The Topeka state journal., 1898-02-14
AN EXPLOSION
Seems Imminent in France as a
Result
Of the Trial of Emile ZOla,
Which Has
Worked French Excitement to
Its Highest Pitch.
TROOPS ARE MARCHED
Into the City From the YER
SailIeS Garrison.
The Army at the Bottom of the
Anti-ZOla Agitation.
ACCUSATIONS.
zoLA's

ZoLA'S BOLD ACCUSATIONS
The prosecution of NJ. ZoIa is due to
a scOrching letter issued January Is. It
was headed Il accuse and was ad-
dressed to M. Faure, president of the
Republic. In it NJ. ZOla said:
I accuse Lieutenant-C Colonel du Patty
de Clam of having been the d1abo1caI
worker of a judicial error, unconscious
ly 1 am ready to believe, and OF then
having defended his nefarious doings
for the past three years by the most
absurd and culpable Vaccinations.
I accuse Gen. Mercier of being the
accomplice, at least through weak in
telligence, in the greatest iniquity OF
the century.
Il accuse Gen. BiIlot of having in his
hands the certain proofs of the inno-
cence of Dreyfus, and of having sup.
pressed them, thus rendering himself
guilty OF treason against humanity ana
justice, for a political reason and IN or
der to save the compromised staff.
Il accuse Gen. de BOisdeffre and Gen.
Gonse of being the accomplices in the
same crime.
Il accuse the officers of the war min
istry of having organized a press cam
paign in order to lead public opinion
astray.
Finally, I accuse the first court mar
tial of having condemned a man on a
document kept secret, and accuse the
second court martial OF having covered
this ilIegality by order, and of commit
ting in its turn the judicial crime OF
knowingly acquitting a guilty person.
IN bringing IOTNWaIQ THESE dCCuSet-
tions I know that am exposing myself
to the penalties of the press law of 1881
but am voluntarily running this FISK
I do not know the persons whom 1 ac-
cuse, and bear them no rancor. ask
for light in the name of humanity my
protest is the cry of my soul, and let
anybody that dares bring me before an
assize court, and let the investigation
be made in broad daylight"
Paris, Feb. 14-The garrison of Paris
has been reinforced by troops from
Versailles.
There is little chance of the acquittal
of Emile Zola. The mob would be
ready to lynch the jury, and the sold
iers are much more excited than they
appear to be.
Dislike for secret trial, however, is
increasing, and should NJ. Laborie's ell
oquence extort an acquittal, the gov
ernment is bound to fall, in which case
the army may issue a pronunciamentO.
The chances are against such an over
turn, hut there is no lack of funds for
a revolutionary movement. The Jews
are both frightened and enraged at
| their position under the parliamentary
republic
Upon arriving at his residence M
ZoIa was mobbed by crowd, who as
sailed him with abusive and insulting
epithets, but the police dispersed the
crowd.
The latest move of the anti-ZoIa agi-
tators is signalling with a whistle which
quickly brings together a mob of pro-
fessional rowdies when ZOla IS near
GOVERNMENT MAY YIELD A
POINT.
Tt is reported that when the excite
ment shall have abated the sentence of
Dreyfus will be submitted to the su-
preme court of cessation, the jurisdic-
ton of which extends to martial
when martial law has not been pro-
claimed The secret document the
port says, will be submitted to these
law lords in camera.
The question of NJ. Zola's personal
safety is seriously exercising his friends
who assert that several notorious crirni-
nails have been lowering about the
| court building. 1t is suggested that
| they have been lavishly bribed to injurc
! 20 a seriously, even if they do not kill
| him.
The grave feature of the situation is
| the incursion of mob law inside and
! outside the PaIais de Justice.
| Every dwelling of the Rothschilds is
| guarded as if it were a powder maga-
| zine.
An anarchist meeting was held at
| Mont Parnesse at which speeches were
| made in favor of ZOla, and cries of
| Down with the army were indulged
| in. Order, however, was maintained.
Paris, Feb. 14-While the trial of NJ.
| ZOIa and NJ. Perreux was resumed to-
| day NJ. JaureS, the socialist member of
| the chamber of deputies, was recalled.
! He reiterated his belief in the culpa abil-
| ity of Major Esterhazy.
| The examination of NJ. BertilIOn the
/ handwriting expert, was then resumed.
| He said he thought it impossible to ask
| the minister for war for the incriminat-
/ ing documents seized at the residence in
/ 1894 which according to the testimony
| of the witness on Saturday last would
| enable him to prove that Dreyfus wrote
| the bordeau.
| NJ LabOrie, counsel for NJ. Zola there
| upon protested and twitted NJ Bertil-
| lon with being unwilling to testify in
court while giving interviews to the
| newspapers.