Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-09-28
FRENCH ELECTION
Important Questions to Be Decided
by French Ballots To-
morrow.
The Campaign Has Been 0He of
the Most Heated Ever
Known.
BoulaDger, Although Deprived OF
His Civil Rights, Has a Fol-
Iowing-Changes In the
Election Laws.
WIN Vote on sunday.

NEW YORK, Sept. 21.-A Paris cable
says: ''Shall the republicb be preserved?
Shall the existing republican constitu-
ton be upheld or ~condemned?'
These arc the vital questions that the
voters Of France will be called upon to-
morrow to answer. The political cam
paign, one Of the most heated in the his
tory Of thistempestuouspeople closes to-
night. Tomorrow at 6 o'clock-for all
French elections are held on the Sab
bath day-the polls win be opened, and
the depositing OF votes win be in order
until 0 o'clock at night. Tho outcome
of the election viii be awaited with in
tense anxiety all over the conti-
nent. In London and Berlin tho
papers have made arrangements to
issue midnight editions-an unprece-
denied occurrence. AZ this election two
great changes tend to initiate against
speculation in advance. IL viii be
arrondissemental voting, one man one
vote, and not scrutin de liste, as hereto
AEE Al hAAAiNAO AAtA ~ AAf enNA@A
multiple candidates has gone into effect,
and no candidate can run in more than
one district. This law aimed at General
Boulanger, has the result, taken in con
uection with the sentence depriying him
OF his civil rights, OF making him
absolutely powerless 50 far as he
is personally concerned. His hold
upon tho masses. however, is
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Developments in Montemartre, Beliville,
and other of the rougher districts OF
Paris have indicated the continued eX-
istencc Of q good deal OF Boulangist SEN
timent. The manifesto Of the count de
Paris, in which ne affirmed the policy
of the monarchists and exhorted his
supporters 20 remain firm 20 the cleo
toral coalition OF monarchists and Chris
tian impcrialists, and which Is in reality
the conservation OF the coalition between
thc two latter and the Boulangists, has
carried with it grea! influence over tho
sountry voters, z viii be telt at the
polls. What the government has mos
70 fear, however, IS the influence OF tht
bishops and clergy. Despite the law
which forbids those wearing the cloti
participating in elections, and the an.
WDAntAAltNb ol Nis lNbAtlAA1 tAN AAAAA
CO. Of Justice, that the government
would un~hesitating and vigorously pro
coed against any n who o%versteppeJ
the lines enjoined under all govern
ments since the concord az the cleric
have been unusually active in supper
OF the opponents OF the government
and several bishops have gone SO far a
20 give defiance to the powers that b
by openly announcing that they and th
priests being citizens with othe
Erenchmen had every right .
take part in the elections. As q resul
the government has exhorted the OF
iicers of election TO extra vigilance
Anything in the shape OF clerical o
Boulangist demonstrations tomorrow
will be speedily suppressed, and inteu
tional apathy OF the police agents vii
be watched and punished.
In all 555 members Of the chamber o
deputies, including those from Algier
and the provinces, are 20 30 elected
The latest forecast that can be made j
that the republie viii hold, IL not IL
own, at least a~sclear majority in Tn
new chamber.