The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-07-05
SHOWING TEETH
At THE PRESIDENT
Poineare Of France Has Some Enemies
Who Are Making Things az
Unpleasant as
Possible.
BUT HE IS DEFIANT
He Il Having Difficulty In Keeping 4
Cabinet Together as Result
Of the Political
Plots.
BUT HE IS DEFIANT

William Philip Simms, Paris Cores
pondent of the United Press.l
PARIS, July AFTER growing in a
threatening manner for more than q
year. the political enemies Of Presi-
dent Poincare have commenced to
show their teeth. Will they bite? Win
Poincare be forced to resign? In the
street one is told yes and one is told
not. The truth probably lies between.
His enemies will probably ship him IL
they can. The plan of action, accord
ing to those who pretend to know, Is
quite simple: The president will be
isolated from all semblance of power,
shut off completely from all control
Of the nations affairs and, thus humil-
lated will follow the example of Jean
Casimir-Perier, who, in 1895 resigned
from an Office saying that the con-
!stitutional responsibility of a French
president rendered all personal action
impossible in the country's policies
and he considered it too undignifled a
position for him to fill
President Poincare Is man OF fine
principles and high spirit. He has
likewise, upon two recent occasions,
to be purely ornamental His ideal OF
a chief executive, he said, was to ig-
more party politics and party leaders.
rising above petty differences be-
tween factions: to be the president Of
all the French, his influence being
thrown exclusively to the bigger and
broader affairs of the nation as a
whole. Thus has he thrown down the
gauntlet to his enemies.
Guy de Cassagnac, an Imperilaist
and editor of "L'Autorite,' which pa
per is struggling to keep alive the
name of Prince Victor Napoleon. pre-
tender to the throne, declares that
Georges Clemenceau and Joseph Call
laux, one senator, the other deputy,
are the leaders of the plot to GUST
Poincare. He charges them with PLAN
ming scurrilous campaign against the
president and Nine. Poincare personal
ly. "L'Action Franchise" the official
organ of the Duke d'Orleans, royalist
pretender, joins in the charge, but
these two papers are practically alone,
having an axe of their own to grind,
both being not only violently antagon-
istic to the president, Clemenceau and
Caillaux alike, but to the republic as
well.
1t is generally believed here, how
ever, that the United Radicals and
radical party generally are on the war
path, carrying at their belts scatEing
knives for President Poinacre, not per
sonally but politically. 1t is said they
wish to eliminate HIM, either entirely
as president or else isolate him at the
Elysee, the French white house, rem
dering him as helpless as castaway
on an uninhabited island in the sea.
This can be accomplished by refusing
to give the necessary vote OF conf
dence to friendly cabinet. If his po-
litical enemies can succeed in thus iso-
lating him, he has but two alternatives.
Either he can dissolve the Chamber
of Deputies and throw himself on the
country, or resign. Certain political
writer's predict the dissolution of the
chamber. but pessimists point out that
he would first have to obtain the con-
sent of the senate, which senate hap
pens to have for it's strongest mem
bers men who oppose, or who have op-
posed, the president. Georges Glenn
enceau, dubbed 1.-THE Tiger" by reason
Of the ferocity of his attacks is 1nd,s.
putably the senates leader.
Plot against the president or no plot,
he has had difficulty in keeping cab
met He now has what amounts to his
fifth cabinet in but little over q year.
Aristiades BRAND was his first prem
Ter and represented his policies fully.
But he fell quickly. Louis Barthou,
likewise a Poincare man, succeeded
BRAND, but he too, was voted down.
Next came CASTOR Doumergue, direct
ly representing the "enemy's camp
with Joseph Caillaux as minister of fin
ance, one of the men charged with
leading in the plot to GUST the presi-
dent. Rene Viviani, minister of pub
lie instruction in the Doumergue car:-
net, succeeded the latter but before
his appointment could be made Off
cial he withdrew his acceptance Of the
premiership on account Of friction in
the newly formed ministry. Alexandra
Ribot. candidate for election against
Poincare, came last.
In the formation of the Doumergue
ministry the president had much
trouble, several statesmen refusing the
post Before Ribot accepted the Off
ce, Viviani, DeschaneI, Delcasse, Pey-
trail and Jean Dupuy, successfully re-
fused it, and when Ribot finally got
his combination formed the radicals
held a committee meeting and decid-
ed to ask that any radical accepting of
flee under Ribot should be read out Of
the party. Two radicals withdrew at