New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-01-29
BoULhNGISM AND REVISION.

Boulangers tactics are alike simple and ef-
fective The seat from the Seine obtained
with vast expenditures of money after an ardu-
GUS canvass will be Immediately vacated. An
other election will be held in Paris, and a
Boulangist Deputy chosen in his place. BOu-
LANCER, meanwhile, will retain the seat which
he holds for the Nord but will resign it when
ever a new Department election is held. lie
will not take part in debates, nor even attend
the sessions, unless it be to renew his motion
for the unrestricted revision of the Constitu-
ton and the dissolution of the Chambers. This
is his political programme, and he will I'M
doubtedly adhere to it to the end, standing for
every vacant seat, and when the general cleo
tions occur heading the list Of Boulangst can
didates in nearly every Department. In this
way he will have in the event of an anti-Re-
publican triumph something closely resembling
a plebiscte in his favor. The Presidency is
the office to which he aspireS, but that will not
be vacant under FIVE years, unless NJ. Carnot
be forced to resign. The Premiership has
proved destructive to great regulations like
Gambetta's. Boulanger will not be Premier
come what will. He will stand and wait for
the disappearance Of existing institutions and
the formation of new political order
The Republican leaders, while divided IT.
reyocably by faction feudS, are already i'm
pressed with the necessity Of union. The
resignation of the Floquet Ministry, while tenn
porarily deferred through the intervention Of
President Carnot, will naturally clear the
ground for speedy reorganization OF the Gov
ernment. There is coalition in Opposition
recruited from warning factions. There ought
to be coalition of Republican Deputies of all
shades of opinion and Ministry sufficiently
representative to secure the adoption OF
revision programme of positive, but not too
advanced, character. Boulangism or the sur
face is Royalist intrigue, 0rleanist diplomacy,
Bonapartist desperation, Radical discomfort.
Socialist vagaIieS and the avarice Of boursa
spectators; but at the bottom it is revolt
against institutions that cannot be made to
work satisfactorily. The Chambers will not
allow the Ministry to govern, and they cannot
unite administrative with legislative functions.
Revision Of the Constitution is imperauyely
needed, and il compromise Government can
be established which will secure the passage
of a practical scheme for strengthening the
Executive and releasing the Ministry from de-
pendence upon the popular Chamber, the con-
stituencies in the autumn may be consulted
with reasonable degree of confidence. Each
undertaking is attended with serious difficulty.
A compromise Ministry that will have political
authority cannot be easily formed. A COM
promise revision scheme that will be strong
and homogeneous is a problem that reduces
the most ingenious French statesman to de-
spair
Boulangism, with the prestige Of its great
victory in Paris, seems destined to make rapid
progress. In the electoral contest Of the au-
tumn it will have the marked advantage Of
having policy Of negations. 1t aims to level
Parliamentary institutions, which are admitted
on every side to be working badly in France.
What will be the substitute for the present sys-
tenn if Boulangist majority be secured no.
body knows There will be something differ
ent in any event, and the dsaffected classes
are convinced that it will be something better.
Boulangism profits now by the lack of an or
DERBY, well-digested scheme Of revision. 1t is
coalition in Opposition, and it holds together
without difficulty; but when it becomes CO.
alition responsible for the government Of the
country, the irreconcilable factions now arti-
fcially united will inevitably fall apart.
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