The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 12, 1905, Page 17

’ Pages A - AMERIC Countess Would rank Duchess of Mariborough. - Will Spend Fortune ro Insure His FElection. *been men- by THORN IN THE owever, B y be the prin- , consider it a received by a mem- ess de Cas- one. republic fears surpassing Napoleon's Boulanger’s lition 1s before he T body. RESIGN. Peri TO simir FORC position. that he had to re- L W Colon M 1d re- ce ) do ex- arrest and 0 a deserted Fontainebleau to come to Paris even until popular en- Imed down. When e author, who in private Captain Julien Viaud of the' business life 17 to—Zfl TR Out-| —— SAN FRANCISCO, SU} VDAY, NOVEMBER 12 AN GIRL MAY BE THE FIRST LADY OF FRANCE Y GOULD'S DAUGHTER DESIRES PRESIDENCY FOR HUSBAND, COUNT BONI PAUL DUMER. PRESIDENT oF THE TRENCH CEPUTIEV o CHAMBER oF oo French navy, became a sort of literary idol, his prestjge was considered a threat to the navy, and 'his ship was rushed to C nd thence ordered to the Levant so the Viaud should not re- turn to France When Paul Deschanel was recognized as the most the Chamber of Deputies had ever had, and pointed out as sure to President, a plot for his overthrow was forthwith developed and | so fully executed that he ot rec: tion now even w addresses the Chamber as a humble Deputy, and no one would dream of pu ting him for- ward for any official position whatever. doe: 1 he ntil, no longer supported by the G nent which he had cre- ated, he resigned in time to avold'dis- grace da this blue funk showed by the weak Government in the presence of any man who was a man; and the tendency has | inoreased rather than diminished . with years. PAUL DOUMER’'S STRENGTH. Of the various favorites now pro- only one is a man of exceptional th, and that is Paul Doumer, president of the Chamber of Deputies. And on this account, while he would make an ideal President for a truly re- publican country like the United States, energetic, enterprising, intelligent and experienced In many ways, he will meet with more organized opposition than anybody else. But Doumer has friends in all politi- cal parties and has not had a single serious charge brought against him in the course of his long public career; and no other politician in France can pretend to either of these distinctions. Doumer is now 47 years old, and has been president of the Chember since the beginning of the year. Before that, he had been Governor of Indo-China, and is acknowledged to be the best colonial Governor France has ever had. Energetic enough to investigate for himself and see where possibilities for improvement lay, he was courageous enough to carry out the reforms which he considered necessary. He reorgan- jzed the entire administration of the colony, improved the material conditon of the residents, suppressed abuses of authority and irregularities among the petty officicls, and made himself, in & word, the active as well as the nominal head. That is why his advent to the Elysee is so dreaded. The President of France has 'enough power on paper to do some- thing with the state if he has the am- bition or the ability, but this is pre- cisely what Parliament wishes to render impossible. A weak or incompetent President, who will never have either suggestions or objections to make, but will docilely sign everything put be- fore him, s the “safe” man being sought after. For the executive power then centered exclusively in the hands of Parliament, or of the Minisgers ap- proved by vote of Parliament, and sub- popular president which | be the next tten- | When Waldeck Rousse was hailed | of France and some reme of calling him the man in Burope, his erst- united to checkmate his Gambetta himself, in the early | of the republic, was the victim of | | ject to overthrow whenever their | slightest action may be displeasing. :.\nd since it is Parliament, and Parlia- ment alone, which has the choice of | the President, naturally the man picked out is one who will not interfere with | the absolute power which has thus de- volved unconstitutionally and by force of precedent alone, into the hands of Senators and Deputies. This one fact would suffice to demonstrate the supe- riority of the American system over the i French. * HIS MOST SERIOUS RIVAL. { Armand Fillieres, president of the| Senate, is Doumer’s most serious rival, and he has the signal advantage of being a man who would obey, and who, ugh haviig wonderful political prestige, has-never been guilty of any sensational act in connection with any. thing. He is 64 years old, and is a lawyer, though he started in politics so early, when barely 25, that he had |not the time to practice seriously. Regularly, the election should be held in January, one month before the ex- piration of Loubet's seven years, and there would then he two Presidents for thirty days. But general elections for | the Senate are also to be held at the beginning of January, and as the pres- tige of Fallieres would be considerably decreased were he to be returned with a small majority to the Senate, and as if he were to be defeated, which is al: ways possible, he could not then be | thought of for the Presidency of France, it is said that Loubet has con- sidered the advisability of resigning | in December, so that the Presidential elections may be over and done with | before the end of the year, and Fal- lieres