Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-01-12
SEEKS NoT0RIETY.
N. De Beaurepaire Issues a
Sensational Proclamation.
Calls Upon Deputies to Remove Judges
Of the Court Of Cessation.
Charges That They are Threatening the Army,
the Safeguards Of France.


Paris, Jan. I'm. Quesnay De
Beaurepaire whose resignation of the
presidency of the civil section of the
court of cessation is regarded by I'M
partial observers as the most danger
GUS Development Of the Dreyfus affair
thus far, today, furnished the neWspa-
pers with the most inflammatory pro-
nouncement he has yet made. 1t is IN
the nature of proclamation and Is
entitled IAN Appeal to the Deputies"
which he calls upon veilemently to re-
move the Dreyfus case from the hands
of the criminal chamber of the court.
The proclamation concludes as fol-
lows:
Order a real and solemn inquiry,
which shall penetrate right into the
viscera Of thfs notorious examination
If there are guilty men in the bosom
of the criminal chamber authorize the
executive power to remove them. so
that our magistracy may regain its
ancient prestige.
Remove the case from the criminal
chamber, tomorrow. Order am I'M
mediate judicial inquiry You can as
suredly take other measures, as you
have to accept advice from no one and
your decisions will be welcomed with
the confidence due those who safe
guard the French cause.
II hope to play the modern role or
those sentries who, in olden days sig
nailed from the battlements the APP
proach of the enemy and, after sound
ing an alarm, left it for the chiefs of
the city to arm themselves in behalf
of the commonweal. City fathers. for
give the abruptness of my appeal. 1t
1T due to the emotion which agitates
me- If you do not cut the Gordian
not at once. l tremble for my country.
my grief is great to see the mag
istracy to which / have so long, be-
longed compromised; but l console
myself with the thought that it will
emerge purified from the crisis. My
grief is great at seeing five or six
MAGISTRATES SO forgetful of our -tradi-
tions as to declare themselves the ad-
versaries Of the army. OF course, the
Dreyfusites maintain that they are
not attacking the army. while they at
tack it's chiefs. These madmen think
when they tell the soldiers every day
that their chiefs are unworthy to COM
mand them, that the spirit OF discap-
line and confidence which constitutes
the greatest source Of military strength
is not being undermined.
%"You will reply that what they call
the. enemy is the sword of France
the poor officers whose uniform is the
garb Of sacrifice, who work devotedIy
for the loftiest aim which exists, pre-
pairing to die, who, tomorrow. If the
cannon roar. will shed their blood for
those who SANDER. ] salute them with
admiration.
II saw to the soldiers that the ma
tional army is worthy of respect from
the highest to the lowest rank, and If
have been able to aid in avenging the
insult to which it has been subject,
shall not regret having paid so dearly
for my independence.
Deputies, listen to the voice of
good citizen. Quesnay De Baurepaire.
This appeal is a palpable bid for the
support Of the army. But NJ. De Beau
repaire, who shot up like a sky rocket
as the most tremendous sensation OF the
whole Dreyfus controversy. now seems
falling like a rocket from his proml-
nence as a leader of the anti-Dreyfus-
ties and the possible hero of coup.
MANY if not most Frenchmen estimate
MIN as a politician who had found the
bench to prosaic for man long ac-
customed to the excitement of party
strife and who thought he had found
an opportunity to make himself lead
err of popular movement.
M. Mazeau, first president of thf
court, expresses the opinion that il
I, fa; fn no criminal cham
Der to withdraw the case and recon
should act as judge d'instruction
drawing a report upon the case to bt
submitted to the full tribunal.
The criminal chamber is continuing
the investigation. NJ. paleologue. {
witness from the foreign office. who has
been several days under examination
says the judges appeared greatly ex
cited on the day of NJ. De Beaurepaire'
resignation.
Two fresh chapters in the affair WI
be opened in a few days. The first i
the trial Of Nj. Urban Gohier. for hi
alleged insults to the French army il
his book, THE Army Against the Ma
ton"
The second will be the libel sui
against M. Joseph Reinach, editor o
La Republique Franchise" who !
charged by the widow of the late Lieut.
Col. Henry with having insulted nj
memory by suggesting in La Repub
lioue Franchise that Henry was tn
real traitor.
The Reinach prosecution for which
great popular subscription has bee
made. seems to be the last card OF tn
nti-Dreyfusites. If this and the scan
dial Of DE Beaurepaire resignation ia
to stop revision then nothing Will D
left them except an appeal to force.
NJ. Mazeau, first vice president or tn
court of cessation. has been appointe
to investigate the latest charges of
DE Beaurepaire.