Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-02-18
the FUTURE
Different Views of the French
Statesmen.
LOUBET IS NOW PRESIDENT
The Voting Took Place Today and He
Was Chosen by Large
Majority Over Meliue
L0UBET IS NOW PRESIDENT

New York, Feb. 1S-A disnatch TO tho
tribune from Paris says: Now that the
first emotion and surprise caused by the
sudden death of Felix Faure has passed
away there is, contrary to all expectation,
not the slightest trace of agitation or OF
political excitement on the part of the
public. Even the sadness that charac-
terized the crowds at the news of the
death OF President Carnot is absent The
/ apparent indifference of Parisians at the
loss of the president of the French re-
public strikes many close observers with
amazement and is interpreted by the
Bonapartists, the royalsts, as an indica-
tion that the people are tired of repub-
lie and would welcome a change in the
| regime.
Such is the view most emphatically eX-
pressed this afternoon by Paul de Cas-
| sagnac, who, in a conversation, in the
lobby of the chamber of deputies. re-
marking to the Tribune's correspondent
said:
| This seeming haste by the republicans
! is due to reign of apprehensions caused
1 by the aptitude of the people toward
rioting. The demonstration that has
/ nightly been taking place at the Nouvedu
theater in the patriotic drama, Roi de
Rome may soon be transferred to the
streets of Paris. A plebescite would
prove that the French people and the
/ French army were united and true to
! Napoeonic traditions"
When asked whether he considered the
moment ripe for Prince Victor to act and
place himself at the head of his follow
ers. M. Cassagnac replied
THAT is more than / can say; at all
events until we know whom the republi-
cans will choose for their president"
This was interpreted by those who
overheard the conversation as an adms-
sion that the Bonapartists are by no
means prepared for a coup d'etat, which,
owing to recent tampering with officers
of the army of all grades effected by the
patriotic league at alleged imperialistic
instigation is causing great uneasiness
to those republicans who still believe
that the army should be subordinated to
the civil authority. When urged to eX-
press an opinion of the likely candidates
for the presidency, M. Cassagnac re-
piled:
with the exception of Deschanel, the
president of the chamber, all the repub-
| lican candidates are extinct volcanoes.
Loubet has not a spark of energy or vim
left. He was, in fact, born an old man.
There is de Freycinent. He is a man
who lost his opportunity years ago but
he might serve as a sort of milk and
water compromise In my opinion, the
best man the republic could put to the
front would be Cavaignac, always bear
ing in mind that neither Zurinden nor
lamont nor any general would care to
personify an atheist republic, about
! which there is strange fatality for no
president has been able to live quietly
through the seven years of office pre-
scribed by the constitution.
Il deeply sympathize with Nine Faure
and the family but Felix Faure leaves
his country in far worse condition than
he found it and this is entirely his own
fsut. The imperial accolade that he re-
/ ceived had completely turned his head
and such religious and Roman Catholic
e,ablems decreased his ambition in the
direction of Free Masonry"
George s. Clcmenccau, when asked by
the Tribune correspondent what the ef-
feet of the death of Felix Faurc would
have on the revision of the Dreyfus trial
said he made it a rule never to state his
IDEAS in the form of an interview, but IN
the course of conversation, it was appar-
ent that he felt convinced that if M.
Dupuy or anyone known to be equally
opposed to revision were elected, 1t
wouId. in Clemenceau's words, mean civil
/
felt convinced that the Bonapartists had
firmly resolved to attempt coup d'etat
and had secured large military follow
ing to back them up, but that the sudden
ness of President Faure's death had
taken them by surprise and may COM
n1etnly disconcert their plans. Clemen-
ceau's outlook for the immediate future
of the republic was most oeSpohueh' anu
Cassandra-like.
Aftar a long talk with him it was a re-
,;of ia talk with NJ. Ribot, who was prime
,,irieter at the outset of President
Eaure's presidency and who, perhaps,
comes nearer 20 American ideas of true
and staunch, yet conservative republi-
caniem than any living Frenchman. M.
Pihot felt absolutely confident that the
,arublic had no serious danger to fear
!. frnrn the Bonapartists, much less from
rovalists whom M. Ribot considered
pra ractically dead as a political factor IN
The France of today. NJ. Ribot, who re-
caived the Tribunes correspondent in his
| snaciOus and somewhat austere apart
ntents in the Rue Tournon near the Latin
, quarter. overlooking the senate said:
,"You may assure your countrymen
lthat there is no need to despair of the
| French republic. In spite of the noisy but
ennty threats that one hears everywhere,
Erancc is at heart thoroughly republican
ard will remain so. French parliament
torv ways are not in accord with Ameri-
. can ways of settling home affairs but de-
i mend upon it, the ultimate outcome will
he in accordance with principles Of our