Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-06-01
Is IDOL OF
the FRENCH.
Major Marchand's Trip to the
Capital
;
HIS SPEECHES At TOULON
In Which He Arraigned the Govern
ment Caused a Sensati0n..Pen
Picture Of the Man.
HIS SPEECHES At TOULON

Chicago Tribune from Paris says:
Major Marchand's speech at Toulon
has fallen like a bomb. Marchands 8
previous attitude and his frequent pro-
testations of loyalty to the government
gave no indications of his intention to
lash the government for the evacuation
Of Fashoda. The speech is regarded as
seditious. Here is the discriminating
phrase, spoken in reference to the
evacuation Of Fashode:
Seeing what a state Of division our |
country is in over an affair of which
need not speak we comprehend that
France could not make the supreme ef-
fort. We felt that our country could not
make a proud. energetic reply. Ten cen
turies Of history have taught her that
peace was the instant question. Happily
peace was maintained, but believe can
say that Of that sort of peace there had
better not be too much in France in the
same century,
AS a result of Marchands speech a
group Of city councilmen today asked
that plans for the grand reception to
Marchand at the Hotel De Vile be coun-
termanded. The prefect of police has
forbidden anyone inside the station to-
morrow to meet the hero save the OFF,
cials who must be provided with special
permits.
| Paris, June 1.-(Copyrghted, 1899, by
the Associated Press).-The French love
heroes: Some millions of them look out
| for a hero as the Jews look out for a
| Messiah. They are inclined to regard
Marchand as such man and he has
| many qualities BETTING the character.
| The government is taking care not to
| let Marchand be gobbled by a national
| list. The director of the railway ter
minus, where he will arrive in Paris to-
day. has accordingly been instructed to
exclude all persons from the station and
only to admit the representatives of the
/ ministers of the colonies, Of marine, of
! the military governor of Paris, of the
| army and navy club, whose guests the
i Marchand mission will be during their
stay in Paris.
Marchand made two speeches at TOu-
lion. They were short and to the point.
They had the ring of sincerity and will
enhance his popularity One will make
him the ideal of the non-commissioned
:. officers, he having in justice to those of
;, his mission, paid tribute of admiration
) that must crafty the whole class Mar
chand is regarded by emotional people
as the victim of parliamentary repubi-
canism and doubtless he thinks so him.
) self. He is to meet with unusual honors
today at the ministry of marine, where
he is to enter by the grand door opening
on the Rue Royale and to be received
at once by the minister, NJ. Lockroy.
After an hours conversation he will be
the chief guest at luncheon given in
his honor. The other guests will be vice
admirals, generals of marine, divisions
of marines, artillery, the minister of
} colonies, M. Guillain, and senators and
deputies prominently connected with
) marine and colonial affairs.
The medal which Mosiers tore from the
government in the chamber of deputies,
will be presented at dessert. M. del Casse.
} the foreign minister, once said to Sir
Edmund Munson. the British ambassador
! to France: There is no Marchand
mission" But on the medal is the in
; scription '"rhe Marchand mission; from
the Atlantic to the Red Sea, 1898 to 1899. -
The government in promoting Marchand
from captain to major refrains from
} speaking of the March on the Nile This
. prick" on Queen Victoria. From the
, Atlantic to the Red Sea" includes the
Nile.
The acquittal Of de Roulede and Mar
cel-Habert is made to seem a slap in the
face for the president De Roulede is
popular because he is the author of
Songs of Soldier and is thought to
be disinterested patriot. His counsel
( Maitre Falateuf, with great art, is con-
D stantly dragging in NJ. Loubet as Pana-
) maist. This drift was to find in the
y presidential election an excuse for de
q Roulede's call upon General Roget to
o march on the Elysee. A deeper reason
0 was to inflict blow on the republic and
s especially upon the president. who in
= sists that the government must not
y meddle with the Dreyfus case, but must
5i leave it to the court of cessation.
oil EMILY CRAWFORD.
0 Paris. June IA great concourse OF
. ! people assembled at the railway station
= today to welcome Major, Marchand, the
African explorer. At 9:1O a. m. q ire.
4 inendous shout announced the arrival Of
II the popular idoi's train. A carriage lit
orally covered with flowers and tricolored