The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-12-23
To Recall the House of Bonaparte
TO the Throne.
THE CRISIS IN FRANCE.
Monarchist Agitation More Feared
fhan that Of the Bonapartists.
The Ancient Royal Family Has stiH a
Large Following in the Provinces
who Hate the Republic-A
Strained situation.

PARIS, Dec. 22.-To day it is the Bona
partists that are stepping to the front to
take advantage Of the difficulties of the
republic. The activity of the royalists
has aroused the jealousy of the imperial
list leaders, and at a secret conclave they
drafted a manifesto addressed to the peo-
pie Of France, urging them to recall the
house Of Bonaparte to the throne. This
manifesto has not yet been issued but
awaits the approval of Prince Victor,
present recognized head of the imperial
family, now in Brussels, and the Bona
partist leaders IN Paris have sent agents
to that city to induce him to sign the
manifesto and authorize its publication.
Victor has been living in com parative re-
tirement recently, but has kept careful
watch upon the course OF events, and his
friends in Paris claim that he viii be
found fully equal to any crisis that may
arise and, while prudent as to taking
decisive step, viii be positive and cour-
ageous in action when the step is taken.
The imperlalists have been canVassing
earnestly for supporters among the depu
ties, but not with much success.
As the chances OF revolution against
the republican government seem to in
archists and Bonapartists widens. Mem
bers of the two parties, heretofore on
common grounds as opponents of the re-
public. are now showing considerable
jealousy as to which party will profit by the
difficulties of the republic Already this
jealousy IS showing itself in the strained
relations between prominent members OF
the! right. They viii attempt to
strike blow in Paris rather than in the
provinces. They, ike the monarchists,
are being carefully watched and every
movement reported to President Carnot.
The proceedings of the secres con clave,
at which the manifesto was determined
upon, was known to the government al
most as soon as the corciave adjourned,
and the government is already in posses
sion of The terms of the manifesto.
Not SO much Importance IS attached by
the authorities 10 the Bonapartists as to
the Monarchist agitation. The ancient
royal house has still a large following in
the provinces, as Shown during the re-
cent visit OF the Countess OF Paris to
France, when hundreds througed to Kiss
her hand and she was received at various
places with all the loyalty and honor that
could be shown queen. This following
could easily be aroused into formidable
demonstration, that would cost much
effort TO suppress, and the Royalist cause
would receive the sympathy Of hundreds
of thousands OF swindled Panama stock
holders who, despite what they regard as
bastard Bonapartism that trades on the
fame Of the great Napoleon, have learned
to hate the republic whose repre-
sentatlves are exposed as parties to the
Panama fraud. De La Fcsso writes
Figaro that the parliamentary republic is
ruined and ought to be replaced bv a con
sular republic with Prince Victor Bona
parte as the first consul The suggestion
Is looked upon as an attempt TO revive
the empire through the same process by
which the first Napoleon arrived at the
throne. II ATTRACTS attention only as in
dicating The strained situation which
makes such suggestion possible.