Omaha daily bee., 1889-09-22

dark, and all political by-play is but an anus
ing prelude TO the play which will soon
begin. The play, by the way is pretty sure
to be a tragedy"
M. Max Paz, secretaire de la Reduction OF
Paris, spoke as follows; sit is not improb-
able that the Boulangists will achieve GER
tain success in Paris, where they have
massed all the strongest andidates-Requet,
Laguerre, General Boulanger - but
In the provinces they will meet
with overwhelming defeat. There they have
put forward men absolutely unheard Of.
Many of them are second.class reporters,
whose salaries vary between 800 and 500
francs, and who are far from capable of
properly representing the departments whose
suffrage they invoke. For this and other
reasons am convinced tina ,General Bou-
LANCER & Co. have not the remotest chance
of gaining majority In the new chamber.
"The question of finances in the Boulang-
ist campaign affords an interesting study.
They are spreading gold broadcast through
the land. They are paying each one of their
candidates, most of whom are impecunious,
at best, 1000 francs. They have been
buying up newspapers all over the country,
with editors on large salaries. All
the leaders Of the movement, from the gem
eral down, are living like princes, although
none of them have independent fortunes.
Where, then, does the money come FRONT
That is conundrum no one has yet sue
ceeded in solving, but that some Of it comes
from London is clearly shown by the fact
that when certain bankrupt paper was
bought up by the Boulangists, couple of
weeks ago, the back debts were paid in
English sovereigns. This l can prove.n
Sand M. Sigismond LaCroix, of the Radi-
Gale: II am not political prophet and can
accordingly only tell what is absolutely cer-
tain. First and foremost, the majority in
the chamber will be republican. The Bou-
langist adventure is now merely matter of
history. The country has seen beneath the
mask. For things of that kind
an overwhelming current of pub
lie opinion is essential. A plebiscitum
such as Boulanger attempted is only possi-
Dle if carried onward by resstless torrent
that dashes down all barriers. The Bou.
langist brook was damned effectually by
the high court of justice trial. -...
"It is possible that General Boulanger
may be elected by the good folks of Mont
martre, but that will not alter the situation
one ota. He will nave to remain in London
just as he is now unless he prefers to explore
central Africa. Boulanger is finished, dead
and buried beneath foot of earth. Spring
up afresh. No. sir. You can not revive a
mummy.
"In other respects continued Mr.. La :
croix, Sundays elections will not materially
change the political situation. The reactonar-
les, with whom 1 include the Boulangists,
will maintain, perhaps strengthen, their
minority, but the republican majority has
forced upon it the absolute necessity of con-
centration. United it will assuredly be.
Matters will go on as usual. The reaction
aries will make as much trouble and as
much blocking and create as many esclandres
as heretofore, but they can do nothing MORE
and every country where there is q strong
reactionary minority has put up with such
inconvenience.
"What group of :he republican party IN
the next chamber will be the strongestl OF
that l cannot give you the slightest idea.
There are several hundreds of republican
candidates. A large number of them are
altogether new men. of whom even l,
journalist who have kept my eyes and ears
open, have never before heard. Take any
one OF these men, and ask me
what sort of republican he Is
whether he be scarlet, or shade dun, or
part-colored-and should be utterly nom
plussed. Why, my dear sir, he does not
know himself. All he could tell you or his
electors is that he is a republican and that
he is fighting Boulanger, and that Is all the
electors want to know at present"
Jacques Hlbrard, the.able political director
of LIE Temps, was out of town, but one of
his colleagues gave the following opinion,
which, he said, represented not only the
ideas he believed, but those of the entire
editorial staff:
~ do not believe for moment" he said,
''that General Boulanger will carry Sundays
elections 1t is very probable that he will
be successful in Paris, but France as whole
will decide against hun and the Boulangists
will be powerless to secure q majority in the
new chamber. Nor will the united forces Of
the royalists imperialsts and Boulangists
be able to cope with the body of united re-
pubicans. 1t Is not unlikely that the con-
servatives will be stronger in the next
chamber than they were IN the last, and
there might be slight falling off among the
extreme radicals but these important differ
enccs will not be sufficient to change the
balance of power, and the COVE rnment will
go on very much as it has been doing. If
by some extraordinary freak of destiny,
General Boulanger and his allies should
come into power, do not even then appre-
hend any serious trouble. But such con.
tingency is so far removed from all lines of
probability that 1t does not deserve mo-
ments serious consideration.n
M. Terrail Nermex, director of La Ro-
carde, said: "There will be majority of
100 revisionists in the chamber. General
Boulanger will be elected by large major
ity, and of course his election will be ratified
by the chamber He will then come to Paris
and take his place as chief revisionist of the
anti-governmental party The cabinet will
be overthrown, NJ. Carnot will endeavor to
form cabinet with members of the mod
crate republican party. II he succeeds, this
will follow in the' wake of its predecessor,
and so on until we obtain the revision so
much desired by all. We all shall employ
legal pressure-that is, popular agitation
because all Parisians desire revision aud
must have 1T aud mean to have it.
sin case of strong government majority,
which / do not believe possible, but only
admit for the sake of argument. the situa-
tion would be still more grave. The repub-
lican majority would split itself up into
grouns, and once again give the country
proof of the impracticability of parliament
airy government in France.
son the other hand the revlsionists are all