The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 11, 1899, Page 1

\FUHIN 4 a1 L\j ~ The This Paper not | to be taken from /| | the Library s +44 PRICE FIVE CENTS, REYFU - IS CONEIDENT OF SOON GAINING HIS LIBERTY >+ Q@ - | its attention will be the latest | School Board scandal. The jury will | | have good material upon which to | work, and, 'if the duty is faithfully | PRISON YAWNS FOR DISHONEST DIRECTORS Grand Jury Will Investigate Gedge and Conlon. Exposure of Their Crookedness Hurries Them to Cover While Colleague Kemp Is Driven to Drink---Williar NEW Grand Jury will be im- paneled to-morrow by Judge Dalngerfield, and one of the first matters that will be brought to done, there will be vacancies in the | educational department of the city caused by some of the directors in- ! voluntarily changing their places of residence from San Francisco to the State prison. According to the adm ns of Dr. | secret . . ! Views Vary ‘as. to theijt 1 </ Y P . J f 3 engt @ 1ae (el $ . . o . . ! 3 econvicie 1Cer 1S|? ) P & + * 0 Serve. : * * S * * From All Sections of the Civil-¢ be . 5 + | ized World Come Reports of|! - * Protest Against the Injustice : f the Verdi : : of the Verdict. ¢ | 3 oLl | % ENNES, Sept. 10.—Dreyfus has ]| see his weak state of health L 4 borne the terrible shoc rmal impassivity,an ugly sign, + marvelous fortitude, one m or him more than they care to | 04 almost say with | $ calm. Yesterday he town to-day has been perfectly | ¢ DS pefled when M. Labori cc 3 There has not been a sign nor a + ed to him the verdiet, but has since ral. | demonstration nor a cry for or against @ 1. He passed a quiet night and rose | Drevfus. A number of people gathered | . when his orderly brought him water at fus visit the prison, é; mc g ju ) al when it w. nd masses of gendarnes | o > 4 stus and Mathicu Dr memecencr ot 2en-| - CAPTAIN DREYFUS NEW PRISON. is brother, visited him durin arance of a military camp, | o . 7 i ® se of the afternoon. Hi letely vanished. There are | | The town and citadel of Corts, Island of Corsi¢a, where it is reported theex-prisonerof Devil’s Island . quently left for Paris. v gendarmes in zh:huxv--w will spend his newly allotted term of imprisonment. L d n > Court of Re :ar the Drevfus residence, where a n the Court of Re o : a3 4:; 5“ et e The town of Corte is situated high up In the mountains, just north of the central part of ‘the island : m at noon by M. Labo SEWNETE DOl Bty C on the high road from Bastia, on northeast coast, to Ajaccio, on the southwestern, and thirty $ t and he signed it. seen frequenting the cafes this BIter- | 1 rom either place. It stands on the banks of the river Tavignano, and near the foot of Mount ¢ -day Dreyfus has spoken but lit- | noon, showing that the authorities no | © . shown in the background of the plcture, from whose summit, S609 feet high, can be seen the shores of France @ though he has seemed in better ger fear any trouble here and are| ! . from Toulon to Leghorn, as well as nearly all of Sardinia, to the south. Corte has a population of 3 spirits than might have been antici- |8/l0Wing the officers to leave their bar- 1s, and is the seat of the University of Paoli. It has one of the few daily newspapers on the island, and a statue of & The meeting with his wife was | Fack @ Corsica’s famous son, Pasquel Paoli, which stands on the central plaza of the same name. The citadel, with the at- 4 ; very affecting, but both held| SO far as be ascertained milltary | ¢ tached fortifications of later date, which may be Dreyfus' new prison home, is shown on the rising ground in the J = Well as possible. He said to her: | men are perfectly satisfied with the | ® back of the picture, a little to the right of the center. T regarding verdict, which they interpret a: am not uneasy The correspondent thig afternoon in he must have been sentenced to mous vent prayer for Dreyfus and his Rev. Arthur Robins, chaplain in or- | dinary to the Queen, preaching at Holy Trinity, Windsor, said: “The civilized world is aghast at this great crime of five abject judg DEMANGE WILL SUBMIT SOME LEGAL QUESTIONS .+WWWM+WW+MWW@+©+®+@+®+H.? H. E. Gedge, he was offered a bribe to permit the changing of the specifi- cations upon which bids for school supplies were based to give a certain firm a cinch on the contract at figures that meant the looting of the school funds. The School Director made no of the fact in discussing the matter with his friends, that no bribe was too small for him to grab on to, and that he was not built on the lines of a man who would allow $2000 to slip through his fingers while he was in the possession of his proper senses. Direc- tor Gedge has made the statement that he had to pay $300 of the bribe money to his colleague, J. J. Conlon, | for agreeing to the steal. He also as- serts that Conlon did not refuse the money. Gedge and Conlon, according to the | former’s admissions, took advantage of | mins. |ing about him. | | proud of the p | | o . ;r'::’ys;:\]—Thif;r;:énbu:hi%, 7!:‘552 e t‘x?:nuh(l:inrgo;fn‘};wt“r‘frm( Vv to | peared before the court in uniform.