St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-09-15
BOULANGER'S BLUFF.
He Presents a Candidate for
Every ACCOMPLISHMENT IN
Paris.
This Makes a List Of Forty,
Who All Hope to be
Elected.
Indications Are That There
viii Be Trouble at the
Polls.
Burns, Leader Of Londons
ToilePs, Is as Popular as
Gladstone.

Gladstone.
spec;aI Gable TO the Globe.
IoNDoN. Sept. 14.-As the time for
the French elections approaches the
Omens DO not altogether favor peaceful
balloting. Gen. Boulanger. after a
series OF manifestoes against the high
court and the government. and publish
ing his lists of candidates for the ar
rondissements OF the department OF the
Seine. has succeeded in having large
numbers of campaign documents dis
tributed throughout the whole district,
and having il actively canvaSsed by
agents. The department IS the district
comprising Paris and Its suburbs, Tor
which in January last Boulanger was
elected to the chamber Of deputies. AT
that time the whole district formed
single constituency, returning some
forty members. The electoral laws
since passed by the Republican majority
of the chamber and the senate nave Oil.
Vided these large constituencies so
that each subdiStrict now returns
its own member. The Boulanglst
list offers a candidate 10 each cOnstItu-
encv, the general himself being put
down Tor MOntmartre, a quarter OF
which. when the system or small con-
Stituencies was previously IN force, Ie-
turned NJ. Clemenceau, the Radical
leader. Another of the BOulangIst can
didates. Gen. Thibaudin. who was min
iSter of war from January to October,
1888. IS very popular ii his district.
The
PLATFORM OF THE AGITATORS.
the old one of revision by cOnStitu-
tiOnal assembly. Is still a good campaign
card. and will find many supporters
among the masses. It IS quite evident
that the BOulangists intend to try TO
carry out their programme and secure
chamber of their own faction. The fact
that BOuIanger cannot legally be can
didate. and therefore cannot be returned,
counts for nothing IN their calculations
II is also evident that the govern
ment is resolved to maintain lis author
itv and to secure public order during the
election. but the signs here enumerated
do not pOrtend q quiet electoral contest.
Very much depends upon the attitude
taken bv the WOTkingmen'S aSSOcia-
lions. They have hitherto maintained
4 reserve which leaves 1t a matter of
doubt whether they will support or OPP
pose the government. The success OF
the dock Yards strikers and the others
who struck IN sympathy with them
ushers in q Well-detined movement
towards manipulating the docks.
Already John Burns. to whose master
full direction much of the success OF the
strike is due. is preparing scheme for
submission to the county council con-
templating the absorption of the docks
by the municipality at reasonable
price. The present aggregate capital
of the dock companies. G2O, 100000. rep
reSentS a great deal OF water and
great many
JOBS OF QUESTIONABLE CHARACTER.
The months struggle between the
determined dock laborers and their
equally obstinate employers has had
the effect to purge and purify the poor
est Of LOndOn'S inhabitants, while ii
also led to discoveries of the peculiar
methods employed by the dock COM
panieS to squeeze customers and en-
DlOveS at the same time. Mr.. Burns, in
his speeches, constantly urged the men
10 improve their homes and avoid liquor
shops. and one of the features OF the
daily meetings of the strikers has been
the large number of men who have
signed the pledge. The discipline. toll
erance and intelligent grasp of the main
subject displayed by the men were
miraculous, and have had more infiu-
ence upon capital than anything that
the capitalists have before had to con-
tend with. Burns has come out of the
fight with flying colors. He Is COM
plimented on all sides. and no man
in England has a more promising
future than he. Another thing which
has greatly added to his popularity is his
action with regard 10 the parliamentary
seat for Dundee. The moment the
Liberals of that constituency showed
preference for Mr.. Lense. local favor
tie. Burns refused TO contest the seat,
and so informed the friends that were
pushing him. The Liberals are certain
to nominate Burns for the first seat
that becomes vacant in England or
Scotland. and they will just as surely
elect him. 4 rumOT was in clrcula-
ton for two days that Burns would
lead a widely organized
STRIKE OF RAILWAY EMPLOYEES
as soon as he should have brought the
dock ward strike to an issue. and a
sharp decline in railway shares was the
result. Such a strike is not likely at
present. however. though there is such
dissatisfaction among the employees
OF all the principal lines. At
the Austrian military maneuVeTS
at Leitomischl. Thursday, the new
MannliCheT repeating rifles were
used The results we're very impress
sIve, to say the least.the deafening roar
of the continuous discharges awning even
the veterans. y striking defect in the
efficiency of the rifles was apparent in
the fact that defenders exhausted their
ammunition in five minutes, leaving them
at the mercy OF the enemy, but the UNI
piTes decided that the enemy was ami
hilated. evidently believing noise as
potent as BULLETS. lgnaJiZ Link. of
Vienna. has been arrested at haSchan,
Austria. on the charge of having perpe-
tTaIed the recent robbery of American
ladies at Frankfort. 4 boiler in the
steam laundry of BOeler Il BOrchardt,
in Berlin. exploded to-day, killing four
men. seriously inJurlng three others.
and demolishing the building. as well
as several adjoining structures. Amy
Levy. the noted Jewish authOTeSS. died
in London to-day. Her
BODY WILL BE CREM8TED
and her ashes buried on Monday. Miss
Levy was twenty-SeYen years OF age.
Joseph Martin. the French explorer,
whose researches in Siberia have been
of great value, has left Pekin for Thi-
bet. where he intends TO conduct Scien-
tific explorations. NJ. Martin expects
to reach the field of his explorations
next spring. No tidings have yet been
obtained OF Rev. Mr.. Barfeld, who
started for Ireland recently, and his
continued silence strengthens the belief
OF his friends that he has been fOully
dealt with. An unusually slight de
gree of interest is evinced in the coming
elections in Dundee ana elsewhere The
Liberals express hopes of winning in
North Bucks and PeterbOrO. but do not
seem TO put much vim into either con
test.