The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1914-06-23
Nine. CaIIaux, CASTOR CaInette Qeft) },
Joseph CaiIIaux, Maitre Labor.

Paris. June 20.-With the prepara-
tions for her defense completed, Nine.
| HenrieIte CaillauX, slayer OF CASTOR
! Calmette. former editor Of the Paris
Figaro, is confident of victory.
Her husband, Joseph CaillauX, for
mer minister Of finance. is so sanguine
that she will be freed that he is quoted
! as having recently declared: Mime.
| CaillauX will be acquitted in July and
| in November l shall ENTER the min
istry."
| The cold bIooded assa ssination OF
| Calmette by Nine. CailIauN last March
| created a tremendous sensation in
| France and throughout Europe. The
| deliberate character of the deed and
| the prominence, of the principals made
| the incident more sensational than
anything that had occurrd in Europe
| in recent years.
! While public feeling in France was
at first against the slayer, her apollo
| gists soon came to the front, and
| even went so far as to say that her
| act was justified. In the preliminary
examination she expressed regret
that she had killed the editor, and de-
clared she merely intended warning
him.
Il was afraid he would carry his
attacks too far" she said, that my
| husband would take it upon himself
to kill him. I did not want such
| thing to happen
The published attacks in lie FL
| CARO- had been carried on for some
months and each article became more
/ poignant. The trouble started when
! Calmette began a systematic cam
! paign against the finance minister in
| an effort to prevent the passage of
| an income tax law. CaillauX was the
real force in the cabinet, and as he
! had pledged himself to the leVying of
an income tax Calmette and the in
| ba rprvaSHnTe6 did their hest
| to discredit him and bring about the
| fall of the cabinet. He was accused
| in lie Figaro of various acts of gross
political corruption, but when these
attacks failed. Calmette made his
| charges more personal
| Last January Calmette published
| a four column article under the head
| ing The Secret Combination of NJ.
| CaillaUX and His Personal Political
| Treasury" In this article the Figaro
editor attempted to show that the
finance minister had tried to eXtort
money from the heirs of Prieu, the
| Frenchman whose Brazilian conces-
| sions were sold by the French gov
| by the treasury.
| In subsequent articles Caillaux was
| called a CRATER, and the charge made
| that he used every means to secure
| personal ACKNOWLEDGEMENT.
Cleaner Politics Wanted.
| Since the murder a formidable re-
Iieious movement has been launched
| for a higher moral standard in poll
| tics. The religious press calls atten-
| ton to the fact that Nine CaillauX is
| a divorce, that the man she muir
| dered had been divorced. that Call
laux had been divorced twice and
| that the defending lawyer, NJ. Labor,
| is the husband Of 4 divorce, the for
mer wife of the famous musician,
| De Pachman. whose divorce was OBJ
tanned by Laboris legal efforts.
| The CaiiIaux trial Will again draw
! the attention Of the whole world to
! the shocking condition of morality in
| the private lives OF French statesmen
| life Of the republic arising from these
! conditions. CaillauX. it will be re-
| called. discussed intimate state secrets
| in cores ondence with a woman not
then his wife. AS this has also oc-
| cured with other statesmen equally
| prominent, the question is asked: IF
these men divorce and remarry every
| few years, scattering confidential in
! formation broadcast in their feminine
circle as they so from one woman TO
another, how many years VIII the re-
| public continue to eXist?'
One of the refOrmerS has said:
Things are as bad today in Paris
when liberty, equality and fraternity
are supposed to be enthroned instead
| of the divine right of kings, as they
ever were when Nine. du Pompadour
and the du Barry were the actual
| arbiters of the nations welfare"
| The American republic, whose po-
| litiCal corruption is a time-worn sub
! jeCt Of discussion in Europe. Is now
| brought forward in France as a
| model in that it makes a mans pri-
vate morality a part Of his public
record, to be subjected to the strictest
| scrutiny by the people.