Year: 1874




CONFLICTS BETWEEN PARTIES.


POINTS OF DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE RIGHT AND


LEFT CESTERs-FAILURE TO FORM A UNION


THE PROGRAMMES OF THE TWO PARTTEs-rHE


QUARREL BETWEEN REPUBLICANS AND BONA


PARTIsTs.


ITRoX THE REGULAR CORRESPONDENT OF THE TRIBUNE.


PARIS. June lO.-The table of contents of this
weeks political record is richly furnished there are
two hlgh-spiced brawls in heated sessions at YER
sailles, and pair of programmes. Beginning with
the programmes. the first is set forth by the Rght
Center or rather by portion OF that group. Inc
pretended ofhe pretended objects of IT. Is TO
facilitate the opening of way, not to tusion' not
a junction, but to a conjunction of the two
Centers. How the negotiations carried on
during the late parliamentary vacations with
view to effect that purpose, ended, and how the
Duke de Brogles ministry went out, is still fresh IN
the memories of such of your readers as amuse them
selves with watching the curious prolonged game OF
French politics. The worst defeated party at tnat
time was the Right-Center, the dOctrinaIre-parha-
mentary- constitutional monarchicaI conservative
party. To be temporarily defeated was disagreea-
ole TO be put out of power was unpleasant, anu
besides, it was all wrong, and only 10 De ae-
counted for by the transient judicial Dnndness
10 right of other conservative groups. But the
success of the Bonapartists in the Nlevre elections
largely owing to the administrative policy of the
Just defeated Proteg6 of the Empire v was very
alarming, and, indeed TO the Left Center as well as
TO the Right Center. fit does not entirely justify
the orid jublation and arrogance OF the Imperial
ists il conveys possibility TO the more sensible
even of French royaliss what has GaS 5een clear as
certainty to foreign and native Observers who are
free of party prejudicethat the next fixed govern
ment in France is TO be Imperial or Republican.


.t,o NJ RIGHT
are vet more doctrinaire than royalist, and more
anti-repubhcan than either not defeat, nor danger
nor foresight can inspire a doubt of themselves and
their doctrine. If there is danger and all the
more If there Is danger, then should other con-
servatives unite their forces 10 ours for wardng 1T
off, is their reasoning. Thus the Right Center that
is some sixty members of that group after due and
solemn deliberation, issued their manifesto, what
we might call their platform, OF concessions 10 the
Left Center 1t is SAID that the polite Duke Aumale
who spends so much of his time IN absence from his
military headquarters at Besancon. came up 10 Paris
expressly TO examine the new sliding planks Of this
platform which is evidently piece of workmanship
after the Duke de Broglies pattern. 1t begins with
the statement: France desires stable govern
mentr and goes on, as if deduction from that un-
questionable premise with a series of propositions,
the sum of which is: Therefore, do not let
us have stable government, not even for seven
years. What they propose is TO Keep MacMahoh
where he is. with his present title l. President OF the
Republic which, however. is not cited IN term
for seven years, if he lives long should he
meanwhile by death or of his own Will, leave the
post and in any at the end Of this term, the
question of the form of government, I'LL then
utterly reserved shall BE reopened to all dis
putants.


In brief some sixty gentlemen of the Right Cen


~ In al and Pom h
lican Conservatives in particular to join With them
in signing a peculiarly loose tenement lease TO
President MacMahon for seven years or less, the
elementary provision of which is that the lessee
keep open back door for the entrance OF future
royal tenant.


Two OF three DAYS later the Left Center issued
their responsive manifesto. The distinctive essence
of that document lies in two OF Its paragraphs In
one of these its authors and original los now more
numerous signers epigrammaticaIy state their opln-
ion, that the adoption by the Assembly OF Article l.
of the Dufaure BILL reported May 49, 1873, would be


sure pledge of stability for France nasmuch as II
would make Marshal MacMahon. not
the President of seven-vears Republic, but
a seven years President of the Republic. In the
other paragraph they fuly.confess and sanction the
reservation, inherent in republican constitution
of the sovereign national right of modification. But





the body of the Conservative Republican manifesto,
comes final one of general Importance The pur-
port of this is: The National Assembly sitting.
which has been frutless for this year either can
cannot under present pressure create some
a constitution; IL one of a republican sort, that
would be well. But even if one Of the republican
sort be arranged its production can but be the I'M
minent prelude to a prepared dissolution of the
Assembly TO which contamination the Assembly by
fatal shift must come.


Ii would seem to the outside observer that little
could be added to make this proposition OF the Lett
Center any palmer. Not 80 do the Rlght center
doctrinaires think. The last renewed attempt at
union, fusion Cling joining. or conjunction OF
the two Centers follows its predecessors down
stream The most noteworthy circumstance con-
nected with the failure Is that IL marks
another advanced stage on the road 10
dissolution. The attempt IN itself IS wo-
fully characteristic of the plentiful lack
IN otherwise eminently intelligent French poll
ticans of polite sense Ii is If you and |, being
commonly athirst and agreed that punch is what
we both pant after, say each 10 the other "eii'
now you bring your share as will mine OF the nve
or six constituent ingredients; aud then both OF us
bring lemons and hot water quite, and more or less
honestly, surprised that the other has not con-


bued the costly essentials of spirit aud sweetness
This latest partial array of the moderately repuo
lican aud doctrinalre fsrces IA Instructive IL
teaches among other things. that by no possibility
can the doctrnaire Liberals ever become the allies
of French Republicans.


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