Red Lodge picket. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1889-1907, 1898-02-19
GREAT UPROAR IN COURT
DISASTER THREATENS FRANCE
The Trial of lola Brings Forth
Striking DevelOpments-The Gar
risOn Of Paris Has Been Rein
fOrced-The Republic Imperiled
by the Recent Disclosures.

fOrceu-Ihe Republic lmper1led
by the Recent Disclosures.
Paris, Feb. l5.--When the trial Of Zolu
and PerrieuN was resumed yesterday
Jeulis, the socialist member of the cham
Der Of deputies, was recalled. He reiter
ated his belief i'll the culpa blity Of Ester
hazy.
The examination of NJ. Bertillon, the
| handwriting expert, was then resumed
He said he thought it impossible to ask
the minister of war for the discriminating
documents seized at the residence of Drev-
| fus in 1894.
Labore, counsel for Zola, thereupon
protested, and twitted Bertillon with be
ing unwilling to testify in court while
giving interviews to newspapers. Bertil-
Ion said the interviews were false Being
pressed by Laborie how, unless he had
seen the secret documents. he was able
to prove at the court martial that Drev-
fus wrote Bcrdereau, Bertillon answered
that he could not explain without the
documents, which were no longer in his
possession.
This statement caused Il sensation in
court, and Laborie demanded that the ad-
vocate general compel the witness to re-
ply. The advocate general made no an
swer. Finally Bertillon, who persisted i'll
not answering questions, left the witness
stand amidst considerable uproar, Laborie
remarking, "And that is the man upon
whose evidence Dreyfus was convicted" !"
The garrison of Paris has been REIN
forced by troops from Versailles.
Disaster Threatens
New York, Feb. ia dispatch to the
Herald from Paris says:
What will be the upshot of the whole
business is a question that may be asked
with some profit at this juncture of the
Zola trial. Gravest anxiety obtains and
the Gaulois goes so far as to complain.
editorially, that anarchy prevails in the
army, in the law and in the street" and
calls upon NJ. Felix Faure to exercise his
constitutional power and put Il stop to
this state of things.
Following are the views Of well known
Partisan journalists, experienced in read
ing the signs of their times:
CASTOR Calmette of the Figaro said:
"A fault has been committed-a fault
which should be attributed to the court
OF affairs rather than to the men who
have brought about this campaign of re-
vision. The proper position to take is a
strictly legal one. and to ask but one
question in the parliament, which com
bined against Dreyfus without his knowl-
edge, to the court martial. If he has been
convicted in connection with document
which he knows nothing about and OF
which his counsel knew nothing, then
the law, no matter what was the fault
Of Dreyfus, has been violated and the
matter should be revised. The whole
question is wrapped up in that. Every
one could associate himself with the cam
paign, so far as Justice is concerned, but
no one could do so properly before the
revision takes place, nor with certainty
have set in motion the question of the
innocence of Dreyfus. If the matter had
been viewed in this light France would
have avoided one Of the most terrible
crises she has undergone since 1870. l
speak of the republic, and this is the first
danger to the republic which can involve.
such incalculable consequences. | refer
to the danger of the antagonism now
springing into existence between the jul
dicial system and the army. between the
gown and the sword, the antagonism be-
tween the political world and our army
staff
Zoln Will BE Convicted.
Henri Rochefort said: "Zola will be
convicted. There is 50 great pressure Of
public opinion acting on the jury that one
can not expect anything but conviction.
On the other hand, Zola does not seem to
me to be well defended, and his counsel
seems to be dragging the affair out as
long as possible. LIDO not think Zola will
go to prison, nor do l think he will be
obliged to pay fine. After the trial is
over its conclusions will be considered by
the court Of cessation: but supposing
ZoIa is acquitted, he will not be able to
show himself in public in Paris, nor for
that matter anywhere i'll France, without
personal danger to himself. He could
not we'll live in Paris with bcdyguard
continually about him.
NJ Judcl of the Petit Journal said: 81
consider the present situation very grave,
and this gravity is owing to the weakness
of the government
Ferdinand Nau of the Journal said:
"The extreme gravity Of the situation
does not lie in the question of the culpa
bility OF the innocence of Dreyfus, but in
the passions of the various parties. The |
question tends to separate into two camps, !
or better yet, into sects, the nation whose
unity has been in force and which, less
than century ago, proclaimed the rights
of man-that is to say, liberty of opinion
as regards politics and religion. That is /
WHY there is reason to feel that if some
grain of common sense does not enter
our heads, if our politicians make use of
cur divisions as a spring board during !
the coming election, and scatter hatred |
instead of preaching appeasement. and
or rather reconciliation, the :
question will remain open" ~ /
SnowsIide Smashed Building.
Rossland. B. c., Feb. l5.-The Travers
building. on Columbia avenue, has been
wrecked by a snowslide from the roof of
the Record building. The Travers build |