Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-08-12
D0SS|ER
A ClamOr for Its Publica-
ton in Full.
THE ARMY IS FURIOUS
AS Publicity Would Result in the
Downfall ola Number of Prominent
Officers 1t is Nothing but a Tissue
of Forgeries.

Rennes. Aug. 11.-(Copyrighted, 1899, by
the Associated Press.)-All the notable
DreyfusiteS here are satisfied with the re-
suit of the examination of the secret dos
sier. They ave urged their newspaper
friends in Paris to clamor for full pub
lefty, knowing that if it be granted the
military and nationalist parties would be
utterly disgraced. They are convinced
that the diplomatic and war office dos
siers TEEN with forgeries. OF course,
their impressions are derived from the
tive counsel present at the examination of
these precious papers. Publicity would
mean the pillory for Genera de Bois-
deffre and company. They would be pelt-
ed with their W foul eggs, while Cap
tain Dreyfus would be cleared in the face
Of the whole world.
The military castle here is furious at
the turn things are taking. The CORES
pendent of a Russian paper told me today
that in a cafe freQuented by officers he
unfolded the Dreyfusite Aurore to read.
All the military men near by Scowled at
him in a marked manner and after cough
ing and otherwise showing their disap-
prevail went in a body to the other end
VI lllN AdiS. d. IL liz uSSll "tIS u
leper. All the officers at the military club
came out on the club balcony when a
undle Of Dreyfusite journals was being
burned in the street, and they approved
the performance by unmistakable ges-
lures.
one now sees the wisdom of the order
forbidding officers not attached to the
garrison to stay here during the trial. I
hear that in unclean imaginings the Sc
cret military dossier exceeds the worst
top shelf literature. To secure secrecy
the scrubs who worked for Henry and his
friends did not hesitate to forge letters
from high diplomatic ~personages. Nearly
a score of owe letters from a lady high in
the diplomatic sphere were supposed to
lave been seized in the dispatch box of
an embassy during transmission to Ber-
lin. The person whom she is represented
as having as a correspondent was an at
tache of an embassy here and much
younger thar the lady, who is made to
appear impassioned, quite an Eloise. OF
course. she mentions the Dreyfus affair
and asks the attache to help whitewash
the affair. M. Janues expects that there
will be quite an exposure of conspiracy,
and the high-halded measures of the
government against certain persons Will
be more than justified by the coming re-
velationS.
The examination Of the diplomatic dos
Slef was cOficluueu TINS morning. Dfty :
fus, on leaving the Lycee, looked brighter
than he has ever previously appeared.
TomOrrOW'S proceedings Will be memoir
! able in the history of the affair. M. De-
! mango has lost no opportunity to conclll-
| ate the seven Judges. He has let himself
be interviewed in order to say nice things
about them. That astute advocate I'M
derstands human nature. He rcmem-
beers thu the seven are ignorant of law.
always ready to sacrifice equity to au-
! thority, quick to scout at the rules OF
evidence. ard are members Of a caste VINO
think they have been attacked by Jews,
cOsnopolitaES and foreigners. Some or
them boast of not having read the report
of the inquiry before the court of cassa-
ton because they thought it published at
the cost of a syndicate and intended 70
cast odium on the army. M. Laborie, ma
turally sanguine, has always hoped. out
can gather that both counsel still see
that the judges are deeply and strongly
prejudiced against the prisoner and Will
try to condemn him on his looks, II all le-
GAL evidence breaks down.
All the officers now read the Petit Jour
nal, which they had never looked at be
fore the Dreyfus affair. The venom and
vitriol of the Intransigeant are grateful
to them. because employed against theit
enemies. real or supposed. They devoui
the Gaulois, Echo de Paris and Eclair
because THESE pdI)tIS lCS.pli" ~ '",''
own sentiments. NJ. Demange. the ref
cree, has but a single fulcrum-the pleas
ure every human being takes in hearing
himself praised. l nave just learned that
the secret dossier contains shocking re-
ports Of the spies of n German prince
who has filled high situations under the
empire during the last 20 years, and one
of them in Paris. a city he often visits.
There is only one prince answering &c
this description, Chancellor Won Hohen-
lobe. The spies who informed the intel
ligence department at the war office OF
the princes secret doinSs did not at
tempt to establish a connection between
them and the Dreyfus case. Blu one
must suppose that the sole object has
been to prevent the dossier ever being
published. 1t would be necessary to go tC
Sueutonius for parallels of the horrors
with which this famous or infamous col
lection of documents reeks.
AS matters stand, / think that Demangt
now feels tina the two dossiers furnish
him with a case too strong for even the
officers to resist. Anyway, he looks real
ly hopeful. EMILY