Show as been twister MEN OF THE TIME rom it a n Place ftcns of f t in nIL khan we h SOIne h Un to rs found r t Oable chons ent Ire il tJ tah e Ounty j Yand care cs Oos ster jss alls rtes Politics in France a 0 gre = RENE GOBLET tea THE NEW PBIMB ailxlsTFtl b 0 ber The de pYeycinot the strongestof French recent cabinets has been overthrown bir over-thrown and a new one formed This tre is really however but a sort of GOB timiflnce as the new Ministry m both its domestic and foreign polwy mil tread in the footsteps of their predecessors t I Ir prede-cessors General Boulongor Minister of War and Admiral Aubo Minister of Marine two of the strongest members of the late Cabinet hold portf JUo3m t that of which M Goblet is tho Premier Ie M Goblet has held important officas If but is not regarded as a statesman ot v great parts He is a lawyer by profession pro-fession and excels as a public speaker I s His birthplace was AiresurlaLys fn T tho year 1828 After completing his i preparatory course of reading he began practice ot Amiens He was succesul t 1 and in tho year 1871 that year of terrible disasters to his country was elected a member of the National Assembly In 1876 he was elected to tho Chamber of Deputies and again in 1877 Subsequently he beqamo Minister of the Interior and latar Minister of Public Instruction Two notable acts in his career as a statesman states-man Lave been his support of the Wal I + Ion Constitution which M 3ambetta < sought to revise and in 1835 his forbidding I for-bidding the production of a play by M Zola by which he incurred the enmity of that distinguished writer So fierce indeed was Zolas resentment that ho wrote a letter abusing M Goblet Gob-let to the Figaro in which he said that the statesman would bo known by future generations only as tho man who interdicted Germinal This is the name of tho play Goblet would not permit to be acted Goblet has had somo experience as a journalist having e hav-ing in 1SGO founded a newspaper at Amiens Premier Goblet is a small sct veIn ve-In ill As before intimated he is roaiy of speech and it may yet prove that his considerable e > experience may assist him to hold longer than is now ex 1Ctoo tiio dignity which has beat nithpr Ft tvnon lymthiJn iol1Eht |