Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-01-12
NOTHING ELSE CAN STOP REVISION
q, OF DREYFUS CASE.
ALL OTHER S SCHEMES :; TRIED
BEAUREPAIRE ISSUES ANOTHER IN
FLAMMATORY MANIFESTO.
Palpable Appeal for Support of the
Army-sensation Which His Res
iSnntion From Court of Cas-
sntiOn Caused Is Dy-
ing Down.

PARIS, Jan. I'm. Quesnay de Beaure-
paire whose resignation of the presidency
of the civil section Of the court of cassa-
ton is regarded by impartial observers as
the most dangerous development of the
Dreyfus affair thus far, to-day furnished
to the newspapers the most infiammatory
pronouncement he has yet made. 1t is in
the nature of a proclamation, and is en-
titled, IAN Appeal to the Deputies" whom
he calls upon vehemently to remove the
Dreyfus case from the hands of the GRIM
inal chamber of the court. The proclama-
tion concludes as follows:
"Order real and solemn. inquiry which
shall penetrate right into the viscera of
this tortuous examination. II there are
guilty men in the bosom of the criminal
chamber, authorize the executive power to
remove them, so that our magistracy may
regain its ancient prestige.
Remove the case from the criminal
chamber tomorrow. Order an immediate
judicial inquiry. You can assuredly take
other measures, as you have to accept
advice from no one. and your decisions will
be welcome with the confidence due those
who safeguard the French cause.
Il hope to play the modest role Of those
sentries who, in the olden days, signaled
from the battlements the approach Of the
enemy and, after sounding the alarm, left
it for the chiefs of the city to arm them
selves in behalf of the common veal. City
fathers. forgive the abruptness of my ap-
peal. 1t is due to the emotion which
aGitates me. If you do not cut the Gordian
knot at once, l tremble for my country.
My grief is great to see the magistracy
to which 1 have so long belonged compro-
missed. but l console myself with the
thought that it will emerge purified from
t. nf incy Z
or six magistrates so forgetful of our tra-
ditions as to declare themselves the ad-
versaries of the army.
"Of course the Dreyfusites maintain that
they are not attacking the army while
they attack its chiefs. These madmen think
when they tell the soldiers to-day that their
chiefs are unworthy to command them
that the spirit of discipline and confidence
which constitutes the greatest source OF
military strength is not being undermined
You will reply that what they call the
enemy is the sword of France-the poor
officers, whose uniform is the garb OF sac
rifice-who work deyotedly for the loftiest
aim which exists. preparing to die; who to-
morrow. if the cannon roar, will shed their
blood for those who slander. l salute them
with admiration.
II say to the soldiers that the national
army is worthy of respect from the high
est to the lowest rank, and If l have been
able to aid in avenging the insult to which
IL has been subject, I shall not regret haV-
ing paid so dearly for my independence.
Deputies listen to. the voice of good
citizen!
M. QUESNAY BEAUREPAIRE."
This manifesto is a palpabie appeal for
the support of the army. But NJ. DeBeau-
repaire, who shot up like a skyrocket rs
e, lniIS nf no VI
|. .Dreyfus controversy, now seems falling like
/ a rocket from his pre-eminence as leader
of the anti-Dreyfusards and the possible
hero of a coup. The best observers OF
public opinion declare the impression that
has been created by his first remarkable
denunciation of the court OF cessation mas
been succeeded by a skeptlcism regarding
his motives and the value of his reveia-
tions.
Many, if not most. Frenchmen estimate
him as a politician who had found the
bench too prosaic for man long accus-
toned to the excitement of party strife, and
who thought he had found an opportunity
to make himself the leader of a popular
The charges he brings to-day against the
| court of cessation add nothing OF conse.
quence to yesterdays indictment. except
accusations that M. Loew had conferences
outside the courtroom with Colonel Pic
| quarts advocate and friend. Maitre Leio,
outside the courtroom with friends and rel
atives of Dreyfus.
NJ. MaZeau, first president OF tne court
| expressed the opinion that 1t would be un,
| fair to the criminal chamber to Withdraw
| the case, and recommends that the criminal
chamber should act as judge of instruction
| drawing a report upon the case to be sub
mitted to the full tribunal, over which NJ
/ Mazeau would preside.
The criminal chamber is continuing the
| investigation. NJ. Palelogue. witness from
| the foreign office, who has been several
| days under examination, says the judges
| appeared greatly excited on the day OF M
do resignation,
| Two fresh chapters in the AFFAIR will
| be opened in few days. so that the coun-
| try is to have no rest from agitation. Ihe
| first is the trial of Urbain Gohier for his
alleged insults to the French army In ms
book 1.-The Army Against the Nation.
| NJ Gohier will call 400 witnesses and M
| sist upon threshing out again the whole
| Madagascar campaign. The second chap
! ter will be the libel suit against Joseph
Reinach editor of La Republque Fran
| caise, and Conservative deputy for the dis
| trict of Deign, who is charged by the
| widow of the late Lieutenant Colonel Henry
| with having insulted his memory by sus-
| costing in La Republique Franchise that
| Henry was the real traitor. The Reinacf
| prosecution, for which a great popular sub
| scription has been made, seems to be tbs
| last card of the anti-Dreyfusites. II thi:
and the scandal of De Beaurepaire's resiG'
| will be left them except an appeal to force
La Liberte to-day quotes "a personaSe
! closely connected with the court of cassa-
| ton as saying that inquiry into the Drey.
| fus case is about finished. that decision
may be expected early in February and
| that it will be almost unanimously favor.
! able to revision of the trial.