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Show IfPOllIE III OFJE HOUff Kr Premier of France Given Universal Welcome by X His Countrymen. Rotable personage found Scholar, Able Law- jer and Withal Intensely S National at Heart. jm BY PH3ERB BOCHAMBATJD. iHfal Cable to The Tribune. iElI8, Feb, 10. M. Raymond Poin-SR-'tho new premier of France, is mfcttedly tlio man of the hour, and 'Kost tnlked-of citizen of his coun-odny. coun-odny. I him nro centered all 1" understands by French cul iy and charm of manner. Ho illy tho Chevalier Bayard of jpwblicun France. Eans pour procho, In his intense and n& atudv of all things that perfection, M. Poincare civ have satisfied tho exaet-of exaet-of Matthew Arnold him-ipust him-ipust and learned body, the endemy. for tho third time e.i the third republic with a The first -vvns the Due do u 1871!, then there was M. net in ISOli, bur, it is true latter was premier first, be-iujemieian be-iujemieian while still in of-r of-r there is M. Poincare, whom ary writers regard as tho alile FroQchman of his day. Poincare had not practiced ight bavo become a scientist t aa Bcrtholet, or an acado-profouud acado-profouud as his cousin, Henri i Unanimous, perhaps since the birth of .the iblic, has public opinion cs-Felf cs-Felf 0 clearly and so warmly conic of a new premier as it with llaymond Poincare. IIo inalily that counts for much ands respect. In France he high ideals in a government, tv and inflexibility of pur-c pur-c of tho forcmottf "advocates , nuil ouo whoso income from tractive is correctlv described 'as. M Poiucaro has still ie .to devote himself lo the hia country, o's present greatness has 5 of his own seeking, ft has stupon him. On the political has ever avoided the limc-nc limc-nc has never been knowu to mere of feet. Tn the halls or in ins place in tho senate o nnunuls more attention than .is eloquent and learned in us periods arc well rounded , "phrases impeccable. As an a. he long ago won fame, to Poincare is to listen to io greatest of living masters ench language Poim-arc is strong and w had so wished it lie en long ago premier, but he to bo one of tho few public i ranee who do not look to as the most lucrative, mid . the highest goal of earthly - He has always carafullv 'Of from plottinrr for personal eeinnnt and from .tho unworthy winch in recent years have 'net! the. escutcheon of the Ho-party Ho-party i .'race. Tu(J j,reati, a has ever touched him. Tf ecauM ho despised the narrow '."Pint of politicians and the no of quarreling political cn-eaj cn-eaj was always a UUU one. No ,JmWr,.a Ji i" J,u understands the SKSL,; rM wonry of strife mort jB nt T' l,r. :i Sovermncnf, that mW X I1??11- aml national. Br Z tml r nf,rde and noi ,2i0i MvPhrn l w-':ilucss and vaeil- K n, Crlls0 c?,n,tr-' unmistakably HB&e rSe- Hcr neea- a vllMBc tii i-ro vas ,l niinistorial .,'ra .i,llv ? 1,IJI'1!lnageabIe. and H V 1 0Kards destruction. M-'3,8 Imminent, SMivUcS fl!w dnys auQ have UjnoirL1? T'P 4 behind the aJWtfMthn H wnjnont and dead- B..i ;f"Aptr"tl " possible so- l d ? l0, hR i'lorativ0 --Bjo ten nnV, ?et t-o work JcMcrlli S" bought u. B-v co , .i' I "5tori:i I t earn fj. 'fcublic nfK'P0" in U"' n- .aft- Sf,,V!,ll,:i1 interest. .in.5tft,Jliu and short hoar l r finLcnnaI determination t IBrwolleclinn frontier, and 1.1b V-! tR?'e lau IWrc. th'o bitter MS2pJ.!lcr. French states- V IMamo ana soon after' IRWd ; 1 f "culture. This .Ucntjo'10,; ;ut"',c premier to ,Ke ,T . I,0 ,ll", for in S fKslcctlon to il "nV 'ionrs T Premier From Whom France Expects Much RAYMOND POINCARE. cecded lo fight his way to a place in the front rank of advocates. Success came to him after ten years of arduous ardu-ous work, and his name waa coupled with that of Waldcck Rousseau, then tho greatest lawyer in Prance. Sinco then, ho has. in his professional career, never looked back. At the ago of ! thirty-two he received his first portfolio, port-folio, that of public instructor in tho Charles Dupuy cabinet. This Benjamin Benja-min of French cabinet ministers in the following year found himself called upon to take charge of the finances of Prance. WJiile in office hc was noted for his suavity of manner, his love of work, his attention to details and his positive genius for administration. "When tho whirlwind of the affair Dreyfus and the subsequent storm raised by a ivar on religious associations associa-tions broke .over France, M. Poincare stood aside and rofused ministerial oflloe. "While Franco politically was being be-ing torn by ;t bitter straggle he practically prac-tically abandoned active politics and devoted himself to his work at tho bar. Is Moderate Republican. Tn -politics he has always been a moderate Republican, with a Tooted objection ob-jection to the fanatical and fantastical nostrums of the Extreme Left, vliip.li has had the effect, unfortunately, of setting Frenchman at the throat of. Frenchman, lie was a minister of llnanco in the Sam en cabinet, but a conflict of opinion -with his chief con-ecrning con-ecrning Poincare 's proposed scheme of income tax led to his resignation. On tho fall of the Briand cabinet M. Poincare Poin-care whs asked by M. Fallicrcs.lo undertake un-dertake the formation of a ministry, but he refused. Jn private and domestic life tho premier pre-mier is anything but a recluse. In his line house near tho Boise do Boulogne ho entertains largely, but all his family and his works of art and his books find a prominent place in his affection. LTo is essentially a man of tho world, who goes everywhere and sees everything. every-thing. Tic loes not miss many first-night first-night performances at tho theater, hc is fond of raciug, and occasionally is to be seen at Lougachamp and Autoul. Ho is passionately fond of animals, and his CUIIlimiUU3 YI1U1I u It nillli nun aiiiua) aro Scott, a handsome collie dog, aud a pure-bred Persian cat. Fills Call for Strong Man. France, weary of incompetence, has called for a Ftron? man to put the national na-tional houFe in order. TJis countrymen are confident that f. Poincaro will conscientiously accomplish, the task. Ho has surrounded himself with the right kind of men, and his cabinet, taken in tho altogether, is an unusual one more, it is an unparaJlelevl .ono for modern France. J.ls composition 5s: M. Poincare, premier and minister for foreign affairs; M". Briand. vice-president of the cabinet and minister of justice: Stccg, minister of the interior; in-terior; -"M. M.illcrand, minister for war: M. TJelcassc, minister for marine; If. Klotz, minister of finance; IU, Joan Dupuy, Du-puy, minister for public works; M. Fernand David, minister of commerce.; 1. Pains, minister of agriculture: Lcbruu, minister for the colonics; 1. Loon Bourgcoir, .minister for labor; M, Guisthau, minister of education. The new ministry is csscutially a national na-tional one, and stands for all that is cflicient and politically sound In French polilicH, thankH to the royal perspicacity perspi-cacity of M. Raymond Poiucavc, |
