Omaha daily bee., 1889-10-18
REPUBLICAN CONCENTRATION.
Leon Say Rejects the Idea of Such
Policy.
NO GOOD WOULD COME OF 1T,
Why He Thinks the Massing To-
gcther of So Many Shades OF
Opinion w ouId BE Product
i've of Bad Results.
Leon Says Views.
Copyright 1899 By James Gordon Benn,,,

Copyright 1899 by James Gordon Benn,,t1
Paris, Oct. III New York Herald Cable
Special to THE BEE. The majority OF
French papers comment upon the interview
which member of the staff of lone Steele
mace Leon Say undergo. The account
of his interview, as published by
the 19me Steele, is completed and
explained by an article published in the
Journal Des Dcbats, which, II it does
. not emanate from Leon Say himself, has ev-
identity been written by his direct inspira-
ton. From the interview and the article IN
the Dcs Debats il appears that NJ. Say aud
his friends reject tho idea of policy having
for its aim the realization of repub blican con-
centration, to be obtained by means of con-
cessions made by the moderates to
the radical party. While admitting that
parliamentary groups may not be reconsti
tuted upon the same model as those of the
old chamber, Leon Say does not think it
either possible or desirable that all the re-
publicans, radicals, opportunists and moder
ates should join IN ono group The only
result of the affiliation of all
these opinions of tho most different
and contradictory character would be pol
icy without any precise direction, a govern
ment without principle or programme, a
ministry without homogeneity. IL the radi-
Gals will accept the programme of the mod
crate republicans they will be welcomed but
the moderates will not make any conces
sion to obtain their concourse. Leon Say,
says the journal Des Debats, does not desire
n government which will be the prisoner
either of the radicals or of the members of
the right. He desires u government which
shall stand by itself, but which is composed
in such manner and is based upon such prin-
ciples that it will inspire moderation in the
right and left and will be accepted by the
moderates and the real conservatives Of
every party.
The republican journals, beginning with
LIE Temps and La Republique Francais, arc
strong in their criticism OF the ideas put for
ward by Mr.. Leon Say. They accuse him
of causing divisions among the republicans.
To them the policy imposed is one of repub-
lican concentration. The ministry Of
their dreams is one which would combine
ingeniously the ideas of M. Floquet
and those of NJ Meline or M. Robot, aud
which would keep an equilibrium between
radicalism and moderation. This would be
purely and simply a continuation of the sys-
TEN followed by the last legislature. 1t is
only hoped that the radicals, becoming wiser,
overthrow the cabinet less often.
There are thus two well-defned currents
of opinion and sensible dscord which mani
tests itself between the opportunists and the
moderate republicans of the left center. The
declaration of M. Leon Say is of great i'm
portance because it shows on what condi-
tions he and his friends would be disposed to
enter into a ministerial combination.
1t is not at all impossible
that these conditions are accepted,
yet entirely different tendencies predominant
ut present in the majority of the republican
party and notably in the opportunist group.
1t may therefore be predicted that it will not
be a cabinet of the left center directed by NJ.
Leon Say or by any other politician of
tho same shade that will imme-
diately succeed the present cabinet.
1t will be cabinet of republican concentra-
tion, little different from that presided over
by Nj. Tirard, and which will follow an
analogous policy. If it fails in its attempt
then perhaps it would be necessary to try
some other combination.