New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-09-24
Milter01ld at One Time
Radical Socialist Chief
Ne,o President of France Re.
sponsible for Laaos Shorten.
ing Hours of Workine7,en


Spokesman of the Radical Socialists
was Alexandra alillcrand when, in 1899
he entered Waldeck- Rousseau's Cabinet
OF reccncentrat!on, against the counsel
and the protests of Jules Guesde and
the MARKHAM faction. An expelled out
cast from the Socialist party he was
when he entered the BRAND Cabinet
ten years later, because he had elected
to be Frenchman before he was
partisan. To-day he becomes President
Il tho republic as The leader Of the
Republican bloc denounced and op-
posed by the Socialists as reaction
airy, a militarist; worst of all,
bourgeois.
Millcrand was born in Paris, in 1859,
with 10 distinguished forebears; q
member Of that solid middle class
which bears the rcproach of bourge ois.
Henri w, and Mchalet. and in law at
the University, and during his student
life became impregrated with Social
istic doctrines. Called to the bar in
1881, he found his first important
clients in the striking miners Of Mon
cc;.l;- osN Mines, N case in which
socialistic principles were largely in
volved. His action at that time gave
him national prominence and inclined
MIN 10 enter polltlcal HE.
Elected to Paris Council
In 1884 he was elected to the Mu-
nicipal Council of Paris, of course as
Socialist, and in 1885 he entered the
Chamber of Deputies as member Of
the Extreme Left. Four years later he
followed the example Of many other
French politicians by entering journal
ism, as proprietor and editor of La
Voix, radical Socialist organ, and
little later became editor of La Petite
Rcpublique, connection which con-
tinued until 1896
Under the administration of Grevy,
Carnot, Casimir-Perer and Faure he
was, as a Socialist Deputy, inconspic-
uous as a member of an important mi
nority. Outside Of the Chamber how
ever, he rose to prominence At the So
cialist congress at St. Mande in 1896 he
was the author of that "St. Mande pros
gram" which has ever since been the
charter of the reformed Socialists Of
France and of the Fabians in England.
This; was and is program of preeres-
'sive parliamentary reforms tending to
state socialism without revolution.
and directly opposed to the MARKHAM
socialism Of Jules Gunsdc and Paul
Lafarbue. He thus aligned himself
with the Socialist faction led by
Jaures, WHICH was known as radical
and which was opposed 10 that led
by Guesde, known as revolutionary or
MARKHAM.
In 1899 came the great redemption
of French administrat on, when Wal
deck-Rousseau formed his ministry Of
national defense to settle up the de-
moraization of the Drcyfus case and
to give France a stable government.
In that body he included NJ. Millcrand
as Minister of Commerce.
After the retirement of the Waldeck-
Rousseau ministry, in 1902, NJ. Mile
rand resumed practice at the bar, re-
naming in the Chamber He steadily
drifted away from the Socialist party,
repealed by its unpatrlotic excuses,
and in 1909 was formally expelled from
portfolio of Public Works in the
BRAND ministry.
He dropped out Of that Cabinet the
next year, but in 1912 returned to office
as Minister Of War under Poincare
When M. Poncare became President,
M. Millerand remained in Office under
NJ BRAND, and then under NJ. Barthou.
At the end of 1913 he retired.
But when, in August, 1914, just be-
fore the fight of the government to
Bordeaux, Nj. Viviani formed his
Tense, he was recalled to the War
Office. There he remained until the
Viviani government was succeeded by
one under M. BRAND Later he was
made Governor Of Alsace, and then, on
January Is last, on the resignation Of
the Clemenceau ministry, he was sum-
moned by President Poincare, in the
last days of his administration, to be-
come Prime. Minister. That place he
held until the present time.
NJ. Millerand was married early in
his public career to Mile. LIE Wager.
He has been president of the council
of Administration of the Conservatory
of Arts and Crafts and president of the
international Association for the Legal