The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-02-18
EMILE LOUBET
THE FAVORITE
Will Probably Secure
the Presidency.
Copyrighted. 1899. by the Associated Press

Copyrighted, 1899, by the Associated Press.
PARIS, Feb. 17.-Everything is very
quiet in Paris to-day. There is no dan
ger Of coup d'etat. The favorite can
,didate for the Presidency is M. Emile
Loubet, now President of the Senate.
Still the Ministers whom I saw to-day
think that Faure's death is a misfor-
tune at the present juncture, and this is
the conventional talk. They had all
looked forward to his having soon to
resign, and they spoke to-day of the
possible effect of his death on the
courts of Europe.
If M. Loubet be elected European
sovereigns would soon transfer to him
their friendly regards. He is a good,
unaffected, level-headed man of honest,
open life and of far more intellectual
culture than poor Faure. He is an adj
vocate and practiced at the Montilemar
bar, in the department of the Drome.
Montilemar is his native town.
AS a precaution against a coup d'etat
or any attempts of the sort the troops
have been ordered to keep within bar
racks in all the garrisons.
M. Faure's body, now embalmed, is
the theater built by President Carnot
for. concerts and dramatic entertain
ments. The corpse is on an inclined
plane, the head being eighteen inches
higher than the feet. The body is
dressed in evening coat and the i'm
macuIate well-knoWn white Waistcoat,
athwart which is the broad red ribbon
of watered silk of the Legion of Honor.
The eyes are closed and fill out the eye
lids. The hands, of the color of ivory,
are crossed On the breast. The black
canopy, bordered with silver braid,
overshadows the couch. Previous to
embalming the body lay on brass
bedstead in the Presidents sitting
room. Two sisters of charity watched
beside it, Before the operation, which
lasted an hour, took place an informal
dead mass was celebrated in the Elysee
Chapel.
To-day the whole official world has
paid formal visits of coincidence at the
palace. the formality consisting in
writing the visitors name on the regis
ter. Piles of kilograms from corporate
bodies. personal friends, sympathizers
in all parts of France, and indeed Eu-
rope and even Asia, have arrived. The
first 20 telegraph to Nine. Faure was
Emperor William; the next Prince
Ferdinand of Bulgaria. The army has
been ordered to go into mourning until
after the obsequies.
Public events in France have a
strange suddenness and take sponta-
neously a dramatic character. Thus
NJ. Faure's body lies in a SALES des
fetes, or hall of festivities. The cards
had been issued to 5000 persons to at
tend a state ball next Thursday. To-
day the tapestry of the ballroom has
been taken down that the room may be
hung in black. M. Faure had looked
forward with delight to the Elysee be-
ing in 1900 the resort of sovereigns.
The last letter he had from Emperor
Nicholas was an acceptance of his IN.
Faures) invitation. He took great
pleasure, also, in thinking that mem
bership in the Order of the Annuncia-
ton would make him a cousin" of
King Humbert, and the insignia of that
order was to have been presented to
him by a special embassy this month.
But his soul was suddenly required of
him, and all connected with his Presi-
Dental career is over. His death
breaches a sermon upon the vanity of
human ambition.
M. Lockroy, the Minister Of Marine.