Show U.- U. I No Great App Appeal al for Sympathy in French Scandal I Former Wife of Fr Journalist Reviews Fact Facts About A Persons Who I Figured Directly or Indirectly in the thc Killing of Editor Caillaux and Calmette Both Lacked Sincerity E Ever er t th first attacks attack t two O months ro o of th the th the minister of ILance e there w a was drama dv Jn In n tho air Ar of v were ere baIng being be ba- bo- bo Pin and Aud nil all sorts of ot conjecture ing lug made mA as s B t to th the developments and the conclusion of ot o th the fight In tho Nell ew York ork Fr 1 C. C Fay World Word Vo combatants had been prominent Th The co o Ufe life for a R. number of fl in urchin know U their lr yar Every treet ur and represented names and what the they both h hid hada d a a Jorco of back backor backof of or them who who following their 1 kader and ad taking t up arms for tor tI their lr cause cArried the spirit of or battle into the tho obscurest oreO Moreover cl clec- clec ec- ec I nooks of or tho big bi city lion e wa wan 8 toot that Particular whon when four year years period occurring every Y cry the always excitable Par fans fairly falHy Jong become violently aggressive i I for tor re re to Attack waited for tor- Whether r Giston Calmette this special frame of ot f mind among the 1 people of ot Paris Pads for tor the striking of his first bo How olow or whether circumstances forced his i hand ju Just juit t at this n moment It IB Ia difficult to 83 aay eay At all c it was wa-s tho the psychological psychological psycho psycho- i logical moment and the first t crack of or I match net et fire to all those lItI littie lit little lIt lIt- I I tie tle powder po barrels the barrelS the political committees commit commit- I tees three four and five fhe in cach each one of ot the d eighty bt- bt quarters or districts Into which I the city It 18 B divided I Since the tile days ay ays' ays of the Dreyfus M affair had hd there been only one such excellent r reason nason for lor quarrel and arid that thal was a when hen tho the I separation law and th that 1 law a for the con- con were Wern er being discussed and paned It I was time for tor something new I to happen The Floras Flora's campaign n against Caillaux began bean an and though the more minded minded mind mind- I ed ca pe persons ns on both sides of the barricade may ma b have ve deplored its ita occurrence It C car car- rt r- r t h gave the little cafe J politicians keen ceen Frenchmen of f all aU a ases agee eB and stations station followed toll fol toJ- tol- tol l lowed wed Ked with 1 Interest and discussed In de detail detail de- de tail taU nil all the moves important or trifling on the r ch cb checker board and whenever whenever when when- ever eer big bib parties or well k known own personalities ties are enca engaged ed in a R. skirmish every I Frenchmans Frenchman's lighting fighting blood is stirred even evenIn evenin In hi time of ot peace and how much moro more In time of or war before elections Caillaux's Attitude Am Amazed Zed From the ver very beginning beginning- of the campaign cam cam- against him Caillaux's s 's attitude startled friend and t foe The calm cairn front he opposed to all of bullets WM was waa wasa a Should it be interpreted as al the serene urene assurance of ono one who knows he is right and md fears But It Is Se not Inthe Inthe in inthe the Fr French to receive insults smilingly Many tany a man has fought a duel for or f mS Wa Was Caillaux afraid to feel the point of the editors editor's teel in his flesh Osh Or did he ho fea feat that thal Calmett Calmette itO 11 have havo refused to receive the Ie seconds second of ot a man rn whom he had publicly pub pub- lIe declared d to be without honor Why then did ho not sue ue him for Cor libel Surely a minister of oC the republic could feel as assured assured as- as lured of the Impartiality of or the tho 1 French rench courts even though his adversary be bo at th head hud of ot one of the thc most Important newspapers of Europe The public began bean to find in Ia Caillaux's very ery some ome of ot the ambiguity of which Calmette aa a so persistently and scathingly accusing him with regard 10 lo his politics Backing But Caillaux belongs to a powerful party the ne Republican Radical and Radi Radl- Socialist cal party narty stronger stroner In number numb t thin any of ot the oth others taken singly ly and representing as os it were tb the two most numerous classes cluses of French people the petite antI and the small land landowner owner The party part stood and still sUII stands by him If It not entirely for tor ht his sake ake a assuredly as QI for Its own It is a solid well 4 disciplined or organization organisation mostly composed of f Free Masons 01 and like that secret so so- clety it d defends tends Its members in all cases to the utmost Even though public opinIon opinion opinion ion was wis inclined to turn against Caillaux he could stand erect as Ion long as the party PArt Was nas backing him Calmette fired shot after shot hot apparently apparent apparent- I ly at ax a stone wall without response Tho The situation became more and more embar- embar rA Caillaux's partisans ans ns were clamoring for p proofs roo sure as lh they y felt that there were non none At last the c editor may have hac