The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-02-21
THEY JEER At LOUBET
Partisan Newspapers Heap In
dignities Upon His Head.
SC0RN HIS HUMBLE ORIGIN
Gaulois Speaks Sneeringly OF Frances
New Executive and Likens Him Unto
Peasant-Political Arena Like
"Den OF Hyenas and Tigers


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-
tons nor prosecuted by such an abusive
press. Loubet, like Cassimir-Perier, was
the nominee not of mere coalition and
has the support of almost the entire re-
publican party, but, like Cassimir
Perier, he is of sensitive temperament
and reads the newspapers containing
gross libels on his character, with pas
stoned mind. The editorials of the ma
tionalist and the anti-Semitic press to-
day almost justify M. Cornelis article
in Figaro, in which the French political
arena is compared by that facetious roy
alist to den of hyenas, tigers and
jackals"
This morning the presidents first i'm
pulse was one of discouragement, but in
spite of the noisy shouts of derision,
which continue tonight as merrily as
yesterday, it becomes hourly more ap-
parent that the masses of the people
believe in Loubet and in the republic.
The serious 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 All
overwhelming majority of the news
papers throughout the country, espe
cially in the south. Loubet enjoys the
enormous advantage of never having
expressed any opiEic.. on the Dreyfus
revision and his views on this point are
still unknown to his closest friends.
The conviction of those in the presi-
dents confidence Is, come what may,
there will be no fiinching from respon-
sibility, as was the case with Cassimir-
Perier
Millevoye's Patrie, Drumort's Libre
Parole, 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 eau
lois INDUCES in sneers at the presidents
humble origin and rustic habits, and
draws the following picture of Loubet's
home life:
1T is true that Loubet did not wear
his peasants sabots at his apartment In
the Luxembourg palace, where he re-
sided as the president of the senate,
but when he came home he always took
off his shoes and put on pair of felt
slippers, which he wore even during
meals. While eating he tucks corner
of his napkin in his shirt collar. His
wife, who also comes from the little
town of Montelimar, near the Rhine,
midway between Lyons and Marseilles,
is good cook and knows how. to stew
a rabbit better than any one. A strong
dose Of garlic invariably perfumes the
dishes in the Loubet household and to
remedy this Loubet, who, in the dialect
of the country, is called Loubette by
his wife, is in the habit of taking from
the rack one of his well-colored pipes
and smoking it, expectorates freely on
the floor, no matter what the quality
of the carpet may be. Nine. Loubet is
loquacious woman and a good house
keeper She speaks with a strong
Southern accent. The new president
will be difficult pupil for M. Crozier,
the chief of protocol. Loubet does not
ride horseback. SO that Montjarret,
the chief of the presidential stables,
will be disappointed. The ambassadors
and especially the ambassadors wives,
will not be bored at entertainments at
the Elysee with the presidents rural
frankness and Nine. Loubet's expansive
humor. Above all, what a treat this
will be for the sovereigns the imperial
and royal princes and princesses who
may come to the exposition of 1900. All
Europe at the Elysee! How happy the
good folk Of Montelimar will be!'
Such is a fair example of the exas-
pcrating articles which fill page after
page of the national reactionary press.
The Matin publishes detailed biogra-
ply of the president and calls attention
to Loubet being the first president of the
republic. except Theirs, who came from
Southern France. The Matin adds that
Loubet has marked Southern accent
and that his mother. venerable wo-
man of 81 years, lives on farm near
Montelimar and always wears a peas
ants headgear.
T,oubegt is not wealthy His fortune
consists of only $4,000 or $4,000. The
public feels convinced that Loubets
honesty and integrity are unimpeach-
able Notwithstanding de Beaurepaire' s
accusations of completely in protecting
some of his friends from prosecution in
the Panama affair, which is the only
thing in his long career which his bit
terest enemies have been able to rake
up against him.
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