The sun., 1899-09-17
TO FREE DREYFUS TUESDAY
HIS APPEAL TO THE MILITARY
COURT OF RETIsION WITHDRAWN.

COUhT OF RETISION WITHDRdWN.
His Health Makes the Acceptance of /.
Pardon Necessary-will Not Give Up the
Attempt to Prove His Innocence-Paris
Turns Now to the Trial of tho PIotters
Against the Republic Which Opens on
Notwithstanding Story of the Plot.
SpeeiaI Gable Despatch to THr Sun
PARIS. Sept. 16.-Capt. Alfred Dreyfus will
be released next Tuesday. and thereafter will
be at liberty to pursue. as a free man. the vim
dication OF his honor which no pardon can
give The Court OF Cessation will then be open
to him for quashinR the Rennes verdict as soon
as the necessary facts for demonstrating his
innocence have been collected. The prisoner
himself Is unable as yet to declare his inten-
tons in this respect. but his family and
friends. In announcing the withdrawal OF the
appeal to the military court OF revision. at the
request OF the Government. affirm their rur-
pose never to rest until the rehabilitation OF
the injured man is complete.
The present solution OF the problem is on
the whole. the best possible. 1t is necessitated
by the deplora Bile state OF the prisoners health
which renders his survival OF long term OF
imprisonment during the legal proceedings
impossit 10. Therefore Dreyfus will accept as
clemency what really belongs to him as right.
The French public. by one OF those strange
revulsions Of feeling common In this country.
accepts this sequel to the Rennes trial not only
without protest. but with positive approval.
Tho anti -Dreyius party fondly imnRines that
1t ends the whole affair. that it stops foreign
critcism. and ensures great and glorious sue
cess for the exhibition OF 1900.
The general public Is already turning its
back on the Drsyfus affair and giving its ex-
elusive attention to the trial Of the Royalst
conspirators. which opens In the High Court
next Monday. This Is going to prove to be a
very serious matter and it 10 impossible to say
what it may lead to- There are already about
sixty prisoners charged with conspiracy
against the Republic. and although It is gem
orally believed that the number finally ar
raiensd will be reduced to twenty five. the
trial cannot fail to be a serious factor in the
already precarious political situation.
Little is known OF the evidence on which the
Government relies against the accused per-
sons. but Premier Waldeck Rousseau has said
that 1t Is overwhelming. and that the Cabinet
would have been guilty OF treason II it failed
TO proceed against the plotters upon the evil
dence before 1t. THE SUN correspondent has
received from an eminent man Of letters. who
was until recently strong Royalist sympa-
thizer. a most interesting account Of the ncep-
tion and development Of the pat which its pro-
moters xpected would have before this over
thrown the Republic. This is his statement:
Tho Duke OF Orleans has proved himself as
devoid OF brains as OF morals. He has repeated
the folly Of Rehoboam. Soon after the death
of his father he turned from the wise counsels
OF his older followers and selected MS ADVISERS
from the younger ana more reckless surround
ing sycophants. Ihese men PROMISED 10 reNo'
lutionize France In MS favor. Inc more
respectable members OF the koyailst party
disguised by the foollsh concuct OF their chlel'
withdrew In sorrow. leaving the helc Tree 70
the insensates VINO arc ieauinR the Luxe 10
ruin. Inc DuKes young aaVisers' IN casting
ABOUT ior means 10 iuini their rash PROMISES
entereo INTO heRotlaeiohs Win '"e anti
bemitic League. ihen hasmuon as 'ho
Patriot League ana the bohapartsts are
also working against tue ooVernmen''
tacit alliance was STRUCK ~hereoy IL was ar
ranged that JOINT enort was 70 oe nnaue 20
overthrow the government iheh each party
was 10 suomi Hs pretehs'ons 70 pieoisoi'e .
OF the french people. lho orieaHis's "ouiu
propose constitutionai hohareh'' Ihe
bonapartists oemocIatic Hmpfe "nu Luz
roulede popular Republic. ;.
There is little doubt that Gen. Roget hlmseiI
was In this scheme. and near on good
respondence under mis- mana with several aie-
heart tailed MIN at CRITICAL moment
He felt that MS brigade was lnsulncehs
and trusting that his part IN the prehminarles
had escaped attention. he held MS hand. Inc
result was the nasco at Renlally Barracks
which followed PRESIDENT faure funeral but
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