New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-02-18
FAVORABLE TO CAvAIGNAC.

IN my opinion. the best man the republic
couId mt 10 the front would be Cavaignac, al
u.avs hearing in mind that neither Zurnden
nor lamont nor any general would care to per-
sonify an atheist republic about which there
is such strange fatality. for no President mas
been able 10 live quietly through the seven
years Of office prescribed by the Constitution
Il sympathze deeply with Nine Faure ana
the family but Felix Faure leaves his country
IN far worse condition than he found IT, and TINS
is entirely his own fault. The imperial acco-
ladies' that he received had completely turned
his head. and such religious and Roman Catholic
er1blems as the Golden Fleece and the Annon-
Glade did not extinguish his ambition as Free
Mason"
Georges Clemenceau. VIXEN asked by The Trib-
mes correspondent what effect the death Of
FAlix Faure would have on the revision Of the
Drevfus trial said that he made It rule never
70 state his IDEAS in the form Of an interview,
but in the course Of conversation # was ap-
narent that he felt convinced that II NJ Dupuy
or any one known 10 be equally opposed to re-
vision were elected It would. to use Clemen-
ceau's own words. mean civil war throughout
France.
CONVINCED OF A BONAPARTE PLOT.
NJ Clemenceau felt convinced that the Bona
d'4tat. and had secured a large military follow
ing TO back them up but that the suddenness
of President Faure's death had taken them by
s,,rprise and completely disconnected all their
plans
ClAmenceaus outlook FOR the immediate future
- tho renublic was most despondent and Cas-
sandra-like.
After a long conversation with him IT was
-auof 70 talk with NJ Ribot. who Prime
Minister AT the outset Of President Faure's
Presidency and who perhaps comes nearer to
American ideas Of true and stanch, yet conserva-
five republicanism than any living Frenchman.
n Rihot felt absolutely confident that the re-
rublic had no serious danger to fear from the
Bonapartists much less from Royalists. whom
NJ Ribot considered practically dead as a poAt-
ical factor in the France Of to-day.
P7RoT,s VIEWS MORE CHEERFUL.
n Rihot. who received The Tribunes CORE
erorder, in his spacious and somewhat austere
anartment in the Rue Tournon, near the Latin
+ Quarter. overlooking the Senate. said:
..you NAV assure your countrymen that there
60 no need 10 despair Of the French Republic
IN spite Of the noisy but empty threats that
one hears everywhere. France is at heart thor
oupblv republican and will remain so. French
4 parliamentary ways may not always coincide
. with American methods Of settling home affairs,
hut denend upon H. the ultmnte outcome Will
b, in accordance with the principles Of our
Revolution which in substance are those OF the
American Revolution"
NJ CAMBON'S DEPARTURE DELAYED.
Among the prominent Frenchmen who may
be counted among the late Presidents warmest
and truest friends is NJ. Jules Cambon, whose
views I'm regard 20 the present situation are be-
lieved closely TO resemble those 0f NJ Ribot NJ.
Carnbon is v!sibly and deeply afflicted by Presi-
dent Faure's death the news Of which was COM
nunicated TO him at midnight by a special mes
senger from the Elysee NJ. CambOn had al
ready sent his trunks on board the Transatlantic
liner Nornandie. intending to leave Paris to re-
s,r,e his most AZ Washington He has now de-
cded to delay his departure until next week.
General Horace Porter. the American Am
bassador here. who arrived in Paris last night
from Rome. was among the first callers this
morning at the Palace to express his sympathy
General Porter will also be present at Versailles
Tomorrow al the National Assembly 10 witness
the election Of a new President
No picture Of the situation in Paris is COM
. nlete without the views ~ such stormy petrels
as Lucien Mnlovoye the aggressive Nationalist
and Henri Rochefort, the prince Of Socialists
NJ Mileyoye makes an open bid for a military
dictatorship and with Rochefort and Cassashac
ia summarizing Cavaignac. the former Minister OF
War for the Presidency Both MllleVoye ana
Rochefort denounce the Republic with the most