Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1898-02-19
GREAT UPROAR IN COURT
DISASTER THREATENS FRANCE.
The Trial of lola brings Forth
striking DeVeIopments-The Gar
rison of Paris Has Been Rein
forced-The Republic ImpcriIed
by the Recent Disclosures

Jeurls, the socialist member of the cham
Der of deputies, was recalled. He reiter-
ated his belief in the culpability of Ester
( hazy.
The examination OF NJ Bcrtillon. the
/ handwriting expert, was then resumed.
lie said he thought it impossible to ask
the minister of war for the incriminatino
documents seized at the residence of Drey-
fus in 1894.
/ Laborie, counsel for Zola. thcreupon
protested. and twitted Bertilon with be
ing unwilling to testify in court while
giving interviews to newspapers. BcrtiI
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 Drey-
fus wrote Bordercau, Bertilon answered
that he could not explain without the
documents, which were no longer in his
possession.
This statement caused a sensation i'm
court, and Laborie demanded that the ad-
vocate general compel the witness to re-
ply. The advocate general made no an
sWer Finally BertilIon. who persisted i'm
not answering questions, left the witness
stand amidst considerable uproar, Laborie
remarking, And that is the man upon
whose evidence Dreyfus was convicted 3"
The garrison of Paris has been rein
forced by troops from Versailles.
Disaster Threatens
New York, Feb. ia dispatch to the
Herald from Paris saws:
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business is a question hat may be asked
with some profit at this juncture ef the
lola trial. Gravest anxiety obtains and
the Gaulois goes 50 far as to complain.
editorially. that anarchy prevails in the
army, in the law and in the street." and
calls upon NJ. Felix Faurc to exercise his
! constitutional power and put stop to
this state Of things.
Following are the views of Wcll-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
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 a 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. !
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
sprin9ing into existence between the iu-
dicial system and the army, between the
gown and the sword, the antagonism be-
tween the political world and our army
staff"
Cola VIII he Convicted.
Henri Rochefort said: "Zola will be
convicted. There is so great pressure of
public opinion acting on the jury that one
ram not expect anything but conviction.
On the other hand, Xola does not seem to
me to be well defended, and his counsel
seems to be dragging the affair out az
Ong as possible. | do not think lola will
90 TO prison. nor do | think he will be
obliged to pay fine. After the trial is
over its conclusions will be considered by
.he court of cassation but supposing
lola is acquitted, he will not be able to
show himself in public in Paris, nor for
hat matter anywhere in France, without
personal danger to himself. He could
lot well live in Paris with IA bodyguard
continually about him.
NJ. Judel of the Petit Journal said: Il
onsider the present situation very grave
nd this gravity is owing TO the weakness
# the government
Ferdinand Xau of the Journal said
The extreme gravity of the situation
Oes not lie in the question of the culpa-
ility OF the innocence of Dreyfus, bat in
he passions of the various parties. The
uestion tends to separate into two camps,
7 better yet into sects, the nation whose
nifty has been in force and which, less
nan century ago, proclaimed the rights
t man-that is to say, liberty of opinion
s regards politics and religion. That is
Inv there is reason TO feel that if some
rain of common sense does not enter
ur heads, if our politicians make use of
ur divisions as a spring board during