The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1889-01-04
BOOSTING eoULANeER.
Boulanger's Cause Receives an Importan
Accession-French Politics.

Boulauger's Cause Receives an Important
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT Politics.
PARIS, Dec. 26-Geueral Boulanger's
cause has received an immense accession
in the candidatare of General Montauban
for a seat in the Chamber of Deputies. His
appearance as a candidate in the depart
ment conioined with General Boulanger
speaks favorably for the Boulangists
momentous election campaign. The Gov
ernment feels the danger acutely, and
yesterday held a council at the Elysee to
consider how to face the situation.
General Montauban gives his support to
BouIanger. He says: 'Since Gravelotte,
when he held in check the attack of Count
Won Steinmetz on the French line, his
name has been cherished by the army.
During the five years Of his command of
the second army corps he added to his
popularity"
The whole address is a frank espousal of
the Boulanger programme. He denounces
the Chamber of Deputies as being power
less for good, as offending the National
conscience and as compromising the in
terests of the county. He deman DIS the
summoning of a Constituent Assembly as
alone competent to express the National
will. He invokes his own past, showing
that hitherto he was a stranger to personal
party quarrels and that he was now actu-
ated solely my motives of patriotism. He
appears as a Conservative. His return tc
the Chamber is certain.
The assailants of the Government now
comprise Conservatives, wanting revision
| Bonapartists and Boulangist Radicals. In
| the Government ranks the Opportunities
and the Moderates have a strong influence
/ Lacour, Reinoch and other leaders are di-
/ vided on the question of the necessity of 6
/ revision of the Constitution, but are united
/ against Boulangism.
] NJ. FIoquet dominates now and appears
| to be determined to keep the lead. He is
/ pressing his colleagues to draw away the
! Conservative support from BOulanger by
/ proffering a revision bill, accompanied by
a scrutin d'arrOndisemenG measure or &
one man, one vote system, and then dis
| solve the Chamber.
| The influence of the Panama canal col.
/ lapse on the electoral vote depends upon
! variety of chances, including the time al
! which the election is held. If the peasan
shareholders who are now unable tx
realize that their savings have beer
swamped, get time to connect their ruiz
with the present form of republic, Genera
! Boulanger will triumph.
Meetings of Panama shareholders il
provincial centers continue to pass resolu
| tions in support of M. de Lesseps and Il
sign engagements binding them to foreg,
the payment of interest by the company
/ This action, however, does not affect tn
general belief that the company has col
lapsed. At a meeting at Bordeaux Oh
/ Sunday l, 200 shareholders signed al
agreement to forego the payment of inter
est and at Anglers several hundred sigma
lures were obtained to a similar agree
| ment.
General Boulanger in an interview yes
terday extolled II. Reiuach for demandin,
the annulment of the decree of banishmen
against the Due d'Aumale. He said
"The first act Of my Government, if tn
country raises me to the Presidency, viii
be to repeal the laws relating to Danish
ment, readmit everybody and open to al
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