New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-01-14
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erHor Generals To know how to make Indo-C China
Pay IT'S way instead Of being a source Of enor-
nous expenditure 20 the home government
Besides this. he managed 10 win the good Will
Of the clergy and Of the religious orders through
the care Of their interests in the Far Orient
without forfeiting the support and the conf
dence or the anti-clercal element i'm French po-
!'''0d' me- a circumstance 70 which the fact OF
ms being "A Protestant 40 doubt contributed
Thus' Willie on the one hand he enjoys to-day
the support Of the Republicans and the Radi-
calls he IS Likewise regarded with favor In. tn
Roman Catholic and Protestant churches and
their adherents. added 10 which French trade
and industry. which after all constitute the
backbone OF the country. naturally think highly
or man who In his term as Governor General
OF lhdo-China MANAGED 10 increase tenfoid its
commerce with France. Nor must I omit 10 add
that he stands we'll with the working cIasses
which do not forget that he has been ons Of
themselves. and who are genuinely proud ., his
success Indeed. on his return from tho Far
orient at the close Of his term as Governor
6ehera' pahquets were organized in his honor
by workmen's cooperative societies and nv
laEor unions all over France. IF elected PrAsi
dent. he will he the first Protestant. 10 hacor,s
the ruler Of tho nation that formerly cla,r,ad -
be THE eldest daughter Of the CPoman C,,thorc,
Church"
DoumeTs principal rival on "Wednesday nav,
and the chief obstacle TO the realization OF hts
ambitions Is undoubtedly Jean Sarrfen Who
may POSSIBLY decline 10 run himself and nut
iof"aru one OF his friends or followers instead
Ai'housh extremely unootrusive and reticent n
man as retiring as Doumer is spectacuIar Va,
he has been a power In French polit,caI Iits
tor the iast Ten or fifteen years. And his power
is all the greater owing to the fact that he is as
a to ,.tAI
from the background There are few men n,
Importance in French political life about ubor,
less is known by the general public and Of
whom less is seen. Yet there have heen raw
Ministerial crises In which he has not been co,
suited. invariably refusing the tender of a MORT
folio and apparently content to see his advic.
deferred 10 and Followed. In fact. the last time
that he held office In 1895 when. ar m.
request Of his friend Brsson he. with Soma
reluctance. consented TO accept the psriIous nos,
of Minister OF Justice at the time of the Drevr,,.
controversy. AS such he instituted the nro
ceedings IN the Supreme Court which resnI,.,
in the quashing of the first trial Of the prisoner
OF Devils Island and in the ex-captain's beins
brought back to France to stand trial anew nj
Rennes.
But whatever Ill Will no incurred Among milf,
tary men In connection with this affair h. NAV
be said to have retrieved by the stringent orders
which he issued to the magistrates througbou,
France TO protect officers of high and low degree
IN the army against attacks from the platform
ana In the press. He is man Of about sixty-s,x
years, lawyer by profession born of roidd1.
CLASS provincial FAMILY. and In the war with
Germany Won the Cross of the Legion of Honor
by gallantry under fire as a captain OF Noh,.s
He succeeded his father as Mayor Of Moulins
practised first at the bar of Lyon. and than an
Paris and has now represented his native dis
trct of the Saone- st-Loirs without INTERRUPTION
sor nearly three decades In thu Chamber a,