The Topeka state journal., 1899-09-12
The COurtmartiaI Signs Recon-
mendatiOn For Mercy.
Trying to Save Dreyfus From
Second Degradation.
PRISONER is HOPEFUL
Receives Letters of Sympathy
From Everywhere.
France Is Worried Over the
Turn of Events.

Rennes. Sept. 12-The courtmartiaI
has signed a formal recommendation
for mercy. It's object is to eliminate
the degradation feature of the punish
ment- The recommendation wiz be
handed to General Lucas sor President
Loubet.
When NJ Labori's secretary INFORMED
affected and said: L still have hope
MANY LETTERS.
Rennes. Sept 12.-Matthieu Dreyfus
has returned here and visited his broth
er this morning in the prison He found
him still bearing up well. The prisoner
has received an enormous number CT
letters of sympathy since Saturday ana
he passes the greater part of the Gay
in reading them.
ORLEANS WILL BE SORRY.
Paris Sept 12.-The Journal says the
Duke of Orleans will have cause to re-
gret the part he has taken in the Drey-
fus affair. adding that the English
royal family declines to attend the
marriage of the son of the Duke Of
Chartres. that the king of Belgium has
requested the Duke of Orleans not to
stay in Belgium. and that the King OF
Italy has forbidden his nephew, the
Duke of AOsta, whose wife is the sister
of the Duke of Orleans. to receive the
Duke of Orleans, if he comes to Italy.
ZOLA FULL OF FIGHT.
Paris, Sept 12-The Aurore publishes
ZOla. the novelist which is a pendant
to his famous "Jaccuse" letter in the
early stages of the revision movement.
It concludes as follows:
THE ministry with its agents have
betrayed, the ministry which had the
weakness to leave big children with
muddled minds to play with matches
and knives, the ministry which mas Tor
gotten that to govern is to fOresee-has
only to hasten to act if it does not wish
to abandon to the good pleasure OF Ger
many the fifth act of the drama, the
denouement before which every
Frenchman should tremble.
1T is for the government to play this
fifth act as soon as possible, in order
to prevent its coming to us from
abroad. The government can procure
the documents. Diplomacy has set
tied greater difficulties that this
Whenever it ventures to ask FOR the
documents enumerated in the border
eau, they will be given; and that viii
be the new fact which will necessitate
a second revision before the court OF
cessation, which would be this time
hope, fully informed and would quash
the verdict sans renvoi, in the pleni-
tude of its sovereign majesty
But if the government were to recoii
again, the defenders of justice and
truth will do what is necessary. Net
one of us will desert his post Proof,
invincible proof, we shall finally end
we shall be at Versailles Ny
trial will recommence, inasmUch as it
is to recOmmence in all its fullness. If
meanwhile justice is not done. We Will
again help to do it. My beloved. my
valiant LabOri, whose honor has but
increased, will, therefore, pronounce at
Versailles the address which he was
unable to pronounce at Rennes. and it
is very simple. Nothing viii be lost
"8s for me. I shall not be silent. He
will merely have to utter the truth
without fear Of injuring me. for I am
ready to pay for it with my liberty aui
my blood. Before the Seine assize courz
sWore to the innocence of Dreyfus. I
swear to it before the entire world.
repeat truth is on the march. Nothing
will stop it. At Rennes it has Just
made a giants stride.
I no longer have any fear except
that 1 may see it arrive in a thunder
clap of the avenging Nemesis. devas-
tating the fatherland, unless we hasten
ourselves to make it shine forth under
our clear sun of France"
BOYCOTT Is URGED.
Halifax. N. S, Sept 12--J- W Long
ley. attorney general of Nova Scotia.
will issue a letter tomorrow in which
he vigorously denounces the second
condemnation Of DTeyfus and urges the
nations of the world to join in a general
boycott of the Paris exposition Er.
Longley says:
THE fabric upon which social exist
ence rests is justice. Every poor hu-
man being that is called upon to tread
this earth for a longer or shorter per
fod is each moment at the mercy of the
stronger power of his fellow beings
and his only capacity to enjoy life and
avail himself of it's opportunities rests
upon the conviction that he shall re-
ceive Justice at the hands of those with
whom his destiny is linked.
1T is not surprising, therefore, that
the world should stand aghast at the
spectacle of a human being condemned
absolutely without evidence. after a
public trial in the face of the whole
world, condemned, indeed, in the face
of the fact that the evidence pointed
almost conclusively to his innocence. At
all events, it established beyond ques-
tion that his former conviction was the
result of forgery, falsehood and con-
spiracy. The public opinion of the
world has a right to make itself heard
and felt in this and every matter which
outrages the sense of justice 1t seems
to me that the means are at hand TO
make France instantly and keenly SEN
sibIe to the moral consequences Of this
of justice A great world >
fair is to be held at Paris in the year s
1900 All the nations of the world have
been invited to participate in this great
exposition and most of the great ma
tions of the world have engaged to be
there, Great Britain. the United States
and Canada among the number. Ny
proposition is that in view of this in
famous moral turpitude Of the French.
people sanctioned by the governments
and upheld by the mob. the other ma
tions Of the world should one by one.
refuse to participate in this great cen
tennial show.
ssrThev could very well alIege thar