Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1899-08-30
Neither side satisfied.

Rennes, France, Aug. 30.-Neither
side was pleased with the outcome OF
4 Tuesdays proceedings before the court
martial that is trying Capt. Dreyfus.
4 The Dreyfusards expected that Col.
| Cordier, who was deputy chief of the
Intelligence department under the lieu
tenant colonel, Henry, would testify
that the bordereau was received di-
/ rectly by the late Col. Sandherr Had
the expected been realized the testimo-
4 ny would have been a strong point in
! favor of the accused, because 1t would
4 have been a reply to the i-Dreyfus-
ards who have all along contended thas
Henry received the bordereau and for
warded it to Sandherr. a thing he would
not have done had the bordereau been.
as the Dreyfusards assert, written by
This accomplice. Esterhazy, for, in that
event, Henry would have recognized the
handwriting when he received the Dor
dereau from the German embassy and
would have suppressed it, instead of
forwarding 1t TO Sandherr.
Col. Cordier, however, testified that
he was absent from the intelligence de-
partment when the bordereau arrived.
| but that he believed it was received BY
Henry. Naturally this statement elated
the i-Dreyfusards, but they had no
reason to congratulate themselves upon
| the remainder of Cordier's testimony,
as it was wholly in favor of Dreyfus.
/ On the other hand, the proclaina ton
of the general staff VINO demanded an
opportunity to confront Col. Cordier
was good piece of tactics from the
/ point of view of the anti-Dreyfusards
because all the points they contested
We're not of the first importance. Vet
their very appearance on the stage and
the contradiction of some of Cordier,s
statements left disagreeable inres-
sion.
The appearance of Gen. Mercier to
question Col. Cordier came as a surprise
to many in the audience who had sup
posed that after last Saturdays scene.
when Mercier was confronted with
| Capt. Freystaetter he would remain
quiet But Mercier is game to the
death.
His action is interpreted as intended
to show that he is not going to throw
up the sponge. The part he played In
1884 lays him open to arrest and this is
I d constant topic of discussion in cafes
and al other meeting places in Rennes.
There appears, however, to be a good
reason Why the government will not
take any serious step until after the
trial is over
Col. Jouaust, president of the court
martial, could adjourn the trial indefi-
nitely if Mercier, as an important Wit
ness, We're arrested. If the trial ad-
jonrned for more than forty eight hours
it would lapse and the proceedings
would have to be gone over again from
the beginning.
Yesterday the attendance was the
largest since the opening of the trial.
Everybody was on the qui vive to hear
the testimony of Charles de Freycinet,
former minister of war This adroit
politician. the white mouse" of French
politics. sat upon the fence as we'll as
he could. His expression of fear that
the Dreyfus agitation would injure the
discipline of the army greatly annoyed
the Dreyfusards. as calculated to infiu
ence the judges against the accused.
But he followed it with an eulogy of
the pioneer of the Dreyfus campaign,
n. Scheurer-kestner. former vice pres-