The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-07-31
|PARlSIANS VIOLENT.
In Their Denunclatlon Of the Motives
Of Each Other.
SOME HEROICLYINC BEING DONE.
By Both the Partlsans and the Enc.
mics Of the Republic.
IThE PUNISHMENT OF GEN. NECRlER
Has Brought About Some Of the Latest
Revolutionary Talk.
MANY ARMY OFFICERS HOLD HIS VIEWS
The Public Mind IL Being Diverted
from the Legal status and Facts
In Drcyfus RchcnrinG.
Us
By Both the Partisans and the Enc.
mics Of the Republic.
HE PUNISHMENT OF GEN. NECRlER
Has Brought About Some Of the Latest
Revolutionary Talk.
MANY ARMY OFFICERS HOLD his VIEWS
tspeclal to The post.l


New York. July so.--Thc Tribune has
the following cable from Paris: The poll
itical barometer is falling, and the at
mosphere of tho Arulevards is once again
recharged with electricity. The same ele-
ments that caused the Boulanger cyclone
are gathering and threaten to form new
storm center OF perhaps equal Intensity,
The Nationalists. anti-Semitics and tho
Clerical reactionists, adopting former
Boulanger tactics, are striving tooth and
nail to unite against the present regime
all the available factors OF discomfort
and disorder. The Judets. the Rocheforts.
Millevoyes and Drumonts arc making su-
preme appeals to the Chauvanism OF tho
masses by Ignoring or distorting the facts
bearing upon the Dreyfus case us estab-
lishcd by the full bench of the court OF
cessation. BY sort of conter-irritant
method these apostles OF revolution are
divertng the public mind from the strict
legal issues into which the forthcoming
trial at Rennes has been resolved by the
unanimous decision OF thlrty-seven judges,
composing the highest tribunal Of the
Nation.
Never before has there been such an
epidemic OF heroic lying. The Petit Jour-
nal does not hesitate to proclaim in a
flaming leader that It Is the German en-
peror who Is compelling the cabinet to
order the Rennes court martial to acquit
Dreyfus. and that Gallifet's removal Of
General Negrler is a preliminary victory
won by the German army on the Eastern
frontier OF France Meanwhile, several
of the most violent Dreyfus organs seem
also TO have Loot their heads and shower
indiscriminate abuse upon the army. which
is at once taken advantage of by the re-
dictionary press TO endeavor to disseminate
disloyalty and dissatisfaction among the
officers and soldiers. the policy of the
enemies OF the republic now being to pre-
vent the masses from considering tho
preyfus trial in Its purely legal aspects.
and to raise new issues based upon politi-
cal passion and pseudo patriotism.
Outside Of France IL does not yet seem
to be Understood that not one OF the score
OF dramatic sensations that have charac-
terized the Dreyfus affair during the FIVE
years has made zuch deep impression on
the public mind as the punishment OF
General Negrier. This time 1t is not
mere bit OF melo- drama enacted by curb
stone politician like Deroulede, OF briga-
der at the head OF couple OF line regi-
ments like General Roget, but punish
ment for an act Of characterization is In
flcted upon the commander OF an army
composed OF four army corps occupying
the lines OF defense of the Eastern from
tier, destined to meet the first shock OF
the enemy in time Of war. Neither the
government nor the public can close Its
eyes to the fact that the seditious LAM
guage attributed to General Negrier is
merely an expression of the opinion held
by some OF the most brilliant army lead
ers. General Negrier has received two
thousand visiting cards and thousand
complimentary letters. and shouts OF
"vive Negrier" resounded at tho review
OF the Garde Rcpublicaine at the Champs
Elysee.