Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-05-31
LITTLE POPULAR EXCITEMENT
Over the Session Of the Court Of
Cessation, in Paris, Yesterday.
M. BAUPRE'S ARGUMENTS GREAT
ED A DEEP SENSATION BY HIS
DECLARATION THAT THE FAM
Gus BORDEREAU WAS WRIT
TEN BY ESTERHAZY-FEW
FRESH FACTS ADDUCED IN
FAVOR OF DREYFUS-A RE-
VIEW OF THE SITUATION.
Mrs. Emily Crawford Reviews the situa-


Copyright, 1899, Associated Press.1
Paris, May 30.-Three events have
taken place to-day, each OF which
without the others, would have sufficed
to electrify France. Ali coming to-
gether, interest was diffused and no
convulsion thus far is apprehended
One was the landing of Major
Marchand at Toulon. The second was
the speech of Gen. Herve and the pro-
ceedings generally in the Paris court
of assizes, where the de Roulede-
Habert trial is going on. The third
was the conclusion of Judge Ballot de
Beaupre's report on the Dreyfus case,
read by him before the court of cassa-
ton.
Major Marchand is hailed as hero
by all the enemies of the republic.
He is contrasted by them with the
foreign minister, NJ Del Case, whose
good sense, in the Fashoda matter is
stigmatized as cowardice. To pay ova-
lions to Marchand is at once to let off
anglophobe feeling and to belittle the
republic. He was educated by the re-
ligious orders and has been patronized
by the Catholic missions in Paris,
which are only second in Importance
to the propaganda in Rome 1t may be
that, being a man Of humble birth and
uncultured, he will lose his head and
let himself be posted into Gen. Boul-
anger's saddle. Yet I think, for one
reason, that he will not. Marchand is
silent man. He never asks advice,
but after mature thought he acts on
the motion he has been rejecting upon.
He must think himself most fortunate,
though, to be ranked so high in the
army and the Legion of Honor and to
be the recipient of the exploration
say nothing of the swords of honor,
the gold medals and the ovations.
He is expected here tomorrow. The
call made by M. Drummont to Paris
ians to hang out flags in honor of M.
Marchand has not yet been widely re-
sponded to, but the flags are perhaps
reserved until the hero arrives. | ex-
pect that Marchand will marry an
heiress, leave the marine for the line,
and be entrusted with the grand COM
mand in the French Soudan. with a
mission to watch Lord Kitchener The
Egyptian question being still open, the
Soudan would afford a fine field for his
energies @e.
M. Ballot de Beaupre's summing up
before the court of cessation in favor
of DreyfuS has not disturbed the town
1t was a foregone conclusion, but as
the judgment is to be revised, with
every probability of fair trial, and
it is hard to doubt that the result will
be acquittal, there being no proof
against Dreyfus.
NJ. Drummont this evening express
himself as delighted with the outcome,
''inasmuch asc the whole affair shows
that Jews, all the world over, will act
as one man, whenever Jewish interests
conflict with Christian" If he looks
upon Henry and Esterhazy as Chris
tians, / fear l must go over to the
Jews. Besides, there is not single
eminent Dreyfusite who is a jew Still
the ignorant masses will not see that
this hatred, bred by the Dreyfus af-
fair, is not likely to die.
MRS. EMILY CRAWFORD