The Topeka state journal., 1899-02-20
New Models.
LOUBET EATS GARLIC
And Splts on the Floor, Says the
Gaulois.


New York. Feb. 2O.-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 demonstrations nor prosecuted
by such an abusive press. Loubet, like
Casimir-Perier, was the nominee not
of mere coalition and has the support
OF almost the entire Republican party.
But, like Casimir-P Perier, he is of a SEN
sitive temperament and reads the news
papers containing gross HbelS on his
character, emphasized by exhOrtations
to violence. The ferocity of the nation
alist and the anti-Semitic press today
almost justifies NJ. Cornely's article in
Figaro, in which the French political
arena is compared by the facetiOuS roy
allst to a den of hyenas, tigers and
jackals.'
This morning the presidents first i'm
pulse was one of encouragement, but
in spite of the noisy shouts of De ROu-
ledes and Millevoyes, professional pa
triots, which continue as merrily as yes
terday, it becomes hourly more appar-
ert that the masses of the people be-
ieve in Loubet and in the republic.
The serious papers, like the Temps
and Journal des Debats and the Liberte,
come out strongly in his behalf, and
this is also the position taken by an
overwhelming majority of the news
papers throughout the country. especi-
ally in the south Loubet enjoys the
expressed any opinion 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 that, come what
may, there will be no f1inching from
responsibility, as was the case with
Casimir-Perier.
Millevoye's Patrie, Brumont'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 Gaulois INDUCES
in sneers at the presidents humble or
igin and rusty habits and draws the
following picture of Loubet's home life:
his PEASANTS wooden sabots at his apart
ment in the Luxemborg palace, where he
when he came home he always took off
his shoes and put on a pair of felt slippers
eating he tucks a corner of his napkin in
his shirt e collar His wife; who , also
near the Rhine. midway between Lyons
and Marseilles, is a good cook and knows
one A strong dose of garlic invariably
perfumes the dishes in the Loubet house
the dialect of the country. is called Lou
from the rack one of his well coiored pipes
on the lloor, no matter what the quality
loquacious woman and a good house
ern accent
1.-The new president will be difficult
pupil for NJ. Crosier, the chief of protocol,
Loubet does not ride horseback, SO that
Mont Jarret. the chief of the presidential
stables, will be disappointed
The ambassadors and especially the
ambassadors wives will not be bored at
the entertainments at Elysee with the
presidents rural frankness and Mime. Lou
bets 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 exhibition of 1900.
All Europe at ElySee. How happy the
good folks of Montelimar will be-
Such is fair sample of the eXasperat-
ing articles which fill page after page of
the Nationalist reactionary press The
Matin 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 marked southern accent and that his
mother a venerable woman of "a, lives on
a farm near Montelimar and always wears
a peasants headgear.
consists of only $4,000 or $4,000 The pub
lie feels convinced that Loubet's honesty
and integrity are unimpeachable, notwith-
standing Quesnay de Beaurepaire's accu-
sations of completely in protecting some of
his friends from prosecution in the Pom
anna affair, which is the only thing in his
long career which his bittereSt enemies
have been able to rake up against him.