Show NGER POLITICALLY DEAD h ht t thinking people every- every would be glad to learn of the theng ng ng defeat suffered by Boulan- Boulan rr at j 1 at the late French drench elections r A h baa as proved himself to be a humbug with no more t now pow with the more solid 3 w ti on OD of the French people than aA a A F i r soap-bubble soap He wrote down 11 a fraud when he fra- fra fd ted and combined politically the the monarchists while pre pre- preto pre pre-Ili l fig g to be the friend of the Re- Re Rec Re-p Re Bl c These two positions are r to a degree that renders irreconcilable His pretense re to amend the constitution terse w A covering too flimsy under UP- UP to carry on his double game and il loose The French peo- peo peo-i peo I Bce at atla last t able to see the stamp demagogue i o af r demagogue under the pretext k the last refuge ofle of off tl f jp n le and repudiate him r wA rW 1 jy r placed beyond all dispute l ou anger nger was working toward of C in with himself playing the ther r the great Roman But he heY heno beno Y no DO more resemblance to great greatt than the lion Jon does to the ass t were willing toon to lia on the ground that the of the scheme of Boulanger ga a step towa toward d the attain attain- x c t i ment of their own d designs igns C Ceesar- Ceesar ism sar- sar ism being a sort of half haIt breed system system system tem partaking of some of the el ele- ele elements ele elements ments of republicanism but as j largely on the other hand of the natu nature re of monarchism Boulanger can no longer swim on the current of popular estimation as asa asa asa a sound political apple He has made it too apparent to admit of any doubt that he is something else The latest popular idol at whose shrine the fickle French worshipped has been smashed and th they y must find another Doubtless he will soon oon make hi his appearance They must have him his existence being a French necessity It is to be hoped they will be more discriminating discriminating discriminating ing next time and that be he will be Imade made malle of stouter timber than the flashy humbug who has Just been roundly booted by his hia countrymen in a political sense |