The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-01-26
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duty to begin an investigation. 1t is GER
tain that he never acted apart from the
win of his superiors. He, accordingly,
submitted his suspicious 10 his superiors
in rank-to General Gonse, then to Cen
eral de Boisdeffre, and then to General
BiIlot, who succeeded General MERCER as
minister of war. The famous PicQuart
papers. of which so much talk has been
made, were never anything but the Bill
lot papers, mean the file of the papers
made by subordinate for his minister,
a file which must still exist at the min
istry of war. The researches lasted from
May to September, 1896, and-something
which must be declared very Ioudly-Gen-
eral Gonse was convinced of the guilt Of
Esterhazy. and General de Boisdeffre and
General Bllot did not express It doubt
that the bordereau was in the handwrit-
ing Of Esterhazy. The investigation made
by Lieutenant-Colonel Picquart had end
ed by establishing this fact as certain.
But great was the emotion, for the con-
demnation of Esterhazy involved newt
ably the revision of the Dreyfus case; and
this the general staff would have at no
price.
There must have been then a psyche
logical moment fun of agony. Notice that
General Biuot was in no wise compro-
missed he had just come into Office, it was
possible for him to know the truth He
dared not, doubtless in his terror Of pub
lie opinion. certainly also in his fear Of
delivering up the whole stan, General
Ge Boisdefre. General Gonse not to
speak OF the subordinates. There was
but this minute OF struggle between his
conscience and what he believed to be
the interest Of the army: this minute once
passed. IL was already too late. He had
eutangled himself he was compromised
And from that time on his responsibility
has kept on growing. he has taken on
himself the crimes of others. he is as
guilty as they. he is guiltier than they
Tor he had 1t in his power TO do justice
and he has done nothing. Do You Under
stand it, For year Generals de Bots
de6re and Gonse have known that Drey-
/ fus IS innocent and they have kept the
t fearful thing to themselves. And they
sleep, and have wives and children that
| they love.
At Paris the truth went on its way. re-
! sistless; and We know how the expected
/ storm burst forth. N Matthew Dreyfus
! denounced Major Esterhazy as the real
! author of the bordereau at the very mo-
| ment when n Scheurer-Kestrer was
! about bringing before the minister OF JUS
/ tice & demand for revision OF the case.
Il is now that Major Esterhazy appears.
| witnesses show him c-azed at first. ready
+ for suicide or flight Then all a once La
/ brazens it cut, he amazes Paris by the
! violence OF his attitude. Help had come
] 70 him. he had received an anonymous
/ letter warning him Of the maneuvers Of
/ his adversaries: a mysterious lady had
/ even taken the trouble 20 bring him by
night a document stolen AT the general
stan. which was to save him. Here I can
not help finding LieuteRant-ColoneI du
Patty de Clam
Men asked with stU3efaction who were
the protectors OF Major Esterhazy. I,
! was. first OF al. hack IN the shade. the