Statesmen, be they never so great, must bow before the electoratethe sovereign moband thus, last week, so great a statesman as Premier Raymond Poincaré, Wartime President of France, journeyed out to Bar-le-Duc and made before constituents his annual kotow. . . . He told them with a little unguent flattery that they and the electorate at large have returned such excellent deputies and senators that his own taskthat of restoring financial and political stability to France out of chaos within ten monthshas been comparatively simple. (A wink went round, for most of...
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