The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-01-25

on that notorious humbug and would
be Napoleon. Boulanger.
When General Boulanger was pre-
scented for the first time as candi-
date for the chamber in four depart
ments, General Logerot, minister of
war, sought an interview with him.
and after receiving his positive denial
that he had taken any part in the cleo
ton maneuvers, told him to return TO
Clermont, the headquarters of the
army corps which he commanded, and
take care that his name should not be
improperly used by his friends in the
future. Not many days afterward he
broke his parole by going to Paris in
disguise, where he was recognized by
an army officer. and on investigation IL
was found that he had personally di-
rected the electioneering campaign by
means OF cipher kilograms. For these
acts he was relieved of his command
and placed on non-activity. and called
before a court martial consisting of
five generals on March 26, 1883. This
was the signal for demonstrations for
and against Boulanger, and while his
trial was pending he was a candidate
at Marseilles, receiving a small vote.
and in Aisne, where he headed the poll
at the primary election, although as an
officer in active service he was ineligi-
BILE. and then withdrew in favor of one
of his partisans. He defended himself
before the military court by saying
that he came TO Paris to visit his sick
wife. and denying his participation in
the electoral canvass. but when con-
fronted with the telegraphic dispatches
he made no answer. The court voted
unanimously against him, and Presi-
dent Carnot signed the decree placing
him on the retired list Freed thus
from the restraints imposed by his mill
itary duties. he openly took the field as
a candidate for the department of
Nord with an address in which he ac-
cused the chamber of suppressing the
defense of the nation. and the senate
of checking every reform. and his
judges of condemning him for reasons
they dared not avow. His condemna-
ton gave him a greater prominence
than he had before. The antagonists
of the third republic - imperialists
clericals, royalists and many extreme
radicals and socialists-supported him,
openly and secretly. as the representa-
tive of disSatisf faction with the exist
ing order of things and with the men
who controlled the policy of the nation.
His popularity rested chiefly on the
military reforms that he had effected
as minister of war lie was regarded
among the common soldiers and the
peasantry as the creator of an army
that was capable. or soon would be.
of avenging Sedan. and in his speeches
he limited vaguely at war. The rural
voters who formerly adhered to the
empire at the beck of Bonapartist
leaders. now turned to Boulanger as
the embodiment of the idea OF personal
government, which is strong among
the French peasantry. Boulanger call
ed himself n democratic republican, al
though his political friends and finan-
cial supporters We're Bonapartists. and
in his demand for a revision of the
constitution he limited at a system re-
sembling that of the United states, in
which the president should be chosen
by a "plebiscite," and the ministers be
responsible to him and not to parlia-
ment. The monarchist and socialist
factions that constituted his party each
hoped 10 shape the changes after their
own ideas He was elected by a ma
jority Of 100. 600 i'm the NorNi. where
BOnapartists and republican extrem-
lists are strong. He was elected in the
DOrdogne also, but took his seat as
deputy for the Nord department The
programme on which he was elected.
chiefly by Bonapartist votes, was disSo-
luton, revision and a constituent as