Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1889-09-14
eouLANeER,s PROSPECTS
Tho Great French Adventurcr' and the
Cause OF His Popularity.

Tho Great French Adventurcr' and tho
Cause OF His Popularity.
Boulangism is only the expression OF
the dissatisfaction Of all classes in
France with the republic and its lead
ers, and another instance showing how
easily the masses may be deceived and
led astray. The prime causes for the
establishment Of Boulangism lay in the
universal contempt in which all the
Republican leaders, with the exception
OF Freycinet, are held in France, and
every day the newspapers reassert that
truth. To be ruled by men whom one
would be afraid to receive in his house
by Constants convicted perjurer,
and charged by the leading newspaper
with malfeasance in office, and who
was compelled for few years to disap-
pear from the political stage; by II
Tirard, tlme-server, whose incapacity
is not denied by his most intimate
friends, and whose moral character
may be compared with that of Boss
Tweed; by Jules Ferry. supporting
his family out of the French treas
ury, and ready to sacrifice the
world to his ambition; by Fallieres;
by a Rouvier, who barely es-
capped conviction by majority of one
voice after protracted trial on a
charge Of the grossest and vilest i'm
morality; by an Andrieux, the acknowl-
edged protector of well-known pro-
curess OF the Rue Duphot, in whose
house he was arrested when 1t was
raided, and whom he saved from prose-
cution and conviction; by Floquet,
another time-server, who after basely
insulting the Gar of Russia, became,
when in power, his most exalted
adulator.
Boulanger's impudence, therefore,
did not kill him, but increased his
reputation, and his horse won the day.
Boulanger's greatest popularity came
from his horse; and if indeed he re-
stores the consulate, as it is his avowed
intention to do, and, following Bona,
parties example, becomes First Consul
of France, he owes to that horse a
least the same honors that Darius be
slowed on the one who won him the
Persian empire. Boulanger is grace
full rider, and his horse is thorough
bred. When he attended military re
views and parades, both horse an(
rider won the admiration of the look
ers-on, and the newspapers SPOKE
about the graceful rider. Rival jour
nalistic enterprise Immediately pub
lished sketches Of Boulanger and hi
horse, with their full history, and TO
5 the history of the latter it is needles
10 say that unlimited scope was give
to the reporters imagination. Illus
trations of Boulanger were seen every
f where in the rum shops, in the sta
tionery stores and the more dissatis
: fed Parliament was with Boulanger,
/. the more popular he became with tn
e people at large, who took that way t
manifest their feelings of disgust an
opposition to the course of affairs.
What are Boulanger's prospects
i He may overthrow the present cab
net, and he may be even elected Pres
i! dent, If at the next general election
t no party secure a majority. The
e may then combine for electing hin
| but only to wear him out, as Gambett
a was worn out, and innumerable othel
have been, and their usefulness in
! paired. Boulangism came from
- horse and a song, and will finish in
song, as according to Beranger, ever
thing in France commences and enc
by a song.-Guillaume G. Tener,
IS Forum.