The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-07-17
ANNA GOULD A ROYALIsT.
American Dollars Shamefully Used to
Overthrow French Republic.

Atlanta constitution.
Wrapped up in the Dreyfus case and very
intimately connected with all its details, is
a royalist conspiracy which has for its OBJ
Ject the ov~erturningo of the French republic.
~ rs IMPOSSIBLE TO entertain a very M
practically Overshadowed by the army and
which, in the nature of things, depends
largely on the army for its existence. 1t
would be unjust, of course, TO condemn the
republic or to deride ii on this account 1t
only partially represents the aspirations of
the French people. Their environment is
such that they cannot carry out the ideals
OF such men as Lafayette and Theirs. Yet
IL must never be forgotten that the seed
from which the tree of Americas liberty
has sprung were first. planted in France.
The army, as matters stand, is a neces-
sary evil. 1t is made necessary by the con-
ditions which surround France. The Off
GERS or this same army are responsible for
the u~nspeakable crimes perpetrated against
Dreyfus. That story, in a nutshell, is that
furnishing Esterhazy with orma
which he sold TO foreign military attaches
for round sums. This money was clear
In secret information reached a point where
the discovery of its existence was made
by, one of the officers of the general staff,
Colonel Picquart.
Then II became necessary for the high Of
fcials to find a scapegoat for their tool Es-
terhazy, and Dreyfus was selected as the
victim. He had no influential connection.
and he was a Jew; the combination seemed
complete. By means of a series of bold for
gerles and perjuries, the crime of EsterhaZy
was fastened on him, his uniform was taken
from him and he was banished to Devils
Island for life.
Those who believed in the mans innocence
set themselves TO work 70 establish il, and
the most tritiing events have seemed to play
into their hands. They have been so sue
e%essfui. indeed, that the whole course of pub
Tic opinion in France has changed. ZOla,
who was brought TO trial and convicted for
declaring the condemnation of Dreyfus TO
be an outrage, was compelled to leave
ErQnn He has n arnrn and +hn
change in public opinion has been so great
as 10 make a hero of him for proclaiming the
innocence OF a man who is now known TO be
innocent.
In this plot the hands of the royalists
the enemies Of the republic, are to be seen
from the first. This element Is we'll repre-
sented among the officers of the army, and IL
loses no opportunity to weaken the repub-
lie and bring It into ~disrepute. The royalist
officers were selling Frances secrets 10 Ger
many and Italy and Russia and the Royalist
party has made itself conspicuous by de-
~nouncing Dreyfus as a traitor.
The selection of Loubet as President OF
rance after the death of Faure seems to
have been a pr~ovidential occurrence. Loubet
is a plain man with no nonsense about him,
a believer in the people, and a genuine be-
lever in the republic. 1t is fortunate for
France that such a man was at hand in the
emergency which followed Faure's death.
The royaliSt conspiracy which had been
brewing, and which was preparing to over
throw the republic, possibly with the as
%sistance OF Faure himself, was seriously
interfered with by Loubets election, but
the plans of those engaged in IL We're SC
nearly ripe that they resolved to make one
| desperate effort. The outcome of IL was
the attack on President Loubet, in which
Anna Gould's husband made himself con-
spicuous.
The government inquiry into this attack
has'revealed features that are at once SEN
satiorIal and laughable. Boni Castellane. who
Is openly described as a scalawag of the
most approved type. freely used Jay Gould
money TO make the attack on Loubet a
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the Duke Of Orleans, and the correspondent