The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-08-12
On the Contrary, the Leading Ad-
vocates Of the Captains Cause
Are Well Satisfied With the Result Of the
Examination Of the Secret Dossier.
Urge Their Newspaper Friends to
Clamor for Full Publicity, In
the Belief That It Will Mean
the Disgrace of the Military and
Nationalist Parties of France.

copyrighted, 1899, by Associated Press)
RENNES (F'rance), Aug. 11.-All the
notable Dreyfusites here are satisfied
with the result of the examination OF
the secret dossier. They have urged
their newspaper friends in Paris to
clamor for full publicity, knowing that
if it be granted the military and Ma
tionalist parties would be utterly dis
graced. They are convinced that the
diplomatic and War Office dossiers
TEEN with forgeries. OF course, these
impressions are derived from the five
counsel present at the examination of
these precious papers.
Publicity would mean pillOry for
General de Boisdeffre and company.
They would be pelted with their own
foul eggs, while Captain Dreyfus would
be cleared in the face of the whole
world.
The military caste here is furious at
the. turn things are taking. The cor
respondent of Russian paper told me
to-day that in a cafe frequented by
officers he unfolded the Dreyfusite "Au
rore" to read. All the military men
near by scowled at him in mad man
showing their disapproval, went in a
body to the other end of the cafe, as
if the Russian We're a leper. All the
officers at the military club came out
on the club balcony when bundle of
DreyfuSite journals was being burned
in the streets, and they approved the
performance by unmistakable gestures.
One now sees the wisdom of the order
fo, n 4 oGSo -
garrison to stay here during the trial.
l hear that in unclean .imaginationS
the secret dossier exceeds the worst top
shelf literature. To secure secrecy, the
scribes who worked for Henry and his
friends did not hesitate to forge let
ters from high diplomatic personages
Nearly a score of love letters from a
lady in the diplomatic sphere were sup
posed to have been seized in the dis
patch box of an Embassy during the
transmission to Berlin. The person
whom she is represented as having had
as a correspondent was an attache OF
an Embassy here, and much younger
than the lady, who is made to appear
impaSsioned, quite an Eloise. OF
course, she mentions the Dreyfus af-
fair, and asks the attache to help
whitewash the unfortunate Captain. NJ.
Jouaust expects that there will be
great exposure of a conspiracy against
the republic, and that the high-handed
measure of the present Government
against certain Generals will be more
than justified by the coming revela-
lions.
The examination of the diplomatic
dossier was concluded this morning
Dreyfus on leaving the Lycee looked
brighter than he has ever previously
appeared. To-morrow's proceedings
will be memorable in the history of the
affair."
NJ. Demange has lost no opportunity
to conciliate the seven judges He has
let himself be interviewed in order to
say nice things about them. That as
tute advocate understands human ma
ture. He remembers that the seven are
ignorant of law, always ready to sacri-
fee equity to authority, quick to scout
at the rules of evidence, and are mem
bers of a caste who think they had been
attacked by Jews. cosmOpolitans and
foreigners. Some of them boast of not
having read the report of the inquiry
before the Court of Cessation, because
they thought it published at the cost
of a syndicate and intended to cast
odium on the army.
M. Labor is naturally sanguine and
has always hoped. but 1 can gather
that both counsel still see that the
judges are deeply and strongly pre-
JUDGED against the prisoner and will
try to condemn him on his looks. if all
legal evidence breaks down.
All the officers now read the "Petit
Journal" which they had never looked
at before the Dreyfus affair. The
venom and vitrol of the 'Intransig-
cant" are grateful to them, because
employed against their enemies, real or
supposed. They devour the "Gaulois."
ECHO de Paris and ''EcIair." be-
cause these papers respond to their
own sentiments.
M. Demange, the referee, has but a
single fulcrum-the pleasure every hu-
man being takes in hearing himself
praised.
1 have just learned that the secret
dossier contains shocking reports of the
spies of German Prince who has
filled high situations in the empire
during the last twenty years. and one
of them in Paris he often visits. There
! is only one Prince answering to this
| description, Chancellor Won Hohenlohe.
The spies who informed the War Office
of the Princes secret doings did not
attempt to establish action between
| them and the Dreyfus case.
But one must suppose that the sole
object has been to prevent the dossier
ever being published. It would be
necessary to go to Suetonius for paraI-
lels of the horrors with which this
famous of Infamous collection of docu-
ments reeks.
AS matters stand. I think that De-
mango now feels that the two doss;ers
furnish him with a case too stronp for.
even the officers to resist ANYWAY
he looks really hopeful
EMILY CRAWFORD.