The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1893-08-23
The Outcome of the French Elections

It Is, as yet, impracticable to define ex-
actly the relative strength Of parties In the
new Chamber Of Deputies. OF the 5s4 con-
stituencies. 565 IRE In France; and, IL a
plurality were sufficient to elect. as 1t Is In
the United States. our information would.
by this time. be almost complete. But. In
France. candidate to be successful. must
receive majority Of all the votes cast.
Where no one receives such majority on
the first ballot. o second balloting must
take place. in which only the two candidates
who had received the largest number Of
votes can figure. In Sundays election.
there was no choice in more than 100 con-
stituencies. and. as no details are given us
with regard to the state OF the poll in most
ofthese districts. it is impossible to predict
the consequences OF the second ballotings.
which will take place on Sunday, Sept. 8.
All We have Is estimates. as to which Paris
correspondents are not agreed and which
may be materially modified during the week.
There are certain points. however. on
which oil the analyzers Of the returns are in
accord. The avowed Reactionists. who had
more than 100 representatives in the last
Chamber. will be lucky II. after the second
The so-called rallied" Conservatives: the
name given to those Monarchists who have
accepted the republic In Difference to the
Pope's advice. exhibited at the ballot box
only small fraction OF the strength with
which they had been credited. They are
not likely to control twenty seats In the
new Chamber. Their candidates seem to
have fallen between two stools. having lost
the confidence Of many OF their former sup
porters without gaining that Of the Repub-
Leans whom they professed to Join. The
ex-Boulangists or Revislonists, who Ihad
forty-three seats in the last Chamber, will
not occupy one-quarter as many In the new.
Then again the Socialists. though they will
have more representatives than they elected
In 1880. have made much smaller gains than
were expected. Their stronghold. Paris,
however. has not yet definitely declared it.
self. for there was no choice on Sunday in
thirty-one out OF the forty-one electoral dis
tricts comprised in the Department OF the
Seine. There is reason to believe, however.
that. to large extent. In Paris as we'll as
In other large centres Of population. the So
cialist vote was thrown not for avowed dis
ciples Of KARL MARX. but for candidates
aoDSiApAdS I'D
that Is to say Jacobins who promise TO
make large concessions to Socialist ideas
This is what CLkMENoEAU and FLoeUEr call
themsel yes; and even man SO much trust
cd and respected as ex-Minister GOBLET
presented himself to the electors under the
same new party name.
1t Is regarding the strength Of this new
party that the most contradictory state
ments are made. Thus. one telegram in
forms us that the Soclalist-R Radicals and
Socialists put together will not number
more than thirty; We are assured by an
other authority that tho Socialist Radicals
have carried l5l seats. and the Socialists.
pure and simple. twenty. Accepting even
the last-named estimate. we can 500 that
the extreme Left will no longer DO able.
in conjunction with the monarchical
Right. to upset Cabinets. Tho Moderate
Republicans. compromising under that
term the several factions which united to