The morning call., 1893-01-16
CARNOT IN PERIL.
His Good Name and Office
Attacked.
PRESIDENTIAL
CRISIS.
Evidence Uf the Rapprochement of
the RoyaIists and Radicals
Against the Executive.
Special TO THE MORNING CALL.

NEW YORK, Jan. 15.-Smalley's special
cable letter to the Tribune from London
las the following:
The master stroke of the enemies Of Presi-
dent Carnot is the attempt to connect his
name with that of Wilson, whose relations
with Grevy drove Grevy from the Elysee
CarnOt was asked, when Minister OF
Finance, to remit charge of 10000 francs
due to the treasury as a registration fee on
the Dreyfus guano contract. Wilson backed
this petition. Carnot refused but, says the
author of the present story, CaTnot, after
refusing Wilson in the morning. in the after
neon ordered tie 10000 francs TO be repaid
him "by large financial house over which
the Government had control"
The scandalous narrative is not put
directly on the Paris market. but is woven
into telegram for provincial consumpt ption
1t appeared in a little paper of to-day under
the heading, "The Presidential Crisis"
Similar dispatches are said TO have been
sent to many other provincial journals. but
they were stopped by the MiHister of the
Interior. His legal right TO stop them being
questioned, bis friends justify the act on the
ground that be is indignant al seeing Carn0t
attacked In this way-a very French excuse.
denial of the story is expected in the
course Of day, TO be followed by a fresh
invention tomorrow and fresh contradic-
tion the day after. This was foreseen when
the Baihut romance was though. worthy of
semi-ofieial notice. That romance obtained
no credit with the public, nor does this, but
u y0u deny one libel can you. omit to deny
another? If you do not make a denial
people will point to the first and say that
the silence about the second is a confession.
&c "a fFc IF for rfr,cr
a series of contradictions to a series of
calumnies, for it is now evident that they
viii be continued. The pack is in fun cry.
1t is no longer possible to deny that there
IS Presidential crisis, though it is quite
possible to refrain from predicting, as some
do, that CarBot will lie forced to resign or
that he will not. 1t is one more step in the
development Of the Panama conspiracy ard
q direct result Of the extension Of the eoali-
tlOn between the Royalists and Radicals
from the Chamber to the streets and the
press. / commented days ago on the forma-
ton of this new alliance, or rather on the
broadening Of the old one. The eXplana-
tion of the present course must be sought
there.
at is extraordinary" cries the Lanterne,
epr0Dos of yesterdays article, that the Ian
terne and the Figaro should agree" It's not
extraordinary at all. The Lanterne has been
the leader in the Radical campaign against
Garnet The Figaro, long Royslist and even
a Legitimist organ, reluctantly and half
heariedly gave its adhesion to the Repub-
ncaas.
Magnsrd's conception Of his duties as
editor incliI es him to run with the hare and
hunt with hounds. He often expresses
opinions which he believes the opinion of
he ban fc atratt f,Nh hic
lie has, as NapCleCa had, great respect for
big battalions. and a profound belief that
providence is on their side his adhesion
70 the republic will not prevent his aband-
onment Of il, if lie thinks it in serious
danger and if he judges that its enemies are
likely to win. He has been for some days
past experimenting on public feeling; l say
feeling father than opinion. because feeling
more than opinion and more than judgment
governs the curse of events. He has a
keen eye for events and for their tendency.
Mere sympathy with reaction never would
have led him to join the movement against
the President. He only joins in it when he
thinks il has a chance of success, and
since, after all, it is only chance, he does
Dot commit himself. He only registers the
movement and sayings Of others.
That is perhaps the most effective and
certainly the safest form OF advocating a
revolution. But whatever the form may be
he is practically working with the Radicals
20 bring about Carnot's retirement, and the
confusion is greater because a group in the
Chamber, which calls Itself the Right, ral-
lied under Piou and voted last Thursday for
the first time for Minister Rlbot, the extreme
Left at the same time voting against them.
Yet Ribot still appeals. and did appeal that
day, TO the extreme Left for support. which
he did not get and will not get. He has the
pleasure of looking on while they are war
ring against the President and against him.
self.
Thore is no sign Of real alarm at the Ely
see, not even in the Ministerial press. There
IS no agreement between Radicals and Roy
alIsts as to what will follow il they should
force Garnet TO call a convention TO elect
his successor. Then let US have dissolu-
ton, say the Radicals. still boasting that
their alliance with the Reds may bear fruit
at the polls.
"a soldier at the Elysee," say some of the
Royalists, aud General Sanssier's name is
whispered as that of the coming man. AS
Governor-General of Paris, with 10000
troops at his command, be could take pos
session Of the Elysee tonight, If he liked,
but Saussier renouneed Napoleon honestly
and tor good, certainly not to take up
Casarism. He never has shown the least
ambition to win the infamy which comes
from the violation of an oath or from be-
traying the Government which he is pledged
70 support. he has just been reappointed
Governor of Paris for three years. The day
after he called on tba President TO renew TO
him the expressions Of his fidelity to the
republic and of respect TO the President
himself.