The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-02-21
vITUPERATION AND CALUMNY.
NJ. LOubet ~SIandered by the National
lists and Anti-Semites.

W. LOuDeI SlunueEeu Oy the NAtAOhhA~
lists and Anti-Semites.
NEW YORK, Feb. 20.-A dispatch to the
Tribune from Paris says: Never before has
a President of the French republic been
confronted from the very hour of his cleo
tion with such hostile demonstrations, nor
prosecuted by such an abusive press. Lou
bet, like Casimir-Per was the nominee
not of a mere coalition, and has the support
of almost the entire Republican party; but,
like Casimir-Perier he is of a sensitive tenn
permanent and reads the newspapers con-
tanning gross libels on his character, en-
phasized by .e~xhortations to violence. The
ferocity of the Nationalist and the anti
Semitic press to-day almost justified NJ.
Connely's article in Figaro, in which the
French political arena is compared by that
facetious royalist to a den of hyenas, tigers
and jackals,' but in spite of the noisy shouts
of the DerouledeS and Millevoyes, profess
sional patriots, it becomes hourly more ap-
parent that the masses of the people believe
in LOubet and in the Republic. The serious
papers like the Temps, the Journal des
Debats and the Liberte come out strongly
in his behalf and this is also the position
taken by an overwhelming majority Of the
newspapers throughout .he country, espe-
cially in the south. Loubet enjoys the
enormous advantage of never having ex-
pressed any opinion on the Dreyfus re-
vision and his views on this point are still
unknown to his closest frien13. The ccr-
viction of those in the Presidents confidence
Is that come what may. there will be no
tinching from responsibilities as was the
case with Casimir-Perier.
"MuleVoye'S Patrie, DrumontS Iibre
Parole. the Echo de Paris and the Eclair
contain the most violent articles that have
yet appeared against the head of the state.
Even the fashionable Gaulois INDUCES in
sneers at the Presidents humble origin and
rustic habits and draws the following pic
ture of Loubet's home life: 1t is true that
Loubet did not wear his peasants wooden
sabOts at his apartments in the Luxembourg
palace, where he resided as the president
of the Senate, but when he came home
he always took off his shoes and put on a
pair OF felt slippers, winch ne wore even
during meals. While eating he tucks a
corner of his napkin in his shirt collar. His
wife, who also came from the little town
of MonteIimar, near the Rhone, midway
between Lyons and Marseilles, is a good
cook and knows how to stew a rabbit better
than any one. A strong dose OF garlic in
variably perfumes the dishes in the Loubet
household, and to remedy this Loubet, who
in the dialect of the country, is called Lou
bet by his wife, is in the habit of taking
from the rack one of his well-colored pipes
and while smoking it, expectorates freely
on the floor, no matter what the quality OF
the carpet may be. Nine. Loubet is a
loquacious woman and a good ho~usekeeper
She speaks with a strong southern accent.
/ Inc new ETeSlQenI Will Ut d ullllCulC puplA
for M. Crosier, the chief Of protocol. Lou
bet does not ride horseback, so that Mont
jarrett, the chief of the presidential stables,
will be disappointed. The ambassadors and
especially the ambassadors wives will not
be bored by Entertainments at the Elysee
with the Presidents rural ~nkne and
Nine. Loubet's expensive humor. Above all
what a treat this will be for the sovereigns,
the imperial and royal princes and prin-
cesses who may come to the exhibition OF
1900. AL Europe at the Elysee. How happy
the good folk of Montelimar will be-
such is a fair example of the exasper-
ating articles which fill page after page OF
the Nationalist reactionary press. The
Matin publishes a detailed biography of the
President and calls attention to Loubet be-
ing the first President of the republic, ex-
cept Theirs, who came from southern
France. The Matin adds that Loubet has a
marked southern accent and thai his moth
err, a venerable woman Of eighty-four, lives
on a farm near Montelimar and Away
wears peasants headgear. Loubet is not
wealthy. His fortune consists of only $4,000
| or $50, 900. The public feels convinced that
Louhet's honesty and integrity are unim-
peachable, Notwithstanding Quesnay de
Beaurepaire's accusations of completely in
protecting some of his friends from prose
cution in the Panama affair, which is the
only thing in his long career which his
bitterest enemies have been able to rake up
against him"