The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-08-09

Dreyf0s Case-GeneraIs Who Are
Perplexed by the Dangers That
Confront Them-Dreyfus' Advo-
Gates Confident of Victory.
RENNES, Aug. S-(special )-MaItra
Demange' the principal counsel for Capt.
DreyIus' expresses himself as well salts
iieo at today's proceedings. Col. Jouaust
hao 10 play the part of a severe Judge,
out II his voice was rude and his manner
rough toward the prisoner, his eve was
klnd' and there was no attempt to press
nome the stones raised by the indict-
ment.
M. Chanoine, the custodian Of the IA
nous secret dossier, said it would take four
Gays to examine it, as the examination
would be behind closed doors and most OF
the witnesses have gone to the seaside.
Gen. de Boisdeffre to Dinnard and Gen
D1onne to Param. Gen. Mercier remains
here, the guest of Gen. st. German. who
tens ms followers to be prepared for SEN
satonal evidence that must crush Drew
rus and many others with him.
M CaVa1gnac talked at LIE Maison. on
MS way here. He says he expects two
coups de theatre We now hear that one
Will be an avowal by Gen. Billot that he
SAID on his soul and conscience that
Dreyfus was a traitor. because he WAC
mlsled. The other will be MERCER driven
10 pay. The latter will Issue from this
trial ruined if Dreyfus is acquitted.
near ne intends to throw searchlight on
the secret counsels of the Dupuy govern
meht' OF which he was a member in 1894
and to show what diplomatic wires were
pulled between the arrest of Dreyfus and
his embarkation for Cayenne. Mercier
refuses to be interviewed He looks how
ed down from it all. Gen BiIlot. on the
other hand, seems to have taken out a
new lease of life. He also is extremely
retlcent, as indeed are all the witnesses
of note
NJ Jaures arrived last night. He
claims to know much that is in the Sc
cret dossier. An intercepted CORE
spondence between two military attaches
VINO were mixed up in the affair is said
by Jaures to be shame to human ma
ture These two officers wrote under
feminine names and in a strain that
might not have shocked the young corr
gathered around Lots house in tne
doomed city. Possibly nay probably, the
attaches in question never wrote these
scented anacreontic billets, for such thew
are Lemercier Picard was equal to the
task of forging them, and he possibIv
did forge them for pecuniary considera-
ton. Hence, probably, the mystery in
which his suicide is shrouded
The counsel for Dreyfus met today at
his wife's residence the heads of the
Dreyfusite party and consulted on the
political aspect of the affair They went
there after they had examined the docu-
ments of the secret dossier in the judges
room. They do not see any possibility
OF repeating the judgment of 1894.
DREYFUS FATIGUED.
Dreyfus was greatly fatigued after yes
terday's ordeal He asked anxiously to-
day what the press and public thought.
and was led to think that opinion is gem
orally favorable. This is true. The rep
resentatives of Nationalist journals here.
who judge harshly in print, express ad-
miration for the Unflinching constancy he
has displayed
Leading personages here for the trial
Gen
Annenkof and Baron Fredericks in con-
nection with Dreyfus, but Gen. Mercier
and M Hanotaux, former minister of
foreign affairs, refuse to speak on the
subject. M. HanOtaux looks dismayed.
1t will be curious to see whether he and
MERCER contradict each other
There seems danger that all the evil
dence relating to foreign diplomatists will
be given with closed doors. The public
trial will be resumed on Saturday
Dreyfus, a member of his family tells
me, has not yet got over his Rip Van
Wrinkle feeling. He was lost, as he put
it. He remarked to his wife that he was
astonished to find himself yesterday
watched by the whole world or it's prox-
les, though he showed no sign of astonish-
ment He was thrown in heap by the
searching and, as he thought, unfriendly
examination of the president of the court.
NM. Demange and Labor did not pre-
pare him for a hostile tribunal and
scrutinizfng public. He felt as if X-rays
were being cast on him all the time he
was under public gaze. 1t was as if the
inrermost thoughts of his heart were be-
ing peered into. He thought the pro-
ceedings would be only formal, and per-
hapS he might leave the court house to
walk to his wife's temporary home. His
counsel were quite right not to discourage
him beforehand, as his strength is low,
anu lie is condemned 10 diet or milk
and eggs, which does not enable him to
rapidly recover his lost strength. The
ague has caused lesion of the renal or
gans, and a full diet just now could not
fail to bring on Br:ght's disease. He was
at first greatly depressed to learn that
he would be confronted with a crowd of
hostile witnesses, and that the trial might
last a fortnight or three weeks, or even
longer. Then, steeling himself he cried:
You must prove yourself a man, Drey-
fus. You must struggle for your honor,
and not give in until you have cleared it
once and forever. But what have you
done, Dreyfus, to make people thus read
you? Were you born under a malignant
star? If so, fight against fate. and wres-
tie until you have thrown the evil angel"
From long habit he speaks to himself,
when intending to converse with visitors.
NO DEMONSTRATIONS.
The police arrangements in the vicinity
of the Lycee this morning were exactly
the same as those of yesterday, but not
more than 100 persons had gathered at
the early hour-6:30 oclock-fxed for the
opening of the days proceedings IN the
trial. The prisoner was conducted to the
Lycee at 6:15, and exactly the same pre-
cautions were observed as on yesterday.