The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-01-12

DeoursDItfes RedlnstIsn and HIS Pronun'
clameatss Are AI6favatlns.
Anti-prryfusitc- Hnvc Only Two
more cards 10 Play without re-
:. SORTING 20 Force.

Paris. January I'm. Quesnay De Beaura-
paire, whose resignation froh the presidency
OF the civil section Of the codrt OF cassation.
Is regarded BY impartial observers as the
most dangerous development OF the Dreyius
afiair thus far today, furnished TO the news
papers tho most infanmatory announcement
he has yet made. 1t Is In the nature oil a
proclamation and is entitled IAN APPEAL to-
Deputies" whom he calls upon yehoncntW
10 remove the Dreyfus case frcm the hands
OF the criminal chamber OF the coursn rhe
proclamation concludes as follows: ~
Order a real and solemn Inquiry woiYh
shall penetrate right into the visoera OF TINS
tortuous examination. II there are guiity
men In the bosom OF the criminal chamber.
authorize tho executive power to remove
them. SO that our nagistracy may regain its
ancient prestige. es5s. vi g3ss,
endar tomori ow. order an immediate tudiciai
Inquiry. You can assuredly take other mems ~
ures. as you have z accept advice from no
one. and your det.~Jns will be welcomed
With thc confidence uuc those who safeguard
the French cause
II hope to place the modest role OF the
cIarions who in oiden days signalIed from the
battlencnts the approach of the enemy anu.
after sounding an alarm, LETT IL Tor tue cnisis
OF tho city to take care of this COMMONWEALTH.
sss is enotons when ssatS me- II
4
you don't cut the gordian an0t NJ oheo
tremble for my country.
Ny grief Is great to see me nsS,sisn I'd
but | console myself With the thousht tnat
1T viii emerge puriied from the Crisis NY
grief Ia great ut seeing live or SIX nieistrates
SO forgctiul OF our traditions as to declare
themselves the adyefsaries OF the army vi
course. the Droyfusites may think tnsy are
not attacking the army while they attack
2 It's chiefs. These inadmen think when they
tell the soldiers today that their ofnecrs ars
unworthy to command them, that the spirit
OF discipline and confidence which constitutes
the greatest source CT military strength Is
not being undermined. /, A..
You WIN reply that waat they call the
enemy Ia the sword OF France. the poor OF
fcers whose uniform is the guard or saeti-
Ace, who work dcvotedy for the loftlest ann
which exists. preparing TO die on tomorrow,
II the cannon roar, will shed their blood LOT
those who Islander. | salute them with an
miration.
Is worthy of respect from the highest 10 inc
lowest rank and " have becn able TO hin
in ayenging the insult to which IL has been
subjected / Shall not regret haying paid so
dearly for my Independence.
Deputies, listen to the voice OF Ioou e'''-
tsisncd) "M. Quesuay de Beaurapsirc.
This appeal is palpapie BID i9r .ns s sHr
port OF the army. But NJ. dc Beaurdpn'Is, =,
who shot up like sky rocket as the m s,
tremendous sensation OF the whole brsyii ,,,
4 conspiracy. now seems falling IKE 4 ros IN,
from his pre- eminence AS a leader OF tho anu!
Dreytusttes and the possible hero OF u eoup
Tie best observers OF public opinion dcsiat
that the impression created by ms hts' as'
mprkabe donunciation OF. the court OF eas a
satton has been succeeded by skeptirism re
garding his motives and the value OF his raye
MANY. IL nat most Frenchmen estimate him
+ Us q politician who had found the beneh to'
pIosaic for man long accustomed 70 the az
citement OF party strife. and who thougnt III
had found an opportunity to make himself th'
leader OF a popular movement. The charsei
he brings today against tue court OF cassnuoi
add nothing of consequence to yesterday IN
dirtmept except accusations that NJ Lccv
had conferences outside the court room VIII
Colonel Picauart's advocate and friend. MALT
Leiblercs. and that Councillor Dumas con
flrred outside the court room with FRIEND
and relatives OF Dreyfus
Mazsau mrs. president OF the e" "nfair ~
the criminal chamber to withdraw the CASE
and recommends that the criminal chamhc
SHOULD act as Judge Of instruction, drawini
full tribunal. over Yhich NJ. Mazeau wou''
D. eslde #iil 70 .fit
Tbe criminal chamber is continuing the in
vostgation. NJ, Paleologue. witness from
thr foreign office several days under esnmi'
nation, says the judges appeared greatly ex'
cited on the day OF NJ. de Btauraparc's rcsig,
nation Two fresh chapters In the affair VII
b. opened In few days, so that the country
Is TO have no rest from agitation. Tho first
Is the trial of urbatn Gohier for his alleged
insults to the French army IN his book, The
Army Against the Nation" NJ. Gohier will
call 400 witnesses and Insist npon threshint
out again the whole Madagascar campaign.
The second chapter will be the libel sui,
axainst Joseph Reynach. editor OF La Re.
prblique FRANCHISE and conservative dcput,
for the district of Deign. who is charged b,
tho widow Of the late Lieutenant Colonel
Henry with having lnsultcd his memory b,
suggestin~ in La Repulluuo Franchise that
NJ. Henry was the real traitor.
The Reynach prosecution, for which Il great
popular snbscription has been made, seems tC
be the last card Of the ant-Dreyfusites. II
this ana the scandal OF Dc BsailraDare's 70 4.
ignation fail to stop revision, thon nothing
viii be left them except an appeal to force.