The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1889-10-11

! lncu sell IL 'ul 10 tht i''"i i''''' ~
with Il trade for local patronage against
The national ticket
The New York Democrats can name
the presidential candidate, and then
trade HIM of for the local patronage.
That is Just the SIZE of IT. and you
cannot make anything else out of IT.
uISCEEDITED ENIIE.
The last information which we have
OF Boulanger is that he has withdrawn
with more or less secrecy. from London
to one of the English Stands lying of
the coast of France. The world still
feels sufficient interest in the man to be-
curious as to the ultimate object of this
change of situation. |, 1t a mere natu-
raj longing Of the restless exile TO get
ss near TO his beloved native shorcs as
his outlawry will permit; That was
certainly the feeling that impellcd i'm
netious but sturdy old Victor Hugo to
lake up his residence in Guernsey. And
the same emotion las Influenced many
DISTINGUISHED Fienchmen. who have
been bipished from their country. to
seat themselves in as close proximity 10
its boundaries as they could DO without
jeopardy to their safety.
While Boulanger has the most char
.cteri,.ic features of the race to which
lac belongs. hc does not appear to be "a
man Of strong sentimental turn. His
love of country seems 10 be principally
calculating and selfish demagogism
that finds its chief qualification in mere
attituiinizing in tine popular eye. His
retirement To a secluded island IN the
English channel. therefore, is not i'm
probably due entirely TO bis fear that II
DE remained in London. where there
was 20 much to divert attention from
his own personality and claims to emf
nent consideration, he would gradually
fade from the observation Of men. more
particularly Of Frenchmen. and become
social and political nonentity. This
would be- condition Of things that
would affect 30 sensational and thcatri-
cal a man ~ himself, more pOignantly
than even the prospect OF physical
death.
On the other hand, by taking himself
of to a small island lying between the
two great nations Of England and
France. the proportion, of his greatness
Will not be contracted by the larger
PROPORTIONS Of surrounding obJecls. lie
will speak 10 his c3untrymen from his
island home with an authority that
will not Toe lesseuod 10y accounts which
prviug writers might give of the de-
cline in the personal consideration with
which he was formerly treated by the
world about him. There VIII lie some
thing too i'm the very isolation Of his
present situation to excite the curiosity
OF men. and induce them to listen where
otherwise they would close their ears
to his appeals
That The man designs an ultimate de
scent upon France with view of gath
ering around him his followers ana up
setting the Government, we do not for
q moment believe. Such an act would
be that Of one who is either mad on
sunk TO the lowest point Of despair, and
a, vet Boulanger, who has seen many
reverses of fortune, has not fallen into
either state.
If. however. there was most excel
lent prospect of mis- carrying all before
him. if he planted his foot upon the
French shores. the man would shrink
from the undertaking. He has not one
spark Of chat capacity which the great
Napoleon possessed, who. when the tide
of fortune. which he himself directed
lifted him up to a certain point. leaped
from it TO the still higher pointto which
his soaring ambition aspiTed. Witness
the bold stroke Of the eighth of Bru-
MARIE. which was the logical result Of
all the previous political conditions.
When fortune presented that keen in
telligence, those determined energie.
an opportunity, it was made the most
Of, and with the suddenness and eiIec-
tiyene.s o. a thunderbolt.
But BOulanger 1t seems only yes
terday that he entered the French As
sembly amid acclamations, supported
By the public sentiment of a great ma
jority of his countrymen, man with
missiOn-a mission which the peOple
had delegated HIM TO accomplishment
now, few months Afterwards, he is a
dscredited exile. a skulking fugitive
in an obscure island, amid blue waste
Of sea.
THE war Of the metropolitan cities
over the question of the World 5 Fair
is becoming intensified. But If the East