The Savannah morning news., 1902-01-13
FRENCH CAMPAIGNON ON
,urR ROUSSEAU OPENS THE
RATTLE.
DEMOCRACY is ESTABLISHED.
or ROYALTY AND SHAM
- PATRIOTISM Is GONE.

:, Rousseau Reviews and Upholds
,-orL of His Ministry and Sets
.b the Position of the Govern
nd in the Coming Elections.
,,nce No Longer a Party to Fac
.,,r. and hc Reforms Instituted
w.. Hud sOIidifyinG Eject,
,,riug the Permanency of the
Republic.
9. Efcnne. sFrance, Jan. 12.-The
...rfns of the ministerial electorate
.,,oairn here to-day proved an un-
.oreed success. The weather was fine
and cold
s,n., Yesterday morning the capital
If tbe Loire has been filling with peo-
,,. from the surrounding districts, and
,,orous visitors from Paris and other
psrts of France.
Resides NJ. Rousseau, the French
,,smier. the ministers of war, marine,
.bo colonies and Commerce, were in
,,+endance. as were the principal mil
;,.rv and civil officials of the depart
nenL
To-day's ceremonies included visits
~ the hospital and other local insti-
tntions of st. Etienne, and the unveil-
inc of the statue to Marie Joseph
Francois GARNER, captain of the
French navy and an explorer, born
here in 1889, and whose efforts helped
"a obtain for France her colonial pos
SESSIONS of AMMAN and Tonkin, where
cant GARNER Wa aSsassinated in 1878
bv the BLACK Elags." The unveiling
Of This statue was made the occasion
for a great ovation to the
French premier and the other ministers
A reception by the delegates to the
labor and commercial organizations
followed
In the evening at banquet at the
prefecture offered the premier by the
republicans of the department of the
Loire. NJ Waldeck- Rousseau, replying
ia A. toast to his health, made his prin-
cipal speech of the day. In it he set
forth the position of the government
in view of the coming general cleo
tons
The speech took the form of a re-
view of the policy of the government
and the work of the present Legisla-
ture. It expressed the firm convic-
ton that the elections would result
in a victory for the republic and over
throw all the forces of reaction.
Not Like the Other Party.
The Premier said since the forma-
ton of his ministry the country had
acquired a security unknown for a
long time, and that it required an in
curable pessimisrn not to recognize that
the bad days had gone by. When the
cabinet took office, he said, the fac
lions of the party which regarded
France as it's own property and patri-
Otism as political industry, the sole
patent Of which il conferred upon it.
self, was preparing to usurp power by
the exercise of tyranny, and that
within the first year this tyranny was
succeeded by material and moral dis
order.
He recalled the sweeping Republican
victory in the municipal elections, and
said that the hour of action, instead of
defense had seemed to have arrived,
and that the government submitted a
programme of reforms. He said the
adoption of the law of associations had
marked step forward.
saved from Alcoholism.
Referring to the liquor legislation
which had resulted in a loss to the
treasury the premier said that the
transitory deceptions attributed to this
law were not too heavy a price to pay
for the suppression of alcoholism which
threatened the very existence of the
race.
Abiding to the naval programme of
France, the premier said that sub-ma-
nne boats the construction of which
was due to French genius, were calcu-
lated TO oVerturn the laws of naval
pre-eminence.
The premier spoke of the develop
ment Of the French African empire,
and said that the energetic action of
France in the far East had given
french influence d new authority.
The presence of the italian squad
ron at Toulon," said the prime minis
Ter had shown that we are capable
OF inspiring sympathies, and the pres
ence OF the Car at Bethony has shown
mat we are able to strengthen an alli-
ance and increase our strength In the
confidence she has succeeded in inspir-
llg' and in the spirit of equity which
sne has in all foreign relations. We
nave thus better served the interests
Or the country than by a policy of blus-
'er' which is more calculated to alarm
everybody than frighten any one"
i, me premier concluded by recalling
lne tactics of the adversaries of the
republic and in his peroration, said:
The Republic Is Supreme.
The twentieth century rises on. 1t
mas forever dispersed ruins of royalty,
UDileanism and empire, and French
tuemocracy is preparing to pass sem
ehce on the vain parodies and bad
,,orseres of sincere patriotism and on
'ne spirit Of revolution"
y, Al the conclusion of the banquet the
french Premier, who was accompanied
ny MS wife, took the train for Paris.
ne was enthusiastically cheered by the
moWd at the station. Good order was
maintained.