The French Crisis.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 172, 19 January 1895, Page 2

The French Crisis.

ELECTION OF A NEW PRESIDENT VIOLENT SCENES BY SOCIALISTS RADICALS AND SOCIALISTS DENOUNCE THE PRESIDENT. (Per Press Association.) Paris, January 17. Due D'Orleans has issued a manifesto in which he declares the hour is near when the country will revert to Monarchy. In the meantime he advises his supporters to select a man as President who is best able to preserve order. At a meeting of the National Assembly at Versailles the first ballot resulted — M. Brisson, 334 votes ;M. Felix Faure, 216 ; M. Rausseau, 195. This rendered a second ballot necessary, the figures being— M. Faure, 430 ; M. Brisson, 361. Violent scenes were caused by the Socialists on the announcement of M. Faure's election. January 18. The first ballot for the President was conducted amid persistent and uproarous interruption by the Socialists. M. Dupny received four votes. M. Rausseau withdrew from the second ballot. On the final result being declared, the Socialists cried " Down with rogues and robbers ; to prison with them." M. Challemel Lacour abruptly closed the National Assembly in order to avoid a worse tumult. M. Faure, replying after his election, said he accepted the position with gratitude and a deep sense of the responsibilities of the position. At the same time he appealed for the support of all parties. The new President received a great ovation on arrival in Paris. The Moderate journals are favorable to the new President, but the Radicals and Socialists denounce him as a mere figure head. London, January 18. The new French President Jis an Opportunist, a shipowner of Havre, and a self-made man. He is of spotless record, aud of a Protestant family, though he assured the National Assembly he was a Catholic. The Times thinks M. Faure will prove a second Carnot, but less austere. The Standard doubts whether he will be better treated than the late President and thinks M. Brisson would have been a stronger selection. It expresses the opinion that the election to the highest office would have converted the latter from Radicalism to Toryism. It is stated that M. Challemel Lacour privately urged M. Faure to act with firmness, even te severity.