Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-07-03

division. In the others the Radicals re
fused alliance with the party, and s.
destroyed their own with the Socialis
chances.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Radicals, ten Re
actionists nine Socialists-elected.
Lille-Twenty- six Socialists, ten Repub
licans. This is great victory. Mucl
enthusiasm.
Nantes-Ten Conservatives, five Oppor
tunists and three Parti Ouvrier candidate
elected at second ballot the latter al
gains.
st. Etienne-Sixteen Socialists (9,00t
votes). Gain of four seats. Eleven OPP
portunists, eight Reactionists, one Radical
Amiens-Seven of Radical and Socialis
list elected. Radical Socialist majority OF
Council.
Toulon-Thirty- one Socialists elected
There are thirty six seats.
Limoges-Out of fifteen second ballots
the Socialists obtained thirteen victories.
Socialist majority ON Council.
Dijon-Entire Socialist list elected, with
5000 votes Great gain.
Tourcoing-The Parti Ouvrier obtained
3.042 votes, not 2, 042.
st. Quentin-Second Socialist elected on
second ballot, defeating Opportunist
Deputy.
Troyes-Radical and Socialist coalition
list elected
Bourges-Opportunist Reactionist coa!i-
ton defeats Socialists by few votes. So
cialist vote, 5000.
Cette-Socialist list elected
Perpignan-Twenty Socialists elected
Great conquest.
Rochefort-One Socialist elected and sew
eral others nearly. Their vote was 1, 400.
AK (Bouches du- Rhone) -Socialist list
elected with 2,S72, against / 700 to OPP
portunst- Radicals.
Carcassonne-Socialist list elected with
400 majority. Splendid success.
Casties-Fourteen Socialists and twelve
Radicals elected with 400 majority.
Vienne-One Parti- Ouvrier candidate
elected.
Roanne-Fourteen Socialists and thirteen
Opportunists elected Gain.
Elbeuf- three Socialists; four
Reactionists.
Niort-Eighteen Radicals, seven Oppor-
tunists, two Reactionists, two Socialists.
Albi-Entire Socialist list elected with
500 majority.
st. Nazaire-Six Collectivists elected.
Agen-Eighteen Opportunists assisted
by Radicals and Reactionists; nine Parti
Ouvrier.
Chattellerault-Two Socialists and two
Opportunists at second ballot.
Sotteville-Great conquest. This was
Clerical Council. Twenty Parti-
Ouvrier three Opportunities.
Libourne-Two Socialists elected 1898
votes.)
Cholet-Socialist vote at first ballot, 1, 1893;
at second, 1876, but 90 behind Reaction
lists. One Socialist elected.
Vierzon- village-Three more Socialists
elected, making 16 out Of 90 seats.
Vierzon- Ville-Ten Socialists elected at
second ballot.
Cordes-Fourteen Socialists; two Repub-
licans.
Bethune-One Socialist elected.
Captive Parti- Ouvrier candidates
elected.
From the data available it may be stated
that the more important towns which have
elected Socialist majorities are some thirty
in number, and seven or eight of these
are gains. Paris, which possesses thirty
three Socialist ana ten Radical Socialist
seats out Of eighty, is here included. The
next four are Marseilles, Lille, Bouboix,
and Toulon. The total population comprised
In these Socialist towns is nearly 1000,
900. Minority representations, large
minority votes, Radical Socialist victories,
ETC., stand in the background in formid-
able numbers as vouchers for the substan-
TALLY Of the Socialist position in France.
Indeed, some of our most conspicuous sue
cesses do not take the form of majorities
for the grand increases of votes in such
places as Nantes and Cholet, and other
towns of the west, once so obstinately
Royalist, are as notable as the gains Of
seats and councils elsewhere. Many Of the
little agricultural communes in this region |
have also become Socialist. The strength
ening and propagation of the movement is
fairly well distributed in other regions. In
the country Of Roubaix and Lille, the Nord
department, thirty communes arc now So
cialist, and in hundreds of others large !
Socialist poll has been secured. In the
center of France, Montlucon and Com
mentry are retained, and Vierzon- Village |
and fifty communes in four departments
have been won. The South is still more
to the cause, as witress Mar
settles, Toulon, Carmaux, Abb, Perpignan,
Cette, AK, etc. We lose eight seats in
Lyons, owing to internal discussions, not
gin Of s. goo votes but st.
Roanne aud Dion ire also in the
East; moreover, the number of Socialist |
votes in this rick region has been trebled
in the four years since the last elections.
The continued ecowth Of another siFnii-
can't movement 10 also noted, viz, the con-
solidation Of the Anti Socialist fosces,