The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1877-09-20
NJ. THEIRS.
SKETCH OF THE Ex.PREsIDENrs LIFE
His Birth and Entrance Into Public Life
Personal Characteristics and Pecu-
liarities-Pen Portrait of
His Appearance.

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His F1RsT PUBLIC APPEARANCE.
In Paris no one would know what every
one knew at AK, and the ridiculously short
and colnically short-sighted 0vocat, with o
pair of big, round spectacles hiding the
whole of his very unattractive, not to say
", ugly 1ace, resolved 10 make MS way 10 faris
nnshinp and ntaliap,, n, S,,,Jant ~ " IL
nften e and nn.r1v oiwouo wos 70 NOW.
comers Th;ers fonn, IN Por; s" bic oo1iooro
friend fsuhsaonantlv tho oa1.hrotad i,;sto
rianl Monet ~ helm hin, in his stnJ;es an1 in
his nrivafe life and The ' Dan,,tv of Morsaillas
M Manual IN holn him IL ~ ooraar M
vonn~ man was iptrofncad to the ed;tor of
the Car esit,tt;one1 and after fo,y months,
trial was uttache,i tn tha sta f.. If that ~, ,,a,
with !, handsome salary ' He wrote t ahont
everything. to heoin with drv nuest;ons of
law and to end with romantic descrintions Of
a trim TO the Pvrences and a not Iess roma n
tic Geography of Miss Rellamv- an actress NJ
the (,ore,,t q, r,Irn erbaatra 9e ,'rofessoJ
of co,,rse. r., hc a liberal which woo nnt =
very safe thinc 10 do nndar The ra;on IF tba
Ro,,rhons In, ,vh;,.h was hy no ,,,as,,s o;thar
a dificult or a badly ,,aving line n conGnet
for a Journalist. He wrote well. had Iocic
in his head. allowed himself nov and Than
tn he hold and every r,e read him Tha
celehrated T,atitte and the then NOT lass
celehrated nnhlial,ei Gotta tonlx a fancv to
tf,a talented vo,1no man and his whole Ga
reer was fins secured as early as 1903 when
we see him able to travel about Europe and
to make a cnmfortahle alIoUanca to his
mother.
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HIS ats lls oHAkANcIEh'
1t Is from this moment that his actual po-
lltical career dates, but before entering into
the analysis OF this long, laborlous, and by
no means yet finished career, let us see What
the man himself is. Up to the present time
much has been said against M. Ihiers, DUE 1t
was always chiefly against the writer fhlers
or the Orleanist TIMERS. The general cnar-
acter OF his political LIE was seldom spoken
OF, ana MS private lie admosG never. 90 !ar
te,-nat;onal Soc;ntv ~. tho fret man nosi-
lively disinclined to forgive M. Theirs his
political crimes on account of his literary
achievements, and to pass in silence his per-
sonal corruption on account of his great
knowledge, his astonishing activity and his
tireless energy. This is, among other things,
what the fierce leader Of the International
said of the President of the French Republic
in his address to the workiugmen OH the
war of the Commune
THAT monstrous gnome has charmed the
French bourgeoise for almost half a century,
because he is the most consummate intellec
tt,al expression of their own class,-corrup-
ton. Before he became statesmali lie had
already proved his own lying powers as an
historian. A master in small state roguery.
a virtuoso in perjury and treason, = crafts
man in all the petty stratagems, cunning
devices and base pertidies of party warfare !;
never scrupling, when out of Office, to fan
revolution, nor to stifie one in blood when
at the helm of State; with class prejudices