The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-02-18
Premier Dupuy Orders the Assembly
to Meet to Elect q Successor.
EMILE lOUBET HAS BEEN NOMINATED
Everything Points to His Being Elected
Without Any Opposition.
DUpuY AND MELlNE HAVE BOTH WITHDRAWN
Condolences from All Nations Are
Pouring In-Strnnge Fatality TINT
Follows the French Presidents.

tCopyrighted, 1899. by Associated Press.)
| Paris, February 17.-Everything Is very
quiet in Paris tonight. There is no danger
OF coup detat The favorite candidate
for the presidency is NJ. Emile Loubet'
! now president of the senate. Still the
ministers whom / saw today think that
Faure's death is misfortune at The
present juncture and this is the conven-
tional talk. They had all looked forward
to his having soon TO resign and they
spoke today OF the possible effect OF his
death on the courts of Europe. II Nj.
Ionbet is elected European sovereigns
would soon transfer to him their friendly
regards. He is "a good, unaffected, level
headad man of honest, open life, and
Of far moro intellectual culture than poor
Faure. He is an advocate and practiced
at the Montilemar bar, in the department
of 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. Today the
whole official world has paid formal Wis
its of coincidence at the palace, the for
maIity consisting in writing the visitors
name on the register. Piles of kilograms
from corporate bodies, personal friends,
sympathizers in all departments OF France,
and indeed Europe, and even Asia, have
arrived The first to 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 strange
suddenness and take spontaneously OF a
dramatic character. Thus NJ. Faure' S
bo3ysasessin a sale dos fetes, or hall of
festivities The cards had been issued
to 5000 persons TO attend state ball next
Thursday. Today the tapestries OF the
ball room have been taken down and the
| room hung in black. NJ. Fuure HAD looked
forward with delight TO the Elysee bong
| in 1900 the resort of sovereigns The
| last letter he had from Emperor Nicholas
| was an acceptance of his On. Faure's)
invitation He took great pleasure also
| in thinking that membership in the Order
| Of the Annunciation would make him
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 suddeni!
required of him and all connected with
his political career is over. His death
breaches a sermon upon the vanity o
human ambition.
NJ Lockroy, the minister of marine, Is
especially struck with the example NJ.
! Faure's death gives of the fragility of hui
man greatness. Three times yesterday
1 he communicated with the president o.
naval affairs. NJ. Faure was Il former
| ship agent and charterer at Havre, ant
being once himself minister OF marine
| deemed himself a naval authority. Hil
naval hobby was a feet of Corsair cruis
ers TO attack, in case of war English
| transatlantic steamers. NJ. Lockroy hu
| mored him and often consulted him, an,
now he can not realize that the presiden
is no more He says he feels as he cnc'
did during an earthquake. The total
eclipse of the Elyaian preparations for
festivty by the deepest mourning also
comes home to Nj. Bockroy.
Some fatality follows the presidents o
The French republic OF six only Prasi
dent Grevy lived through term Of othce
| and he was forced to resign by hoslii'
vote of parliament.
Marshal MacMahon found he could no
remain president with dignity
M. Casimlr- Perier's motives for throw
| ing up the situation are still a mystery
| Carnot was assassinated, ana faure hmit
! ten as If by thunderbolt.
| NJ. Lockroy, who, was present at tn
DEATH thinks 1t was painless. ~
DR.. lame Tongue shares this opinion
but believes that there was. in the earl!
stages OF apoplectic seizure. agonizini
pains. The doctor attributes the break
| down In the presidents health to Fashoda
| and thinks the consequent anxiety uset
| up his vitality. NJ. Faure had fosteret
| the scheme Major Marchand was sent Z
| accomplish and he was terrified at Its pos
! sible consequences.
Or. lame Tongue tells me that afte
the Fashoda incident NJ. Faure lost hi
appetite. 1t was then he began 10 Zee
limp in the legs, that he feared TO rid'