Washington sentinel., 1898-03-12

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direct cOntraventiOn OF It's own rulinR
not only to declare their own conviction
OF Dreyius's guilt, but to make state.
ments having no other object than aC
| prove him guilty. In this they hav,
overreached themselves. Dreyius wa.
ostensibly found guilty OF having WRITER
certain letter, called the bordereau
covering documents OF importance sup
posed to have been sent to ,he agents ol
some foreign Power. Il was said by
those who believed in the innocence oi
Dreyfus that the court martial was in
duced to find HIM guilty by certain doc.
uments which were not disclosed to him
or to hiss counsel. The military wit
nesses appear now TO have established
beyond all doubt that this was actually
so. The conclusion would seem to be
that there was the gri vest possible ir
regularity in the Dreyfus trial, From
this 1t ought to result that the trial should
be Feopened. If this happens NJ. Zola
will certainly feel that he has not suffered
IN vain and II il should end as he be.
leves 1t must he will be accounted a
hero and mavtyr- But it is hardly
credible that 1t will happen. The reas.
ons which have made the Government so
long deny any further inquiry must be
as cogent as they ever were, Popular
feeling on the side of the army, and
against the Jews has been reused to such
a pitch that no Government dare excite
it further. France seems to stand in
fear oi far worse evils than that her
courts martial should be thought capable
Of doing injustice.
ROYALTY GUARDI C AGAISsT ExTINc-
TioN,
Gernany's reigning houses are on the
eve OF an innovation which bids fair to
revolutiOnize the entire system OF sue
cession. Not one but several of the
dynasIies are IN danger OF becoming
extinct in default OF male issue oi purel,
royal descent, among the number being
the sovereign families OF Baden, OF Hesse
OF Lippe and OF Schwarzburg
With a view OF avoiding complications
that would otherwise inevitably ensue,
the various sOvereigns OF the confedera.
ton forming the German Empire have
now come + o the conclusion that IN de
fault of male issue OF purely royal de.
scent the heir and successor may be
chosen from the mOrganatic offspring,
who have hitherto been regarded as
barred from the throne by the plebeIan
ancestry either oi their mother or Of
some other maternal ancestresses,
Thus the reignlng prince OF Schwarz
burg and the legislature of the priuci-
Pality. as we'll as the Feceral rulers Of
Germany, have just recognized as heir
to the crown the son borne to him
by his morgantic wife, a Countess
Reina; and a tribunal OF arbitration,
presided over bv the venerable King OF
SaxOny, has lately rendered verdict TO
the effect that the morganatic marriage
of the grandfather Of Count Ernest of
Lippe does not constitute a bar to his
succession to the throne ofthe now de-
mented and chlldless ruler OF that pr,n-
cipalily,
On the same principle the danger can
be aveTted with which the reigninR
houses OF Baden and OF Hesse have now
been confronted, Of becoming extinct
aud thus liable TO have their dominions
absorbed by Prussia. From a physical
point OF view,t innovation IS a subject
OF congratulatIon. For the issue Of
m org anatic alliances, that is to say, OF
matrimonial unions between the An.
Ointed Of the L ord and women Of the
people, are invariably much more
healthy and sound IN every respect than
the offspring OF what the Germans des
cribe as "e6sH tHeTfig" marriages; that
is TO say, marriages between royal
princes and royal princesses, whose
blood is as a rule vitiated by its Antiquity.
and who, frequently too closely related
are themselves often the issue OF allI-
ances between 6rst cousins. and in con-
sequence, physically and mentally
degenerate, while the children to which
thev give birth are Of even still worse
calibre
HthiS innovation Is put into effect by
all the reigning houses Of Germany, the
throne OF Wurtemburg will be inherited,
not by Duke Albert, Who is a Catholic,
and as such, obnoxious Z the people and
to the KING, but by the eldest son Of the
Duke Of Tech, Prince AdOlphus, who is
marred to the daughter of the Duke of
Westminster, and who is the eldest
brothe. OF the Duchess Of York. II the
morganatic marriage Of his grandfather
IS no longer held to be any bar, he Ipso
facto becom' heir to the throne, and an
English girl. who in the eyes of the Eng
lish law was merely a commoner until
her marriage, will eventually become
Queen Of WuTtemburg.
The PREPARATIoN VS. OF Rus.IA.
frmY and Mavv Gazette.
An Odessa acorresponder writes under
date February 9: During the winter
months the drafting OF recruits hes been
gong on as usual, but The unusually
large force which has been forwarded to
increase the army in the Caucasus is
being significantly commented on in
official circles. More than IS. 600 men
have been sent to reinforce the regular
troops now stationed there. These have
been quartered IN the districts lying
along tile Turkish frontier. Kars Olti
and AlexandrOpOl have lately received
several heavy guns, and twelve more
heavy fortress guns are leaving here to-
morrow Tor the same district. II is said