The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-06-25

The Cabinet, which President LoUBET
after many failures, has succeeded in con-
structing is the last OF twenty-seven Min
istries that have succeeded one another
since President IMAGINATION appointed a
Republican Cabinet on Dec. 13, 1877. The
new combination. headed by NJ. WALDEcK-
ROUSSEAU, is likely, in its turn, to be short
lived for even should it be accepted on Mon
day by the Chamber, it is composed Of in
congruous elements, brought together for
the single purpose OF carrying the Repub-
lican regime through the Drcyfus crisis.
When that patriotic work shall have been
done, the current of French politics will re-
sumo its normal course, and a relatively
Homogeneous Ministry will take Office.
The Cabinet that will have to face the
Chamber of Deputies on Monday is the
most heterogeneous that has been seen
under the Third Republic. A fusion OF the
Moderate and Radical wings OF the Repub-
lean party properly so-callcd has been
frequently effected, but the Ministry over
which NJ. WALDECK. ROUSSEAU will preside
contains not only Moderates and Radicals,
but also two Socialists and a General on
the retired list of the army, the Marquis
DE GALLIFTET, who had he taken Of late
any active part in politics, would doubtless
have been classed among the Rallied Re-
pu blicans," most of whom are generally
regarded as Monarchists and Imperiaists
in disguise. But ever since the decisive
victory gained at the ballot box by the Re
pubicans in October, 1877. Gen. DE GAL.
LTFFET has shown himself patriot rather
| than partisan. He believed that GAM
| BETA would prove the rcdeemer OF his
| country, and did not hesitate to fur
| nish him with suggestions helpful to
n reorganization OF the army on a
basis OF loyalty to tho republic. At the
| time, too, of the Boulangist agitation, he
| gave proof of fidelity to the Republican
| regime, but that was probably because he
| held the abilities and the character Of that
| pretcndcr in small esteem. II by n plebis-
| cite the Monarchy or the Empire could he
restored, DE GALLIFFET could scarcely fail
| 10 regard the event with satisfaction, but
| he honestly desires the subordination of
the military to the civil power, and
| dctests the idea of seeing France
| Mexcanized by change Of govern
| nent by pronuncidmientOs. In other
| words DE GALLIFFET is in good faith what
many other ex-Monarchists and ex-Imperi-
alists only profess to be, Rallied Repub-
| lican," determined to support the existing
| polity until, without any intervening coup
dftat, the people at the ballot box shall have
| substituted another system. So far as the
| feeling OF the army Is concerned, no better
| selection could have been made for the piv-
otal post Of Minister OF War than this bril-.
liant cavalry officer, the record Of whose
services on many a battlefield and in
moro than one hemisphere demonstrates
that French military glory will survive the
| punishment OF the Generals implicated in
the Dreyfus iniquity. Against his minis,
! terial authority the rank and file OF the
army can hardly be persuaded to revolt,
| and when he issues orders to Generals
they are likely to be obeyed forthwith
On the other hand it must be admitted
that the energetic part taken by Gen. DE
GALLIFFET in the suppression Of the Paris
Commune has rendered him peculiarly OBJ
noxious to the Socialists, and there is some
reason to fear that their representatives in
the Chamber OF Deputies may oppose the
Cabinet owing to his inclusion in it, al.
though two OF his colleagues, NJ. MILLER
AND and NJ. BAUDIN. were chosen from
their ranks. Neither can NJ. WALDECK
ROUSSEAU depend on the undivided support
| OF the Moderates, who constitute about one
half OF the Chamber. On the contrary. al
a caucus OF that faction, a majority thereof
adherinR to the leadership Of NJ. MKLINE