The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-08-30
Declares 1t Is Absurd for Men
With Such a Record as Theirs
to Assume Such Title.
PREMIER A 1IRELEss ORATOR.
Infamous Regnier Again Occupies
Attention of French Press and
People, Thanks to Mime. Hum
bert's Disclosures.
BY ]. coRNELY.

BY j. CORNELY.
SPECIAL By CABLE TO THE NEW YORK
HERALD AND THE ST LOUIS REPUBLIC.
Paris. Aug. cs.-(Copyright lsos.)-we did
not deceive ourselves in predicting for the
revelations of Nine Therese Humbert a
rather negative value.
1t is certain she prejudiced the jury with
her tales. which were sufficient to put one
to sleep. But she will have at least the
satisfaction, IL it satifies her, to see brought
to light the name Of Regnier and to have
set on the track Of this parsonage the jour
nalists who were never SO much interested
In him. even during the Bazaine trial. when
he was in his turn condemned to death by
default.
1t is evidently to pay an unexpected hon.
or to Regnier to again discuss his actions,
those actions which will remain enveloped
in mystery as long as people do not want
to see in him who performed the part SIM
ply what he was; that is to say, an indi-
viduai who liked to pose in important
things and to get mixed up in everything.
especially in what did not concern him, and
who received from Bismarck a welcome
which the Chancellor extended to all those
much, and which Bazaine in turn received,
because evidently in this Marshal of France
to whom was confided the fortune OF the
country imbecility was equal to his pol
troonery. Let us cast a veil over these
humiliating memories. Let us not stop
longer, but pass on.
NJ CONFESS IRONY.
NJ. Combes has gone on again this week
with his speeches. Even those who are least
in sympathy. with the President of the
Council are obliged to recognize that he IL
at least q tireless orator He made fun, not
without wit the title Of Iibprap' that
his adyersaries assume. and from what they
did when they were In power he inferred
| power.
II Is certain that when one recalls, not
the restoration. which Is far away. nor
| even the second Empire, which is nearer,
but May "a and May 16. which are part Ct
| the time of our own generation, It Is elf
| ficult not to smile, If not to become indig.
| Royalists take on the label OF Liberal"
| All the suspected officials dismissed; all
| the Republican papers forbidden in libra
ries. in provincial railway stations; all the
inns which then existed under a regime OF
necessarily previous authorization closed
because the Republicans used to meet In
brought to trial and condemned to pris-
on for perfectly constitutional utterances;
the editor OF the Gazette itself condemned
/ to three months in prison for having raid
in speech at Lille: when universal suf-
frage is declared, one must submit or re-
sign; the Bulletin des Communes. Gov
publican Deputies. Theirs included of not
being unconnected with robberies with in
cendiary fires and with assa ssinations in the
places where they had lived-such were
some nj the principal deeds OF the gentlemen
who to-day call themselves 'Liberals"
EXCUSES ARE FLIMsY.
They will say that was time of warfare
But against whom was this warfare direct
ed? Against the Radicals. against the So
cialists; not all againet the moderates. For
1t was Theirs who was in power when the
events OF May "a occurred, and II wal
against Jules Simon, President Of the Coun.
| ell OF Ministers. that the coup Of May II
WIS organized. The moderates were aftei
| that tnsulted. dragged in the mud by the 20
called Liberals. az well as the Radicals who
| replaced them In power.
jules Simon, already mentioned; M. Me.
loaded with abuse. Just as M. Waldeck.
Rousseau, just as NJ. Combes now, 0ambet.
4 Ia and Jules Ferry had place set apart and
the chorus OF insults has reached for then
I a diapason greater than for all the others
II is true that the reactionaries have beer
aided by the radicals. whose shouts offer
drowned that Of their strange allies M
apology for them In the speech he has JUS
made ut the launching Of the Transport shiI
which bears the nan1o Of Jules Ferry. Ii
whom he culoEized one Of the greatest ser
WANTS OF French Democracy.
II Is very easy TO see his faults. but n
least let the Lessons of the past teach III
and let iis be less quick IL cast opprcbriun
on men whose only crime Is not to have tn,
same opinions as ourselves on all things cs
peciaily In politics. II IL all very wei not {.
speak III of the dead, but why not begil
~ not speaking III Of the nvin97