The sun., 1898-09-20
EsrERHAgT'S 1NFAlLIEs.
He vaciliates Between Suicide and Making
Clean Breast Of IL.

spseial Cable D,spatoAss 70 TIE Sur.
LONDON. Sept 19-Publlc curiosity in Eng
land and France. which was greatly piqued by
the promised revelations OF Major EsterhaEy In
the Dreyfus case is still unsatisted. The
Paris papers announced to-day that EsterhaSy
had returned to Paris and had declared that
he did not intend to make statement This is
false. The correspondent Of TIE SUN had q
long conversation with Esterhazy In England
to-day
scoundrel though the ex-oflcer 10. he retains
some peculiar ideas Of honor. He IL now
vacillating between committing suicide and
making a clean breast Of his infamies. He has
already made full verbal confession to three
responsible persons. but persistently delays
putting 1t into writing and refuses to permit
its publication at present. The principal reason
for this seems to he that his confession will
not have sufflcient political effect unless 1t IL
held until the Chamber Of Deputies meets.
Esterhazys justification for all that he has
done In the Dreyfus case IL interesting to NOR
alists. It 10 embraced in his maxim: "A SOL
dier should place his conscience as well as his
sword at the disposal Of his superior oflcers"
The Berlin correspondent ofthe Pun Mall Ca
Eette is assured by member Of the Secret In
telligence Department OF the German War Of
nee that neither he nor any Of his colleagues
ever directly or indirectly communicated with
Dreyfus or even heard Of his name until his
trial By court-martial. The general belief Of
the Berlin military authorities, the correspond
ent says. is that Dreyfus suecumbed to an anti
Semitic conspiracy. pure and simple.
PARIS. Sept. 19.-It Is expected that the COM
mission to examine the matter OF revision OF
the Dreyfus case. which will begin its sittinEs
on Wednesday. will continue its session for ten
days.
The Duke OF Orleans issued the following
manifesto on the Dreyfus case this evening:
AT last the promoters Of the odious plot
against the honor and security Of the Father
land have thrown OF the mask. Intimi-
dated by them the Ministers have low
cred themselves so far as to become
their accomplices. Nothing has made them
shrink. not even the aflrmations repeated
with significant emphasis by all. military or
civil who have succeeded one another at the
Ministry Of War.
To-day. while admitting that no doubt as
to the guilt OF the convict has been
raised in their minds. under the falla-
cious preteIt of calming public opinion
whose authorized representatives they
refuse to consult and in contempt Of universal
suffrage. without which they are nothing. they
come to decide q question which. as their own
deliberations prove. is national question.
They seek to their own profit to garble a
true thought expressed In the French tribune
a thought which has made my own heart
Quiver.
Frenchmen, we are masters In our own
country. To be masters In ones own country
one must command. not obey servants who are
subject to an occult and pernicious power and
who presume toimpose on you the will TO which
they themselves submit.
will you submit 20 It, Frenehmen. that the
Constitution be torn up. even By those
whose sole title 1t was. and who traded
on it? 1t exists no longer Your most
sacred rights are outraGeously violated. VIII
you suffer this under the pretext Of proving
innocent a man whom the military tribunals
have condemned as traitor2 It is the army
they are trying to destroy. France which they
are striving TO ruin.
Frenchmen. we will not allow It,"
The manifesto is regarded as little attempt
on the part OF the Duke to fish In troubled
waters. 1t appeared too late to afford an op-
portunity for much comment.
Apart from Royalist circles. the flrst impress
sion that can be gained Is that It is regarded as
no sillier than previous similar efforts by the
same individual. and that 1t is not destined to
have any greater effect than attended them.
n. de Pressense. editor Of the Temps. who
lately has been prominent advocate for a re-
vision OF the Dreyfus case. has been sum-
moned by the Council Of the Legion OF Honor
Of which he is q member. to defend himself
against the charge OF making speeches deroga-
tory to the army.
1t is said that one Of the first acts OF Gen.
Chanoine. the new Minister OF War will be to
make thorough change in the stan OF the
Ministry OF War and to effect q complete re-
organization of the secret information bureau.