Amongst themselves and in their popular club it is worse, for
"the eagerness to get any office leads to every one denouncing each
other; "[15]
consequently, at the Jacobin club in the rue St. Honor?, and in the
branch clubs of the quarter, there is constant purging, and always in
the same sense, until the faction is cleansed of all honest or
passable alloy and only a minority remains, which has its own way at
every balloting. One of them announces that, in his club, eighty
doubtful members have already been gotten rid of; another that, in his
club, one hundred are going to be excluded.[16] On Ventose 23, in the
"Bon-Consei1" club, most of the members examined are rejected: "they
are so strict that a man who cannot show that he acted energetically
in critical times, cannot form part of the assembly; he is set aside
for a mere trifle." On Vent?se 13, in the same club, "out of twenty-
six examined, seven only are admitted; one citizen, a tobacco dealer,
aged sixty-eight, who has always performed his duty, is rejected for
having called the president Monsieur, and for having spoken in the
tribune bareheaded; two members, after this, insisted on his being a
Moderate, which is enough to keep him out.
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