Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-01-20
rBY CABLE TO THE DIsPArcH.l J


PARIS ,January19.- approaching Paris
election and Boulanger' schances fill the col
umns of the European newspapers more and
more, as the 9th approaches. The opinion
of most correspondents Influenced, per
haps, by the action of the Royalists and the
betting at the Paris Jockey Club-has been
in favor of Boulanger's success, but l still
think that the result will show his strength
in the capital to be overestimated. He will
doubtless poll vote large enough to make
a second ballot necessary, but not large
enough to carry Paris. Boulanger's follow
ers, after all, are not so numerous as is i'm
agined. The enormous class of fairly-pros-
porous little people-employes, tradesmen,
ETC., who have saved some money and are
pretty we'll satisfied, do not want Boulanger.
The mass of voters who know what it cost
to get rid of one-man rule, and who are Re
publicans from principle as well as interest,
do not want the blue-eyed adventurer,
either.
Many Royalists and Imperialists will
vote for him, because they have been in
structed to do SO, but if any man is looked
down upon thoroughly by what is left of
the French aristocracy ii is Boulahger. His
name as well as his individuality damn him
at the start.
Too Much Name and Ancestry.
Men with complicated family names and
unlimited ancestors and things do not care
much for a man who is named Baker, and
has no brains to atone for his lack of family
history. The Royalists who would not in
vite him to dinner will probably be rather
lukewarm in aiding him to ,overturn the
Republic which they hate. i
As for the large class of thinking men Of
Paris, who come under the heading of So.
cialists, it is amazing to me that an Associ-
ated Press correspondent should have found
space to express his opinion that Boulanger
would be victorious with the help of their
votes. The unexpected, which happens in
France at least twice as often as elsewhere,
may elect Boulanger, but he will never be
elected if the votes of Socialists can prevent
it, As l have pointed out in two previous
letters, Boulangerism, the type of the dicta-
tor, the soldier who helped shoot the COM
munists in 1871, and whose advocacy of war
means glory for gentlemen and bullet holes
for workingmen, is the one above all others
whom the Socialists will try to defeat The
Government candidate, NJ. Jacques, is not
to the Socialists liking, it is true, but if
put to it they will vote for him to defeat the
pretender.
Even the Socialists Forsnke Him.
1 have received copy of resolutions
adopted unanimously by meeting of 1000
Socialists at the Pont de Lodi, in which it
is resolved that they will, without forsaking
their principles, vote for NJ. Jacques
against one of the massacrelng Versailles |
officers of 1S71-meaning Boulanger Of
course, the talk of a second Republican |
so-called clerical candidate, who is to help |
Boulanger by dividing votes against him,
amounts to nothing. Clerical votes are anti |
Republican votes, and clerical candidate |
would be much more apt to take away from |
Boulanger. The men in power, too have of |
late thrown off their former apathy, and are |
hard at work. Floquet has managed to roll |
to his side the powerful element of wineshop |
keepers. These were touched by Boulanger's |
promise to do away with certain obnoxious |
laws and chemical laboratories, thus en-
abling them to adulterate wine all they |
pleased. But Floquet comes out with a
business proposition to pass bill releasing
them from fines which have thus far been
imposed on them for adulterating. AS he is
able to do what he promises, the wine men
have wisely concluded that his is the most
attractive, business-like pro position.
Danger In BouInnser's Success.
Jules Simon has evidently taken King
Boulanger as seriously as possible He
thinks he would be hard to dislodge if once
he got to power, and adds that it would take
Boulanger but year to ruin the country
and month to bring on war.
The question as to where Boulanger gets
his money from has again been brought up.
and this time by Floquet himself. Boulanger
has spent 5000, 900 or 10000 900 francs on
this election, and as he has no money of his
own, il would be very interesting to know
the name of his financial hacker. The
name of the Duchesse de Uzes, whose in
terest in Boulanger have alluded to at in
tervals during the past year, now commences
to be linked with that Of the dictator by
various correspondents, and she is spoken
Of to-day as a possible source of the Gen.
erals supply of money. The Duchesse may
have assisted Boulanger financially in a
small way, but although she is a very rich
woman, thanks to having Mime. Clicquot
for grandmother, her wealth is not sufi-
ciently great to keep Boulanger going at his
present pace.