New-York tribune., 1901-06-09
PARIS.
q NEW ALIGNMENT OF FRENCH POLIT.
ICAL PARTIES.
PREPARATIONS FOR THE COMING EIEC-
TORAL CONTEST-A GREAT AUTO
MOBILE RACE To BERLIN
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MOBILE RACE To BERLIN
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Paris June o-Although eleven months must
siapse before the general elections, nevertheless
each political party is up in arms striving TO
secure 4 vantage ground for the great struggle
that is 70 come off in May. 1902. The sparks of
that sectarian hatred and caste ferocity which
Frenchmen evince toward another in dis
cussing home politics. and which seem the
legacy Of the Revolution. are already glowing
The caricatures and cartoons of the Partisan
newspapers furnish a somewhat Oversensitive
but, on the whole accurate barometer OF
public feeling. which indicates unsettled
weather. Figaro publishes a half page cartoon
representing groups of men throwing chairs at
one another and whacking heads with umbrellas
and canes, while victims with blackened eyes,
bleeding noses and broken hats recline helpless
sy in the gutter. The caption for this sketch is
''Decidement Ia Periodic Electorate est Ouverte."
'Ffgaro's'' leading editorial entitled The Par
liamentary Blind Staggers'' and signed by NJ.
Jules Roche formerly Minister of Commerce.
denounces what is described as the financial
madness OF the Chamber Of Deputies and the
Senate in favoring such wildcat schemes as the
Railway Workmens Pension bill, which a for
midable array of figures adduced by Figaro"
demonstrates will cost the country S15 600 600
a year. Figaro points out the fact that the
average railway machinist instead of being
nnderpaid. receives wages of $3.50 a year which
IS more than the annual pay of captain in the
French army. Figaro calculates that the total
cost to the government Of the bill for
workmen's pensions will be 100000 600 a
year and says that all who are not
absolutely blind must that the financial
peril now threatening the country is the direct
result OF the anarchy which we decorate with
the name OF the Parliamentary regime" The
paper reprOduces the famous letter which
Turgot wrote to Louis XVI on August D. IVA
setting forth the necessity Of reducing the ma
uons expenses to sum less than the nations
revenue. and declares that this letter ought to
he blazoned in letters gold on the walls of the
chamber Of Deputies and the Senate, and that
Turgots advice is more imperatively needed
now than in 1714. The article closes with the
words: ITO be sure. there is no king just now;
but neither is there any Turgot"
The Journal des Debats' also makes a vigor-
Gus onslaught upon what is characterized as the
financial folly of the Deputies and Senator's
VINO, according to the writer's on political econ
omy who direct the policy of the paper. are
driving the nation along the road TO bankrupt
cy. The "Gaulois" renews its violent attacks
upon General Andre, Minister of War whom
lhat Royallst organ accused Of being a Drey-
1usard, friend of Picquart and a Free Mason
1aNorlng offlcers Of plebeian extraction and nom
Catnolic faith. as against the blue hooded des-
cendants OF the Crusaders. General Andre is
logically and ably defended by the Temps" and
by the Steele" 1t is needless to recount here
The hysterical anti-Semitic rawlings of Edouard
Drumont and Max Regis in the ''Libre Parole"
nor the dazzling but chaotic fireworks that |
Henri Rochefort sets off every morning in tho |
lntranslgeant, in which to-day for example |
NJ "aldeck-R Rousseau is described as a Con- |
serVatVe Anarchist and Clerical Free Thinker |
hFeh the long spun out duel between Max
Regis the Jew batting Mayor of Algiers and M |
Laoerdesque the editor Of one of the opposition |
newspapers Of that city, exctes little interest |
mere except in the boulevard press, and the sem
ument among sober minded men is that had |
poth been killed ii would have been good rid |
oapce. Figaro" strikes the keynote of the |
SITUATION by saying: Two political duels IN |
one day are too much. We are no longer at the |
Tune when single combats were regarded as |
1od S judgments The exploits of Coconas or |
BUSY amuse US when Dumas relates them but |
We are sorry to see them renewed"
Inc true gist of the situation is that all no. |
hDcal facuons are aware that at the last gen. |
erai elections in May, 1898. by which the pres |
ent chamber was elected, the Radicals and So
clallsts had I14,O00 mere votes than at the eIec
uons OF 1893. while the Moderate Renublicar.
'"st lo@oOo votes and the Conservatives 442 ono |
Farty leaders are trying TO profit bv this .x
I'eflehce' Tor the Royalist party is now ahso
dutely dead and the Bonapartists have no Ioas