The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1896-04-20
Open Fight Between the Radical and
Conservative ideas.

Harold Frederic In New York Times.
Paris has a weil-known trick Of not
doing what everybody agrees in expecting
her to do. and this needs to be kept In
mind now. because everybody is hearing
some whispered phase OF general suspicion
that grave things are on the point OF hap
pening in France. These dispatches point
ed out fifteen months ago. when the cham
her oyerruied a decree Of the council OF
state. that really was thousand times
more important than the overthrow of the
Dupuy cabinet. and the resignation OF
President Casimir-Perier. These latter
things excited public interest much
more. no doubt. but II was the other thing
which altered history. From that moment
new French revolution began. and.
though It's progress up TO last October was
barely percepible. IL has moved forward
since with ever increasing velocity, until
now II seems on the very brink OF violent
descent into the rapids Of popular COM
motion. No one dares to formulate a pre-
diction as to what is 10 occur, but IL is the
prevalent feeling that the closing ten
days Of April will be momentous.
OF Bourgeois Jacobin-like determination
70 throttle the senate. 1 have said much in
previous dispatches. For the moment il
Is more interesting 10 wonder what part
President Faure will play In the drama now
so soon TO be unfoided. He was elected IL
viii be remembered. by a combination Of
all the reactionary. anti-radicai elements
In the Versailles congress Practically
every senator who Is now nerving himself
for battle to the death with Bourgeois
voted on the final ballot for Faure. Aft
erward 4 was disclosed that they did this
because word had passed among them that
Faure's w.fe's father had been a convicted
embezzler. and knowledge OF this secret
would give them terrible power over him
To their amazement, once In Office. he be-
gan taking his own line. which was no,
theirs They vainly Threatened him and.
finally exploded their scandalous sensation.
He faced II like an honest man, with a
protecting arm around his wife and France
liked him all the better for IT, Since then
he has been frankly on the side of the
Radicals. and. during his recent tour in
the South he went out OF his way 10 show
his sympathy with Bourgeois agrees
sive policy. This has made the monsrcht-
cal banking. specializing and snob classes
generally furious with rage. When he went
10 the Auteu,i races last Sunday with mis-
wife ard daughter. they organized a swell
mob demonstration Of hostility 20 ire
presidential party. news OF which travel
Ing back 70 Paris created great stir
N the Fauhourgs. The police reports OF
this fernsnt made the president decide
not to visit Aute,lii again. but yesterday 4.
was deemed advisable that he should 20.
ard care was taken that there should he
popular cheers for him. The OCCUPANTS
% the grand stand and boxes dared no,
boot. so they turned significantly IN their
STATS. 50 as not 10 witness his sn.ry-this
too. - being talked about IN Paris
Totay's reports say that Bourgeois and
his cabinet are leaning now TO the sae7
OF immediate dissolution. THIS cannot be
do1e Stitutiorally without Tire assent of
the senate. which. Il e wen known. VIII
h refused. but the resolution 20 dispense
with tia seuste's consen; would Be nr'y-
a tr.se holder than the other ths-Es That
Bourgeois has Gane already in his -rl,-
SAFE against IRE UPPER house II - ard
Faure risssed this and went % IRE country
on the -s<ue Of the income TAX. tNe-e :
no earthly doubt that there woui1 - \
tremendous 9,raiar rally a. the polls IN
their favor. Thts = well understood ny
the senate Aad by the classes which u rer-
reSerts. and the action tha; they xii 60
- cxirsrnitics 10 RESIST Il Is perhaps the
11s. Srrn.fe sSsa n the whola general
sasptcscn that trouble IS impending