New-York tribune., 1902-09-08
SYnPA THY FOR PRESIDENT.
FRENCH STATESMAN SAYS ROOSEVELT
HAS CAPTURED THE GALLO HEART.

FRENCH STATESMAN SaIS hOoSILf
HAS CAPTURED THE GALLO HEART.
,special 10 The New-York Tribune by French Cahle)
Copyright. 1902: By The Tribune AssocationD
Paris Sent. Three chiefs Of state. President
Roosevelt. Emperor William and the Shah OF
Persia. have for the last few days fairly monopo-
liked public attention here. The tone of all the
French papers IS one Of genuine. unaffected
sympathy with President Roosevelt because Of
his accident This increases in proportion
full particulars Of the collision. which Thursday
formed prominent features on the front pages Of
all the Partisan journals. become known. Sew
eraI papers drew comparisons with a similar
accident that occurred TO Waldeck- Rousseau
when traulway car last spring smashed his
carriage infiicting contusions not unlike those
sustained by President Roosevelt. lie Petit
Journal" considers Roosevelt the most virile and
thoroughly typical American Of his time. Other
papers point out that the Pittsfeld motorman.
or "wattnan" as he is termed in French,
nearly accom- npIished what all the Spanish SOL
diers al San Juan Hill failed 70 do. lie Soleil"
says the reckless wattman has become ma
tional terror in France well in the United
States, and hopes the Presidential accident may
result in putting end in both countries 10
the immunity with which these twentieth cent
ury juggernaut drivers continue TO kill and
main.
Gable dispatches from New-York relate the
conversation between the President and the mo-
toruan. The former Is reported. after asking
the latter if he lost control of his car, say
ing: IF you did not it was a damned out
rage" This Anglo-Saxon expletive and other
rapid FIRE discharges Of Presidential language
which accompanied It serve q text for the
French papers to illustrate the high tempered,
manly personality of the American President.
The French people delight in strong, picturesque
individualities. and President Roosevelt. as
prominent statesman remarked to-day. has
quite captured the Gallo heart. and the en-
thusiasm with which they would prove it, If
ever President Roosevelt should come over here,
would surprise the Old as well the New
World
Another picturesque ruler elicits voluminous
comments in the French papers. France has
always had q warm corner in her heart for
Poland. Descendants Of Polish Immigrants
have won high places in the French diplomatic
service. Senkiewicz is regarded practically as
a French writer. His outspoken protests
against further Prussianizing of Poland have
fallen upon sympathetic ears. French COM
ments on Emperor Williams visit to Posen, his
review OF the army corps there and hisinvitations
to the Russian Governor of Warsaw and suite
OF Cossacks 10 witness the spectacle are looked
upon by the radical press as a continuation Of
Bismarck's cast iron policy of Gerrnanization.
lie Steele" and other radical papers draw con-
trast between the way England has governed
French Canadians, according them autonomy
and freedom, as recently set forth here so elo-
quently by Sir Wilfred Laurier, and the way
Prussia has ruled the Poles. attempting to
crush their language. national feeling, religion,
iaclas undo rla hoor
sian bureaucracy. In short. public opinion in
France strongly censures Kaiser Williams Po-
sen speech.
The Shah Of Persia with his sallow COM
plexion and long bristling nlustache affords
great amusement to Parisians by the way in
which he tries to battle his police escort by con-
stantly changing his route when out driving
and by his passion for taking snapshots with
his kodak at every conceivable Partisan Incl
dent The Shahs investure with the Order of
the Golden Fleece by Spanish special ambassa-
dors is looked forward to as a pageant of spec
tacular interest, and the friendly way in which
Mouzafer Ed Den welcomed Zador Khan. the
grand rabbi Of the Jews in France, and as
sured all Jews in Persian dominions of full
liberty and equality with MussuIman or other
religious sects, is warmly approved by the
French press, with the exception of one or two
characteristic protests from sectarian Jew
batting papers like Drumont's 'I.ibre Parole"
and the Nationalist "Patrie"
Brittany supplies further evidence OF the
priest ridden, sectarian character Of her be-
nighted peasantry by violent protests against
the erection of statue to commemorate Ernest
Renan at his native town of Treguier The Mu-
nicipal Council Of Treguier has reluctantly con-
sented to allow the statue to be placed opposite
the town hall. but this result was obtained only
by veritahle electoral campaign. The final vote
IL in favor Of the statue and 5 against it.
The minority insists that a transcription of its
protest shall be placed In the public archives
The resolutions read as follows:
First-1f Rsnan was great man of letters.
the philosophy he disseminated was demoraIiz-
ing, negative and sterile.
Second-His attitude was always unpatriotic,
especially during the German invasion
Third-Under each regime he was an obse-
quious courtesan to the power that happened
TO be uppermost We the undersigned, mu-
nicpal councillors. vigorously protest against
the glorihcafion OF his memory, and regard the
erecting Of his statue Treguier as an insult
to the religious conviction of our country.
c. l. B.