Evening journal., 1889-09-23
ONE CENT.
THE FRENCH ELECTIONS.
Boulangists Are Thus Far in
the Lead.
THEY PLAYACLEVER TRUMP CARD

THEY PLAYA CLEVER TRUMP CARB
The Parisian Military Is Under Arms
and Fully Prepared TO Preserve Order.
Bouiangists Roughly Di-persed-Creat
Excitement In the Metropolis Of France.
PANS, Sept 23-Paris has been in a tvrr-
moil today such az only Paris excited can
furnish. The city is emblazoned throughout
with posters. Every statue, every column,
every monument, every wall Is covered with
circulars that vie with each other In brill
fancy Of color and gaudiness Of lettering.
The Bouangists played one Of their specta-
cular trump cards during the night When
daylight broke upon Paris the entire city waa
covered with brilliant posters picturing Cen
Boulanger upon his celebrated black charger
charging upon a whole army and covered
with gore and glory, while below ran the
words:
Boulangist Trump Card.
'EIEcIloNs-h you wish 10 vote for the
slaughterers OF the Parisians, for the devour-
ers OF the soldiers Of the Commune, give your
vote to the candidate Of the government
"VoiCE or THE NATIONAL PARTY
The Bouiangists at the sight Of this picture
went mad with enthusiasm, and indeed It
was the.party of the brave general that made
the most noise all day.
Regiments on Guard.
In Montmartre, where the popular hero
stood for election, and in Bellsville, whore
| his fellow exile, Rochefort, was a candidate.
regiments OF horse and foot stood guard from
the time the polls opened until they closed,
and sternly checked all demonstrations that
seemed to tend toward an outbreak When
the polls closed at o'clock there was COM
parative quiet, while Paris, which does not
forget It's dinner under any circumstances
went home 10 regaie itself. But two hours
later all the popuiace was in the streets
Pandemoniuln Relgned.
When the returns began 10 come In, and
il was announced that Boulanger and Roche
fort had been elected, there was pandemo-
MUM Twenty thousand people hal gath
cred in the Place del Opera, where Tha
presse, the leading Boulangist organ, was
issuing bulletins and these went mad with
enthusiasm "Vive Boulangerl Vive Bou-
lnngerl" roared every throat Hats went
up Ia the air, few who dared to hiss we're
sat upon and beaten, aud finally the "Bou-
: lnnger March was started by thousands Of
voices, and the great MOB, fired by tho mu-
! sic, started up the thoroughfare.
! squeiched by Soldiers.
AT this moment down the Avenue dos
Capucines came regiment Of the mounted
Republican guard, several hundred strong,
followed by force 81 infantry. With most
K brutal violence men, women and children
were driven into the side streets, and the
: Place del Opera and the Boulevard des
Il. d Al. nm
4 crowd then gathered ia the Rue de Fourth
! Soptembre, and the military dispersed it aa
fer as the Bourse and took possession Of that
, thoroughfare as well II was evident from
these measures that the government waa
? prepared 70 take the stornest course for the
preservation of order and when the rlimor
reached the people ia the streets that the
! votes Of Boulanger Rochefort and Dillon
would not be counted there was an ominoua
murmur However, the military was i'm
possession Of every vantage point, and even
/ II there had been any leaders an outbreak
would have been impossible.
a The Bonlangists to ~ Ignored.
Rochefort received a majority over the five
: candidates in his arondissement, but Il takes
r plurality TO elect IL is not expected that
$ the government viii take any cognizauce OF
. the vote for either Boulanger or Rochofort
e but the Boulangsts claim victory nevez~
S theless. Pnris is under guard, and it is evi-
I dent that She is not going TO be taken by sur
{ prise again la case OF an uprising.
s The Latest Returns.
8 Great joy was occasioned by the news
which reached the boulevard after ] O'Clock
from the wsst 81 FRANCE to the effect that
Jules Ferry had been defeated in the Georges,
r for which he had been returned for twelve
5 are not as reliable as Boulangists would wish
e them 10 be-
=, Out Of $40 electoral districts results have
{ been sent in from seventy only, and out Of
\ these la thirty cases new elections will have
, 10 be held In the remaining forty districts
3 which have been heard from, and in which
: definite results have been reached, the Bou-
. langist and Conservative candidates are for
the most part triumphant Brittany elects
Count Dillon, the partner in exile OF Bou-
langer and Rochefort, Angouleme returns
I Derouede, the president of the Patriot
I league, Laguerre Laisant and I.aiou, the trio
q Of Boulangist journalists, are returned IN the
b Paris delegation. In fact none OF the we'll
g known members Of the Revisionist aud Botl-
: langist parties have been beaten, but in cnss
2 Of Naquet, Itochefort and Edouard Herve,
s all running in Paris there viii have to be
( another ballot.
A Severe Struggle Predicted.
LONDON, Sept 28-The Standards Paris
dispatch says that the prevalent impression
is that the government is worsted, and there
4 will bea severe struggle in the second ballots
To Shut Out Canadian Laborers.
, buffalo, Sept q At meeting Of an
local assembly Of the Central Labor union
. the question Of prohibiting Canadian labor
in this city came up and was discussed al
some length Il was claimed that every
morning a large number of Canadians came
over to this city TO work They worked
/, for from so to Is cents a day less than tbs
! American laborer and also worked an hour
longer each day. The names of some sixteen
! or eighteen Canadians who came across by
the ferry every day had been furnished tina
United States district attorney by the com
mittee but nothing had been done in ths
matter The Can adams continue 10 come
over here Ia work aud were nv their cou,-