THE PARIS ELECTIONS.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume II, Issue 254, 31 January 1889, Page 2

THE PARIS ELECTIONS.

BOULANGER RETURNED BY A LARGE MAJORITY. RIOTING IN THE CITY. GREAT ENTHUSIASM—REPUBLICANS MYSTIFIED. , Paris, Jan. 23. The election for the Department of Sains resulted in the return of General Boulanger, who polled 244,000 votes as against M. Jacques’ 162.000, the other candidates being much below that. Yesterday rioting took place in the city. The aristocratic quarters we,e tranquil, but the students made a demonstration of hosti lity, and it was found necessary to mass tbs troops in order to quell any disturbance. Jan. 29. The result of the Seine election was received by immense crowds with great enthusiasm. Ths Republicans are mystified and enraged at General Boulang -r’s succass.

LATER. THE POLITICAL SITUATION, M. FLOQUET’S MINISTRY DOOMED, THE REPUBLIC’S DEATH-BLOW. Pams, Jan. 29. ( The French Cabinet sat till midnight ooneidering their position, and then adjourned until next morning. The Boulangist Press declare the Floquet Government is doomed. Tho official Press look upon the position as deplorable, but deprecate anything approaching a panic. The Royalist journals consider that the result of the Seine election is a death blow to the Republic. M. Wilson has resumed his seat in the Chamber of Deputies, and iutends offering hitnself for re-election. When he appeared in the Chamber he caused a panic of theatrical horror among the republicans, as if Satan himself, with a complet in brimstone, had jumped through a trap door from his summer place. On a motion being made the sitting was suspended for one hour. But Wilson never badged, nor did the atmosphere feel a whit purer after one hour’s special ventilation. It would have been better had the leading purists arranged to have the seats sprinkled with holy water, as many French people did on .the conclusion of the war before entering their houses, which had been occupied by the Germans. Pale, emaciated, cynical and threatening looked, in his isolation, that farmer of the Legion of Honor and of offices His misconduct is almost invisible beside the bench of judges that declared him to* be innocent He has now turned upon his prosecutors, and intends to make a holocaust of 70 or 80 public men by exhibiting the proofs of their corruption to be far greater than his own. It is in that public di-gust, plu% discontent, that the force of Boulangistn resides ; and when adversaries cry, A Lag Boulanger! they receive for riparte t A bas les veleurs I That’s where we are now !— Age Paris correspondent.