The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-07-28

pranced along the boulevards, returning
proudly from the review" the French
would never have singled out this one
amongst the many more distinguished gen.
erals of the army. He had done nothing
~rmarkable; he was not famous as a taoti-
clan; he had performed no valorous OK
ploits. He rode, however, a magnificent
animal trained for display, and the crowd
a%pplauded him as they would a rider in the
oirc9s: Then ais1a, the Legend s grew. It was
above all, burned for revenge, and
that the private soldiers believed in him
alone. Many shrewd and patriotic French
men lent themselves to what they knew to be
a eot-up tale. They saw that France, de-
pressed after defeat. neededa man to inspire
them with new hope. Mere merit combined
with modesty can never rouse the Gallo
heart. They always want in their heroes a
touch OF the charlatan. and they got 1t in
Louis XIV, the First and Third Napoleons,
and in Gambetta, the savior. who descended
from a balloon. Therefore many who COM
pletely saw through the prstensions of the
new leader on q big black horse helped to
circulata the legend that he was the man OF
the future, and could lead the army to re-
cover Alsace. The cause grow like a snow
ball. The extreme left hailed him al a
man h could carry the republic on to
social revolution. Bonapartists and Orlean-
lists used him az n stick to beat the repub-
licans. He captured department after de-
partment, winning in the west, east and
north, and then completed his conquest by
carrying all Paris against the government
by a substantial majority. He seemed on
the very threshold Of power. and many e1-
pected that one day he would overturn
president. senate and chamber by a simple
coup d'etat. This was easy enough, for,
according to his followers, he had the army
on his side, while the vote of the people
showed that he was the darling of that
pnrJslpn pnpuInno NuhfN1 knl ttlo,k,
achieved all the revolutions. Fortunately
for France there was one man in the mini:-
try who saw through the game. he clearly
discernsd n composite conspiracy against
the republic, composed Of royalists, bona
partists and "reds," all using NJ. Boulang-
united for the nonce under him. and sup
ported his candidates by contributions and
votes. The minister of the interior had
the wish Of Nero gratiied; his enc
mics had one neck, and that be-
longed to the rider of tho black horse.
arrest the adventurer and keep him in
prison until he could be tried by the senate
sitting rs u high court. This report struck
terror into the heart of the brave general.
Ho recalled the stories of PitheRru, said to
have been poisoned in Jail by the first oon-
sui. and he knew that the senate was full
OF his political foes. Had he been brought
before an ordinary tribunal he might have
trusted n Partisan jury to acquit him, but
he knew that his condemnation WAS certain
before a jury of senator's. Not caring,
therefore, to face two or three wears of i'm
prisonment, he left Paris in disguise, and
has ever since remained an exile, con-
demnea in his absence for n conspiracy
against the state. From that day of fight
his party dwindled. and now has disap-
peared. The royalists have not recovered
tho disgrace of their association with him;
the Bonapartists are rallying to tho repub-
lie: Boulangism is dead. Now we learn
that the black oharger-formerly the equine
hero of the movement-has fallen
from his high estate, and, "broken
IN knees and spirit, may be
seen daily dragging YEARLY nslumbering
cnrriage between Joinville and Cham
piany." His master il in exile and also
"dracs at each remove n lengtheninu
chain" as the flight Of timo makes more
distant the period of HIS political pride,
Prince Bismarck is the third of the fallen
leaders of men. Having abandoned his
long task of matchmaking, he has now
taken to the manufacture of bricks and
tiles. He has erected kilns on all his es-
tates, and he recently explained to a depu-
tntion that he has been very successful, and
measures German prosperity by the de-
mand for his bricks. He 10 certainly better
engaged thus than in sending querulous
little paragraphs TO his Hamburg organ OK
pressing a rather potty resentment Mt his
dismissal from tho helm of state. All such
complaints come nbsurdiy from his lips, for
he made his master. William l., the real
king and lord of state and army, ruling both
In defiance of pa'linment and people.
he, above all men, can not object to tho
s%xercis" OF regal authority 10y the grandson
tho man whom hs backed up wnsn he