The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-11-03
EUROPE POWDERS ANARCHY.
Buffalo Tragedy Deeper Lesson of
Terror Than Staying of a King.
BY Stephen Austin.


Copyright, 1901 by Stephen Austin.)
Paris, Oct. 27.-Now that the first
sensation of horror and scare" caus-
ed universally by the assassination of
President Mckinley has had time to
calm down, it becomes possible to es-
innate the probable effects of the crime
upon the tactics of the secret police
devoted to the protection of chiefs of
state. The writer happened to meet
the Paris chief of police on the very
day of the Presidents death. M. Coche-
fert declined to enter into any discus
sion of the great topic of the boule-
wards.
1T is awful. awful he said. ut will
make changes, no doubt, in our Euro
pean systems. We shall have to talk
of new measures; but cannot tell
what these may be-
When M. Cochefert is willing you
should have some information, but does
not wish to give it to you himself, he
turns you over to an irresponsible but
well-informed lieutenant, from whose
talk you may, unofficially, learn many
interesting things. That is just what
happened to me. I propose simply to
put down a few things which the su-
coordinate officer told me are among the
immediate probabilities resulting from
the Buffalo crime.
One word to commence with. This
crime has moved the European Police
far more than a European crime would
ever have done. And this for two rain
reasons.
You see" said NJ. Dupont chat is
not, hardly need say, the officials real
name)-'you see one might almost say
that it is the natural thing for a Flu
ropean executive to be assassinated. 1t
is probable that there is scarcely day
on which one or another of them is
not in danger of death by the bomb or
the knife or the revolver. It is in their
contract, as it were. But the Staying
of a President of the United States
takes us out of the ordinary run and
shows us that we are face to face with
a world wide upheaval of the under
currents, not against particular acts of
tyranny or against people who repre-
sent the old feudal idea of monarchy,
but against the very idea of govern
ment in itself. The United States sys-
TEN is recognized as the ne plus ultra
of liberty and of equal chances for ALL
1t immeasurably surpasses the liberty
and equality of France itself. We have
no official shake hands here, and
President Loubet is just as inaccessible
to the people as a Hohenzollern or a
Hapsburg. The militant anarchist
idea is shown up in all its horrors when
a President of a classic land of liberty
and democracy is not safe. Czolgosz
gives us a scare than Bresci and Luz
cheni could not inspire"
And, as learned from my informant,
this scare" C'frisson" is the express
sive French word used) made itself
particularly felt and will have par
ticular and very direct results in
the Immediate encourage of the
President. Madame Loubet though
personally a very courageous wo-
man, is too deeply attached to the
President not to have been exception
ally moved by this practical lesson in
the dangers that menace even Demo-
cratic executives. When the news from
Buffalo reached her at breakfast time
she became violently agitated, refused
70 eat and chung piteously 20 her hus-
band all day long unwilling TO let him
out of her sight. A shooting expedition
had been planned for the forest of
Rambouillet. but the guns were left UNI
touched ana the visitors invited from
the neighboring chateaux were dis
missed with excuses n was directly In
accordance with Madame Loubet's
wishes that the extraordinary precau-
lions taken az Dunklrk and Compiegne
during the Cars visit were set on foot.
Neither the Emperor nor the President
approved entirely 81 the rigid meas
ures adopted 10 prevent the enthusiast
ne public from getting within eye-shot
~ the heroes ~ the day But Madame
L0nbet managed 10 work both on N
Cfozler chief " the protocol, and on