The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-05-10
SUCCEEDS DOUMER,
Who WAS SLA|NBY
ASSASS|NS BULLET
New Chief Executive is -Four.
teenth President of French
Republic
RECEIVES BIG MAJORITY
Final Tabulation Gives Him 633
of 767 Votes Cast on
First Ballot

Versailles, France. May 1o.-R-.
Albert Francois Lebrun Tuesday was
elected fourteenth president Of the
French republic, succeeding Paul Dou-
mer, who was assassinated last Fri
day.
M. Lebrun received 633 votes Of a
total 767 cast.
Paul Faure. prominent socialist
leader, got ia votes; IL ballots were
cast for former Premier Paul Pain
leve and went to Marcel Cachin,
socialist. Fifty-nine of the legislators
who attended the joint senate and
chamber session at which the pres
ident was elected expressed no choice
Great applause greeted the an
nouncement of the result. Deputy
Doriot. communist, added to the
uproar by shouting: Down with
war!"
All members of the cabinet went
Immediately to one of the great halls
in the historic palace of Louis XIV,
where they awaited the new presi-
dent.
There Premier Andre Tardieu con-
graduated him and turned over the
executive powers which he had been
discharging as head of the ministry
since the assassination Of M. Doumer.
After that ceremony was over, M.
Tardieu said he would receive the
press Tuesday evening-apparently
for the purpose IT announcing that
he had presented his governments
resignation to the new president.
Lebrun is an old hand in French
politics and something of protege
of Raymond Poincare.
At the age of so he becomes the
18th president of the French repub-
lie, stepping up as did Paul Doumer
from the presidency of the senate.
Only a few days ago M. Poincare.
battling what may be his last illness,
declared he would refuse to doom
himself to perpetual retirement. In
a way, M. Lebrun's election to the
presidency carries the wartime presi-
dents influence into the Elysee
palace.
Albert Lebrun was "Poincares
man. many times during the 80 years
of his political life.
Elected Deputy in 1900
The new president was elected to
the chamber of deputies in 1900. Sub
seQuently Poincare placed him at the
head of the sinking fund commission.
an institution for reducing the no
tional debt and one Of Poincare'S fav-
orite projects.
With Poincare's backing. M. Lebrun
became the president of the general
council of the department of Meur-
the and Moselle. the province which
he has represented so long in parlia-
ment.
But the fact that Lebrun was q
Poincare man never meant that he
was merely a Eyes man." Three times
he was minister of colonies, In 1911,
1912 and 1913. The end of the latter
year found him minister Of war. In
1917 he was minister of blockade and
in 1918 minister Of the liberated re-
gions.
Two years later he was elected to
the senate where he became an ac-
tive member of the Union Repub-
licaine group. AS head of the sinking
fund he established reputation for
probity and carefulness.
Even with this record. however, his
chances for achieving the office
which now has come to him would
not have been so good II 1t were not
for an accident of geography.
The department of Meurthe and
Moselle is the Ohio of France. Like
Ohio. it often has favorite son
ano0nz the PRESIDENTIAL candidates.