The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-09-03
M. Cavaignac Will Prevent Re-
opening of the Case.
ACQUlTTAl WOULD RESULT
The Movement in Favor of Its Revision
Is Growing Stronger-war May
Follow If the Whole Az
fair Is Exposed.

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minister reiterated that he was con-
WINGED of the guilt of the prisoner, but
added that at the same time he was de-
termined to punish all who had been
derelict in their duty The deputy af-
terwards declared that so long as NJ.
| Cavaignac was minister for war there
would be no revision of the Dreyfus
case adding that as in the event of a
revision the trial could not again be
held behind closed doors and it would
be impossible to produce publicly some
OF the documents, the acquittal of Drey-
fus must certainly result from a reopen
ing of the case.
Paris, Sept. "A movement in favor
OF the revision of the Dreyfus case is
| growing stronger in the papers, which
until now have been hostile to the pris-
! oner of Devils island. Matin says:
| The absence of Bourgeois, minister of
| education, prevented the ministers from
| coming to decision yesterday, and an
! other meeting of the council will be
| held to-day" General Pelieux has ten
| dered his resignation, but it was with
! drawn on the insistence of General
! Zurlinden.
| 1t was announced this afternoon by
| Patrie that several officers of the gem
| eral staff have decided to resign short
! ly and divulge all they know OF the en-
| tire Dreyfus affair. One claims war
| will certainly follow after the disclosure
of the Vaccinations of another govern
ment.
Paris. Sept 2. Midnight.-The most
| pessimistic feelings exist. 1t is the
common belief that Great Britain and
Russia are on the eve of war, and that
the consequences of the Dreyfus scan
dal will involve France in war with
Germany.
The government is doing it's best to
stem the rising tide of agitation by a
studied quiescence, which scandalizes
the Journal des Debats and other news
papers; but il may succeed in getting
over the crisis. NJ. Faure ignores the
reproaches of the press and remains at
Havre.
NJ. Bourgiers. minister of education.
is in Switzerland. His address is not
known here. NJ. Peytral. minister of
finance, is at Marseilles. and NJ. Lock-
roy the minister of marine, is at Cher
bourg.
In the meantime. W Cavaignac min
lister of war. and Mr. Sarrien, minister
of justice. remain here. NJ. Sarrien had
two prolonged conferences with NJ.
Brisson this afternoon, and after NJ.
Cavaignac's long interview with NJ.
Sarrien both ministers looked ruffled.
These and other impromptu minis
terial conferences were devoted to an
endeavor to convince the minister of
war of the necessity on political
grounds of a revision of the Dreyfus
case which the whole country, includ-
ing the army, now demands.
High officials say that the discussion
that Will follow will probably entail
war, but they say that would be pre-
ferable to having the army remain un-
der cloud with the possibilities of agi- |
tation leading to civil strife.
New York. Sept. "A dispatch to the
Tribune from Paris says:
Colonel Henry's confession of forging |
the famous document, upon the authen- |
ticity of which General de Boisdefrere |
chief of staff of the French army, in his
impassioned appeal to the jury in the /
Zola trial, staked his own reputation
and the honor of the army, and Colonel |
Henry's suicide in the fortress of Mont |
Naledien, have caused an emotion
throughout France which has not been
witnessed since the fall of Sedan.
Colonel Henry had no conception of
the enormity of his crime until over
whelmed by its detection. This brave
but infatuated chief of the intelligence
department of the French army embod-
led the whole head and front of Drey-
fus' conviction, of Zola's condemnation, |
or Esterhazy's acquittal and of Pic
quarts degradation and Imprisonment. |
Although the document which Colonel
Henry forged in 1896 cannot technically
have any effect on the Dreyfus trial
which took place in 1894 it is neverthe
less with CONSERVATION that to-day peo-
pie are asking what sort of evidence
could Dreyfus have been convicted on
If. in the judgment of Colonel Henry. IL
was so filmsy that he thought il could
not stand investigation without being
propped up by official forgery.
NJ. Cavaignac, the minister OF war, In
his memorable speech in the chamber
on July I, based his declaration upon
the authenticity of this formal docu-
ment, which was printed and posted on
the walls throughout France. After
,onversing with representative French
men of every class and after mixing
with excited groups in the streets and
cafes, IL is evident that the popular tide
IS at least turning in favor of a revision
)f the Dreyfus trial, no matter what the |
may be. 1t is significant |
nat such newspapers as the Gaulois, |
he Echo de Paris and journals which
ire known to be in close touch with the
army. now express a feeling that army
men are out and out for a revision Of
he court martial, and many prominent
'fficers insist that il is the honor of the
army itself which necessitates such
'evis!on.
General Boisdefrere, whose monstrous ,
hreat u resign with the whole general
tam of the army If Zola was acquitted, ,
las now, by his resignation, admitted
hat he was the blind dupe OF a forger.
This inspires grave anxiety as 10 wheth-
r or not the general staff has been !
uped In other matters-that of national !
efense, for instance. Henri Rochefort.
no still champions the validity Of Drey- (
us condemnation, Is authority for the
tatement that all the officers Of the
'rench general staff employed in Paris
ave applied to be relieved of their pres :
nj duties and sent back to their re- 5
pective regiments !
The minister Of war is cOuscientlOusly T