Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-11-18

, power IL then centcred exclusively in
the hands of parliament. or OF the min
isters approved by vote Of parliament,
and subject TO overthrow whenever
their slightest action may be displeas-
Ing Aud since II Is parliament. and
parliament alone. which has the choice
OF the president. naturally the man
picked out is one who will not inter-
fere with the absolute power which has
thus developed unconstitutionally and
by force of precedent alone into the
hands OF senator's and deputies This
one fact would suffice 10 demonstrate
the superiority Of the American sys-
tom over the French.
SERIOUS RIVAL.
Armand Fallieres president Of the
senate. IS Doumers most serious rival
and he has the signal advantage OF be-
ing a man who would obey, and who,
though having wonderful political
prestige has never been guilty Of amy
sensational act In connection with any
thing. lie is "a years old and Is "A
lawyer, though he started IN politics so
early. when barely 90 that he had not
the time to practise seriously. When
Loubet from president Of the senate.
became president OF France I'm 1899.
Fallieres was elected his successor at
the head of the senate. and has been
reelected without opposition every
year 1t Is said that Loubet would like
TO see Fallleres the next president. and
it is on the strength OF this report
that a further rumor that of the presi-
dental elections being advanced has
been launched.
Regularly. the election should be held
In January one month before the eX-
pration OF Loubet's seven years and
there would then be two presidents for
80 days But general elections for the
senate are also to be held at the begin
ming OF January. and AS the prestige OF
Falicres would be considerably de-
creased We're he TO be returned With a
small majority to the senate and as, II
he We're to be defeated. which rs always
possible, he could not then be thought
Of for the presidency Of France, IL is
said that Loubet has considered the
adVisabilitv Of resignng IN December,
so that the presidential elections may
be over and done with before the end
Of the year and t'alliercs may have the
best possible opportunities.
LIST OF FAVORfTEs,
After Doumer and Falieres come
Brisson and Bourgeois in the list Of
favorltes Brsson Is so extremely adj
vanced and anti-Clerical that he would
appear to stand little more chance than
former Premier CombeS. the most I'M
popular man In France today but who
ls none the less busily intriguing 20 get
around the members Of parliament so
as to reach the Elysee. Briss0n, how
ever, who is now 20 years old. has run
before with no little credit. at the pre-
liminaries for the 1887 election he
thrice in succession won more votes
than Carnot. who was elected at the
finals; running against Cusslmir
Perer he got more than hundred
and fifty votes, and later Felix Faure
beat him by only a small majority. He
refused to run against Loubet. asking
his friends TO cast their votes for the
latter; but now that he seems disposed
to run again he viii certainly stand
chance
Bourgeois, too, Is liable to succeed,
While less extreme than Brisson, he is
nevertheless radical I'm his views, which
assures him strong sympathies In the
ranks OF the parliamentary majority,
II was. furthermore. Bourgeois who
represented France at The Hague con-
ference, and it was he who, as minister
Of public instruction, recognized the
whole of French education by casting
aside the old system of elective courses
and giving the same education to ey-
erybody. The plan has not been consid-
cred good i'm its results. but It has none
the less left its mark upon the nation.
SOCIALIST MILLIONAIRE.
AS for Maurice Berteaux, the Social
lst millionaire stock broker minister Of
war, while his friends affirm that he
is in the running, he has abstained
1rom any declaration G,her than a
vague remark made before a number OF
his friends when / am at the Elysee.