may have the best possible op- portunities. After Doumer and Fallieres come Brisson and Bourgeois in the list of | favorites. Brisson is so extremely ad- | vanced and anti-clerical that he would | appear to stand little more chance than ex-Premier Combes, the most unpopu- lar man in France to-day, but who is none the less busily intriguing to get around the members of Parliament so as to reach the Elysee. Brisson, how- ever, who is now 70 years old, has run before with no little credit; at the pre- liminaries for the 1887 election he | thrice in succession won more votes than Carnot, who was elected at the finals; running against Casimif Perier he got more than 150 votes, and later Felix Faure beat him by only a small majority. He refused to run against Loubet, asking his friends to cast their votes for the latter; but mow that he seems disposed to run again, he will certainly stand a chance. | LIKELY TO SUCCEED. > Bourgeols, too, is likely to succeed. While less extreme than Brisson, he is ! nevertheless radical in his views, which assurel him strong sympathies in the ranks of the Parliamentary ma- Jority. As for Maurice Berteaux, the Social- ist millionaire stockbroker Minister of | ‘War, while his friends afirm that he is in the running, he has abstained | from any declaration other than”a vague remark made before a number of his friends, “When I am at the Ely- see. I shall sper.d several millions per . s 0= e, T year out of my own pocket. is inferred that @ Minister would not permit himself to make such a state- ment if he did not think he mignt real- ize his ambition: and it is, therefore, thought that Berteaux hopes to win as the dark horse. For a man who takes his responsi- bilities lightly, as Parliament desires It {him to do, the life of a President of | France is an uncommonly quiet though always a busy one. He must read and | answer hundreds of letters per day. { He must receive all sorts of people— dinisters, Senators and Deputies, Em- | bassadors and Foreign Ministers—each | day, hours for this . being | morning and afternoon. He is sieged by groups of provincial dele- | gates, politicians and company promo- | tors who allege national interests or i the development of French . trade abroad. capacity military reviews, state:fune- i rals, the big Longchamp and Auteuil races, and frequent inaugurations of statues or buildings or congresses. e then has the pleasure of seeing himself surrounded by a guard of cuirassiers and hearing him- | self cheered by the crowd which lets him pass unnoticed when the display of regal honors is not there to catch the eve. Outside of these perfunctory obliga- tions, which are social rather than po- litical, the French President constitu- tionally has the right to propose laws, to dispose of the army, to respite con- demned prisoners, and to ask Parlia- ment to reconsider a vote, correspond- ing in a mitigated form to the Ameri- can veto. President Loubet, who is a humanitarian, rarely allows anybody to be guillotined; and this has become so notorious that the percentage of crimds has greatly increased in France of late, murderers - calmly committing their deeds in the certainty that they will be respited. The President can frame and ratify treaties, but he cannot de- clare war without the approval of Par- lament; he can dissolve the Chamber, but only with the consent of the Sen- ate; he is legally responsible only in the case of high treason, and he must then be accused by the Chamber and tried by the Senate. For his services, the President of | France receives about $240,000 per year; but as from this he must pay for all the state dinners at the Elysee, all the ! servants, and subscriptions for national calamities, he has not much left at the end of the year. —————— Yankee May Win Appeal. PARIS, Nov. 11.—The greatest sur- prise is expressed at the severity of the verdict against Elliott' Shepard. Six hundred francs’ fine and 20,000 francs to the parents is considered not unreasonable, but six months’ im- prisonment produced a chorus of “ohs” | in eourt.and will make the appeal cer- tain and probably effective. Some of the more prominent candidates for the French Presi- dency, from whom will be selected the successor to Emile Loubet,. present chief executive of the European republic. Count Boni de Castellane, who wmarried Anna Gould, stands @ fair /chance of clection. ) SZANE THAMBER. . O BB G g BOURGEQLS ER-PRESIDENT OF - THE ‘i ARMAND FALLIERF o PRESIDENT 77 l‘\ AAF o5 reserved | be- | He must attend in his official | international | AOMANTI TALE ADIS TO WORTH OF COLLECTION | 'Enamels of Late Louis II to Be Sold in London. Sas gy Special Cable to The Call. LONDON, Nov. 11.