The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1889-03-13
IN Elfcnon n PARIS.
The BilIpester and the Newspaper
are Rival Advocates.
Esnlasgsr.s CazpaSsn and yfctsry-
Nnnersus Pslling Pisces and
the Eesarns ssen In.

Boniasgsr,s Cazpaxgn and yictory--
Nnn~rsus Polling Pisces and
the Returns sson In.
Pzvts Letter IN sau Franssses Ehrunsele
An election IT Paris Is about as ami
mating spectacle Is enc IS often
privileged 70 witness, especially when
there are 30 many conflicting interests
II stake. 50 many personal hatrssis to
crafty 50 many persons who wish TO
express their discomfort. they do rot
care bow. and noisy and criminal
element that comes 10 the surface
every time there i prospect Of
trouble in the streets Enease OF va
cancy IN the chamber of deputies from
death or resignation. the Law requires
that 4 shall be filed within three
months. The fixing OF the date rests
with the government, and may be the
following week II the president OF the
cabinet Is 50 disposed The decree of
the council is placar5ed on the pubic
buildings about Paris 70 the extent that
seems necessary. and the candidates
and their supporters and agents 20 70
work. filing their newspapers with
able articles or personal abuse. Con-
tracts for prinfing posters are given 10
certain printing establishments.
and the public bindings of
Paris, the pessestals of the stat
ues and other public monuments,
soon become great masses OF white,
red. yellow, blue or green paper, on
which = gaping public may read the
promises and good qualities Of one can
digiate and the utterly base and afro
cious character Of his opponent. The
buildings that can be thus used are the
Palais Bourbon. where sits the cham
BET of deputies; the Luxembourg, oc-
cupied BY the senate; the markets,
the buildings oecu pied by the different
departments Of tie government. the
opera hnuses. the colleges, the public
libraries. the Bourse, and few others
The churches, though they belong to
the state. are excepted The walls are
not assigned according to space, and
each candidate. when space fails,
simply pastes his own posters over
those OF the rival candidate. which
causes rows among the bill-stickers
and the expenditure OF an immense
amount OF money in printers ink and
paper.
As TO the tone of the Paris press
during an excited political campaign,
1t can hardly be said OF il that It is
more energetic than that in America
during presidential canvass, but il
is different as regards q certain part of
it. Some French newspapers say
things that in an American journal.
no matter what its standing. would be
regarded as mean and contemplate.
Rochefort writes in strain ard uses
expressions of which Herr Most and
the Widow Parsons would be ashamed.
A large class of the people, espe-
cialiy the unemployed and vicious,
read nothing bat the posters, not hay
ing even the sou necessary to buy the
hatrassigeans or the Cocarde.
The posters during the recent cleo
ton were a curious study. Those OF
the Republicans, without saving much
about Jacques except that he vas the
candidate of the republic, gave in de-
tail the history of Boulanger for the
last year ard q half. They described
him as a soldier without the habit of
obedience, politician without pro-
gramme, q reyisionist without daring
TO specify what he meant by the term,
opposed to a parliamentary system
without knowing what he wanted in
its place; pretended Republican,
while he was nothing and could do
nothing without the votes of the Roy
alists and Imperialists, who were
openly and shamelessly supporting
him. They showed him up as mon
umentai liar, who should long ago
have disappeared from view under a
load OF public opprobrium. The affairs
of the Duo q Aumale was rehearsed in
full When Boulanger was colonel
he applied to the Due diAumaie,
az that time his superior officer,
to assist in advancing him TO the
grade of general. The favor was
accorded by the duke, who re-
tanned the letters that Colonel Bou-
LANCER wrote TO him When Bou-
LANCER was minister of war he was
active and uEreienting in exiting men,
hers OF the families that had ruled in
France. The Due d'Aamale would
not have gone with the others had he
not in mogaent of anger written a
letter that offended the Government.
After leaving France, the Due d'Au-
male, enraged at the ingratitade with
which he had been treated by Bon-
hanger, gave one or two of the letters
To the Figaro, which published them.
The General denied their authenticity
and claimed even that the expressions
used did not sound like him. Then
the Figaro printed fac SMILES of the
letters which finally compelled the
hat
the Conservative journals that are
now parading Boulanger then treated
him in the most contemptuous
manner, and Paul de Cassagnac said
even that such man was capable of
anything. Now he IL with Boulanger,
not as an end, but as a means, az a
sort of catapult to break down the
walls of the republic This story was
placaried with the letters and the de-
NAL of the general in parallel coinmns.
Nothing In his history was omitted
his shooting down the communists
neediessly when he entered Paris with
the army of Versailles. his weakness
for the priests, his pretending that he
had nothing To do with pressing his
candidature while he was still in the
army. though his dispatches were
published showing that he was all the
time secretly encouraging his friends
TO push his candidature. One phrase
waz used which irritated the Bouian-
gists more than any other, NO more
Sedans." intimating that If Boulangar
were elected war with Germany
might be expected, with another dis
membernent of the country
On the contrary, the Bonlangist
posters set forth how the general had
she'd his blood for his country: how
desperately he desired that the pres
ent parliament should be dissolved
and the constitution revised; how
fondly he loved his companions IN
arms, the working classes. the EN-
ployes OF the government In all depart
inents, whose salaries were too small
and how be hoped that all the discon-
tented, no matter in what class they
were 10 be found. would come 20 him
for consolation rs % a new savior
Extracts from his speeches were
given, which ] saw the policemen
reading sttentiyely, though they
were not remarkable either for
style or matter. In fact Bou-
LANCER has personally written little
OF the oratoricai or book matter that
has been attributed 10 him or has APP
midas