The Indianapolis journal., 1899-01-11
Accusations, VituperntiOns and
Threats Raging in tue Cafes and Cir
cuIated by boulevard Sheets.
DE BEAUREPAIRE DANGEROUS
If ENEMIES OF THE REPUBLIC
CHOOSE HIM AS LEADER.
His Charges Against the Court of Cas-
satiOn-The Dreyfus Deposition
Sagasta still in Power.

now entered one of it's bitterest chapters.
Accusations, vituperations and threats are
raging in the cafes and among the scores
of boulevard sheets, many of which have
found their sole reason for existence for
months past in the unhappy strife they
foment. 1t is regarded by impartial observ-
ers the most dangerous factor to the in
sttutiOns of the republic the affair has yet
developed that the president of the chambers
of the Court of Cessation should assume
the role of leader of the agitation against
the tribunal declaring that sixteen of his
colleagues are conspiring to defeat the ends
of justice. The method he employs of APP
pealing to the populace through the news
papers in the eyes of the most conservative,
aggravates his course by its lack of dig
nifty. 1t is evident that he, believing that
the Court of Cessation will decide in favor
of Dreyfus, intends to divest the decision of
all weight by impeaching it's fairness in adj
vance, and he seems likely to succeed, so
far as the anti-Dreyfusards, many of whom
have hitherto respected the court but are
only eager TO find excuses for discrediting
it, are concerned. The opinion is gaining
ground that the opponents of the republic
may find in this man, Nj. Quesna de Beaure-
paire, a leader, the lack of whom has hith-
erto been the chief guarantee of the contin-
uance of the present regime.
NJ. De Beaurepaire to-day contributes to
the papers another rhetorical denunciation
of the Court of Cessation. He exhorts the
government to take the Dreyfus case from
the hands Of the criminal chamber and TO
intrust it to the forty-nine magistrates COM
posing the whole court or to five of the
oldest justices. He appeals to the Dreyfus
ards: "Repudiate NJ. Loew and the others
h., to 1ro71
badly. Accept instead magistrates without
preconceived opinions, men who are honest
and slaves of the law" The gist of NJ. De
Beaurepaire's charges is that M. Bard and
NJ Loew conferred with Colonel Picquart
privately in an ante-room and also instruct
ed the clerk of the court to express to him
the courts regret at having kept him wait
ing and, being unable to hear him that day.
which the clerk refused to do, requesting
messenger to take Colonel P1cquart glass
of wine.
The Matin asserts that when General Bill
lot (former minister of war; was before the
court, drink was offered him also. To such
trifes has the strife descended. The papers
heatedly affirm and deny the statement as
to Billot who has been appealed to to settle
the matter, but he refuses to speak.
IL Is beheDeG thaI onIy 4I1een anins JIGges an m
that the hearing thus far is to the adVan-
tage of the anti-Dreyfusards. The discus
ties ELECTED the usual cries of ''N1ve Tar
NEE" and "A bas Dreyfus.'
The Cabinet met this afternoon under the
presidency of President Faure, who issued
a decree accepting the resignation of Nj.
De Beaurepaire. and appointing Councillor
Ballot de Baupre to succeed him.
The minister of justice, NJ. Lebret. an
nounced that NJ. Mazeau, the first president
of the Court of Cessation, will preside over
the criminal section of the Court of Cas-
sation, instead Of NJ. LOeW, when the Drey-
fus inquiry is terminated and the court meets
to make a decision. This step has been
taken in consequence of the Virulent at
tacks on NJ. LoeW, based on the fact that he
is a Jew The minister also read the tele-
graphic deposition from Dreyfus, in which
he not only declared he had never confessed
that he guilty to Captain LIE Brun-
Renault, who had charge OF the prisoner
at the time of his condemnation and degrd
tested his innocence and had intimated, att
er his degradation on the parade grounds
of the military school at Paris, his inten-
tion to declare publicly that his innocence
would be recognized in two or three years.
1t was also cabled from Cayenne that the
prisoner denied that he had made any avow-
ais to the director of the prison in which
he was confined after his condemnation
Dreyfus added that Colonel Patty du Clam
not revealed certain documents with the
view of obtaining others in exchange, and
he, Dreyfus replied that he had not revealed
the contents of any document Dreyfus in
his cabled deposition concluded with reit-
Grating that he had made confession to
a republican guard or Bendarme and that
on the contrary, he had always declared
that his innocence would be proved in two
or three years.