Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-06-07

May 10, the French cabinet concludes
that it should re-
Caillaux Case sign. A cable dated
n June 2 announces
1ossloie Oause' that the elections
showed that the country expects
government by the lefts.
Also the friends of NJ. Doumef quo
claim that ne should hasten to as
connect with the Caillaux matter.
which. 1t is held, is the real basis OF
the cabinet retirement, that there Is
probably trouble in store. and M.
Doumergue and his friends are ANXIOUS
to be out of Office during the triai y.
Nine. Caillaux for the assassination Oh
NJ Calmette the editor Of the Figaro.
l. Humanite. the journal oil W.
Jaures, is cited in the cable OF june
2 as declaring that NJ Jaures insists
that what NJ. Poincare said IN nus
speech at Rennes about the necessity
of q large army was unconstitutional
And this expression OF what M Jaures
thinks is supposed to indicate tho VI
rection Jaures will give to the soc'aiis'
victors. namely. opposition to the mill
tary law of three years.
A cable from Paris on the Sd instan,
announced that President Poinchfe hau
requested NJ. Viviani. minister OF 1netrue-
ton in the Doumergue cabinet to TORN
cabinet, and that NJ. Viviani had accepted
the task. Subsequently he reconsioereo
and withdrew his acceptance. -
The reasons for the Doumergus capi-
nets resignation are considered as vague
Chased for the moment as ''psychologi-
CAL" For fact aside from the call
laux-Calmette assassination which DC
cupies public attention as the possible
stepstone to trouble, there is trouble IN
the air from almost all points on the
political horizon. There is trouble. for
example, in England. India. Egypt, Afri-
ca, in Germany, Austria-Hungary, Italy,
and not to mention other points, Albania.
France may not claim a monopoly OF
trouble therefore. Her trouble may thus
be classed as psychological.
France Is disturbed just now over the
reversion of government to the hereto
fore most unsatisfactory
Socialist administration Of social
..p,.y lists. The socialists. who
oAos' numbered sixty-seven in
the old chamber. will count 1O3 in the new
Now these 103 will coalesce with ITO uni
fed radicals. constituting thus bloc
Of 2s2. A working party in fact under
the guidance Of a leader-no other, in
deed, than NJ Jean Jaures
In the face of this bloc of 2S2 there is
another bloc Of 247 deputies, who have
adopted the republican mark. together
with some clericals enlisted under the
banner of NJ. BRAND Can NJ. BRAND
compose of this apparent bloc a ma
jority and give it the stamp of q repub-
lican majority?
1t must be borne in mind that there are
seventy-three conservatives and clericals
who if they joined with the socialists
could overthrow any cabinet which
might incur its disfavor. In any event
republican majority must be subject
of the extreme left In any event a
good pilot Is necessary to conduct min
isterial bark amid the shoals. Old hands
pretend they have such pilot, but il
is extremely doubtful. In the meantime
M Jaures holds the tiIler Of the ship OF
state.
The predominating sentiment in po-
litical circles actually is the attitude the
socialists will adopt in the new chamber
VIII they accept permanent alliance
with the radicals. even to the point OF
accepting portfolios in the new cabinet:
The new chamber counts $50 new dele
gates; 12T parliamentarians we're not re-
elected. Among these. singulariy enough
there was NJ. Francois Deloude, deputy
des Bases Alpes, who was opposed sue
ceSsIuAy ny NJ SleFne, young Dut
very wealthy finaneier, who was aided
by the bloc in the rue Valois,'' which
was significant. Another was NJ Bon
court. former minister of labor. who
complains that the socialists made a
coalition against him of all the reaction
airy forces.
Another who failed was NJ Joseph
Reinach whose eYnla ne tiana raerif re
production textual-
Military Service iy. He said:
Term the Issue. Gle w was sAo over S'' tss
three years military service. Radical
socialists and socialists combined with
one cry-'Return to the two years law
They concocted all sorts Of sophisms and
absurd stories in order to persuade peas
ants and laborers that the law OF three
years was not only onerous but useless.
Against the spirit Of patriotic devotion
they appealed to egotism and selfishness.
The coalition was made in favor of my
adversary, who was the candidate of the
rue Valois." who was also the favorite
Of the two senators Of the department.
and both are vice presidents of the rad
ical socialist committee"
These confessions of republicans conSti-
tute the psychology" of the actual stu
alton. The great part of the defeated par
liamentarians accept defeat with GER
tain philosophy.
1t was Victor Hugo who wrote, prior
to his conversion to advanced ideas,
There is always in France a majority
Of the canatlles who cry, 'Vive the
strongest sidev" Canaille is perhaps too
strong word. 1t is certain that the ma
jority admire the victorious and the re-
ligion of success in politics is flourishing
almost everywhere and voyageurs in
other countries besides France have
found that nothing succeeds like sue
cess"
A correspondent writing of the psy-
Geological condition of the politicians
mind says: More than century ago
when, in 1904. Boneparte strangled the
revolutionaries of the preceding days,
the most enraged regicides. the most
implacable republicans besieged the
palace, snatched the keys of the doors
from the chamberlain, and crewding
the imperial antechambers pleaded for
titles of count and baron. They who
arrived first with genufiexions and
honors."
Toward socialism, the revolutionary
victories have some such inspiration.
Just what form the victory will as
sumo is not certain. A bank di-
rector after the elections said to a de-
spendent pariiamentarian placed in
check by the elections in France: why
pout? We risk having to pay some more
taxes, but strong minority Is guar
business at our ease"
The same people who will clamor to
kiss the hem of NJ. Jaures' toga will
convince themselves that they are in