The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-02-18
L0UBET FOR PRESIDENT
He Appears to Be the Favorite
Candidate.
NO DANGER OF A COUP
The Fashoda Incldsn the Indirect Cause
OF Faure's Death-Political Parties
Calm-A Desire to Select
the Best Man.

Paris, Feb 1I.-Everything is quiet in
Paris tonight. There is no danger Of
a coup detat. The favorite candidate
for the presidency is NJ Emile Loubet,
president of the senate. Still, ministers
whom saw to-day think Faure's death
Is misfortune at the present juncture
and this is the conventional talk. They
had all looked forward to his resigning.
and they spoke to-day of the possible
effect of his death on the courts of Eu-
| rope.
Ii NJ. Loubet be elected European
sovereigns would soon transfer to him
their friendly regards. He is a good,
unaffected, level-headed man, of honest,
| open life and far more intellectual cul-
| ture than poor Faure He is an advo-
cate and practiced at the Montilemar
bar, in the department of the Drone
| Montilemar is his native town. As a
| precaution against coup d'etat or any
| attempts of the sort. the troops have
been ordered to keep within barracks in
all the garrsons.
M. Faure's body, now embalmed, is
lying in state in the SALES des fetes of the
theater built by President Carnot for
| concerts and dramatic entertainments.
| The corpse is on an inclined plane. the
head being Is inches higher than the
| feet. The body is dressed in evening
coat and the immaculate, well-known
white waistcoast, athwart which is the
broad red ribbon of watered silk of the
| Legion of Honor. The eyes are closed
and fill out the eyelids. The hands, of
| the color of ivy, are crossed on the
/ breast.
| The black canopy, bordered with silver
| braid, overshadows the couch. Previous
| TO embalming the body lay on a brass
| hedstead in the presidents sitting
| room. Two Sisters of Charity watched
beside it. Before the operation, which
! lasted an hour, took place, an informal
dead mass was celebrated in the Elysee
| chapel.
| To-day the official world has paid for
NAL visits of coincidence at the palace,
| the formality consisting in writing the
visitors name on the register. Piles of
| telegrams from corporate bodies, per-
sonal friends, sympathizers in all parts
OF France, and, indeed, Europe. and
even Asia, have arrived. The first to
telegraph ito 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
strange suddenness and take spontane-
ously dramatic character. Thus NJ
Faure's body lies in a sale des fetes, or
hall of festivities. NJ. Faure had looked
forward with delight to the Elysee be-
ing in 1900 the resort of sovereigns, The
last letter he had from Emperor Mich
olas was an acceptance of his (Faure's)
invitation. He took great pleasure also
IN thinking that membership in the Or
der of Annunciation would make him a
cousin of King Humbert and the in
sigma of that order was to have been
presented to him by special embassy
this month. But his soul was suddenly
required of him and all connected with
his presidential career is over. His
death breaches a sermon upon the van
ity of human ambition.
Nj. Lockroy, the minister of marine,
is especially struck with the example
M. Faure's death gives of the fragility
of human greatness Twice yesterday
he communicated with the president on
naval affairs M. Faure, as a former
ship agent and charterer at Havre, and
once himself minister of marine, deem
ed himself naval authority. His
naval hobby was a fleet of corsair
cruisers to attack. in case of war, En-
glish transatlantic steamers NJ. Lock
roy humOred him and often consulted
him. and now he cannot 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 prep
arations for festivity by the deepest
mourning also comes home to Lockroy.
Some fatality follows the president Of
the French republic. OF the six we
have had only President Grevy lived
through full term of office, and he
was forced to resign by hostile vote
of parliament. Marshal MacMahon
found he could not remain president
with dignity. NJ. Casmir- -Periers mo-
tives for throwing up the situation are
still mystery. Carnot was assassin
ated and Faure smitten as if by a
thunderbOt.
NJ. Lockroy, who was present at the
death. thinks it was painless. Dr.
Lanne-Longue shares this opinion, but
believes there was in the early stages
or or apoplectic seizure agonlzing pain.
The doctor attributes the break down |
in the presidents health to Fashoda, |
and thinks the consequent anxiety used |
up his energy. President Faure had |
fostered the scheme Major Marchand |
was sent to accomplish. and he was |
terrified at its possible consequences. |
DR.. Lanne-Longue tells me that after |
the Fashoda incident NJ. Faure lost |
his appetite 1t was then he began
to feel so limp in the legs that he could |
not ride on horseback. Yesterday the |
feeling of lameness was so keen that |
ne gave up the idea of canter in the |
Bois de Boulogne. He usually went |
there between s and 10 o'clock in the |
morning, mounted on thoroughbred. |
He was fond of going to small morn |
ing reviews at Longchamps and of !
taking up a position beside the review |
ing general
| have been to see the Able Renault,
who gave NJ. Faure absoluton in ex-
tremis. Nine Faure, on seeing that
death was Fastening, begged that mes
sengers should be sent to summon three
different priests and Dominican. All
The priests, she thought, would not be
lut dining. the Dominican would sure
y be at his monastery. She also beg
sed that II any messenger met priest
n the streets he should bring him at
1nce to the Elysee. Able Renault is
he humblest of the humble, being
chaplain to the house of detention, or
ock-up at the prefecture of police.
Yesterday he had dined with some rel
atiVes who have small shop in the