The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1899-08-12
DREYFOSlYES HAPPY.
Satisfied That Even Prejudioed
Judges Cannot Convict.
SECRETS OF THE SECRET DossIER.

In Unclean Imaginings the Military
Document Is Said to Exceed the
Worst Top Shelf Pub
liclty Would Ruin General Boisdefrre
Rennes, Aug. 12.-All the notable
Dreyfusites here are satisfied with the
result Of the examination of the secret
dossier. They have urged their news
paper friends in Paris to clamor for
full publicity, knowing that II 1t be
granted the military and nationalist
parties would be utterly disgraced
They are convinced that the diplomatic
and war Office dossiers TEEN with for
geries. OF course their impressions
are derived from the five counsel pre-
sent at the examination of these
precious papers.
Publicity would mean the pillory for
General de Boisdeffre and company.
They would be pelted with their own
foul eggs, while Captain Dreyfus would
be cleared in the face of the whole
world.
The military caste here is furious at
the turn things are taking. The corre-
spondent of Russian paper declares
that In cafe frequented by officers he
unfolded the Dreyfusite Aurore to
read. All the military men near by
scowled at him in marked manner.
and after coughing and otherwise
showing their disapproval, went in a
body to the other end of the cafe, as
If the Russian were leper.
All the officers at the military club
came out on the club balcony when a
bundle of Dreyfusite journals was be-
ing burned in the streets, and they ap-
proved the performance by unmis-
taxable gestures. One now sees the
wisdom of the order forbidding officers
not attathed to the garrison to stay
here during the trial
1t is said that, in unclean imaginings,
the secret military dossier exceeds the
worst top shelf literature. To secure
secrecy the scribes who worked for
Henry and his friends did not hesitate
to forge letters from high diplomatic
personages. Nearly score Of love
letters from lady high in the dlplo-
matte sphere were supposed to have
embassy during transmission to Ber-
lin. The person whom she is repre-
scented as having had as a correspond
ent was an attache of an embassy
there and much younger than the lady,
who is made to appear impassioned,
quite an Eloise. OF course, she men
tions the Dreyfus affair and asks the
attache to help whitewaSh the unfor-
lunate captain.
M. Jaures expects that there will be
a great exposure of conspiracy
against the republic and that the high
handed measures of the present gov
eminent against certain generals will
be more than justified by the coming
revelations.
The examination of the diplomatic
dossier was concluded yesterday. Drey-
fus, on leaving the Lycee, looked
brighter than he had ever previously
appeared Teday's proceedings will be
memorable in the history of the af-
fair.
M. Demange, counsel for Dreyfus,
has lost no opportunity to conciliate
the seven judges. He has let himself
be interviewed in order to say nice
things about them. That astute ad-
vocate understands human nature He
remembers that the seven are ignorant
of law, always ready to sacrifice equity
to authority, quick to scout at the
rules of evidence, and are members of
caste who think they have been at
tackled by Jews, cosmopolitans and for
eigners. Some of them boast of not
having read the report of the inquiry
before the court of cessation, because
they thought it published at the cost
of a syndicate and intended to cast
Odum on the army.
Both NM. Demange and Labori still
see that the judges are deeply ard
strongly preiudiced against the pris-
oner, and will try to condemn him on
his looks if all legal evidence breaks
down.
All the officers now read the Petit
Journal, which they had never looked
at before the Dreyfus affair. The
venom and yitriol of The Intransgeant
are grateful to them, because employ
ed against their enemies, real or sup
posed. They devour-The Gaulois,
Echo de Paris and Ecair because these
papers respond to their own senti-
mentS.
NJ. Demange, therefore, has but
signal fulcrum-the pleasure every hui
man being takes in hearing himself
praised.
1t has been learned that the secret
dossier contains shocking reports Of
the spies of German prince, who has
filled high situations under the en-
pire during the last 20 years. and one
of them in Paris, a city he often visits.
There is only one prince answering |
to this description, Chancellor Won !
Hohenlohe.
The police spies who formed the in
tellieence department at the war Office |
of the princes secret dongs did not !
attempt to establish a connection be-
tween them and the Dreyfus case.
But one must suppose that the solo
object has been to prevent the dossier
ever being published. 1t would be
necessary to go to Suetonius for paral-
lels of the horrors with which this ia
nous or infamous collection of docu-
ments reeks.
AS matters now stand NJ Demange
now evidently feels that the two dos
siers furnish him with case too
strong for even the officers to resist.
Anyway, he looks really hopeful.
Very Extensive IIniIstOrm