The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-09-07
POLITICS IN FRANCE.
The Alliance Between the Anti
Republicans.
NAGLE ON THE WITNESS STAND.
He Believed His Life Was in Danger Serious
Charges of Corruption Against
California officials.

[Specal to THE HERALD-Examiner Dispatch. ]
PARIS, Sept. 6.-[Cable to the New York
Herald. by comparing the manifesto is
sued by the Comte de Paris with the de-
claration made in Figaro by Prince Victor,
it is not difficult to discover how far apart
the two princes keep where they part
company. They are agreed to make a
combined assault on the present govern
ment; to accept as allies all who offer
themselves, and to convoke constituent
assembly should their assault be crowned
with success. At this point, however, a
hitch arises. The Comte de Paris acknowl-
edge the advisability of plebiscitum and
the necessity that the government should
have the assent of the nation.
Prince Victor somewhat disdainfully con-
graduates his royal rival and new recruit,
but declares he will be content with moth
ing less than direct plebiscitum on three
forms of governmentrepubli monarchy
or empire Any other '.trumpery kind of
national assent would be utterly unsatis-
factory. The slight divergence of opinion
as to the nature of the plebiscitum be-
comes abysmal when the pretenders take
up the question of results. For the Compile
de Paris, plebiscitum means arestoration
of the monarchy; for Prince Victor it
means an empire; then General Boulanger
takes it to mean the establishment of ma
tional republic.
In case the merits of the plebiscitum
should be put to the test, at least two or
three persons who have built their hopes
upon it will be sorely deceived IT is
scarcely probable that Prince Victor could
count upon the resignation or submission
of his worsted competitors and their sup
porters, who would be much the more
likely to cry out that there had been mis-
deal OF the political cards and that someone
had not played fair and square, and that
the game ought to begin afresh.
Things will not go so far, however, even
supposing the hopes of the three allied
camps should be realized; that they should
obtain majority in the next chamber:
that they should succeed, by fair means or
foul, IN Kidding themselves of both M. Car
not and the senate, the most difficult part
of their task would yet remain. When the
time should come for consulting the nation
there would be a scramble for points of
vantage; each party would struggle to con
duct the plebiscitum after the
fashion it considers best calcu-
lated to advance its own interests
Rivalries between the diverse pretenders
would break out afresh and with redoubled
force. The story of the constituent as
sembly would be that of the national as
sembly from 1871 to 1874. The anti-Repub-
lcans possessed majority in the sovereign
and they endeavored, but vainly,
to overthrow the republic. They wasted
their time in barren wrangling ard finally
were fain to acknowledge their impotence.
This experience would be repeated were
the three parties who are now banded to-
gether for electoral purposes to be returned
in majority to the forthcoming chamber
They would fight their old battle over
again, this time with greater violence than
before, so that the sword would perhaps
be the final arbiter