Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-06-05
NATIONAL PRESS FURIOUS.
faction FranciSe Appeals to
Country to Turn to the Duke
OF Orleans.
"what We Ask for Drcyfus is Not O
Balls from Revolver. but the IL
Bullets of the Execution squad"

Paris, June 5.-Whether Yesterdays
attempt upon the life of Major Drey-
fus was but the individual act of
man believing himself to have been an
outraged patriot or had behind 1t an
incipient national plot. the Republican
press is unanimous in deplorng the
incident. and believes it injured rather
than aided that cause. Even those pa
pers which doubted the wisdom of
hurying Emil Zola in the Pantheon
think that the shooting of Mai. DreY-
fus consolidated the Republican senti-
ment, and they evidently desire to
see the incident die out as quickly as
possible An attempt to reopen the
old Dreyfus issue at tho trial of Louis
Gregori. the man who shot the major.
they point out, would be plainly eX-
traneous.
VIOLENT ANTI-DREYFUS
ARTICLE.
ON the other hand, the fury OF the
Nationalist papers is unbounded.
L'Acton Franchise fires a broadside.
which recalls the most exciting days
of Dreyfus and Boulanger. At the
head of its columns, this newspaper
prints statement by Charles Maur-
ras which, 1t is likely, the authorities
will Investigate. In this article tho
writer says that on Wednesday night
a resolute patriot" visited M. Daudet
and Lieut Boisleury and himself Of
fered to XIII Dreyfus, but his proposal
was rejected. a leading editorial in
this paper appeals to the country to
turn TO the Duke of Orleans for re-
dress and concluded with these words:
DO you desire that Zola's body be
elected from the Pantheon? Do you
desire to march Dreyfus to the execu-
ton block? If so invoke your king.
The decision of the court of cessation
to cut off the time for an appeal, the
paper says, is Illegal and is concluues
its article as follows:
What we ask for Dreyfus Is nor SIX
balls from a revolver, but the II bullets
OF the execution squad.
Other newspapers declare That Gre
| goris, much grieved at the recent deatn
of his mother. has lately manifested
signs OF mental arrangement
Gregoris' sister said today that her
brother latterly had displayed symp-
toms of melancholia.
The authorities are pursuing their IN
yestigation with view of ascertainmg
whether there was plot behind the
shooting OF yesterday.
The bullet in Maj. Dreyfus' wrist mas
not been located The bulletin issnen
today by the doctors says Dreyfus
condition is satisfactory.
GENERALLY DEPLoRED.
The press OF all shades of opinion
deploree the attempt yesterday on the
life of Maj Dreyfus, although the Vari-
Gus newspapers see widely dinerent
causes for the shooting.
Tho Gaulois, paper with wnlch
Gregori was connected, blames pariia-
ment for re-opening by yesterday
ceremony an era of discard which was
beginning to disappear. 1t also DIS.
approves of Dreyfus who calls himself
n soldier. gracing the triumph of tho
author of the Debacle. Ernest Judet
I'm tho Nationalist Eclhr writes IN "
similar vein, He regrets the cup
able diversion which saved the official
manifestation from ridicule and odium
| IN which 1t was laundering" but adds:
| ''Dreyfls is a most uncouth Caesar put
| Gregori is lar from being a Brutus,
Government and Socialist organiza-
| lions stlgmatizo the attempt which they
attribute to the violent campaign car
ried on by the Nationalist and Royal
| list press.
The Rappel says that Gregori's reyol-
| YER did much more damage 10 Nation
alism than to Dreyfus
The Aurore understands that Cen
| Picquart. the minister of war, Will sub
mil to President Falleires for signature
n decree nominating Maj. Dreyfus AZ
an officer of the Legion of Honor.