considered himself Jf morally compelled in order to clear dear himself of the tho possible accusation of or having written untruth to furnish those proofs t and uncover unco such arms arm a as perhaps be be hoped to leave leac unu unused ed rhe The letter W was 8 published a a signal for tor forth I th consummation of the he tragedy that kill d o one e. e of the opponents and struck the theOther theother other to o that he ma may feel he were v better I I a I II I tru e t of pr f Destiny IAn t I An nt th the woman the tn instrument tr of destIny des des- Un tIny However Hower great Teal her wrongs may be the sh he IB ito io be bc pitied She Sho wanted to give 1 C Calmette lm a les lesson wound lesson him slightly For that purpose fhe he e got ot an automatic re revolver rc- rc which she did kno know how vol volver er rr not to han handle le When hen he Intended to fire flie ono one shot th the others followed automatically a and Wiled killed the man She wanted anted to save her husband prom from further attacks possibly attacks po possibly e to 10 him and the world that she Jo IO loved him him anti with nIth true truo feminine logic she he adopted straight th the one means that thit in no cage could cou have helped him and under the circumstances put an m- m end to the politicians politician's career career- and an ambition Bhe wanted to satisfy her own o honor by th the man who had dared Ted to publish publish pub pub- lish Ush a a. compromising in letter written b by her f present ent husband and addressed to her while she was still sun her former husbands husband's Jt But her name namo had not been tn mentioned men men- n- n It ll was UI not oven said in plain i ord that the rn message was 85 a addressed to a. a woman By taking the la law in her own bands lands she he publicly admitted what hat wu wast a Only belne murmured and which It was te easier etsler to l noTo than the pt printed in the columns column of ot the Fl Figaro t Handl mi and A Ambitious C C has la failed II d in her plan from m lIdo tlde one may look took a at it ae no now 1 b he be held on the charge of murder Ier and nid th the brilliant future that both she he and her husband were ere aiming at is I Irreparably removed out of or their r reach ch For Mme is 16 not only a R handsome hand hand- some fomo woman she hl is above aba all nub ambitious And nd every one of ot her bet steps stern In lire uto having taken her up upward ard on tho the world Udder her ambition increased proportionately until the tragic day clay that brought her to the most Ignominious of or French prisons ori pint Lazare L zare to which the police nl nightly tart cart all sorts of oC evil women It Itts is well ell known in Franco that Joseph Caillaux was hoping for fot the presidency of ot the republic especially since the tho death of athle hie friend an and rival al th the w wealthy a thy ty y once minister of or war Mme Mm of being 1 bin called d C UX was aS Ill Madams Madame la Ia President like Mme Mine Imp Poin- Poin care caro Nile Mile As API Mile lime Renouard she ho W was lI nobody nobody- tY- tY Just 31 ono one of or th the many fair lAir daughters daughter of ot the tho French bourgeoise B By K L Leo o she he ent entered r d Into a a. moro more prominent sphere ph ro and nd became tho the niece of or Jules administrator of ot the Comedic ran cal one of ot the foremost foremast Journalist that Franco France ever p possessed and arid generally IY IYan an alt eminent nt figure lra of or his lus time Leo Cl dar Car r- r cUe Is not a brilliant man but ho has bps brains and a certain cottAn Ho He has bas published several Moral of ot compilation and literary or educational Information and for years ho he held the tho literary editorship editorship editor editor- ship of ot the Figaro Flaro But Henrietta Renouard being Mme MD met mel Caillaux I Iman a man of ot wealth and Find position of whom bom it was saM said that lie ho had a future futuro Even though ho may ha e responded to his hh love lovo she was S hardlY the sort o of woman to overlook tho the possibilities that were ere lying for tor her In an association with tho tile rising Her position as wHo was alJ likely to remain identically the same some as there Is 1 no special spark of oC genius In the writer that could be expected to burt burst Into a 1 clear flame Caillaux was different and the difference undoubtedly l appealed to Mme i smoldering ambition Cia Cia- itic is lt a gentleman ho gentleman ho didn't tl try to hold her when she wanted to go 10 c 4 tl Mino So in the autumn of ot 1911 11 she ahe be was married mar mar- ried to 10 Caillaux the man of all We and aDd at tho the time th the official of ot the tie country the premier of ot tho the cabinet cabi net the real governor of ot France The Tho only possible stop ateI that remained aJ ahead was to enter the Elysee palace It Is a amore amore amore more stable establishment at all ev events for cabinets come and go o with astonishing astonish astonish- ing rapidity in France Franco but out the president is 18 elected for or sever ert ever years and ma may be bo re- re elected Calmettes Calmette's vigorous attacks were seriously sort seri ou ottly ly compromising nil all tho the splendid hopes of Mme Caillaux and end realizing the danger denger dan den ger moro more and