The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-12-13
.CA|LLAUX CASE
NOT FORGOTTEN
Minister 10 Reported ExiIed in Brazil
and Also to Be Acting as
Paymaster in the
Army.
MoBBED ON THE STREET
France 10 Too Busy Just Now to Dis
cuss Family Quarrels but Will
Continue Gossip After
War Ends.

by William Philip Simms, United
Press Stan Correspondent
PARIS, Nov. /. (By mail to New
York. THE Caillaux affair is not dead
yet. Far from 1t. The war, all-absorb-
ed, stupendous and terrible as it is.
only serves as sleeping potion, and
at that "the affair" is proving bad
sleeper.
or course the newspapers are not
printing anything about Monsieur
Joseph Caiilaux, former prime minis
ter and husband of the beautiful wom-
an who shot and killed Editor CASTOR
Calmette, Of lie Figaro But people
will talk, Caillaux has now left for
Brazil; some say in exile; others say
on mission for the government. The
censors who find it easy to muzzle
the press have not yet discovered a
means to gag the gossips Here is a
story just told to me by a Frenchman
II have known for years and who, on
the whole, has proved above the aver
age for veracity. He ia trifle anti
Caillaux, it is true, SO you who read
these lines may treat what he says
accordingly.
Caillaux is colonel in the army.
He Is acting paymaster. One day re-
Gently he had occasion to take trip
to the front and consequently needed
an automobile. Choosing one to his lik-
ing among vast number at the head
quarters OF the army of Paris, in the
Boulevard des Invalides, he told the
chauffeur private-of his inten-
tions. The chauffeur-private refused
to obey Caillaux In spite OF the lat
ter's fine golden stripes on his capete
sleeves. The former prime minister,
my informant states, grew furious.
said to have remarked angrily. Fl
am Monsieur Caillaux! 81 don't give
a DAM the private retorted, and turn
ed his back.
CailIaux, was told, dashed into the
headquarters building and went
straight to General Gallieni. the army
commander. He began to talk rather
loudly of what had occurred. Easy,
easy the general is said to have
demonstrated. The former prime min.
lister could not or would not put on
the soft pedal. Not SO loud" re-
peated the general Still the fortis-
simo pedals with both feet. Eight
days!" said the general.
And eight days technical detention
for former Prime Minister Caillaux 1t
was, according to the French newsEa.
per men who realated the yarn to
me. / asked him what they did to the
chauffeur but apparently he did not
consider the chauffeur part of the
story for he could not tell me. He
was talking about Caillaux, not about
chauffeurs.
Here is another Caillaux story from
a different source, but equally French
and equally anttCaillaux: 1t appears
that Monsieur and Madame Caillaux
were driving along the Grand Boule-
wards in an open f1acre-one of those
horse-drawn low-neck cabs SO famil-
lar to visitors here. Caillaux was in
uniform. At Palace de POpera, in
the heart OF the city, where dozen
avenues and boulevards center in
front OF the national academy of mus
ic, a street hawker selling war novel
ties, recognized the heroes of the
recent murder trial and set up shout,
"voila Caillaux, the friend of the
beches!"
In twinkling a crowd gathered and
stopped the f1acre. Deserted two sec
onds before, with not more than three
people within radius of FIVE squares
from the place, the street was running
over in a jiffy. People seemed to
drop from the trees, spring up from
the cracks in the pavement. come
through steel-shuttered windows. And
they all brought their voices with
them. "a bas Caillaux,' some of them
shouted. Assassin shrieked others.
"Hoo-o-o-o-o-o," hooted some more.