Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-08-12
ARMYS HATRED OF DREYFUS
Emily Crawford Tells of the Undercurrent
at Rennes.
Counsel of the Prisoner Still Fear
This Prejudice May Convict
Their Man Again.

Emily Crawford. who is at Rennes,
France, sends the following to the Associat-
ed Press, regarding the Dreyfus trial:
All the noted Dreyfusites here are salts
fled with the result of the examination of
the secret dossier. They have urged their
newspaper friends in Paris to clamor for
full publicity, knowing that if it be granted
the military and nationalist parties would
be utterly disgraced. They are convinced
that the diplomatic and war office dossiers
TEEN with forgeries. OF course their i'm
pressions are derived from the five counsel
present at the examination of these preci-
Gus papers.
Publicity would mean the pillory for Gen
eral 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 correspondent
of a Russian paper told me that in a cafe
frequented by officers he unfolded the Drey-
fusite aurore to read. All the military men
rear by scowled at him in a marked man.
ner, and after coughing and otherwise
showing their disapproval went in body
to the other end of the cafe as If the Rus
sian were a leper.
APpIauded the Burning.
All the officers at the military club came
Dreyfusite journals was being burned in
the streets, and they approved the perform
ance by unmstakable gestures. One now
sees the wisdom of the order forbidding Of
ficers not attached to the garrison to stay
here during the trial.
L hear that, in unclean imaginings, the
secret military dossier exceeds the worst
top shelf of literature. To secure secrecy
the scrihes who worked for Henry and his
friends did not hesitate to forge letters from
figh diplomatic personages Nearly a score
OF love letters from lady high in the dip
lomauc sphere We're supposed to have been
seized in the dispatch box of an embassy
during transmission to Berlin. The person
Whom SIZE is represented as having had as
a correspondent was an attache of an en-
passy there and much younger than the
lady, who is made to appear impassioned.
quite an Eloise. OF course, she mentions
the Dreyfus affair, and asks the attache
10 help to whitewash the unfortunate cap
tain.
Predicts Great Exposure
NJ. Jaurez expects that there will be a
great exposure of d conspiracy against the
republic, and that the high-handed meas
ures OF the present government against
certain generals will be more than justified
by the coming revelations
The examination of the diplomatic dossier
was concluded this morning. Dreyfus on
leaving the Lyceum, looked brighter than
rows proceedings will be memorable in
the history of the affair.
NJ. Demange 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 advocate
understands human nature. He remem-
bers that the seven are ignorant of the
law, always ready to sacrifice equity to au-
thorlty, quick to scout at the rules of evil
dence and are members of a caste who
think they have been attacked by Jews
cosmopolitans and foreigners. Some of
them boast of not having read the report
of the inquiry before the court of cassa-
ton, because they thought it published at
the cost of a syndicate and intended to
cast odium on the army
M. Labor is naturally Sanguine and has
always hoped; but l can gather that both
counsel still see that the judges are deeply
and strongly prejudiced against the prison
er and will try to condemn him on his
looks, If all legal evidence breaks down.
Gather Comfort From the Anti-Pre<s.
All the officers now read the Petit Jour
nal, which they never looked at before the
Dreyfus affair. The venom and vitriol of
the 1ntransigeant grateful to them, be-
cause employed against their enemies, real
or supposed. They devour the Gaulois,
Echo de Paris and Eclair because ,aese
papers respond to their own sentiments
NJ. Demange, therefore, has but a signal
fulcrum-the pleasure every human being
takes in hearing himself praised.
l have just learned that the secret dos
sier contains shocking reports of the spies
of German prince, who has filled high
situations under the empire during the last
twenty years, and one of them in Paris a
city he often visits. There was only one
prince answering to this description, Chan
cellor Won Hohenlohe.
The police spies who informed the intelli-
gence department at the war Office of the
princes secret doings did not attempt to
establish connection between them and
the DreyfuS case But one must suppose
that the sole object has been to prevent the
dossier ever being published. 1t would be
necessary to go to Suetonius for parallels
OF the horrors with which this famous or
infamous collection of documents reeks.
As matters stand l think NJ. Demange
now feels that the two dossiers furnish
him with case too strong for even the
officers to resist. Anyway, he looks really
hopeful.
VENEZUELAN PEARL FISHERIES.