Show BOU LANGERS TRIUMPH THE immense majority received by general boulanger in the department part ment of the seine jan 27 sets all doubts at rest as to how or where he be stands slants with the people of prance france others may be president of the republic since that official is elected by the french congress but so long as he retains his present hold upon the masses they will hold a barren sceptre in their gripe as and exercise authority that will be so theatrical as to almost provoke a smile of derision of course the department of the seine is but one out of many divisions in which representatives are chosen but it is the most populous wealthy and presumably best informed of all and besides the general has been chosen from other departments part ments quite recently from that of the nord north ani and his candidacy which culminated K yesterday esterday was admittedly a test of his strength and the peoples peopled will regarding his policy he has more than confirmed this by announcing shortly after the result became known that he would not occupy the seat from the seine but that from the nord he can do pretty much as he pleases under the circumstances cum stances and few there be now who will undertake to say him nay the allied powers need no longer hang in suspense as to what the dominating influence in france is it to is the policy of boulanger peace with honor not peace at any price with the lavanohe rava rawa nohe nehe revenge party held in check only so far as to prevent them from being aggressors the dignity of france at all hazards and the restoration of alsace and lorraine when the opportunity arrives to ber be the watchwords the sentinels on the border will probably be increased but they would amount to no more than so many wisps of straw in the track trac of a flood at least for the time being if an outbreak should come the first dash would be for metz mete and strasburg and it would surety surely be so impetuous and overwhelming that until the germans had time to recover from the at atle leant aut the lovel lovei and longed for land would again reflect the glow of the french eagles its hills reverberate the shouts of triumphant trench soldiery and ad the line of de Mu cation be once more if only for ft a day the sullen and rumbling waters of the german rhine all this and much more is the frenchmans french mans vision by day and his dream by night the more enthusiastic look looker fax beyond the boundary and see themselves once more in hostile array army on german soil and headed for berlin it is because boulanger partakes more or less of these fanciful hopes and feelings that they rally around and thrust honors upon him and because of this that he Is as dangerous now as louis napoleon was the week be he overturned popular government and established a brilliant empire on its ruins it Is but for boulanger to order the populace ulace to obey no one can tell what a day may bring forth at any time or in any place but we are strongly impressed with the idea that any one who makes a study of current events can mow come much nearer foretelling the near future of prance france than for a long time past in the meantime we vo can afford to wait and watch believing that affairs of great moment are not far off |