The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-09-15
TREM0RS
Are Beginning to Pass Through
the Frame
Of the Entire French Body Pol
itic.
Revolution Already Scented in
the Air.
BY FARSEEING ONES.
Rather Than Expose the Cor
ruptiOn in the Army
Which Revision Of the Dreyfus
Case Will Bring
ARMY LEADERS WILL
Make a Coup D'Etat and Name
a Dictator.
This Dictator May Be President
Faure Himself.

New York, Sept.15.-A dispatch to the
World from Paris says:
France is on the brink of the gravest
crisis since the birth of the third re-
public.
The situation is briefly this:
Premer Brisson and all the other
members of the cabinet, with the ex-
ception of SuerIinden, minister of war
and possibly Lockroy are convinced of
the absolute necessity of revision in the
Dreyfus case in the interest alike Of
justice and of the state. General Bru-
ger has signified his willingness to take
the portfolio of war and accept revis-
ION
At Saturdays meeting of the cabinet
a decision will be taken, and it is Ger
tain that revision will be decreed. Pres
ident Faure has been a determined op-
ponent of revision and has caused it to
be rumored that he will resign if it is
granted. No one believes that he will
resign but every one sees that the
threat to do so is a desperate expedient
to get rid at one blow of Brisson's cab
met, and it is fondly hoped, of revision
also.
But Faure's unconstitutional action
IN directly interfering with responsible
the lawlessness in high places which is
the first step toward revolution. He is
accused of aiming at a dictatorship. and
If he succeeds in destroying the Brisson
cabinet it will be the act of a dictator.
The Dreyfus agitation can now be
suppressed only by the exercise of arbi-
trary power. President Faure has
made himself the champion of the army
and it's tainted chiefs, who will do any
lit
ion would entail and they are ready to
place that arbitrary power in his hands.
A military coup d'etat is therefore free
ly conjectured as the probable outcome
of the crisis should President Faure's
effort to bulldoze the Brisson cabinet
fail
Colonel Patty de Clam in an interview
at mis- home said:
I know very well that my being put
on the inactivity list has set Wagging
all the tongues OF Paris but there is 10
be no sensational sequel whatever. My
relation with this accursed controversy
is solely official All these statements
about my having bounded Dreyfus and
prosecuted his wife are execrable lies.
Ny connection with the bOrdereaux? I
have done. The war minister-he best
knows Why-has retired me temporarily
and, like a soldier I ask no questions,
but submit. If you, like the French re-
pOrterS, are seeking a theatrical SenSa-
ton, let me assure you that you are on
the wrong track. The light about which
Zola has prated so much can do moth
ing but good to me-"
Nevertheless it is rumOred that Paty
de Clam has disappeared from Paris.
ZOla Coming Back in October.
Paris, Sept t15.-The Matfn today saws
that while the cabinet is divided as to
the authenticity of certain documents in
the Dreyfus case all the ministers ad-
NIT that they were not communicated
f7n Il a.
a revision of the trial will bring up the
question of the responsibility of General
Mercier who was minister for war at
the time Dreyfus was convicted This
it is explained is the reason for the
hesitanCy of the cabinet
The Echo de Paris says Emile Zola is
IN Switzerland and that he will return
to Paris early in October. He said to
be preparing an address to the public
which will be posted in the principal
towns of France