New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-02-26
NJ. CANAIGNAC
SOME PECULTARrTIES or TIE MAN MADE
FAMOUS W \ SINGLE SPEECH

SOME PECILIARTT1ES OF TIE MAN MADr
FAMOUS BY a SINGLE SPEECH.
Paris, February 10.
We have now VI. Cavaignac 70 the foro ana as
eventual candidate for the Presidency "f tie
Republic. lie was hardly more than an obscure
Deputy when he asked not long ago TO head
the Department of the Colonies lie is now the
hone of the united Centres Of NJ. Dcronlcdc. and
the speech that he unexpectedly made is placarcl
on the dead wall. of every commune in France lie
was "A schoolboy on the upper form Of the Louis
lr Grand Lyccum in 1879, and made himself
even then remarkable by refusing, when his nam"
was called az the winner of the grand prize com
pcted for by all the high schools of Paris ana
Versailles, to advance to the platform on when
il was to be- handed TO him because the late
Prince Imperial stood there to hand TO successful
youths the prizes they had won. The soemnlfy
at which he thus made his mark was thrown mo
confusion by the pupil Cavai4nac. His father
was the Republican general who stamped oHt
the Socialist insurgents in the days of June,
his repression being of the most relentless CHAR
| actcr ever known in France until Theirs, bounded
on by the NcrsailGsts crushed the Commune III
wholesale military massacres. Cavaignac was
| the head of the Executive Committee which took
the place of the Provisional Government of 1913.
and made way for that of Louis Napoleon when
| he was elected President of the Republic. There
seems a prospect of Cavaignac the third. for his
| grandfather was a member of the Convention ana
notwithstanding into the Presidency as the
man of the Centres and of the Conservative Re
publicans
lave never heard 4 word against the private
| character of VI. Cavaignac. But what have not
! II, ard against the who now form the new group
which sets mp TO govern during the approaching
elections and has been formed 10y the concentration
| of the Centres with the aid Of the Bonapartist
| Robert Mitchell: of the rcactionst l'onlangist
| Deroulede the clerical Deahaye. and the clever
weathercock, Andri"uy? This composite party
have got their man. in the person of Casmir Prrer
| into the Speakers chair, from which FlOquet was
| turned away last January. Cavaignac is their
| candidate for the Presidency of the Republic, and
We shall soon SEQ an onslaught on W. Carnot 70
turn him out of the Elysec and to gain all the po-
| sitions of importance before the opening of the
! electoral campaign. The manoeuvre Is being
, operated under the mask of incorruptibllity.
The plan which led 10 the debate AT which NJ.
Cavaignac was set up 10y VI. DerouIede as the rival
| of VI. arnot until perhaps Comte de Nun Is ripe
| for th. Presidency was formed al a meeting held
| the night before by the Left Ccntrists. NJ
| Cavaignac was there lie had been in the morn
inq the guest at lunch of NJ Ribot, whom he did
not. of course. apprsc Of the plot, ana at whoS"
| unsilspecting ignorance he made merry. Inc con-
| sriracy was clevcrly concerted. The Conserva-
| tivcs. while. through Cottu's conccalmcnt of his
papcrs keeping out of the hands OF the Magis-
trate. NJ Franqucvillc smirched the Republicans
| of all shades Ii was agreed among the Left Cen
,rists at their meeting 10 say that the Government
had acted WE'LL but had not gone nearly far enough
| Cuvainnac a, the representative of the NlrtuOus
men who had been bribcl just as heavily as any OIL
the others was To mount the tribune and declare
| himself the CHAMPION Of ausere virtue. Inc w"oe
| House including those whom he was lntehnihS 10
| knock over. would have to applaud ard vote Tor
| fuller light. and for pursuing the corrupt 10 tn''
death. The Ccntrsts did not forcse" that the Min
| isry would rally to the resolution OF NJ "ous'o'
and 50 prevent "A crisis which would have Drought
| i'm a Ministry whose first duty must nave Decn W
make tue Elyscc too hot to hold VI. Carh0t.
NJ Cavagnac never before had the ear OF the
House. which indeed il wont to show aversion 10
| him. lie is a person of ank and melancholy
| .spcct with head that is bald all over Noth-
inc could have been more unexpected thah HIS
tremendous Success lie spared nobody b'sh
ming BY an attack on the Deputies VINO TOOK MONEY
| from the Panama Company, ne tn"h la .S '
shady linancicrS in who's, hahus i"pu,"' fo WI II
| foo ready to place themselves ms Was LOT W
| ClcmenccaI who is charged by kocheIolt WIN
| having taken three and half millions OF franc.
from DIR. Herr LlSht h'pi "cii Pio'" - r,r,
withheld: suspicion, as IA consequence. wa' , rllc
| To chas. il the fullest light was required lheh
the veil was suddenly rent by the speaker VINO
nir.t tho money receiving theories expressed
| in the tribune by Rouvicr and Floquet Inc
| practices they ayowcd were shame 10 rrahcc.
| Wn> he government OF the richest country III
| Enr 70 70 bc holden 10 the small lonns or siits
Of foreign bankers? Were these inancIers TO Ne
| snlicited for aims for the purpose OF carrying
| an nublic business? This was the question on
vybrh tLe Parliament would have TO vote NJ
Cavocnac then asked why it wa, that ior twenty
wears the country had shown itself devoted 10
! IL" Rcnubllc. The cause lay in the belief that
| -; !, u.,S a. government of Justice and right When
aver that belief broke down and it begin to pass
| for an illusion, nothing wonld remain OF .ne
| Rrnuhiic of liberty or of the nation Parliament
m,p', ,,rnnnuncc on the point whether it is de-
termned support the vh IN p"ih' aTs
down all the kinds oil c1rrnpa,odn ~ dntsrmine
~ nrcycnt the Governmental proceedings, which
| il has already blamed. H. u