The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-08-09

Perplexed by the Dangers That
Confront Them-Dreyfus' Advo-
Gates Confident of Victory.
RENNES, Aug. Especially )-Maitre
Demange, the principal counsel for Cant
Dreyfus, expresses himself as we'll salts
ned at today's proceedings Col. Jouaust
hdo 10 play the part of severe Judge
ouC II MS voice was rude and his manner
roueh toward the prisoner, his eve was
kIhd' and there was no attempt to press
nome the stones raised by the indict-
| ment.
M. Chanotne the custodian of the fa-
nous secret dossier, said it would take four
udys TO examine 1T, as the examination
| would De behind closed doors and most of
| Ihe witnesses have gone to the seaside.
Nen de Bo1sdeffre to Dinnard and Gen.
| Dlonne to Param Gen. Mercier remains
mere the guest of Gen st. Germain, who
'ells MS followers to be prepared for sem
! sa1onal evidence that must crush Drew
fus and many others with him.
| M CaVa1gnac talked at lie Maison. on
MS way here He says he expects two
coups de theatre. We now hear that one
VIII be an avowal by Gen Billot that he
said on his soul and conscience that
Dreyfus was a traitor, because he was
m1sIed. The other will be Mercier driven
to bay. The latter will issue from this
| trial ruined if Dreyfus is acquitted.
hear he intends to throw a searchlight ON
the secret counsels of the Dupuy govern
ment, of which he was a member in 1904
and to show what diplomatic wires were
| between ha Of
his embarkation for Cayenne Mercier
refuses to be interviewed. He looks bow
ed down from it all Gen Billot. on the
other hand, seems to have taken out a
new lease of life. He also is extremely
reticent, as indeed are all the witnesses
of note.
NJ Jaures arrived last night. He
claims TO know much that is in the Sc
! cret dossier. An intercepted CORE
spondence between two military attaches
VINO We're mixed up-in-th affair is said
py Jaures to be shame to human ma
ture These, two officers wrote under
feminine names and in strain that
might not have shocked the young cour
tiers of Nero or the ribald crowd that
! gathered around Lots house in the
doomed city. Possibly, nay probably. the
! attaches in question never wrote these
scented anacreontic billets, for such thew
are Lemercier Picard was equal to the
task of forging them, and he possibly
ala forge them for pecuniary considera-
t1on Hence, probably, the mystery in
which his suicide is shrouded.
! Inc counsel for Dreyfus met TODAY at
his wite's residence the heads of the
/ Dreyfusite party and consulted on the
political aspect of the affair. They went
there after they had examined the docu-
ments of the secret dossier in the judges
room They do not see any possibility
Oh repeating the judgment of 1894
DREYFUS FATIGUED.
Dreyfus was greatly fatigued after ves-
terday's ordeal He asked anxiouslv to-
day what the press and public thought.
and was led to think that opinion is gem
orally favorable. This is true. The rep
resentatives of Nationalist journals here.
who judge harshy in print, express adj
miratton for the unfinching constancy he
has displayed
Leading personages here for the trial
have much to say about the late Gen
Annenkon and Baron Fredericks in con-
nectton with Dreyfus, but Gen Mercier
and M. HanOtauX former minister of
foreign affairs, refuse to speak on the
subject M. HanotauX looks dismayed
1t will be curious to see whether he and
Mercier contradict each other
There seems danger that all the evil
dence relating to foreign diplomatists will
be given with closed doors. The public
trial will be resumed on Saturday
Dreyfus, member of his family tells
me, has not yet got over his Rip Van
Wrinkle feeling He was lost as he put
it. He remarked to his wife that he was
astonished to find himself yesterday
watched by the whole world, or it's prox-
les though he showed no sign of astonish-
ment He was thrown in a heap by the
searching and, as he thought unfriendy
examination of the president of the court.
MN. Demange and Labori did not pre-
pare him for a hostile tribunal and a
scrutinizing public. He felt as If X-ravs
were being cast on him all the time he
was under public gaze. 1t was as if the
inrermost thoughts of his heart were be-
ing peered into. He thought the pro-
ceedings would be only formal and per-
hapS he might leave the court house to
walk to his wife's temporary home His
counsel were quite right not to discourage
him beforehand, as his strength is low
and he is condemned to a diet Of milk
and eggs, which does not enable him to
rapidly recover his lost strength The
ague has caused lesion of the renal or
gans, and full diet just now could not
fail to bring on Bright's disease He was
at first greatly depressed to learn that
he would be confronted with a crowd Of
hostile witnesses, and that the trial might
last a fortnight three weeks, or even
longer. Then, steeling himself, he cried:
You must prove yourself a man, Drey-
fus. You must struggle for your honor
and not give in until you have cleared it
once and forever. But what have you
done, Dreyfus, to make people thus read
you? Were you born under a malignant
star? If so, fight against fate, and wres-
tie until you have thrown the evil angel
From long habit ne speaks to himself,
when intending TO converse with visitors.
NO DEMONSTRATIONS.
The police arrangements in the vicinity
of the Lycee this morning were exactly
the same as those of yesterday, but not
more than 100 persons had gathered at
the early hour-6:30 oclock-fxed for the
opening of the days proceedings in the
trial. The prisoner was conducted to the
Lycee at els, and exactly the same pre-
cautions were observed as on yesterday.
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