The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1894-06-30
ANECDOrE OF IMAGINATION.
1t Shows the Manner In Which
He Ruled France.

1t Shows the manner In Which !
He Ruled France.
1t is seventeen years since Mar.
shall MacMahon. then president of
the Republic, wrote the celebrated
letter in which he called on M. Jules
Simon to resign the premiership.
This was the starting point of that
strange aud almost humiliating pc.
Rod styled the 10th of May, which
lasted six months, at the end of
which time the Conservative party,
which had been carrying on public
affairs, was vanquished by universal
suffrage and fell dead, so to speak,
on the battlefield. If now revert
to it after seventeen years silence it
is because M. Simon himself, in to-
days Figaro, has an article of three
columns upon the 10th of May. He
was its chief and most signal victim,
though the entire Monarchist party
may also be said to have been vic.
Tins.
What l am about to say relates
to a dinner on May 8, 1877, at
which were present among others,
M. Henri Germs ain, chairman of the
Credit Lyonnais, and M. Legouve,
the academician. do not recollect
the names of the other guests, 5 or
l6 in number, but / mention these
two because they are still living and
and l can invoke their testimony
Here, then, is what passed. A
cabinet council at the beginning of
May was discussing the line to be
taken by the governme nt on an in
terpellation by M. lie Blond. NJ.
Jules Simon and Marshal MacM ahon
held the same opinion, bat the
other ministers took contrary
view.
Thereupon M. Simon said "My
dear colleagues, the president Of the
republic and l arr of the same
opinion on the attitude which the
government should take in regard
to M. lie Bonds Interpolation. |
have told you the reason for my
opinion, which is also that of the
president of the republic. If you
agree to follow me we shall have
the president of the republic with
US, which will materially help US to
r command majority in the cham
Der. II, on the contrary, you per.
sist in your view, 20 you know
what will happeur Marshal Mac
Mahol., convinced that he canno
govern you, will form resolution
which l cannot precisely state be
forehand, but it's aim and result viii
be to force as to 60 out of Office
leaving the Marshal, or rather those
= in whose name he acts, master Of
, the battlefield. The marshal vii
. then send for the Duke de Broglie
will intrust him with the premier
ship, will attempt to govern with {
Broglis cabinet, and, encounterine
the opposition of the chamber, will
obtain from the senate the right Of
,, dissolving it. Whereupon he will
hold fresh elections, exercising thu
most violent pressure on the con
stituencies. This wo.ld be a calam
.ity and l beg you to spare our coun
try from it," A long silence en-
q sued. Everybody expected TIT
= marshal to protest against what M
!. Jules Simon had said. He was visi
> bly, agitated, but after few min
,, utes, raising his head and turning
to M. Simon, he simply said, "Par
:. faitement." This caused veritabl'
stupefaction in the cabinet council
Discussion was broken off and the
ministers separated. = London
Times.
See the Alabama boys beat Waco
u if they can, this afternoon at Pad
gifts park.