Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1892-04-27
WATERFOWL. WIS.
JUGDES FEAR A BOMB.

No One Anxious to Try Ravachol, the An
archist-Threats by HIS Followers.
PARIS, April 25.-Much interest is
manifested in the trial of the Anar-
chist, Ravachol, who is charged with
having caused the explosion at the resi-,
dence of Judge Benoit, 1876 Boulevard
st. German, who presided at the trial
of Anarchists at the Seine assizes on
April %, 1891, and at the house corner
Rue Clichy and the Rue de Berlin, the
residence of NJ. Bulot, who conducted
the prosecution on that occasion. The
trial is fixed for tomorrow, and the de-
mand for tickets of admission to the
courtroom has been very active. The
desire to hear the proceedings has been
somewhat dampened, however, by q
statement that appeared yesterday. that
friends of Ravachol were plotting
to prevent any sentence the court might
impose upon him from being carried
out. 1t is not known what course the
Anarchists will pursue, but it is feared
that some of them may in some way
gain admission to the courtroom and
throw bomb. Of course it is hardly
probable that such thing could hap
pen, but SO many dynamite outrages
have been perpetrated in spite Of all
the precautions of the police that the
public is willing to believe that
the Anarchists will try any scheme, no
matter how desperate, to prevent Ra-
vachol from being punished. It is GER
tain that none Of the judges are at all
anxious to preside at the trial, as the
Anarchists have threatened vengeance
against the judge who sentences him.
The indictmdnt is long one, and after
naming all the persons arrested goes on
to recite the history of the conspirators
from April IS, 1891, giving in detail all
the facts that led up to the various out
RACES in which the accused were impli-
Gated.
The Eclair to-day publishes letter,
signed by number of RavachOPs
friends, addressed to the jurors who
will sit in the case. The letter appeals
to the jurors to observe impartial fair
ness, and declares that Ravachol's
acts of vengeance were justified by
the criminal attitude of Judge
Benoit and Public Prosecutor
Bulot at the trial of the Clichy Anarch-
lists. The Eclair also publishes the text
of an Anarchist proclamation which has
been secretly printed with view to in
fuencing the municipal elections, which
will be held on May l. This is violent
manifesto advocating neutrality in the
elections, which are denounced as
bourgeois farce.
Remember" the manifesto says,
'tthat by going to the poll you initiate
the sheep going to the shambles. Be a
man, learn to do without rulers and
governments-tha is to say, masters
and oppressors. Then, and then only,
on the ruins of the horrible and mon
strous past whose sole basis and rule
was the idiotic struggle for ex-
istence, you may lay the foun-
datlon of the organization of
the future, resting entirely on
the agreement for a free, harmonious
and integral life. The principles OF
equality, liberty and justice will then
no longer be vain formulas, and by
anarchy, without God or master, all may
freely produce according to their
strength, while amply consuming to
their wants"
1t further urges the working people
10 seize the workshops, factories and
warehouses and commence the social
rav0lutIOn