The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-08-11

SET bound to prove Dreyfus guilty BY
any means Il he can. We do rejoice in It.
for owing to that circumstances we have
q chance 70 get at last to the very bot
tom Of the truth hence the rs1naor OF q
sensational piecs of information whish he
has led reporters to expect from his
/ mouth.
"what win Il be? Nobody knows.
though eli agree that 1t VIII involve
either Count Munster. the German am
bassadcr IN Paris, or Baron freoerie@ss
the military attachs of Russia Il "ouiu
be useless to try to guess we sos"
"Dreyfus ana his lawyers. Demanse
and I.abori. are ready to meet eny ac-
c,,sations. The secretary OF war mas
,ssued a circular to the military witnesses
IN advise them not to give. before tne
court me names of diplomatic agents IL
pubHcsty might involve diplomauc COM
oIicationx. This is natural enough OUT
entirely pro forma, 1t being understood
as there a. no complication TO Do les'eN'
that leave to name any one ~
dition TO bring his share OF hsh' VIZ
readily granted. Therefore AL va"
,,nov,n ~ what General MERCER mas 70
saw from the beginning to the emo. II =
a 1raa+ comfort to US. who so eagerly
asked for the complete truth from 'ns
| uarv srst day and were denied the r.sn'
Of calling foreign Witnesses ~
eraI Mercier himself who no" tAAe '..0
led An mat direction. We are reaos %
follow.
.eyvb1 ha. mot General Mercier spoken
sooner-why. being able. as ne says -
uroye Dreyfus' treason, has ne rehraAne1
for eighteen months from speaShhs '"e
word which would have put MN "o""
forever and stopped anxiety and agita-
ton throughout France. The question
s-,Il Ia mt To him. We shall see What
he vii lanswer. Some allege that ne VIII
name no one. but simply say that ne mas
q great secret upon his mind and ASK LOT
a supnlernentary inquiry in order 10 oras
things over without end and tire people
ont. II this be true, hope the president
of the court-martlal will allow no suou
game. General Mercier must De inFi'eu
70 say all he has q mind to without any
reticence. General Gallifet, secretary Oh
war. will, without doubt, help him bring
before the Judges any foreign witnesses
he thinks necessary to hear.
mo more delay! Fifty months tor
ture is quite enough for Dreyfus. Dur'hs
that time General MERCER has had lels-
ire enough to prepare his evidence. Let
ALI his witnesses be called and the ultl-
mate truth be known-not any too soon'
Ixr ~
requests no previous Information ne
needs no time to arrange answers. he
defies all his enemies. For the sake Oh
his anne. Of his life, Of his own people,
ne Is ready to meet any one face to race
before the world.
elm spite of this you fully understand
now how 1t 1 shat 1 cannot foretell what
may come of General Mercier's evidence.
'sThe case Is very much the same with
the alleged evidence OF NJ ouesnay de
Beaurepaire, who is not witness him.
self, since he knows nothing OF the case
of his own knowledge. but only oners TO
bring for tn a troop OF thirty witnesses
against Dreyfus. These witnesses eva-
dence Quesnay de BeaureDaire has pub
lished, and 1t is universally characterized
as nonsensical and grotesque beyond
measure. The commissionatre du gouV-
eminent refused to hear Quesnay de
Beaurepaire, but Dreyfus' defenders 70
give thess nee a s1ance, are willing to
do their utmost TO have them heard. In
fact, Colonel Pouaust. the president. has
already called some to the bar. But the
trouble Is that Quesnay de Beaurepaire
has not dared to give the names-of these
friends of his, 50 that nobody knows yet
who they are. A strange conception OF
justice it Is to show US masked accusers.
as though we are stiIl in old Venetian
times. .-.-.
'You may have heard what tricks have
been played upon the naivete Of this I'M
fortunate Quesnay de Beaurepaire. One
fact IS enorgh to show you what sort
of q judge ne Is. One of his witnesses Is
ready, says Quesnay de Beaurepaire, to
show that when Dreyfus was garrisoned
in Tours he was Intimately acquainted
with Bavarian woman. From that fact
Quesnay de Beaurepaire has numerous In
ferences to draw. But now II happens
that Dreyfus was never garrisoned in
Tours, and the man who related the fact
now owns that he simply meant It as a
farce. It is not incredible that Quesnay
de Beaurepaire alleges that a stable man
declares that he saw Dreyfus at the Ger
man artillery maneuvers near Mulhouse
pointing a cannon with German officers.
It must be granted that such show
was not very wise for an alleged spy.
On this point and on all other topics
answers will be returned at Rennes II it
Is possible to induce NJ. Quesnay de
Beaurepaire to give his peoples names.
The stableman has already been called
by President Jouaust- II Dreyfus' de-
tenders were to consider only the people
endowed with the average power Of reas-
ontng all these SHY pieces of information
might be discarded as a whole, but cir
cumstances are such that We have TO
bear conviction in the most deeply rooted
prejudices OF the human mind. That is
the reason why after General Mercier's
sensational evidence, after a long list OF
witnesses, who have nothing to say but
what we have already heard and settled.
we must give VI. Quesnay de Beaurepaire
and his masquerade friends one last
chance to speak their minds.
'Conhdlng in the supreme force OF
truth we have CONTAINED the military.
clerical and civil powers TO yield and
give Dreyfus his first legal trial at Rem |
mes. Conhding in the supreme force OF |
truth we shall hunt up everywhere. |
every alleged witness and ooilge him TO |
speak plainly and quote facts that can be |
verified. In this way we shall break an !
Innocent mans chains. In this way We