General Boulanger recently told an interviewer that the struggle was
between him and Parliamentarism, and his published utterances all express the same idea. In a letter declining the seat for the Dordogne, he declares that it is not a man that is in question, it is France. " Everybody under- stands what it is that is at stake ; it is the country itself, its dignity, its future." " The Department of the Dordogne is not disposed to allow itself to be extinguished by a Parliament the sterility and impotence of which will end by holding up the French Republic to the laughter of Europe." These declarations are repeated by the General's enemies in the Press and on the platform, so that all France is ringing with denunciations of him as a would-be Caesar. It cannot, there- fore, be alleged that the electors vote for him and his nominees in ignorance of his pretensions, or out of mere pity for his treatment by the Government. The truth is, they vote against government by the Chamber, and think General Boulanger the man who will most easily rid them of it. We fancy the fall of M. Grevy, who was a visible figure-head, under the weight of the Wilson scandal, had a much wider and more. disastrous effect than was suspected.
