The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-08-17
ACTIONS Of LAST
P1RI3IAN MOB
Rather Ludicrous Play on a
Political Sunday.
EXCHANGE OF SHOUTS
Police Of the Capital Try
Some New Methods.

Place de la COncorde The Champs Ely
sees are beginning to ill with the families
that take their Sunday outing under the
trees. A squad of mounted Republican
Guards are beside their horses in the
shade at one corner Of the great Place.
and companies Of police on foot sit wait
ing for what is TO turn I'D.
Twenty young men, hot and dusty, ad-
vance in Irregular line from the side Of the
Tuileries. Their dress shows the work
man who has not taken care to put on
his best clothes The ages vary from
sixteen TO twenty-five. All wear at their
buttonhole a red eglantine-the emblem
OF the Socialist clubs. The police stand
up cheerily, while the young men parade
the Place shouting "Vive Combes,-A
bas la CalOtte." NJ. Combes is the Prime
Minister, and the Calotte, which literally
is a skull-cap, means the clergy collec-
lively and individually. The parade con-
tinues with the added cry, Where are
your duchesses?"
Other bands Of like character, poorly
dressed. young. clearly not of this quarter
but coming by word of order from Belle
vile or Menilmontant of the workingmen,
appear with like cries. and prepared for
work. al wear the egalantine and defend
the republic by acclaiming the Prime
Minister and houting the clergy. All are
looking for the duchesses
An old priest passes the bridge and alb
sent-mindedly crosses the Place A band
of the Eglantines rushes farword crying
TIL out of breath, A has Ia Carlotte"
They ciamor for the priest TO be thrown
into the great basin of the fountain, by
way Of bath and first victory OF the re-
public Police rush forward and convoy
the terror-stricken old man to a side
street at the other side
The Place and surrounding streets grad
ually become crowded; the Guards mount
their horses, and ,Ae policeman patrol diff
ferent points keeping the bands moving
Here and there young men in their Sun
day best shout back at the Socialists.
''Vive la Liberte" The Engiantines an
swer with free obscenties denotng their
opinion of the mental and bodily quail
ities Of the pupils of Christian schools
The opposing groups engage in the i'm
possible task of shouting each other
down. until swept away by rush of the
police
protest against the closing of Sisters
schools by government, has been called
for four o'clock. No organized group
has yet appeared. in spite of the young
@Ccialists cry for duchesses. Here and
there among the promenaders a woman
OF ample presence periodically interrupts
her talk with her husband and children
to call out explosiyely: "Vive la iberter'
and goes on with her walk and talk. hav-
ing done the whole duty of woman
Members OF the aristocratic club Of the
Epatants sit along their terrace garden
ten feet above the street. bordering the
Place. They watch curiously through op-
era-glasses the movements Of the crowd.
1t is their first opportunity since the
Dreyfus demonstrations four years ago.
They remark that the police tactics have
changed. Then the lines OF mounted
guards with superb horses. train d to
back and push sideways against crowds.
CHARTERED up the great Place sweeping
the crowds beyond possibility Of contact
in different directions:. Now the police
remain observant but allow the demon
stration TO so on. So far it is exclusively
Socialist-delegations from the clubs OF
young workngmen. The only variation Is
q band OF a half-a-dozen elderly men,
with 2 lok Of notaries or lawyers who
advance in their quality of Freemasons
10 give counterpoise against the Christian
mothers, who have not yet appeared.
a clubman picks a pebble from the safe
ground Of his terrace and losses il over
on q band Of Englsntines that passes.
There is a great commotion; the mental
and bodily qualities of the clubmen are
retailed from below. and the few pebbles
OF bits of Sunday lunches found on the
smoothly street. are tossed back at the
gentlemen occupying the terrace. They
precipitatedly retire while the police clear
the street below Across the Place the
well-dressed people who are seated com
forta5ly on the similar terrace Of the
Tumeries Garden call with animation to
the Englantines parading below. Sudden
ly one man. losing patience or in sheer
foolshness throws over a chair at the
workingmen below 4 band OF Englan-
tines breaks for the side gate Of the
garden further along the street. and the
well-dressed people above scatter in
panic at their coming. The police are
too quick. and the terrace is evacuated
British reporter walks curiously
among the Sunday promenaders. who,
alone SO far MAKE any answer TO the
triumphant boys Of Bellevine. After much
anxious searching of buttonholes. he
notes for a London paper that the oppos-
ing flowers are the red eglantine and the
Catholic pink, In reality. the white pink
is the flower Of the Orleanists. and does
not appear. But the tricoIor daisy. which
has been given as the emblem II what
was 10 be a demonstration Of Christian
mothers. IS equally conspicuous BY its
absence
Little by little. it dawns on The CON
seriousness Of the Englantines that the /
women's demonstrations has begun fur |
ther up the Champs Elysees. 1t is too |
kate The police. on horseback and on /
foot. are massed along that side Of the |
place. and Il Is difficult for the opposing |
crowds TO come together. 1T is the |
Belgian ,neth0d." explains one Of the po-
lice officers: Instead of evacuating en- |
tire parts OF the open space in turns, 10 |
Keep the multitude circulating. we keep |
much OF the groups and run our horses |
into them. two by two. just enough TO |
break Up the dangerous collision 1t is |