Omaha daily bee., 1889-11-04
FRENCH POLITICAL AFFAIRS.
The Coming Session of the Cham
ber and Senate.
PRESIDENCY OF THE DEPUTIES.
A Question That is Being Discussed
20 the Exclusion of All Others
Tho Edinburg Inter-
national Exhibition,
Coming Meeting of, French so,ons.

coming Wefttng or tFPnCD soiOnS.
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PARIS, Nov. g. New York Herald Cable
Special to The BEE. The chamber and
senate will resume their labors next week.
The first matter OF Importance which will
demand the attention of the members OF the
former body is the selection of a president.
This is now the principal topic of discussion
in political circles and it is probable that the
question will shortly be discussed and de-
cided in caucus OF members Of the left, with
whom there are two candidates, who appear
10 have equal chances of fsuccess-E'loquet and
Casimer Perier The selection of either of
them will have no little significance, as an
indication OF the tendency of the republican
majority in the chamber, for Perier is iden-
titled with the most moderate group of re-
publicans while Eloquet IS the favorlte of
the radical wing of the party.
The chances of the latter are perhaps the
best, for the reason that there are symptoms
OF deal between the opportunists ana rad-
Gals by which the former will vote for the
candidate Of the latter on the express con-
dition that they will act with the present
cabinet. His election will mean an alliance
between the opportunsts and radicals and a
continuation of the line of policy followed by
the present cabinet.
This is all the harder to understand when
we remember that the truo meaning of the
recent elections Is that the country desires
to return TO more moderated policy. II the
opportunists open the session with such
concession to the radicals, 1t is probable that
they will follow it with others, and the re-
suit will be that they will remain In power,
not to carry out their own ideas, but to be
governed In the interests Of tine radi-
Gals. They are allowing themselves to
be deceived by an illusionary and
paradoxcal hope. They fancy that with the
support of E'loquet, Clemenceau and the fol-
lowers of these two gentlemen they will be
able to carry out a moderate policy, one Of
pacitication and tolerance, but as soon as
they make an attempt upon this line they
will find their intentions thwarted by the
radicals, who never follow any other guide
than their passion, notably in the matter Of
religious questions. The radicals will be sure
not to yield one iota of their pretensons.
The war cry Of Gambetta, ''clericalism,
viola lie enemle," is still the
last word Of their policy and the opportnn-
lists will soon find that in this they will
either have to follow the lead of the radicals
or will have TO get along, not only without
their support, but with their open hostility.
If in the next chamber there is not n
speedily formed majority composed Of the
more moderate elements of the various par
ties, and strong enough to shape legislation
independently Of the support Of the
extremists, no government will be
able to exist except on tol-
erance. Any cabinet that takes office
will have to resign itself to getting along
without a programme of its own, and the
tenure of power will depend on the skill in
keeping an Englishman between moderate
opinions and radical inpatience.
Such a state of things is nothing more and
nothing less than a continuation. pure and
simple. of what took place in the last cham
ber, and at the end Of four years the re-
public will find herself brought face to face
with the same dangers from which she has
which she may not perhaps again triumph
30 easily.
Boulangism has fallen from the proud po-
sition of being 1he all-absorbing political
topic Of the day The newspapers treat it as
ancient history. One of them has, however,
Judged that il would be of interest to know
what Henri Rochefort, despite his faults,
was one of the most sympathetic members
of the Boulangist party. thinks of this
episode in his career. Said Rochefort sadly ::
~ believe Boulangism is very sick. The
fault Is with those who conducted the enter
PRISE. III we had been better organized and
had committed less errors we should have
been uuite sllccessful -