Omaha daily bee., 1889-09-21
OTTER LANDS THAN ouRs

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OTHER LANDS THAN OURS.
The general elections In France for men,
bers OF the new chamber OF deputies will
take place tomorrow, and there s universal
interest In the result. This will determine
whether or not Boulauger Ia still an import
ant factor in French politics. The senate
has convicted him OF treason, and also for
misappropriation, while minister OF war, of
the secret service fund. In almost any other
country than France such grave charges,
sustained by so eminent a body as the highest
branch Of tho legislature, would destroy for
ever the political power OF any man against
whom they were brought. But In that coun-
try even the senate does not enjoy the abso
lutte confidence Of the people, and its most
carefully considered acts may be set down
by partisans as partial, unjust and malicious
IL directed against political idol. The sen.
ate having found Boulanger guilty OF trea-
son and misappropriaton of government
funds, it would naturally be supposed that
he would be done for as a leader
of cause or party. But such has
not been the case. Those newspa-
pers which supported him before the YER
dict was rendered have as loyalty supported
him since, and his followers of Belleville and
Montmartre, two of the most populous vot-
ing districts of Paris, have been rather moro
than less devoted to his political fortunes
since than before the verdict of the senate
was proclaimed; they have held meetings of
vast numerical proportions and made public
demonstrations in his favor which clearly
indicate that their confidence in him mas not
been at all shaken by the action of the SEN
ate. The late elections in tho several dis
tricts for councillors. general went against
Boulanger, but the issue between the princi-
piles of the government and those of Boulan
ger were not so sharply drawn in that con-
test as they will be in the approaching one
The counclllors-general have nothing to do
with the revising of the constitution, with
abolishing the senate and restricting or
maintaining the rights of the clergy, and the
deputies have practically all to do with de-
termining these things. The previous cleo
ton cannot therefore be accepted as even a
satisfactory indication of the results of the
coming one, and whether Boulanger shall
appear re-established as political force or
disappear finally as one is yet uncertain.
Both parties assume to be confident of sue
cess, and apparently the government party
with best reason.
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ENo VIII SUuu po
| held in Great Britain which will as fairly
| test public opinion on the question respecting
| British issues as the general election in
| France next Sunday will test French opinion
| on French and European questions. The
| Gladstonians appear to be confident of hold
| ing their own in two of the four seats now
| vacant, and which were represented during
| the last parliamentary elections by liberals.
| The loyalty of John Burns, the labor agita-
| tor, to his political friends insures the elec.
| tion of the Gladstonians in Dundee, Scot
| land, by large majority. Burns refused to
| stand there as u socaistic candidate. That
| would give too much comfort to the tori es,
| and might enable them to win seat. In the
| Egin Burghs the liberals expect to gain by
| an increased majority, as the Scotch dissen-
| tient liberals of 1886 appear to have returned
| to the Gladstonian fold. The principal con-
| tests then will be in North Buckinghamshlre,
| where the Gladstoniaus with popular can.
| didate hope to overcome an adverse majority
| of Al at the 1886 election, and in Peterbor-
| ough, where they are fighting family fac
| tion and trying to overcome q tory majority
| of 300 in q vote of 3000 The Peter
| borough constituency is the most strongly
| Protestant in England and was represented in
| parliament for years by the anti-popery poll
| tician Whal!ey. The liberals now hope to
| gain the borough on account of Balfour's CO.
quetting with the Irish Catholic bish ops,
] The outcome will be interesting.
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The meeting of the czarowItch and the
kaiser it apears. lost no warmth from hav
| ing been so long delayed, and as the fore
| runner of the czar's visit to Potsdam il may
| put an end to the rather ungracious grumb-
| lngs of some of tho German newspapers
over what they have chosen to consider the
| czar's tardy return of courtesy 1t is true
that more than year has gone by since EN-
| peror Williams visit to Russia, and also that
| it was his first journey after coming to the
| throne. But there must always be sucn
| casting of police horoscopes and preliminary
tracking of nihilists before the czar can
move out Of his domains that a postponement
| of intended trips can never be safely Judged
| from political standpoint. On the other
| hand, the inference from the unusual honors
accorded to the czarowitch that he is more
| favorably inclined toward Germany than
| his father seems hasty, and certainly is not
| in accord with what has been understood
| hitherto. What the fervor and brilliancy of
his reception may fairly be inferred to indi-
cate is that the German government wishes
| to snow 10 all tne world ltS desire Tor cOrulal
relations with Russia, and there never has
been any real ground to doubt the sincerity
| of that desire.
|
| Samoa's three kings, relieved Of foreign
influence, are conducting themselves in a
commercially pacific and amiable fashion,
| such us could hardly be expected from trio
| of rival candidates for the throne With
courtesy that has a royal flavor, even if it
comes from the south seas, Malietoa. on
being brought back by the Germans from
his unjust Punishment, insisted Oh not imme-
diately displacing Mataafa. urging i'll health,
| and that Mataafa had really been made the
depository Of regal power by the patriot pop
| ulation. But Mataafa was no less earnest to
have it understood that he had been the rep
| resentative of Malietoa till the latter should
return. Now it appears that Maletoa was
at length quietly restored to power, aud that
| thereupon these friends both withdrew to
| Manono TO await the action of our country on
| the Berlin conference. Manouo is little
island of about three square miles area, in
| closed within the sea reef of the large island
of Upolu, on which Apia the capital is stu.