The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-07-21
CLEMENCEAU SAYS
 BLOW AT HIMSELF
Downfall of His Ministry Not Defeat for Govern
 ment or Its Policies.
RULING WITH BIG STICK
Especial from United Press.)

Special from United Press.)
 Paris, July 21.-Despite the haste necessary owing to the coming visit of the Czar of Russia to replace the cabinet of Premier Clerlenceau which fell with him last night it is believed that President Fallieres will succeed in choosing a new premier to-day. Shortly before noon President Fal- Heres held fifteen minute conference with Clemenceau and later received M. Briapt who is being prominently men, tioned to-day as the man most likely to be called to the new ministry.
 Despite the popular clamor in favor of M. Delcasse, Clemenceau's success. full enemy it is confidently considered likely that he will not head the new cabinet owing to Germanys strong opposition to him and the great desire of the French government at this time, to make no move likely to displease the Kaiser. It is the general belief to- day that Cruppi. minister of commerce, M Pichen, minister of foreign affairs, and M. Picard, minister of marine, will be called upon to accept portfolios in the new cabinet. American tourists who are to-day crowding the boule- yards are being treated to an added attraction" in the form of a typical French political crisis as the result of the meteoric downfall last night of C1emenceau, following an adverse vote of the chamber after debate of the naval scandals.
 
 tensest excitement prevails. As a mat ter of fact everything hinges on the man President Fallieres calls upon to form the new cabinet and a serious situation is not beyond conception. Both Monarchists and Radical Social istS are on the qui vive for an oppor- tunity to affect coup in the Etate. It is doubtful if the fall of any French official ever created more popu-. lar joy. This remarkable feature of the situation and the fact that the downfall came at a time when under normal conditions, the vote of the deputies was safely corralled and just at a moment when despite the gen orally recognized ineficiency and rot tenness of the French minister of marine, the government was to have been given a vote of confidence, Gle menceau's wholly uncalled for and purposeless attack raised the storm.
 In an interview with the United Press correspondent to-day C1emen- ceau declared that the defeat of his ministry was a blow at him personal ly and not defeat for the government or it's policies. Clemenceau declared that he believed the personal of the cabinet, with the exception of himself, would be unchanged and that the present policy of the ministry would continue without change. He said his successor as prime minister must fol- low the policies he (Clemenceau) has laid down or he will break his own neck"
 Disinterested observers believe that the downfall of the Clemenceau gov ernment will augment rather than les sen the political unrest in France as Clemenceau ruling with Big Stick was subdutng the political revolution ists where a weaker premier would fall into the numberless traps they set and would allow France to enter into another state of political unrest. Gov ernment bonds were five points higher on the Bourse to-day.