Bois de Boulogne, the Eiffel tower
and the Trocadero palace were blaze Of
light. At midnight thousands OF persons
thronged the Bois de Boulogne and there
was no sign of any abatement of the fun.
N. WADDINGToN ON BOULANGER.
LONDON, July 15-M. Waddington, the
French Ambassador here. gave a banquet
last evening to prominent membets of
the French colony. In a speech after the
banquet he declared against Boulangism.
He asserted that the Boulangist pro.
gramme had no parallel in America,
because in America the Presi-
dent was protected, not by uni.
versal suffrage, but by delegates Of the
State. Moreover, in America there was no
therefore impossible. The triumph OF
Boulanger would end in disaster for
France. He himself did not believe that
Boulanger would succeed, but neverthe-
less he considered it necessary for his
countrymen to rally around President
Carnot in defense Of the Republic
Unable to Agree.