Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-09-11
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| Paris, September Interpretation
was disappointed to-day. The minis
J terial council was to have held spec
ial sitting with the object of hearing
| the war minister's account of the Drey-
| fus case and the newly discovered de-
! linquencies Of the staff officers. But
| Gen. Zurlinden finding he had not yet
the grounds upon which to form
sound opinion, asked for an adjourn
ment. He is serious, honorably-
minded, worthy colleague of the con-
| scientiCus Brisson, and was chosen to
investigate the Dreyfus affair, was war
minister because he is not biased and
is weighted with sense of the reSpons-
| Utility involved in the matter.
Being protestant and of Bourgeois
breeding, he does not share the ultra
! Catholic anti-jsWish feeling of caste at
the war office. Having been a prisoner
OF war in Germany in 1870, and being
an Alsatian. he is warmly patriotic and
would sympathiZe with the military
| judges if Dreyfus should he find evil
dence Of guilt. Gen. Zurlinden was to
| have given a verdict to-day. If against
reCpening the case, he would have re-
tired to leave the government free
! hand. Judge of the disappointment
when news was received that the coun-
Gil had adjourned.
The Dreyfus affair is in a good chan
mel. The minister of justice has named
six accomplished, experienced, keen
jurists, to examine the secret papers
and everything connected with the
Dreyfus case. The reopening will en-
tirely depend on this committee. Not
one of the six is Jew, but one of
them, NJ Crepon, has been a student
all his life of Jewish history. He has
written 'rMonotheism of the Jewish
People" standard work. Anther
member of the committee, M. Lopelle-
trie has found relaxation from legal
toll in Greek literature. He is the au-
thor CT Comparative Studies in Greek
Modern Drama" All six are men,
CT UNBLEMISHED CHARACTER
and in the habit of sitting evidence.
The six will set to work directly the
war minister gives his opinion
The country being now violently
antiSemite and Dreyfus being a Jew,
the government will have TO act war
! lily and creep, rather than walk for
ward. The iate Lieut.. Colonel Henry's
confession brought public opinion
round to revision; but the hostility
to Dreyfus is not abated. The people
feel that a mist OF iniquity is involved
in the affair and they want to penetrate
| 1t. They are beginning TO understand
! that the general staff is no better than
when it rendered the military disasters
| Of 1870 inevitable. The resignation of
Gen. Boisdeffre as chief q the general
staff, Is a standing puzzle, and it
arouses suspicious that only public
trial can quiet. The people ask: Was
Dreyfus an accomp.ice of Esterhazy?
| Were they both able to hold rods in
pickle for their superiors? Was such
power the reason why the trial was
strangely conducted and Dreyfus rele
gated to the solitude of Devils Island?
! The darkest conjectures are seeming
ly justified by the circumstances con-
nected with Col. Henrys suicide. which
the Jews remark was accomplished on
| the day the ZiCnists congress broke up.
| That event utterly discredits the intel
| Egence department Of the war office
and, indeed, discredits the whole gen
eral staff
No more gruesome event has ever
| shocked human sentiment and cons
cience and though it happened within
sight CT Paris, it is shrouded in mys-
| terry.
Col. Henry's is the second suicide
| connected with the Dreyfus affair. The
| first suicide was that Of lie MERCER
Picard an intelligence agent Of the
general staff of Col. SchwarZkoppen,
the German military attache here. and
of the Italian embassy. He was found
suspended from lamp hook in cell
ing.
WAS HE MURDFRED9
Was he suicide? The suspicious
| facts of his death were hushed up by
the late government and NJ. Lepine, the
former project OF police.
The reported suicide of Major Count
| Esterhazy was a canard. He knows
where too many skeletons are conceal
ed not to feel safe. He will die nat
ural death. but fresh revelations may
lead to Others initiating Col Henry.
The furies. as in the Greek tragedies.
seem to enter into this drama.
The fall Of Gen. Boisdeffre brings the
drama home to the imperial court of
Russia. where, as a brilliant. aristo-
cratic military attache he was a great
favorite He was admitted to the init
mate festivities of the imperial family
and was a favorite Waiting partner Of
the Empress Dowager in her dancing
DAYS. The French republic sent him
and a special embassy to the late Cars
funeral and to the present Cars coro-
nation. Great sums of money were al
lowed him to cut dash. Finally
President Faure took him to st. Peters
burg to assist in the preparation Of
the Franco-Russian treaty. Wbv such
great parsonage deems himself with
Henry and resigns splendid post
passes comprehension. The reopeniug
Of the Dreyfus case may solve the puz-
zle.
(Signed) EMILY CRAWFORD.
Paris. September 10.-The Liberte
SAYS the examination of the documents
in the Drevfus case has led Gen. Eur
Linden. the minister for war, to the con-
clusion that the prisoner is guilty, "as
lit did his predecessors" and that. con-