The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-08-30
NEITHER SIDE PLEASED
Cordier's Evidence Was a Dis
appointment.
GENERAL MERCER GAME
The Part He Took in 1894 Makes Him
Liable to Arrest-He Will Fight to
the Last Ditch-White Mouse
on the Stand

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proceedings before the court-martfal
that is trying Captain Dreyfus. The
Dreyfusards expected that Colonel
Cordier, who was deputy chief of the
intelligence department under the late
Colonel Henry, would testify that the
bordereau was received directly by the
late Colonel Sandherr Had the ex-
pectation been realized, the testimony
would have been a strong point in IA
vor of the accused, because it would
have been reply to the anti-Dreyfus-
ards, who have all along contended
that Henry received the bordereau and
forwarded it to Sandherr. a thing he
would not have done had the border
eau been as the Dreyfusards assert,
written by his accomplice. Esterhazy,
for in that event Henry would have
recognized the handwriting when he
received the bordereau from the Ger
man embassy, and would have sup
pressed it instead of forwarding it to
Sandherr.
Colonel Cordier. however, testified to-
day that he was absent from the intel
ligence department when the bordereau
arrived, but that he believed it was re-
ceived by Henry
Naturally his statement elated the
anti-Dreyfusards, but they had no rea-
son to congratulate themselves upon
the remainder of Cordiers testimony
as it was wholly in favor of Dreyfus.
On the other band the procession of
generals and officers of the general
staff who demanded an opportunity to
confront Colonel Cordier was good
piece of tactics from the point of view
of the anti-Dreyfusards. because all
points they contested were not of the
EV6t tya,yNs N,Nt,a l,.,it
pearance on the stage and the contra
dictions OF some of Cordier's state
ments left a disagreeable impression.
The appearance of General MERCER
to question Colonel Cordier came as
surprise to many in the audience, who
had supposed that after last Satur-
days scene, when MERCER was con-
fronted with Captain F'reystmetter, he
would remain quiet. But MERCER is
game to the death.
His action to-day is intended to
show that he is not going to throw up
the sponge. The part he played in 1894
lays him open to arrest, and this is
constant topic of discussion in the
cafes and at other meeting places in
Rennes. There appears, however, to
be a good reason why the government
will not take any such serious step I'M
Ill the trial is over.
Colonel Jousaust, president of the
court-martial. could adjourn the trial
indefinitely if MERCER, who is an i'm
portant witness, were arrested. II the
trial were adjourned for more than As
hours it would lapse, and the proceed
ingS would have to be gone over again
from the beginning.
To-dayS attendance was the largest
since the opening of the trial. Every
body was on the qui vive to hear the
testimony of Charles de Freycinet, sem
ator, formerly premier, former minister
of foreign affairs and former minister
of war This adroit politician, the
white mouse" of French politics. sat
upon the fence as we'll as he could.
His expression of fear that the Dfey-
fus agitati would injure the discip-
line of the army greatly annoyed the
Dreyfusards, as calculated to infiu-
ence the Judges against the accused.
But he followed it with an eulogy of
the pioneer of the Dreyfus campaign,
NJ Seheurer- Kestner, former vice
president of the senate. whose charac-
ter he said he held in the highest es-
TEEN
M. Labor then secured another con-
cession favorable to Dreyfus by get
ting NJ de Freycinet to admit that ne
could not recall a single fact going to
prove that money had been sent into
France to promote a campaign in FAVOR
of Dreyfus. The general feeling, now
ever was that his appearance on the
stail9 oio iiot i"''
Colonel Cordier, deputy chief of the
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