Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-08-12

bundle 81 Dreyfusite journals was be-
ang burned in the streets, and they APP
proved the performance by unmistak-
able gestures. One now sees the Wis
dom Of the order forbidding officers
mt attached to the garrison to stay
here during the trial.
hear that, in unclean imaginings,
the secret military dcssier exceeds the
worst top shelf literature. To secure
secrecy the scribe who worked for
Henry end his friends did not hesitate
to- forge letters from high diplomatic
personages. Nearly a score OF love let
tiers from lady high in the diplomatic
sphere were supposed to have been
seized in the despatch box of an en-
bassy during transmission to Berlin.
The person whom she is reported as
having had as a correspondent 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 mentions the Dreyfus al
fair and asks the attaehe to help to
mhitewash the unfortunate captain.
NJ. Jaures expects that there will be
great exposure of a conspiracy against the
republic. and that the high-handed meas
ures Of the present government against
certain generals will be more than justi-
SSo1 l,x 3h.a roY,1;sSrr rnvolgttOnS
The examination Of the diplomatic dos
sier was concluded this morning Dreyfus,
on leac.ng the Lyce looked brighter
than he had ever previously appeared.
To-morrows proceedings will be memor-
able in the history of the affair
NJ Demange has lost no opportunity to
conciIiate 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 law.
always ready TO sacrifice equity to author
aty quick TO scout al the rules of evil
t7ence and members of a caste who think
they have been attacked by Jews, cosmo-
politans and foreigners. Some of them
boast of not having read the report of the
inquiry before the court of cessation, be-
cause they thought it published at the cost
of syndicate and intenoed to cast ouiull
on the army.
NJ. Labori is naturally sanguine and had
always hoped; but l can gather that both
counsel still see that the judges are deeply
and strongly prejudiced against the prfs-
oner and will try to condemn him on his
looks, if all legal evidence breaks down.
All the officers now read the Petit Jour
ntl which they had never looked at before
the Dreyfus affair. The venom and Vitrol
of the Intransigeant are grateful to them,
because employed against their enemies
real or supposed. They devour the Gaulois,
, Echo de Paris and Eclair because these
i papers respond to their own sentiments.
: NJ. Demange, therefore, has but a single
fulcrum-the pleasure OF every human
being takes in hearing himself praised
have just learned that the secret dos
sier contains shocking reports of the
| speeches of a 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
is only one prince answering to this de-
scription. Chancellor Won Hohenlohe.
The police spies who Informed the intel
I ligence department at the war office of
the princes secret doinss did not attempt
to establish connection between them
and the Dreyfus case.
Bus, 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 hor-
rors with which this famous or Infamous
!. collection of documents reeks.
AS matters stand, think NJ. Denange
! now feels that the two dossiers furnish
! him with case too strong for even the
officers to resist. Any way he looks really
hopeful.
(Signed) EMILY CRAWFORD.