—There is a roman- of enamels of the late Louis II, the poor demented King of Bavaria, which are to be sold at Christie’s this week. Most of them are the work of a man who nowe lives In a handsome chateau and owes his fortune to the enthusiastic | patronage of the King. This man, ‘whue apprentice to a Court jeweler, | had discovered a new process of fixing |a delicate glaze upon enamel work ;whlch could be used also upon porce- lain plaques and tiles. But he found | few to believe in his new-fangled pro- jcess and was discharged for idleness | and wasting his master's time, his mas- ter's fuel, and possibly his costly material. Louis, in his dearly beloved character of knight of romance, was fond of | riding about the country Incognito, seeking adventures. While thus en- gaged one day he was overtaken by a violent thunderstorm and sought shel- | ter in a roadside cottage. It was the home of the unlucky apprentice, where he and his family were eking out a | scanty llving by molding earthenware {jars and common household utensils, | decorated with splashes of the special glaze. The King, whose love of beauty wherever found was almost a craze | with him long before the symptoms.of mania developed, recognized the origi- ! nality and beauty of the work, rough | as it was. While he examined the pot- | tery he learned the story of the glaze. On his watchchain dangled a trifle ornamented with a design of enamel. Presently the potter’s hunger-saddened eyes fell upon it; it was his ewn work and he told his visitor so. Immediately Louis saw through the jealousy and indifference which had gone s0 near to ruining the friendless workman. With his accustomed gene- I rous impetuosity the Kimg bade the man bring his wife and children to * Munich, promising him as much work | as he could contrive to complish. “And,” he added, as he rode away, “you will keep these designs exclusively for me—for the King!" The potter is en- nobled and wealthy, but he still occa- { slonally produces enamels. ————————— ! Parisian Fashions in Jewelry. “PARIS, Nov. 11.—Fashion in jewelry is changing. It no longer runs to set- tings with many small stones. The fashionable woman now demands large single gems. ’ master’s ks | MATCH STIRS OF TME TRENCH FEW TRACES OF THE ANGER OF | FORMER BEAUTY tic story connected with the collection ; ENGLISH CIRL| NOW REMAINING Miss Breese Is to Wed|Ex-Empress Eugenie Lord Willoughby by Christmas. LONDON, Nov. 11.—An English girl said yesterday, “I feel as if I could chew spikes. Just fancy another of these hateful, forward American girls has captured one of our prize men.” She was referring, of course, to the en- gagement of Miss Eloise Breege to Lord Willoughby de Eresby. So far no date is yet fixed for the wedding, but Miss Breese's friends say it will very likely come off this side of Christmas. The bride-elect is a prospective peeress, as in the ordinary course of events she will one day be Countess of Andaster and mistress of two of the most mag- nificent seats in the Midland countles, as well as a palatial place, Druromond Castle, in Scotland. Enterprising chaperons had, for a very considerable time past, regarded Lord Willoughby as a coafirmed bache- lor, a cjrcumstance for which there was surely good reason considering he is within measureable distance of his for- tleth birthday. Although he h: been in Parliament since he was eight and twenty, he cannot be sald to take a particularly lively interest in polities, constituents in the matter of attend- ance at the House, etc. cal Britisher he is a keen sportsman and his club friends have plenty of pleasant things to say of him. Alas, !in the present instance English girls cannot soothe themselves with the balm that the future Barl is marrying ! for the sake of dollars! He can well | afford the luxury of marrying for love. Revenge of Motogjstx. tricts of England has resulted in organized campaign of protection and retaliation by the Automobile Associ- ation. The campaign consists of warn- ing motorists against police traps, and | collective assistance to motorists hav- ing collisions with the pelice. though he certainly does his duty to his | Like the typi- LONDON, Nov. 11.—The polica’perse- | cution of motorists in the country dis- | an ' { | { ! i A dered In tnelr mov a Pathetic Figure in London. FRL SRS Special Cable te The OCall LONDON, Nov. 1l.—An old woman, white-haired, feeble and bent, walking with halting footsteps between two at- tendants, entered a West End confec~ tionery shop the other day. It wag Eugenle de Montijo, ex-Empress of the French, the most pathetic figure of fallen greatness that still lingers om the European stage. She is 79 years old now, and time and sorrow and suf- fering have left few traces remaining of that beauty which won her a crown. | But her voice was singularly clear and sweet. She had come to the shop to purchase sweetmeats for the friends she loves dearest—children. It is not | generally known that the ex-Empress has more godchildren than any other person living. When her only ohild, the late Prince Imperial, was borm, Na- poleon III amnnounced that he and his wife would stand sponsors to all chil- dren born in France on the same day. The number totaled 38§00. Despite her | changed circumstances, the ex-Empress still keeps an exact list of her charges, and has set aside a legacy for sach one now living. —_—— German Army May Abolish Swords. BERLIN, Nov. 11.—The question of abolishing the sword of infantry of- ficers, at least in campaigns, is belng discussed. It is pointed out that the Transvaal war demonstrated that the sword is an incumbrance to the of- ficer who puts himself at the head of his men; besides, the reflection from the steel attracts the attention of the enemy. Some military critics assert that as a weapon it has become useless, the cases of hand to hand fighting be- ing very few in modern warfare. it is recalled that in the China cam- paign German officers left their swords with their luggage, so as not t ¥e hin- ements.