The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-02-19
THE RIGHT MAN ELECTED.
Emily Crawford's Sketch of the New
President

Emily Crawford's Sketch of the New
President.
| Copyright, 1899, by the Associated Press
Paris, Feb. 1S.-This election, by a
| single ballot and by Republicans only
is the greatest. Republican victory since
! Grevy's walk over the course.
The new president comes from part
of France where the Roman power has
lasted longer namely, Marsanhe, in the
department of the Drome. He gives the
impression of remote Latin origin and
| looks to be a solid, practical man, who
sees the facts of life just as they are.
As president of the senate, he has had
official and other experiences that viii
be useful to him as president of the
republic, but he is essentially a plain,
middle-claSS man, whose mind was
sharpened by his practice at the bar
in the provincial town of Montelimar,
in the south of France. He is most
popular, and every one at Montelimar
counts himself a personal friend of
Loubet who, as mayor. county council
Tor, deputy and senator, always acted
as the servant of the public.
Obliging TO his neighbors, he was as
accessible as General Grant or Lin
coin az ] was not less unpretending.
His thickset figure, massive and some
what Roman. though homely head, in
dicates a steady, sturdy character, who
can nail his colors to the mark, but
only fights when there is good occasion
He belonged, under the empire, to the
Republican party, then calling itself
Liberal. In 1870 he threw himself into
the national defense current and stood
by Gambetta- He was elected county
councillor in 1871, then mayor, and in
1876 was sent to the chamber of depu-
. he NJ m y on
and Martin, the historian.
According Theirs leadership, but IA
VOring the scheme to declare Grevy his
political heir and to reconcile Gambetta
with both, he seemed TO bide his time.
and was in no hurry to push for
ward.
MacMahon's government gave him
prominence in dismissing him from the
mayoralty of Montelimar in 1877, thus
exasperating the Drome Republicans.
NJ. Loubet at the legislative elections
in 1877 was triumphantly returned. His
subsequent candidatures were not op-
posed, and in 1885 he was returned by
Drome as a senator. In all these years
he was a useful deputy, chiefly work.
ing in the. committees. and speaking
little He was the intimate friend of
President Carnot and of NJ. Tirard and,
in 1883, the latter appointed him min
lister of public works, in which capaci-
ty he carried out a scheme to convey
the sewage of Paris into the st. Ger
main forest.
President Carnot asked LOubet in
1892 to form a cabinet, but it fell under
the weight of the Panama scandal, in
which some members, albeit not Doubet-
were implicated. This administration
Gervais squadron TO CronStadt, and
the visit of the court of Russia to the
flagship Magenta.
NJ LOubet was personally innocent of
but like Mn. Carnot and
Brisson, he thought the shelteTing of
he accused eXpedient. He has never
since filled other office, except the pres
dency Of the senate, to which he was
irst elected in 1896. He belonged to NJ.
Carnot's inDermost council, and his
wife was Nine. Carnot's best friend.
The president is thoroughly domestic /
md disiikes snowy society. He likes to |
spend his time at home, and is a great /
eader. He is not rich, nor does he /
.oVet wealth and honors. He is strong /
N financial questions. For many years /
le lived in an unpretentious fiat and |
lined off d white Oilcloth, instead of
His hands, figuratively |
peaking, are clean; but his beard and |
lothes are untidy. thus contrasting
With the late president.
NJ. Loubet, for having formerly, when
resnier, sent, jointly with the foreign
ecretary, NJ. Ribot, Admiral Gervais
0 Cronstadt. is persona grata to Rus
ia.
For three years as speaker in the
enate he lived in the palace of the Pc
It Luxembourg in much the same style
$ the president lives in Washington.
lie returned TO Paris from Versailles
MS afternoon by train. He is the first
resident who has done so. He ordered
n open carriage and pair to await him
t the station, instead of a carriage
nd four. He was well received by ire
lendous crowds. He arrived by day
ght, and had an escort of cuirassiers.
he entire absence Of haughtiness in his
azneanor was favorably remarked. NJ
oubet paid visit to Nine. Faure on
is way home. and saluted the corpse of
[. Faure.
Loubet is the right man in the right
lace.
The Importance of today's presiden-
al election for the welfare OF the
rench republic and the prestige of
rance abroad cannot be overestimated.
he issue taken was whether the law
lould be paramount or an irreSponsi-
G league-the league Of the French
theriand in the hands of clerical.
onarchial and military agitatOrs.
EMILY CRAWFORD {
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