New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-01-17
M CARNOTS CALUMNIATORS.
..,rvrR1NG WITH ECUIvCCATI0NS THE
,prSrnENT,S DENIAL OF THEIR STORY.

PRESIDENTS DENIAL OF THEIR STORY.
rur1H LINE OF ATTACK-FA1LuRE OF The At
rry,rEp PARALLEL BETWEEN THE CASES
or MN. cARNoT AND GREvY-s1GN1FI-
CANOE OF THE EXPULSION OF COR
RESPONDENTS FRENCH En-
THUsIAsM FOR RUsIA.
(pY CABLE TO THE rRiBUYE)
ropyyioht 1898 BIZ The Tribune association
paris Jan 16.-Presdent Carnots denial of
A.. Wilson -Dreyfus libel does not satisfy the
,nn,;ators The denial was transmitted. as
~~,, through the IIayas Agency. The story is
s,.,cunned calumny The contradiction is
frs.,Iute in form M. Carnot never returned
.aher 10 NJ Wilson or to NJ. Drcyfus the money
.h.r asked for Yet" cry such papers as the
c,dca, "Lanterne" and the Royaist "Gaulois,
s,bs is an evasion VI. Carnot does not deny
.h.t he ordered some agent 10 return the money
To such miserable cquvocati0ns as these are
.hs copspirators reduced ] say again that it Is
. waste of words to answer such people III
.h.v have no better weapons than these they will
make no real impression OH public opinion.
Tbslr agitation is not only factious but facti-
,ious and the perfdy of such manoeuvre IS
AaUrapt II is 10 be said to the credit OF the
Paris press in general that not many papers gave
,urrency to this Wilson fiction and none of them
urofessed 10 believe it.
The line NJ. Carnots enemies take Is very
simple one They ALL or almost ak say that his
personal integrity is not in question, that IL Is
alv his official acts which are questioned that
nothing more than indiscretiOn or want OF ilrm-
ness is imputed TO him. The writer's who accuse
him Of having been told the Panama story long
.ince and OF concealing it omit 10 explain by
xbat means the President could have himself be-
run prosecution, or what constitutional step
be could have taken. lie acts or re1ralns from
acting according to the advice of his Ministers.
They are responsible: he is constitutlonally IT.
responsible, and he has no initiative.
All this his accusers know none of it do they
state Their readers are tactly invited to sup
pUe that the President. as President, has failed
IN his duty. At no other than a period of con-
fusion like the present would such attacks he
stteupted. 1t is solely because the public is
suuposed to he under the spell of Panama and
ready to believe anything of anybody that these
tactics are thought by those who practise them to
have chance of success.
The Grevy precedent is recalled NJ. Grevy had
no share in Wilson's rascalties. but Wilson was
ocinion demanded and obtained his resignation.
That is what France is now told. AMI 1t ls as
sumed that the same mysterious pressure can be
BROUGHT to bear on W. Carnot hut the circum-
stances are totally different There is no son-in-
law nor ANYBODY else in NJ. Carnot's household
who is even accused Of corruption. The Minis
ters who were accused or even suspected have
been dismissed; there remains not one 80 lar
had nj
the Administration and the party and the Ke
public: so far as W. Grcvy had authority, lie
used il TO shield the offender. The contrast is
complete.
Nor is that all. Public opinion cannot ac'
except through instruments. NJ Grevy de'ed IL
for while What finally drove him out OF olhc'
was the refusal of Ministers to retain or acccp'
office at his hands No Grevy Ministry had
chance of support in the Chamber; ii was a deai
l,ck. and the poor old man had 10 go The eiior
10 create a parallel situation may be made, pu
other means must he found than those nov
employed. -,
Three correspondents in all have been or vii
be expelled fer libeling NJ Mohrenheim and foi
o,hor offences. One leading journal of Pari:
noints out rather naively, that they all belong u
countries forming the Triple Alliance. Ihe lne
docs not seem TO be the chief offence. They have
been engaged in political nanoeuvre' III
because the libel was political and because In
Ambassador attacked was the Russian Amnas'''
dor that NJ Szebeley is conducted across u"
frontier That is fair enough; the hpci'er j
any rate cannot complain. The other eNpeiic'
CORRESPONDENTS are an Italian and a German
IL is remarked that the visit OF regret 10 vi
Mohrenhcin wa j. IN de- rot by t. @ Foreign Mlhis'c
but By NJ. Rbot himself. II WAS NJ Ribot aus
who called at the Italian Embassy to depiore ll'
attacks on the former Italian Ambassador. ro
once all parties are agreed in approving Mihi'
terial act. 1he French enthusiasm for klssia
still at a great height and Is universal. in
Russians recognize this state Of feeling, ana 'hci
good will is again expressed, as it was near th
beginning of the Panama crisis. lhe NOV"
vremya7 SAYS wi h emphasis: " France IS NOT 2oi'i
to pieces on account of Panama This, however
is in response to the remark OF the "GraIdanihe'
less important paper, that not single hohe'
Frenchman was left in power. SUCH reniar
did not require rcfutation, but the French na'ui
ally welcome any and every declaration oi lrich'
ship from Russian source. The unlreanency
these declarations enhances the value oil each
q. w. 5.