Omaha daily bee., 1889-01-27
lAvlSHLY DlSTRlBU TED.
Workmen's Quarters Flooded With
it BY Boulanger.
ERE DOES IT COME FRoM2
A Mystery the French Want En
plaincd-Gambcta's Opinion Of
the General Placardcd
on Every Wall.
Murky Weather.

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PARIS, Jan. 26-[Ncw York Herald Cable
Special to TIE BEE. Another meteoro-
logical transformation has come over Paris.
The clear, crisp electric sunshine has disap-
rcared and warm murky Scptember-lik like
fogs are now in full SWING. The thermome-
ter to-day recorded 6S9 fahrenheit, and lust
as last year we had no summer, so this year
Paris has no winter.
The election contest is now at white heat.
All four candidates, Boulangcr, Jacques,
Lisbonnc and Boule, are spending money
like water on election posters, and in making
presents. All the wine shops in Paris,
and there are upwards of 60.
Uho of them, are now open
night and day, and each is a nucleus Of
election propaganda. Jules Simeon is hay-
"Remember the Second of December" and
Victor Hugo's 'Histoire dun Crime" are
being distributed throughout Paris
from Montmaitre to the cata.
combs. Wild rumors are flying about
Paris to the effect that we are on the verge
" >S'f " SeeS, oti'io ann blhb II lDOuI-
anger be defeated, the government has de-
cided to try him for high treason and
have him shot, but these umors when
traced to their sources prove to bemerely
elcctioneering rallying cries, and must be
taken in a Pickwickian sense.
There is too much talk about n coup dtetat,
for a possibility of its taking place. The sit
uation is entirely different now from the I'd
Of December. Louis Napoleon, when he at
tempted the coup d'etat on the I'd of De-
ccmber, was already chief magistrate of the
nation, ana all the threads of government
conferred in his hands. For Boulanger to at.
temp this would be simple madness and fail
ure inevitable. Meanwhile Boulandger is
confdena of success, but it is singular TO note
that what now damages him the most is not
the Due d'Aumale incident nor his dictatorial
pretentions, but a remark made by Gam.
BETA, who knew Boulanger, and said Of
him: ~ do not like Boulanger. His face
displeases me. His eyes are not together.
He never looks you full IN tho
face. He has, however, both eyes.
AS for me, l have only one
eye, but | use it to look straight and boldly
at people. No, I don't like B~ouianger."
Gambetta uttered these words a few days
before Boulanger went to America for the
Yorktown celebration, and they are now
placarded in red, green and yellow let
tiers all over Paris. General Boul-
anger passes the time riding out in
the boise and in pouring avalanches
of money in the workingmen's quarters,
Villette and Bellevue. Where the money
comes from no one knows.
had the pleasNe to meet Jacques on
Thursday night at "a bail in Hotel Vile. NJ.
Jacques is quite unpretentlous. He
is very near sighted, and has one of
those comfortable, round looks suggestive
of good burgeois cooking and sound claret,
He talks very little, has brown eyes and
hair. He seems firmly confident Of success.
His wife is a pretty little woman with brown
hair, blue eyes, and dresses with excellent
taste and dances well. She was much ad-
mired at the ball as she walked
about in a yellow China silk crepa
dress on the arm Of M. Anatele d.. Laforgc,
| asked M. Jacques what he thought Of the
rumored coup de etat. M. Jacques said with
an .incredulous smile: 'EPerhups not Sun
day, but / am sure if General Boulangcr ever
gets power enough that it will be the very
first way IN which he will use it,"
The Partisan papers have organized a sort
of preliminary canvass to forecast Sundays
election. The result shows that while the
masses of the population are dlvided between
Boulanger, Boule and Lisbonnc, the intel.
lectual few aud all the Partisan shopkecpers
are solid for Jacques.