Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-02-20
SNEER AT the
new PRESIDENT
Loubet Has No Easy Task Gov
erning France.
HE IS OF HUMBLE ORIGIN
And Opposition Press Takes the Op-
pOrtunity to Malign HIM.
Integrity Unimpeachable


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 election with such hostile demonstra-
tiOns nor prosecuted by such an abusive
press. Loubet, like CassimirP Perier, was
the nominee, not of a mere coalition and
has the support of almost the entire re-
| publican party, but, like Cassmir-Perier,
| he is of sensitive temperament and reads
the newspapers containing gross libels on
his character, with passioned mind. The
editorials of the nationalist and the anti
Semitic press today almost Justify M.
Correlis article in Figaro in which the
French political arena is compared by
that facetious royalist to a den of hy-
enas. tigers and jackals.''
This morning the Presidents first i'm
pulse was one Of discoura cement, but in
spite of the noisy shouts of derislon,
which continue tonight, as merrily as
yesterday, it becomes hourly more appar-
ent that the masses of the people believe
! in Loubet and in the republic. The SER
ious papers like the Temps, the Journal
des Debats and the Lberte, come out
strongly in his behalf and this is also
the position taken by an overwhelming
majority of the newspapers throughout
the country especially in the south. Lou
bet enjoys the enormous advantage of
never having expressed any opinion on
the Dreyfus revision and his views on this
point are still unknown to his closest
friends. The conviction of those in the
presidents confidence, is, come what
may, that there will be no tlinching from
responsibility as was the case with Cas-
simir- -Perier.
Millevoye's Patrie, Drrumort's Libre
Larole 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 Gaulos
INDUCES in sneers at the presidents hum
BILE origin and rustic habits and draws
the following picture of Loubets home
life:
1T is true that Loubet did not wear his
peasants sabots at his apartment in the
Luxem bourg 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 which
he Wore even during meals. While eat
ing, he tucks a corner Of his napkin IN
his shirt collar. His wife, who also comes
from the little town of Montelimar, neal
the Rhine, midway between Lyons and
NarselleS, is a good cook and knows how
to stew a rabbit better than anyone. A
strong dose of garlic invariably perfumes
the dishes in the Loubet household and
to remedy this, Loubet, who, IN the dia-
Iect of the country is called Loubette by
his wife, is in the habit of taking from
the rack one of his wel-cOlored pipes and
! Tt,,,.. ,t,- f,,1n1 "a
! floor. no matter what the quality of the
carpet may be. Nine. Loubet is a loqua-
. cious woman and a good hOusekeeper
She speaks with a strong southern ac-
cent. The new president Will be diff
cult pupil for NJ. Crozier, the chief OF
/ protocol. Louhet does not ride horse
back. so that Montjarret, the chief of the
presidential stables, will be disappointed
The ambassadors and especially the am
bassadors wives will not be bored at en-
tertainments at the Elysee with the pres
idents rural franllneSs and Nine. Lou
bets expansive humor. Above all, what
a treat this will be for the sovereigns the
imperial and royal princes and prln-
casses who may come to the exposition
! of 1900 All Europe at the Elysee. How
happy the good folk OF Mohteiiihaf VIII
be-"
,t Such is a fair example of the exasper-
ating articles which fill page after page
of the nationalist reactlonary press. Ihe
Natin publishes a detailed biography OF
the president and calls attention to Lou
bet being the first president of the repub-
lie except Theirs, who came from south
ern France The Matin adds that Loubet
has a marked southern accent and that
his mother,a venerable woman of 81 years
! lives on a farm near Montelimar and al
ways wears PEASANTS headgear.
| I.oubet is not wealthy. His fortune con-
! h in
feels convinced that Loubets honesty
and integrity are unimpeachable not
withstanding de Beaurepair's accusa-
tions of completely in protecting some of
his friends, from prosecution in the Pan
anna affair which is the only thing in his
: long career which his btterest enemies
, have been able to rake up against him.