Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 July 1909 — BRIAND AS FRENCH PREMIER [ARTICLE]

BRIAND AS FRENCH PREMIER

Socialist Offered Post and Will Give His Answer Today. Paris, July 23. —Aristide Brland, brilliant scholar, orator and avowed socialist, and architect of the final chapters of the separation law, was summoned to the Elysee palace and asked to reconstruct the Clemenceau cabinet Brland promised his answer today. A Briand cabinet would be exceedingly distasteful to the monied classes, who at least knew that Clemenceau was not afraid to resist revolutionary tendencies.