The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-07-22

same and Grignan, where the president spent part of his youth and where his
 brother now practisec as doctor.
 The presidents line in politics is that of the moderate republican element.
 He has been closely associated with
 Jules Ferry Moline and Floquet, and
 with the men who established the re- public of September f. His political
 views have not changed. They remain
 genuinely republican, without any ten-
 dency to extreme views. They have
 been consistently maintained by him
 both as a private individual under the empire, and afterwards under the re- public, and in his official capacity as
 minister in the Trade cabinet-when he vigorously opposed Boulangism-as well as subsequently, when he co-opera-
 ted in the senate with Freycinet and
 Ribot, and with Rouyier, who is work | ing with him to-day. His main lines
 as an active politician consists in the I close study of economic questions and a vigilant attention to administrative affairs. M. Loubet is protectiontst, | but not or such pronounced type as M. Moline. In 1895 he delivered a great speech on financial reform, which re- mains a striking example of Well-rea- soned appeal for economy. At the
 same time it afforded the French peo- l pie the satisfaction and encouragement of assuring them that on the whole their finances were well managed.
 M. Loubet is great reader. but
 chiefly of serious technical matter. He I Is a hard worker. He rises at or 6:3O I a. m. and generally retires to rest at I half-past ten. He begins the day by reading a number of the principal I morning papers representing different political parties and groups. In that respect he differs from most other I heads of states, who merely read the
 summaries prepared for them. The fol- I lowing are the newspapers placed be- | fore the president every morning: The I Moderate Republican Republique Fran caise the Socialist Petite Republique. i the Echo de Paris, an Opposition organ
 noted for it's social intelligence; the
 Radical Lanterne, the Anti-Senitic Li- bre Parole, the Anti-CIerical and Rad- ical Aurore, the Matin, the Journal, the T Petit Parisien, the favorite organ of the
 urban working classes, the Petit Jour nal, the most popular and important of the Nationalist newspapers.
 At i1alf-past eight in the morning M. l Loubet, accompanied by his secretary and an officer, takes walk on the lBoulevards, in the Champs Elysees. or J in the Rue de Rivoli, returning at ten.
 The interval between that hour and Luncheon is occupied with audiences
 which have been arranged in advance. tEvery afternoon he takes an hours drive in the Bois. It is during the af-
 ternoon that the president receives pol iticians and ministers in non official
 audiences. At seven he dimes en Ia [mille, and usually spends the remainder
 of the evening with his wife and chtl- dren. The dinner is not very elaborate;
 M. Loubet is not great eater. He is
 a confirmed smoker. The president has two sons and one daughter. The eldes1
 son, a lawyer practising in Paris, t twenty-nine years of age. Int younger brother is a boy of eleven, Wht : has acquired a, fair knowledge of Eng fish from an English governess It t only in the evening that the presiden , is alone with his family, as he always 1. lhas a number of guests at luncheon . | His intimate friends ore his old politica ]; associates. Mfne Loubet takes no par : lin politics, occupying herself exclusive , Ny with her family affairs, with work ! of charity, and with her salon. London } Times Paris Correspondence
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