The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-09-22
FRENCH ROYALlSTS
Placed on Trial for Treason Before the Senate
as a High Court
TO REESTABLISH \ MONARCHY
With Duke of Orleans as King is the Object of the Plotting Set Out in
the Bill of Indictment-Ihe Bill Read Before the Senate-Pre.
cautions Taken tt Protect the Senate Building During Sit.
ting of the Court-Cens for the Prisoners Prepared
in the Bulding-Duke of Orleans Said to be
viii Gueriu.
with Gueriu.

Paris, September 1S.-The senate met
as a high court Of justice today at 2
O'Clock p. m. for the purpose of trying
twenty-five politicians, including Mn.
de Monicourt, Deroulede, Marcel-Ha-
bert, Thiebaud, Baron de Vaux and
Jules Guerin, on the charge of con-
spring against the government.
Not one of the accused was present
or in the palace today, but nine cells
have been fitted up for them in the
library. The cells are very comfortably
furnished.
President Fallieres opened the pro-
ceedings amid general silence by read
ing the decree of the president of the
republic constituting the senate, on the
report of the minister of justice, into a
high court to try the charge against
the accused of making an attempt on
the security of the state.
There was mOmentary excitement
when NJ. Fallieres concluded reading
the presidents decree. A rightist SEN
ator, NJ. La MarZelle, begun to speak,
and M. Fallieres had some difficulty in
keeping rider.
The leading absentes, when the roll
was called, were MN. Constans, Scheu-
rer-Kestner and MERCER.
Then the door through which M. Fail
Heres had entered was opened wide and
three tail figures, in long scarlet robes.
appeared on the threshold and, with
stately mien, marched into the hall and
ascending the steps Of the platform,
took up their places on the right hand
of the president. The first was M. Ber-
nard, the ~prOcurator general, who was
a handsome figure in his scarlet robe
t+rip oa1I vuifh n hY-ao1 ctrinn nf or
mine, against which and the white back
ground the red and blue ribbons of his
decorations pinned on his breast Show
ed brightly. The two substitutes with
him wore scarlet gowns trimmed with
black and having no ermine. M. Ber-
nard Immediately began to read the in
dictment in a mOnOtOnOuS voice.
THE INDICTMENT.
The Indictment commenced by recit-
ing the facts OF the arrest of NM. De-
roulede and Marcel-Habert and said the
inquiry had showed the existence of a
conspiracy to change the form Of gov
eminent, Ito which the disorders of last
February, it was added, were due, and
in which MN. Deroulede, Marcel-Habert
and some members of the League Of
Patriots; M. Guerin and some members
of the ~anti-Semitic League; M. Du Buc
and some members Of THE Society of
anti-Semitic Youth; MN. Buffet, Go
deffret and Chevilly and members Of
the rOyaliSt party were inculpated. All
the societies mentioned, since 1898, it
was pointed out, had abandoned cleo
tOral action for revolutionary action and
the League of Patriots only pursued the
object Of overthrowing the constitution
al government, MN. Deroulede and
Marcel Habert seeking to attain their
ends by the union of rioters and troops
inthe streets. The anti-Semitic League,
it was also claimed, has Joined the in
surrectional organization wherewith
are associated the Nationalist, Royal
lists and Imperialists League, and the
anti-Semitic Youth, has, as a mission,
the propaganda in the provinces of the
revolutionary government. M. du Buc,
it was further charged, is the link be-
tween the anti-Semite and Patriot
Leagues.
The indictment then gave a few par
ticulars of the provincial organization.
Referring to the Royalist League it
said 1T was worthy of attention, be-
cause, though the idea of a monarchic
restoration appeared in~conceivabie, ii
a played a ~preponderant role in the
recent events, it's leader being The Duke
of Orleans himself and it's managers his
accredited representatives.
All of the leagues, it was asserted,
seek to change the form of government
by street risfngS.
MANEUVERS OF THE CONSPIRA-
TORS.
"A letter from the Duk of Orleans to
his representative, M. Buffet, written
from Marienbad, in July, 1896, instruct
ing him to Ommence a rOyallSt Organi-
zatton, was read, and then other secret
instructions, in which it was Stipulat-
ed that the sum to be spent was not to
exceed 800, 900 francs. The mention of
this figure evoked laughter from the
senators and others present.
M. Bernard continued to review the
royalist agitation at the end of 1898,
own that M. Buffet, October oath
and October 26th, telegraphed in code
to the Duke of Orleans, who was then
in Bohemia, to come to the frontier Oc-
tober 25th, being the date Of the anti
Semitic and royafist disturbance on the
Place de La Concord. On October 18th
there was further disorder. a mob
marching on the Cherche Midi prison
crying "Vive 1e Due d'Orleans!' The
police stopped the mob, but M. Chevil-
ly wired to the Duke of Orleans: Sue
ces destimie: 1000 demonstrations; po-
lice stopped them, but will recon-
mence."
This royalist outing, it appears, arous-
ed the jealousy OF the other parties ana
M. Buffet wired to the Duke of Or
leans that he feared the Bonapartlsts
were also contemplating action.
The Indictment proceeded with a re-
capitalization of the royalist maneuvers
and declared the royalists led and PAID
a mob to insult President Loubet on the
day of his election.
Letters seized at the residence of M.
Chevlly showed that the funds were
becoming exhausted by February, 1899,
and promises of money, mostly from
ladies, were found in the correspond
ence.
The c~ulminatory point of the royalist
conspiracy was reached February 23rd,
when M. Deroulede made his notorious
attempt ON the Place de la Nation to
induce the brigade of infantry to march
on the Eylsee palace. Everything, it
seems, was prepared to carry out the
royalist plan that day. but M. Derou-
fede's failure spoiled all, and the Duke
of Orleans, who was awaiting at Brus-
sells THE signal to come TO Paris. re-
..ceived instead a telegram from M. Buff
fet saving: Useless ITO come. Send