The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-01-16
PLOTTING AT PARIS
POWERFUL ENEMIES ARE sEEx
ING TO OVERTURN THE THIRD
REPUBLIC
ESTERHAzY is TO RETURN
oo"te 'iven Virtual Safe Conduct
In Order That His Evidence NAV
be Taken Before the Court of
Cassation-ReyiyaI Of tbe N,rol
ieonic Legend a Striking Feature
of the Situation.

PARIS, Jan. 15.-Arrangements hava
oeen made to give Maj. Cornte Ferdi-
| nand Esterhazy a virtual safe conduct
| to testify before the court of caesation
In the Dreyfus revision inquiry. the
comte having forwarded to M. Mazean
the president of the court. a svnonsis
vi the evidence he is expected to give.
Ihe Solr says that Count Won Nuns
Ter, the German ambassador, who left
Tor Berlin suddenly yesterday, was
summoned to confer with Baron Won
Buelow, German secretary of state for
foreign affairs, concerning the Dreyfus
case
zen. Mercier who was minister for
war at the time of the conviction of
Dreyfus, has been interviewed bv a
representative Of the Soir, to whom he
declared that in 1894 he knew nothing
OF Comte Ferdinand Esterhazv or the
iatters relations with Col Sandherr.
'Dreyfus,' he added, "Iied when he
pretended knew he had supplied doc
uments to foreign power in order to
OBTAIN more important documents in
return with view of obtaining soma
iiiltlgation OF his sentence. However. I
caused him to be asked the number
and value of the documents he had
supplied He refuyed, and his refusal.
therefore, pointed to his guilt"
Gen. Mercier asserted to the Soir rem
/ resentative that the Dreyfus dossiar
contained documents cornnrornis,no-
the future relations of France and c.sr.
many.
DARK DAYS AHEAD
Ihe question whether a glass of rum
ana water will suffice to DESTROY tho
thlrd republic Of France may be said
10 De stlil pending. The CITY has NOT
yel oegun TO laugh at the effusious or
M. Beaurepaire, and this is really q
very serious sign.
Grog for Col. Picuuart ar tho oo,,r+
OF cessation and no grog for the gem
erals is the sum and substance OF the
accusations Of this windmill agitator
IN Judges robes. The French sense
OF humor has been go completely de-
stroyed by passion that it fails to see
anything absurd in the indictment.
Inc situation is serious enough I'm
all conscience. 1t has not been moro
SO since the commune. In the number
OF those who believe that the days of
A' i'SPopiiC are drawing TO q close are
included some of the most conserva-
tive judges of public affairs in Europe
There is no longer any doubt that
many powerful enemies of the French
! government are plotting its 6estruc-
tlon. The systematic and deliberate
manner in which a fresh obstacle to
the progress of truth and light is in
terposed whenever the triumph of i1Is-
tlce seems imminent is sufficient proof
OF the deadly campaign they are wag-
ing against France.
There will be more Beaurepaires and
Chanoines as soon as they become
| necessary, and the fact that the French
people are so easily deceived by such
persons constitutes the most hopeless
feature Of the situation
This weeks developments are by no
means confined to the relentless at
tempt to discredit the court of cassa-
| ton. thus destroying the last bulwarIl
| of the constitution
The temperance of the Napoleonic
legend in Paris Is in evidence every
where. Hawkers are selling the his
tory of Napoleon on the streets and
there is demand for photographs Of
the Bonaparte family everywhere.
Finally the production Of the play.
"V1ve fEmpereur," has been received
with transports of rapture, and every
point glorifying the Bonapartes is
cheered by a crowded house nightly.