Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 January 1906 — LOUBET WILL NOT RUN. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

LOUBET WILL NOT RUN.

President of France Says He Will XolServe u Third Term. Thet£_Hs spon to be a great fight In France over the presidency of the greaj European republic. Before long the national Assembly will ifieej at. Versailles for ' the purpoaerpf choosing a successor toPres!<Teht Lou bet whose second term is drawing to a close. There are several candidates prominently spoken of as likely to get the great honor thrust lipon them. In some quarters It Is. said there is a well defined movement on foot to force President Loubet to accept ia third term as President. He, however, strongly declares he will not serve a third term. Hr another quarter there is a strong feeling against.the Loubet government. It is held by many, and openly pronounced, (bat the Loubet government is full of “graft.” Men have declared in Congress that the President baa counterianeetl much political spoliation; that he has - inspired a tremendous amount of persecution which is not in

harmony with the republican tendencies of France; that he has carried his Ideas of the expulsion of troublesome politicians to an absurd degree and that he has endangered the peace of the republic in a wanton manner. Therefore, It is thought, a strong element w r ill rise up against the element ready to give Loubet a third term in hopes of continuing the policy of spoliation, persecution and expulsion. M. Fallieri.es, president of ftie Senate, has thus far been considered the leading candidate

PRESIDENT LOUBET OF FRANCE.