The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-06-27

black alpaca jacket, and going about among
his knots of friends, his face red and per-
spiration rolling down his checks.
AT 2;20 z. M. the consensus OF opinion was
that NJ Casimir- Perier would be elected on
the first ballot. The betting then stood
Perier,. 2 to l on Dupuy, to against;
Brsson, 3 to against. None of the other
candidates was mentioned except NJ Arago,
who had many friends. Socialists pushed
NJ Brisson with the utmost energy, and
prophesied arevolution ii N. CaSimlr- Perier
should be elected
In the lobby an ex-member of NJ Dupuy'S
former Cabinet loudly declared that he
would rather lose his right hand than that
such an unpolished peasant as Dupuy should
be elected President.
If NJ Casimir-Perier should not be success
full on the first ballot it is expected that
three ballots, at least, wln be taken. As
each allot.occupies about three hours, the
sitting will necessarily be late and the re-
suit past finding out until it is announced.
At2:45 p. M the letter sffp was reached
and the canvassfng among the Deputies
and Senators lulled in anticipation of the
result of the voting.
THE LAUGH ON DUPUy.
Great amusement was created at M. Du-
puy's expense by the fact that that politician
and candidate forgot to have tickets printed,
while NM Brisson, Arago,. Casimir- Perier
and others had piles OF them distributed all
over the hall and outside as we'll When
Premier Dupuy arrived at the Palace he
tinsF' NJ Dupuy was stunned for
moment, but, recovering from his stupe-
faction, he became equal to the emergency
AT first he swore like the typical pirate and
then, becoming more practical he deputed
the Socialist Deputy Walter and NM. Bour-
geois, de Jura and Delaporte, Radicals, to
help him out of the muddle his supreme con
had Ia1 him inf FTbaca ar1ta
ing gentlemen collected quantity of NJ.
Casimir- -Perier's tickets, erased the name of
that candidate and substituted in ink the
name of N. Dupuy Meanwhile a supply of
Dupuy tickets was ordered from a local
printer.
PIRATICAL EXPRESSIONS.
NJ, Jules Guesde, Socialist, was halted by
United Press representative as he was
scurrying through the lobby, and asked what
he thought of the can6 idates. All he would
say was that he regarded VI. Casimir- -Perier
as the hereditary representative of the
Bourgeoisie and N. Dupuy he thought was
unreliable. He did not want to see an un-
reliable man elected, no matter what his
political views might be. If Dupuy was
elected the chances were that he would prove
evually as anti-Socialistic as NJ Casimir-
Perier is known to be. OF all the candidates
he preferred NJ. Arago
NJ. Goblet ex-Cabinet Minister and Radi-
cal Socialist, expressed himself to the United
Press representative as sanguine that a
second ballot would be necessary, when, he
said, he would Insist upon his supporters
going over TO M. Brisson lin whose Ministry
NJ. Goblet served, whose success he hoped to
insure
When the name of NJ. Faberot Socialist,
was called, he exclaimed: ''I shall not vote
because 1 believe another Presidency will
kill the republic"
LAST SCENES.
NJ. Casmir-Perier arrived at the Palace of
Versailles at twenty minutes past three P.
NJ Neither he nor NJ. Dupuy voted. When
the roll was finished there was counter call
for absentees. This occupied few min
utes more and the counting Of the votes then
began. At twenty-five minutes past three
PM it was generally believed that M.
Casimir Perier had received about four hun
dred and thirty votes, which was sufficient
to elect him, there having been about eight
hundred and fifty votes cast. and on the
strength of this belief many Deputies and
Senators FASTENED to congratulate him.
The railways between Paris and Versailles
were all lined with soldiers, who stood al
most compactly the entire distance. In adj
dition to this precaution, detachments of
soldiers were stationed at every bridge, sta
tion and crossing, and in Paris every con-
ceivable measure was taken to repress possi-