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FRENCH ELECTION
important Questions to Be Decided
by French Ballots To-
morrow.
The Campaign Has Been One Of
the Most Heated Ever
Known.
Boulanger, Although Deprived O
His Civil Rights, Has Fol-
lowing Changes in the
Election Laws.
Vote ON Sunday.

New YORK, Sept. al.-A Paris cable
.ays: shall the republicbe preserved"
Shall the existing republican constitu-
tion be upheld or condemnedY
These are the vital questions that the
voters of France will be called upon to-
morrow to answer. The political cam
paign, one Of the most heated in the his
tory of this stempestuousp people, closes to-
night. Tomorrow at 6 o'clock-for all
French elections are held on the Sab
bath day-the polls will be opened, and
the depositing of votes will be in order
until 9 o'clock at night. The outcome
of the election will be awaited with in
tense anxiety all over the conti-
nent. In London and Berlin the
papers have made arrangements to
issue midnight editions-an unprece-
dented occurrence. AT this election two
great changes tend to initiate against
speculation in advance. 1t will be
arrondissemental voting, one man one
vote, and not Scrutin de liSte, as hereto
fore. In addition the new law against
multiple candidates has gone into effect,
and no candidate can run in more than
one district. This law aimed at General
Boulanger, has the result, taken III con-
nection with the sentence depriving him
of his civil rights, of making him
absolutely powerless so far as he
is personally concerned. His hold
upon the masses, however, is
still an unknown quantity, and recent
developments in Montemartre, Bellville,
and other of the rougher districts OF
Paris have indicated the continued ex-
istence OF good deal of Boulangist sem
timent. The manifesto of the count de
Paris, in which he affirmed the policy
of the monarchists and exhorted his
supporters to remain firm to the cleo
toral coalition of monarchists and Chris
tian imperialists, and which is in reality
the conservation of the coalition between
the two latter and the Boulangists, has
carried with it great influence over the
country voters, and will be felt at the
polls. What the government has most
to fear, however. is the influence of the
bishops and clergy Despite the law
which forbids those wearing the cloth
participating in elections, and the an
nonncement of NJ. Thevent, the minis
ter OF justice. that the government
would unhesitating and vigorously pro-
ceed against any one who overstepped
the lines enieined under all govern
ments since the concord at the clerics
have been unusually active in support
of the opponents of the government,
and several bishops have gone SO far as
to give defiance to the powers that be
by openly announcing that they and the
priests being citizens with other
Frenchmen had every right to
take part in the elections. AS result
the government has exhorted the Of
ficers of election to extra vigilance.
Anything in the shape of clerical OF
Boulangist demonstrations tomorrow
will be speedily suppressed, and inten.
tional apathy of the police agents will
be watched and punished.
In all 555 members of the chamber OF
deputies, including those from Algicrs
and the provinces, are to be elected
The latest forecast that can be made is
that the republic will hold, if not its
own, at least clear majority in the
new chamber.