The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1895-01-19
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The London Daily News Correspondent
Describes W. Faurc.
LONDON. Jan. lS.-A Paris dispatch to
the Daily News says: Tho members OF
congress arrived at Versailles practically
unpledged One OF the results OF tho
multiplicity OF parties in France is that
they are unable to put forward a strong
man on an emergency. There cannot
be that scientific organization which we
see carried to perfection in America,
where the successor Of an American
Casiuir-Perier would have been there
when wanted.
Congress hall had hurried look. Tho
ladies' dresses were the best they could
show, but were not made for the occa-
sion. a lady who was taken by many
to be Sarah Bernhardt. sat on the tri-
bune reserved for tho wives OF senators.
Her figure, feature aud style were strik-
ingly Bernhardtesque. When NJ. Wal
deck. Rousseau name was called she
blew kiss to him with the tip OF her
fan. She was his wife. He showed no
anxiety during the first ballot, but be.
. sic stCOUu. VI.
Faure was little noticed until tho first
count, when it became certain that he
would win.
I regard this as the most reasiuring
sign we yet have had ior the quiet oil
France. President Faure is modern,
but unlike Casimir-Perier or Waldeck-
/. Rousseau, he will haze no prejudice
against calling Radicals to Office when
ever they have n majority. NJ. Wal
deck-Rousseau would have dissolved the
chamber. This accounts for his defeat.
z NJ. Faure. on the contrary, will try 10
agree with the chamber. In many re-.
spects he will be president like Carnot
that is 10 say, without angles. lie is
fast friend OF ex-Minis.cr Sicgired.
who takes deep interest in the \ Dung
Mems Christian Association. | dwell
upon this fact, keeping in mind the
proverb that "a man is known by tho
compauy he keeps" This friendship
I speaks volumes OF praise for the new
president. NJ. Sicgfred showed as much
Joy over the election as though 81. Faure
was n beloved son.
NJ. Faure's Prote,tantism is not mar
row, since his daughter married Cath
olic. but he himself never embraced
Catholicism. Therefore no ia tho frat
Protestant ruler that France has ever
had, for Henry " mounted the throne
! after rccanting at Notro Dame. VI. Faurc
is an able speaker, oil southern fluency
and inauguration, with the hard head
{ and practical sense Of tho Norman.
Like Carnot, his opinions arc rather
neutral, but in fast hucs. lilo Inns a
gravity that is the opposite OF dullness,
and he is 30 FREQ from conceit that he
can agree almost with any one. His
presence is finer than that OF any other
president. His Ggnre is tall and well
knit, but is that OF man in whom tho
nervous system predominates over tho
muscular.
There is tho seriousness OF tho Arab.
Semitic in tho we!l-aot Dyes, though
fancy hc cnn have no Semitic blood I'M
Less through the Saracenes who overran
tho south OF France and settled Tor some
time nj Mines. His features nrc finely
shapcd. When amilo lights up his
pcnsivo countenanco IL makes it charm.
ing. He Ina the name OF being an
obliging and kind and conscientious
master. His character Ia too hnrmo.
moniously developed for H,rcaks Of dis.
honesty TO invade it. lis black eye.
brows and moustache contrast with his
snowy, coso.Cut hair. Ho has tho look
OF Clcmencenu in his Dyes. forehead and
tho shape OF his head. which is round
and well Developed. NJ. Fnurc haa bont
his oyc n good deal on China since she
and Japan went TO war. lIc looks for.
ward to startling developments IN far
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