The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-02-24
VICTIM OF MOB VIOLENCE
Z0LA'S COMMENT UPON THE ADVERSE
VERDICT OF THE JURY

The Trial Which Has Been the Sen
satiOn of Europe Ended With the
| Conviction Of the Famous Nov
| elist-A Graphic story Of the
Dramatic Closing Scene.
| PARIS, Feb. 23.-The Zola trial IS
ended. The jury agreed days ahead on
! the verdict, and its unanimity was due
to threats. 1t stayed in the jury room
| only for g. few minutes, and the SELL
! tence is one year for NJ. Zola and four
months for NJ. Perreux, the nominal
! director of the Aurore.
The hour was in the evening, and
the court was lighted by electricity,
| which revealed the face of every per
son. a very striking object, Christ
NJ. Maitre Laborie ended his speech
! by saying: THE name of Plate is the
! most abhorred in history"
| The figure of Christ caught Zola's
| eye. After sentence had been passed
with pompous decorum he exclaimed:
To-day, associated with Christ, I, too,
! am victim of mob violence, of cow
ardice and grand miscarriage of JUS
! tice"
But he did not vince nor finch. He
! looked as Indifferent as q mere specta-
! tor. Nine. Zola's devoted heart at first
seemed broken, but. when she felt that
/ she must brace herself up to rise 10 the
height Of Zola's grand situation, she
| became calm and Self-possessed. His
friends, the artists. Bruneau and Des-
meulin, were more broken hearted than
she.
| The troops were never employed to
keep order during the trial The civic
guards and constabulary only were
called out. There were 1000 on duty
around the law courts today, but, de-
! spite all precautions to exclude the
public, 1900 persons got into the hall.
There were endless officers in uniform
/ and civilian clothes, and the young Of
hcers IN the court and hall joined In the
manifestations, and waved their caps
/ when "Vive IArmee" was cried The
Old officers were content to laugh
merely.
Fearful Din.
The jury slipped away but some of
the 1urymen were recognized in the hall
and borne in triumph through the
seething crowds on young mems
| shoulders. The din was fearful. but II
was joyous din. The fact that Zola
! was meeting a severe sentence softened
| angry passions. The French as vic
tors, are kindly; defeat sours and In
! furiates them.
Are we entering" moderate people
ask, IAN era Of pronunciamentos? No
no French general ever aimed at mill
| tary dictature. The first and second
! Napoleons were practically foreigners
! But there is a strange combination of
| army, church and people, with one OBJ
! Jective, to put down Israel in France
! This union is less fortuitous than It
| looks. The Jews now control all the
| sources OF wealth. The minds and feel
! nf ha
revolt in secret against this power
| which has no physical force behind it.
| What has fomented in the brain Is now
! going into action.
The church is the one great universal
organization to pit against the Jew
ish universal alliance. France there
fore, IS now politically with Rome. but
she must keep the republic A mon
archy could only live by force of the
army and would mean war.
France is not organized for war for
her army is only militia, but Prince
Henry of Orleans Is hoping for mill
tary movement against the republic
and to come to the top. He daily show
ed himself during the trial in the hall
OF the court house, and one day en-
braced Major Esterhazy, crying: "Vive
L Armee." He was surrounded and
salaamed TO by his Orleanist friends
but 1t did not do. He has no brilliant,
captivating qualities, but only an am
higuous, half girhsh figure, and talks
through his nose languidly.
Faure Against Zoia.
NJ. Faure patronized Gen. Pellieux
and Gen de Boisdeffre. as against M.
lola. He likes fine military company.
Boisdeffre is aristocratic and in favor
at st. Petersburg, and the president IS
sensible to this.
The cheering was tremendous all over
town, but there was little violence,
though the Jews were terrified. Some
Jews managed to be near the law court,
but escaped with their lives. Fortu-
pately three days of carnival have used
| up the animal spirits of the people
| They were tired and wanted to go to
| bed. The students, however, are much
excited.
At a late hour tonight 1 went to
| Zola's house. l found him more ner-
| Vous than on the hearing of the YER
dict, but bearing up with as tiff lip.
He says he is sorry for France, but
| thinks she will right herself
The house was filed from the ground
| floor TO the garret with bouquets of
| flowers that had come from all parts,
| the gifts, doubtless, of Jewish ladies'
The tables were Uttered with tele-
grams. One dispatch of 5000 words
came from Odessa.
NJ. Zola will write another letter be-
fore sur1 endering himself He was
very tired. He absolutely felt like a
storm tossed mariner. He was going.
he said, TO the end Of the century in
| all-round new conditions The friends
| around him envied him his new de-
parture in the path OF glory What an
| honor it would be to be a martyr for
truth and justice. He had al THAT a
prosperous career could give; but the
way of the cross, phiIosophically un-
derstood, was now open to him.