The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1900-12-01

has become, for h moment at least,
the popular idol Of the French. His
triumphant progress northward
through the country from Marseilles to
Dijon has placed this beyond doubt.
He met with a tremendous reception
i'll each town along the route where
the train stopped, eliminating in
scenes of frenzied enthusiasm here
last evening.
The population Of Marseilles gathered
in thousands yesterday morning to es-
cort him to the railroad station and
gave him a rousing send-off, while at
Tarascon, Avignon, Valence, Lyons,
Macol and Dion the inhabitants who
crowded the railroad stations made
the rafters tremble with enthusiastic
shouts of "Vive Kruger" and "Vive las
Beers" The demonstration was all
the more significant because it shows
that the feIvid acclamations at a
settles were not merely an explosion of
exhuberance on the part of h warm
hearted and excitable populace of q
sunny cline, but sentiments shared
with even greater intensity by the
usually less demonstrating and colder
blooded Inhabitants Of the northern
provinces.
Anti-British houts.
The warmth of the enthusiasm in
creased instead Of decreasing, as might
reasonably have been expected from
the difference in character of the in
habitants of the provinces through
which Mr.. Kruger passed, but one Of
the most important phases OF the
demonstration was the turn 1t took
in an anti-British direction. The few
Englishmen whose ill-timed levity at
the Hotel du Louvre in Marseilles x
asperated the people in the streets,
never dreamed Of the serious conse-
quences of their act. They sowed the
wind and the English people are now
reaping the whirlwind. The news
of the supposed insult to Mr.. Kruger
seems to have spread across France
and at ell stations, but especially at
Lyons and Dion, shouts for the Beers
were mingled with loud cries Of "down
with the English" Indeed, at Lyons
the denunciations of the. English
drowned the shouting for the Beers.
This is a disturbing feature which Is
universally discussed. Fears are ex-
pressed that to-day's reception In
Paris may assume q character calcu-
lated to arouse the feeling of
Great Britain Against France
to such an extent as to result in UNI
pleasant relations between the W.
countries. The warmth of enthusiasm
reached in Marseilles raised the spirits
of Mr.. Kruger and his advisers to a
high pitch. The faces of DR.. Leyds,
MIR. Fischer and others, which. on the
eve of the arrival of Mr. Kruger, re-
vealed the anxiety they felt regarding
his reception, were yesterday lighted
up with happiness and condolences.
Evidently hope had revived in all that
his mission to Europe would be
crowned with success. Mr.. Fischer
spoke to MI. Kruger regarding the
visit Of the Boer ENJOYS to h United
States and told him Of the welcome
they had received there from the
American people. He expressed him
self grateful to know that SO many
Americans had expressed sympathy
with the cause of the T~ransvaal, add
ing that he. was not at all surprised to
learn this as he had expected all along
that the freedom-loving citizens of the
American republic would stand by the
Beers in the struggle to defend the
liberty which they had previously won
Tor themselves.