The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-02-26
ROYALISTS VS.. CLERICALS.
sneyIFICANCE OF THE RECENT
ELECTION At BREST.

Ernnee-Ent ~ I.
In,rlrue. at Rome 20 Help the Duke OF
urlenn.'s schcme--His wires Innuenco.
oour. Feb. 5.-An episode In the French cleo
lions, in which Leo XIII. has taken very keen
,n,orest, has Just shed q great deal Of light on
~, French. and 1 may say the international,
TAI and democratic tendencies Of tho Holy
81. The death Of Mgr. d'Hulst made Il neces-
AIRY TO elect a Deputy. A thoroughly Catholic
-ogion. the Third district Of Brest, inclined TO
an episcopal candidacy; but, all the Bishops
,onsnltcd having declined tho honor. tho cures
s,I tho democratic group set up Abbe Gayraud,
a former Dominican who left his convent
A preach social doctrines, q priest Of un-
,,sunl Intellectual culture and entirely devoted
N Roman Institutions. The royalist chatoaux
onuoscd TO the candidate OF the democratic
cnrfs the Comtc dc Blois. a Catholic. a royalist,
ami a conservative. Tho election had great his.
,orical Importance, q moral significance OF the
Greatest Importance for the Pspal policy In
France. On tho one side the young men" the
democrats, the Socialists. the clerical republi.
cans, with the Pope; on tho other the "old
,,mors.' the conservatives, the reactionaries.
the orlcanists. against tho Pope. The con.
feat took on tho proportions OF an event
and a historical spectacle. abb Gayraud
was elected. The interest in tho vote be-
came greater. For the first time since
Leo NILS letters to tho French nation. the
Papal policS mcasureu itson !" inc ring WIN
conservative ro!"'isn'' 'no op.eeen'",i'ooi .no
alliance between 'nfo"o ""u ei'e' II '"
great IDEAS LOT tho iu'uro n"o !. .ot .mprcssou
the masses nor coh'i"'oa u o""i opuoioan''
Is because the former ufo not understand 'ne
fulncss nor the evolutionary meaning 'hoao-
heston' ana oecauSo 'ne 'n''or' e"co"rnReuo ny
the intrigncs OF the reir"c.ory party sun s"s-
- .u.ha,a ,ha utprnrity ~ the ,.oIT,<s ar
rectch perhaps 'no si"''f''' VI INC '""'e",or
the efficacy III e'e.'rons ""o pon''S v Inv
lhcral nirectiohs R''c" u" ~ no'. r"'ne'.
After inc o"''ot inc sc"Sat,on eauscu w 'ne
vote mas oeen immense 9"uoeniy' nAe MI
rercpt'ote tH'tS Whien enter nv nhss.ha',o"
like merry darts' inc oiec'ioh n'arkoo ior INC
common people M wen as ioF N.e'honos oeoer
ntnsch. a rupture IN the oohu oe'"eeh throne
and altar. y DEFINITE break IN the caoic which
once joined the church anu trau'tioh"i royalty.
The hghthihg mao nashcu through the ciou"
ana caused " 10 ours'' MOREOVER 'ho ro'ais's
And the refractory party themselves. conscious
Of the convincing value OF the incident. nave
searched into the private ifc OF Aooc Gay
raud In order to disgrace his cloth and 10 stine
IN the mud the policy OF adhesion. As he had
lst tn Dominican Order and had boon mixed
up with '1lnily affairs and a divorce suit. Anne
Gayraud became the butt OF impions
hoi'A''Ss ''''NfNs ~
Catholics, united In this wrctchcd campaign with
the Socialists who have always found tho paci-
tying socialistic acts OF the democratic priest In
their way. fell upon his past and scattered its
rrord over all France. This record has chung
not to the man elected but TO those who devised
the falschoois. For nothing has been found out
hrond imprudence and excess OF real. These
manifestations are oouo'' interesting 10 .ho
Vatican; they show on the one hand the scandal
on' alliance OF r~oyaiists. rcactionarics. and So
~ INC "ea'"'' ~ uo1. Wv VIZ
wn'ch the Pope suspected oat whicn mad never
rs oFanu on us nanas, a Ioah.on wn,cn,
Europs. and to the United States. They dis.
close, on the other hand. the neither side Of roy.
alisin. which shows deference when II addresses
compromising even to ferocity. Leo XIII has.
therefore, greeted this election with visible Joy;
it Is n lesson in facts. a revelation and a date.
The advorsaries have cast aside their disguise,
value OF the Intervention OF the successor OF
slEins v; and OF Innocent III. Leo XIII. has
essertea himself 10 all men as an innovator and
s n. sIa,o,v the as ,S sa1 pss,S o, s a ,. ., cal evolution in in
.lise sI1tus v. when, in spite Of the oaiolinss of
fuAii LIE. hC bCll ETdutO W
p,nee Henry " thu Rlarnaia IN the ,hro,. n,
-" y., 800 ," ". "
TUG 'aiois' IN TINS uhioosihg OF pohticai pas
sions there has been. too, a striking resem'
blance TO the preaching and the savage re.
r,nvs. y, rho i.,rn. n, 81. .nd -, ~. s,st".n,.
century. Good souls have shuddered at tn,
hideous countenance OF passion without re
straint and without moral sense. hut noliu,
Clans and pbiiosopbors IA we'll "a The Pnne
nave drawn from this eshibition lessons in III
goyernment Of men and ths nlassiacaiion $780,
The Pope mas been ali tbe more deliabteJ' he
cause one discovery leads on To anothep. H,
has learned that the royaiists and The reaction.
aries. the same men who On the occa.,on 81 m
deposition OF the rector Of the WsshinSton Uni.
yefsity, pursued with savage hatred Cordinal
Gibbons, MET. Keane' Mgr freland' and whsi
they disdainfulIy call those American Risbnns
ard hos strange democrat" had nrensraJ
their plan Of campeian for the leaislative ALA
lions OF 1904. fo m.intain' To- widsn even
The divis;no In ,ho Eranoh "noon 1sen,
preserve their r%oyalist adhercnts FOR he davs
Of catas,ropbe when "a in 1870 SynsstiS
restorations might moi be absolntclv imnossi.
Bile: TO win over n few bi~b eccissias}icaI inn
tlonaries in order to retain n %ce1tain dir.ction
over Catholic rroups: 10 90 thus divided IN tSs
polls without any chance ~ snccess sincc tbers
Z. would he n N