The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-02-18
NO COUP O'ETAT-
Emily Crawford Cables That
III. Faure's Death
Has Tended to Allay Political
Agitation At
THE FRENCH CAPITAL.
The Dead President Would
Soon Have Resigned
Under the Pressure of Circum-
stances Had He Lived.


Press.1
Paris. Feb. 18.-Everything is quiet
in Paris. There is no danger of a coup
detat. The favorite candidate for the
presidency is NJ. Emile Loubet, now
president of the senates Still the min
listers whom 1 saw today think that
Faure's death was a misfortune at the
present juncture, and this is conven-
tional talk. They had all looked for
ward to his having soon to resign; and
they spoke of the possible effect of his
death on the courts of Europe.
If NJ. LOubeG be elected European SOW
ere1gns would soon transfer to him their
friendly regard. He is a good, unaf-
fected, leveI-headed man, of honest,
open life, and far more intellectual cuI-
ture than poor Faure. He is an advo-
cate and practiced at the Montelimar
bar, in the department of Drome. Mon
telimar is his native town.
As a precautiOn against a coup d'etat
or any attempts of that sort, the troops
have been ordered to keep within bar
racks in all the garriSOnS
NJ. Faure'S body, now embalmed, is
lying in state in the Salles des Fetes of
the theater built by President Carnot
for concerts and dramatic entertain
mentS. The corpse is on an inclined
plane, the head being eighteen inches
higher than the feet. M. Faure's face
was greatly convulsed during the en-
balming operation, but recovered later
dressed in evening coat and the i'm
maculate, we'll known white waistcoat
athwart which is the broad red ribbon
of watered silk of the Legion of Honor.
The closed eyes fill out the eyelids. The
hands, the color of ivory, are crossed
on the breast.
The black canopy, bordered with sill
yer braid, oVerShadOwS the couch. Pre-
vious to embalment the body lay on a
brass bedstead in the presidents sit
ting room. Two Sisters of Charity
watched beside it. Before the opera
ton, which lasted an hour, took place,
informal dead mass was celebrated in
the ElySee chapel.
The whole of the world has paid for
NAL visits of coincidence at the palace,
the fOrmality consisting in writing the
visitors name on the register. Piles Of
kilograms from corporate bodies, per-
sonal friends, Sympathizers in all parts
of France, and, indeed, Europe and
even Asia, have arrived. The first to
telegraph Nine. Faure was Emperor
William, the next Prince Ferdinand of
Bulgaria. The army has been ordered
to go into mourning until after the OBJ
Sequies.
Public events in France have a
strange SuddennesS and take spontan-
eOusly a dramatic character. Thus NJ
Faure's body lies in state in a sales
des fetes, or hall of festivities. The
cards had been issued to six thousand
persons to attend a state ball next
Thursday. Today the tapestries of the
ballroom have been taken down that
the room may be hung in black. NJ
Faure had looked forward with delight
to the Elysee being in 1900 the resort
of SOVereignS. The last letter he had
from Emperor Nicholas was an accept
ance of his on. Faure's) invitation. He
took great pleasure also in thinking that
membership in the Order of the Annun-
citation 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 suddenly required of
him and all connected with his presi-
Dental career is over.
His death breaches a sermon upon the
vanity of human ambition.
M. Lockroy, the minister of marine
is especially struck with the example
NJ. Faure's death gives of the fragility
of human greatness. Twice Thursday
he communicated with the president on
naval affairs. NJ, Faure, as a former
ship agent and charterer at HaVre, and
once himself minister of marine, deemed
himself a naval authority. His naval
hobby was fleet of Corsair cruisers to
attack, in case of war, English trans
atlantic steamers.
NJ. Lockroy humored him and often
consulted him, and now he can't realize
that the president is no more. He says
he feels as he once did during an earth
quake.
The total eclipse of the Elysian pre-
parations for festivity by the deepest
mourning also comes home to Lockroy.
Some fatality follows the presidents of
the French republic. OF the six we have
had only President Grevy lived through