The Topeka state journal., 1899-01-12
NO REST FOR FRANCE.
Dreyfus' Enemies Move Heaven
and Earth to Prevent
Revision.

Paris, Jan. I'm. Quesna de Beaure-
paire, whose resignation of the presidency
of the civil section of the court of cassa-
tion is regarded by impartial observers as
the most dangerous development of the
Dreyfus affair thus far, today furnished
to the newspapers the most infiammatory
pronouncement he has yet made. 1t is in
titled AN Appeal to the Deputies" whom
he calls upon vehemently to remove the
inal chamber of the court. The procla-
nation concludes as follows;
"Order a real and solemn inquiry, which
shall penetrate right into the viscera of
this tortuous examination. # there are
guilty men in the bosom of the criminal
chamber, authorize the executive power
to remove them SO that our magistracy
Remove the case from the criminal az
judicial JUDICIAL in9uiPy. You can assurediy 1 take
other measures, as you have to accept ad-
ee e ffe With e Of thoa
who safeguard the French cause.
those sentries who in the olden days sig
nailed from the battlements the approach
left it for the chiefs of the city to arm
themselves in behalf of the commonweal:
appeal. 1t is due to the emotion which
dion knot at once, L trembie for my eoun-
My grief is great to the magistracy
to which have 50 long belonged compro-
sseh Insight but n % gse5 Pured Mh fo as
the crisis: Ny grief is is great at seeing df4
traditions as to declare themselves adver-
saries of the army. OF course the Drey-
ing the army while they attack its chiefs.
These madmen think when they tell the
worthy to command them that the spirit
of discipline and confidence which consti-
strength is not being undermined
You will reply that what they call the
officers whose uniform is the garb of sac
rifice, who work devotedly for the loftiest
tomorrow,, if the cann9n non roar rs will shed nee
hfa fhelr them Dsn9d wifh fGP ad9aG
Il say to the soldiers that the national
J est to the lowest rank, and if L have been
| able to aid in ayenglng the insult to which
having paid so dearly for my independ-
| Deputies. listen to the voice of a good
M QFEsSSzA De RRRAAgyREsRPAIRE-" RRA{yR EsP
port Of the army, army but II. De Beaurepaire,
tremendous factor of the whole Dreyfus
controversy, now seems falling like "a a
| of the anti-Dreyfusards and the possible
The best observers of public opinion de-
& that 6t fhs M pP aha m ha5
| tion of the court of cassa tion has. been
succeeded by skepticism regarding his mo-
| Many, if not most Frenchmen, estimate
! him as a politician who had found the
/ bench too prosaic for man long accus-
| toned to the excitement of party strife
and who thought he had found an oppor-
| tunity to make himself the leader of a
| popular movement.
! court of cessation add nothing of conse-
! quence TO yesterdays Indictment except
| accuse tions that NJ. Loew had conferences
Pcauart's Pbsa @ advocate and and friends. ins Maitre
| Leiblers, and that Councillor Dumas con-
| TWO NEW CHAPTERS.
! NJ Mazeau, first president of the court,
! unfair to the criminal chamber to with
draw the case, and recommends that the
! criminal chamber should act as judge of
! case to be submitted to the full tribunal,
over which. NJ; Mazeau would preside.
| investigation. M Palegou, a witness
/ from the foreign office, who has been sew
eral days under examination, says the
| day of NJ. De Beaurepaire's resignation.
! Two fresh chapters in the affair will be
| opened in few days SO that the country M
| first is the trial of Urban Gohier for his
! alleged insults to the French army in his
| NJ. Gohier will call 400 witnesses and in
sist upon threshing over again the whole
Madaagais;eearT dag i;eeaT can eampaign; The secend will vi
| editor of La, Repulique Francais, and
the late. Lieutenant Colonel Henry with
/ having insulted his memory by suggest
ing in, La Repubiique Francois. that Henry
| cution. for which a great popular sub
seription has been made, seems to be the
last card of the anti-Dreyfusards. If this
nation fail to stop revision, then nothing
| will be left them except an appeal to