Arizona republican., 1898-05-26
FRENCH REPORTER.
Robineau Can Enter the White House
 and Learn Things.

Washington, May 25.-(Special.)-| The French government has become lest the Lafayette incident q mean the French steamer of that name trying to force the blockade of Ha- vana, not the incident of the French marquis who with view of averaging himself on England, rendered his sword to George Washington should have a prejudicial effect on American representation at the approaching Paris exposition. M. Hanotaux, the French minister of foreign affairs, has accordingly sent N. Robineau, one of the leading writers on the semi-ofiiciA Paris Temps, to this country with ere dentials to Ambassador Cambon, and with a mission to remove the ill-feel- ing which the undisguised hostility of the French press towards the United s..ates in its war with Spain is SUD- posed to have caused towards France.
 Mr. Robineau's semi-official capac- ity has secured him entrance to the W nite House, where, as simply "a newspaper reporter, he would have been courteously shut out with the re- mark that the president of the United States must decline to speak on public affairs for publication in the news papers. Having penetrated as far as the presidents business office nothing more is necessary to enable MT. Robin eau, after the usual fashion of French journalists, (which some of our own papers, unfortunately, are now imitat- ing) to unload upon the Paris Temps and the French public a column of gush as having been uttered by the president of the American republic to | its ancient ally" France.
 MT Robineau has begun well on this idea. He has had himself described in tue newspapers here as "a type of the polished and scholarly French jour nalist." It is painful matter of fact, as the trial in the De Lesseps Panama canal bribery case abundantly proved,
 that the chief type of leading French journalists in Paris lies in successfully
 levying blackmail.
 l MT. Robineau, however, makes a spacious plea to show that the French
 people, as a body, are not hostile to the United States, but on the contrary
 have a traditional enmity against
 Spain. He points out that it was q
 Spanish woman, the countess of Mon- tijo, wife of Napoleon III, who in
 volved France in the disastrous war
 with Prussia. By the way, the simi-
 larity of names between that of the
 late French empress and the Spanish
 admiral whom Dewey so effectually
 doubled up, and whose name is vari-
 ously spelled Montijo, Montojo, and MontejO in the dispatches, suggests
 the possibility that he may be of the
 same family.
 MT. Robineau adds: Those who
 say there is French antagonism to the United States should visit some of the
 Parisian concert halls and see with
 what respect and even enthusiasm
 the American flag is received when ii
 appears in the course of the acts. Ii
 shows where the heart of the Frnnc-
 people is, and tells more than columns from the boulevard scribblers o1 Paris
 | MT. Robineau is much distressed be cause prominent firm in Cincinnati has decIlned to have anything further to do with the French exposition be- cause of the manifestations of French unfriendliness to the United States ! The state department officials can in form him, if they have not already done so, that the action of the Gin. cinnati people is but reflex of what
 is going on in all the leading cities of the United States. So far as Ameri- can representation is concerned, the Paris exposition of 1900 is bound to be
 failure, and the prospect of the in
 definite prolongation of a desultory
 war by Spain, with a view of at last enlisting European intervention makes the success of the enterprise in other countries more than doubtful. | This is another far reaching effect , of the war;
 H. CONQUEST CLARKE. | WILL TAKE HIS SPURS.