more moro ever every day she probably probably proba proba- bl bly lost her head Women aro are made that way ay When all goes wron wrong they are wont to rush blindfolded toward tho the one folly tally that that will cut the tho thread by which the sword is suspended over ocr their heads No Now No the sword has fallen fallen fallen on both herself hersel and her husband Is it a n great pity No There are arc other mon men in inFranco Franco France and better men though perhaps not man many with financial abilities to equal those of or Caillaux Father and Son Tho The French nation is the greatest caving eav In tag ing nation on earth Carth and therefore the richest But i ll It is not a nation of ot great financiers There Thero are few tew men of French blood In all its history who vrho have o distinguished distinguished distin distin- themselves in the field of ot hl high h finance Caillaux doubtless is one of or its luminaries as was his father ft before him During MacMahon's ta presidency Call- Call laux Jaux the elder older was minister of or finance and by the way a a special favorite of ot tho the Marechal president on account of ot his hie political opinions MacMahon though the chief C executive of or the young republic camo came o of a royalist family turned a good during his many year yeara of service service ser ser- vice ko in the army of the empire and was connected through his wife wite with the Or- Or party Ho favored Caillaux because bo- bo cause of his being such a very pale le republican In this titis atmosphere of ot republicanism ready to b betray tra tho the republic on the first o occasion caslon young Joseph Caillaux was brought in Ho He was clever enough to see tho the respective po position 1 and the ties of the various among the republicans and seeing them he chose choso for or his own field fJeld of endeavor the tile most powerful most popular faction the faction the one that has been In the ascendancy for tor the last twenty years cars the tho one that could best further his o own n personal ambition The Compte de la Ia Boissiere a Frenchman Frenchman Frenchman French French- man who divides his time between Paris and Now New York and who In his youth was secretary to MacMahon asserts that Can Call laux lame is in his heart as as' as conservative as his father and that consequently a all his pout leal ical life reeks with Insincerity Jaures the Socialist t leader says uy M. M r. r de la Ia Boissiere was was al also o a conservative in his younger years but ho has grown to sec coo differently and it is la Impossible not to 10 admit that whatever he says and does Is I backed hacked by b firm conviction on his part park f is tho the same He may not wash his han banda bandt tl three times Umes a day a and may Ignore th tho of ot use a one ma may disagree with his extreme radicalism but one Is forced to admire the man for tor his forceful sincerity Why he never thought a word v of ot what ho bo told the public Do you ou believe that a man who ho loves wealth as aa ho he does docs docs who wJ lias has added a 4 score of or millions to his fathers father's fortune and who as the P ot of various lolLS eta 1 enterprises draws draw close elope very ery to 3 fiance a sear can seriously want want his tax b bill 11 to pass It is a convert conven tent platform wins Ins him the sympathy of ot the masses mass e it furthers further his hla arabi- arabi ton brings him into prominence but he would be the first to b be sorry if if his Plan were adopted No man roan is sincere who seems to work ork rk against his own pock- pock book Letter Proves It The lone published by Calmette is proof roof that h the tle Comte Comie de do la Is Judges rightly Publicly fought for 01 his bill privately he be knew just Juat what wires Ires to pull to mako tt It fail faU Take Tak this affair ot of the tho rente rents or In In- etan stance e the count continued On as the miniSters miniSter's part evor every move with regard to it is a profitable but nt speculation One and a quarter cent centimes im difference In th the Bourse Roune value alue of the rento is what t. is ts generally lt speculated upon Pon Through lh his tactics at the cham ber Caillaux brought about a t difference difference Of several francs Do you ou think h he lot int the tho best of the tho o profits go to anYOne but himself Not lot if It know YOU vou H HIt He h must have havA cleared several millions million during the last laEt few weeks s It Is 18 evident vl that a man who ho ha handles dl his own on finances finance so cleverly while whilo he is the tile official guardian of or the finances of tho the country Is III Is to say Bay the I least t. t un- un And Calmette c. by opening tho the eye rc of tho the public pUblic to me situation did f a work of ot national sanitation er el ho he meant to or o not whether hether ho did It t for reasons of or personal or personal per per- sonni profit that is ts another question Also Calm Calmette himself was not by any means above suspicion where her I money oneY was wall concerned Man Many are tho the details of ot his career that show him in an unpleasant JI light ht I lie He comes of ot a R. good tam family 1 HI His brother broth r. r a er very distinguished l p scientist In is I. 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