Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-01-31
GENERAL DlSMAY.
Success Of Boulanger in the Paris
Election-The Ministry in q
Crisis
And General Uncertainty as to What
Will Come Next-Boulanger's Safe
Majority.
Only Minor Disturbances During the Eleo-
tion-Plenty of Troops on Hand to
Quell Disorder.

| 1AhiS, jan Zo.-COmpiet6 returns or the
election in the department of the Seine
yesterday show the following result:
Boulanger, 244, ,070; Jacques, 162, $50; Boule
l6, 100; other candidates, 10, 53S; Boulan-
gers plurality, 81, $50; Boulanger's major
| ity. 81, 432.
The most remarkable phase of the elec-
tion was the perfect discipline of the Bou-
langists, which affords another example
| OF Boulanger's wonderful skill as an or
ganizer. Each of the 3I3 polling places in
the department was guarded by members
of the Patriotic League, who worked like
beavers throughout the day, and the out
| coma attestS the faithfulness of their work.
The excitement at eight O'Clock as
evening when the returns howed thai
! Boulanger's majority in st. Denis was
| 5,0OO was very great In the Eighth arron-
basement Boulanger polled three times as
many votes as his opponent, and this an
nouncement added to the excitement The
members of the Government were aston
ished at the result
During Saturday night there was much
excitement and considerable disorder
throughout the city. Many brawls and
street fights occurred, which in some
cases were very serious. The dis.
order was particularly great in the
vicinity of Montmartre and the Fau-
bourg au Temple. where quite a large
number of persons were wounded. AT
several electoral meetings there wers
scenes of great disorder and bauds of men
and lads singing the Marseillaise and Bou-
langst songs paraded the boulevards un-
| til a late hour. In the Place de la Repub-
lque and the Place de POpera open air
meetings were held. Great masses OF
people were present, but the proceedings
were on the whole fairly orderly, although
few Individual brawls occurred and a
number of persons were arrested.
The BoulangistS predict the immediate
fall of the Floquet Ministry. the dissolution
OF Parliament and general election in
| March. They also forecast rupture in
Radical ranks and express the belief that
forty Radical Deputies will join the
Boulangist party, and thus give the GEN
eral following of sixty members in the
present Chamber.
The project of police had enlisted the
services of large number of householders
to aid the police in maintaining order.
Troops were held in readiness at various
points and cavalry had been ordered tc
patrol the streets and disperse all gather.
ings. Municipal guards lined the boue-
wards and in every quarter the police and
military were well prepared to suppress
outbreak.
The Bo ulangists. confident of success,
had arrang ed for an immense banquet at
the Caie Durand to cele ebrate their victory
as soon as the result should be known. AT
ten O'Clock the approaches to the cafe were
lined with troops and the base.
ment of the Madelaine was filed with
soldiers in readiness 10 pounce upon the
crowd in the event of a row. The banquet
took place, however, without the attend
ance of any unusual disturbance. When
the announcement was made t. at Bou-
LANCER lad probably received majority
OF 100000, the oIponeu > of b ,uiangism
were dumbtounded. The poiiC, M
tary and other Cfficla,s I'm d aLely
made preparations 20 suppress any disorder
that might grow out OF the ebuliitIous of
the followers OF the doughty General at
the discontinue of his adversaries and for
awhile the excitement was intense. though
1T was manifested chiefly in noisy rather
than physical demons stratons
1t Is impossible to overestimate the
gravity of the situation. A crisis seems
inevitable, Boulanger's success being as.
sured, and in view of the difficulty which
naturally must be encountered in bringing
together stable Cabinet-a task which
now seems almost impossible-the likeli-
hood of the formation of a species of pro-
Vlslonal government as a last resort seems
very great.
Boulanger spent the evening at the Cafe
Durand, where he was informed by friends
of the results in the divisions. The streets
were thronged with people excitedly dis
cuSSing the upshot of the election and the
newspaper offices displayed the returns by
means of Illuminated piacards. The po-
lice did not interfere with 10000 persons
assembled outside the Cafe Durand
cheering and singing. They were
especially demonstrative whenever
Boulanger appeared at the window
When he was leaving in his carriage,
after the announcement of the result, he
passed restaurant opposite to the Cafe
Durand, where friends of the Government
were assembled. The latter Kissed loudly
and his friends replied by throwing stones.
There We're few scuffies about midnight,
but nothing serious occurred. On the
Petite BOurse after the election rentes de-
clined centimes for money and 25 GEN.
times for the account
N. de Lasseps claims the credit for the
Generals immense majority, as the result
Of his telling his clients how to vote. |
Since July, 1887. General Boulanger has
received in the different elections an ag-
gregate vote of 600 votes. The Repub-
licans during the same period claim 200. = |
900.
The Cabinet sat from eleven D. m. to one |
a. m. Premier Fioquet informed Presi- |
dent Carnot that the Cabinet was prepared |
to resign if the President deemed such a |
step advisable. Several of the Ministers ad- |
vocated a reconstruction of the Cabinet on a |
wider basis. They proposed to include in
the new Ministry influential men from all |
the Republican sections. President Carnot
awaits the result OF to- days sitting of the
Chamber of Deputies before coming to a
decision. He has consulted with NM
Ferry, Waldeck, Rousseau, Tirard and
Gliding upon police measures to preserve
order.
"A problem that at a glance seems
Easy, appeared recently in Maine jour.
nal, and is as follows: "Take the number
10. Multiply it by itself and you have 225.
Then multiply 225 by itself Then multi
ply that product by itself and so on until
fifteen products have been multiplied by
themselves in turn" The question aroused
interest among lawyers in
Portland, and their best mathematicians,
after struggling with the problem long
enough to see how much labor was en-
ailed in the solution, made the following >
report upon it: ''The final
product called for contains IS, $50 figures,
he first of which are 1,412- Allowing
hree figure to an inch. the answer would
oe over 1,070 feet long. To perform
he operation would require about SOC, ,000,-
100 figures. If they can be made at the
ate of 100 minute a person working ten