Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 February 1899 — PARIS MOBS BATTLE. [ARTICLE]

PARIS MOBS BATTLE.

Opponents and Friends of Lonbet in Combat France is in an uproar over the election of President Loubet and the demonstrations of the anti-Dreyfus party in Paris are carried on with great vigor. Fighting is continually going on between the friends and enemies of the new president, and the police force has been more than doubled, and is making arrests wholesale. Although Loubet is not known to ever have expressed an opinion in the matter, it is generally understood that he is a friend of Dreyfus, and the purpose of the demonstrations against him is to force him to resign, as was done in the case of Cassimir Perier. The anti-revisionists threw rocks through the windows of the Rothschilds’ office, and the friends of Dreyfus retaliated by wrecking the office of the Petit Journal. Once in a while detachments of the opposing factions came together, and broken heads resulted. In the midst of all the excitement the fears for the safety of the republic are subsiding somewhat. The Duke of Orleans has given up hope of anything favorable happening to him and has left Turin for Milan, where he expects to meet a delegation from St. Gartland. Agents of the French police are watching him. In receiving a committee from France at Turin, the duke delivered a violent speech, in which he declared that Loubet would be the last president of the republic and predicted the early restoration of a monarchy.