| + 44+ 4+4+++4+4++++4+4+++++|gogues or;] beh:\le of Dreirus. an-('l as | Ll sy " who, they say, sufficiently eX-| That he will actually be put through |+ + | 200 as the verdict was known. Jews e chlld oo or & Dol < crime In the awful existence | this cruel ordeal 1 think doubtral. 1t| + MOODY PRAYS 3 Bses wieiosconnbieverviatueet | hineiinsente: - They point | jt Jepended on me I know what 1|4 + | many sobbing bitterly. ¥ the five vear f he is sent to Fort Lorte. | should do, and the President of the re- | 4 FOR DREYFUS +| At the music halls, especially the . n he has undergone o1 to receive henceforth the hu- | ;e may think with me.” 25 + | Palace Theater, where cinematograph ginee his retira fo France traorqi. | Drevius must serve ten.years, but|y Npw YORR, Sept. 10.— +|hibited, the newa was recelved with One strange fact is the extraordi-| g ,o5xing with friends to-day, he ex-|4 Anone Rev. Mr, Moody's con- + |groans and hisses. In the French | nary defense of the opinion respecting | ,rosqeq a conviction that there would| 4 recation in Plymouth Church + |duarter of London there was much ex- traordinary the t effect of the judgment—| ., pe o fresh degradation. This cer-| 4 G nioine were several dele- + | Cltement, accompanied by street fizht- | s vel to be read S hj—-.\-(.].fl‘:r'u{\? <|f::: emony requires breaking the prisoners| 4 ggees from Great Britaln to + | i “I.,',’rfg?r‘_"s;l;‘lltl,il‘“‘;.j}'j';;’;fc,f‘; LLie s the ! m_“!.:_m Ly | sword and tearing h-ffl :15 S:}:;x‘_g‘er‘:_- |+ the International Congregational + | made to the verdict. i v S ha At e But Dreyius never (iag, oo ny |+ Council, which will meet on Sep- 4| Canon Scott-Holland at St. Paul's s equivale - stored to him, and he only Wore Un- 4 iemper 19 in Boston. Mr. Moody + |Cathedral said: “A nation is on its ition to which he is | dress uniform without epaulets, 0|4 ageq the prayers of the con. +|trial. France stands at the judgment and whether he will be re- |y, i would be impossible to carry |y goiol, OF PIEIEE B S0 €ONC T bar.” Al clvilization is waiting to know ext month. This matter 18| /" tpo regulations for degradation. |y &4 5 whether to-morrow’s news may add | quite aside from the general impres- | at ' i famlly and said: *I pity the +|anvthing to qualify the naked cruelty E { This_is Colonel Jouaust's view, + mun or natiou thnd Wl aM6w=% | of a bare telegram, anything to relieve sion. that he-will he perdoned Him | roasiwhe. think ; Dreptis—will bely prejudice to come into their 4 |the staggered consclences”’ few days by President Loubet, Who | gjoaed fn October because the five| L oo™ acains: God's chosen +| Rev. Hugh Price Hughes, the well- will find some ground on which t0 €X-| yoarg on Devils Island will wipe out| L SO0 2 SEARE R, ST Ul known Wesleyan divine, preached at St. ercise clemency. the present sentence saw in the fact| g PP H ONC € 8RR O e + | James Hall. ~ He said: “Five unhappy M. Demange thinks the five } that he was sentenced for exactly ten |, oo o o0 S 3 2 | judges have already taken their places : . : essings we enjoy come through + | 1 count for nothing, and that Drey- | years a confirmation of their view, but | et e Sanehl o nia v l:"il-hfljgdgm}eflt u‘r (;eihuman race be- ding to the law, will have 0 they are mistaken. He was sentenced | 1. 12t Une. 1f any of you have 4 |side Judas, Pilate, Judee Jefiries and r ten years' detention. Many |t ten years not because that happened | o 0 "o STl 0 (0 o | their vietim to a decade of imprison- others, however, including several law- | to double his confinement on Devils| L' TUO0 Y04 10 tear them OML T ment " “but they have decreed | yers, hold a contrary opinion, and de- | 1gjand, but because according to mill-| & 7 oo v ran ono b it 4 | themselves forever to the scorn. de- | Mme. Drey- | clare that he will be released in Oc-|tary code the recording of two votes in| dlce wal‘ns['an”lher 3 r!fi}un and ._xxecrauon of the human E ae bo and | tober. This, as already cabled, is the | his favor fixes the term of detention at | | {7 75 3 |zace. Unless France shakes off this in- k some favorable de- | belief of Dreyfus himself. ten years. Had the verdict been unan-| & B “Uv oo o 0o e U or friend, iz hout an ally - + - + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + terrogated M. Coupers, the clerk of | qwenty years. 2l e Dreyfus is in poor health, as | the court-martial, on this point. He| Those professing to have ascertained f::‘"n‘i'r’ésmg:np"a“:e‘i‘v;l;ifus\:)‘;l_ knows. He hasbeen extremely | Was most emphatic in declaring that | since the verdict the opinion of the| 4 g there is still a God meting t of his arrival in | Dreyfus must serve ten FEss from the | judges, declare that the vote of five to | Uit justice M Moody At ¢ en put on a special | date of a fresh degradation, the court-|two was not given by mutual agree-| 4 .14 Lreached upon the doc- His health has not improved marua_l having (‘nnsl(:iel‘ed the' case as | ment, bgt because the two jufilges \n:-; Ehici o atehmer T whlehSTa nervous effect of terday’s | beginning when Dreyfus appeared be- | ed in his favor from a conviction Uti et g e o rrible blow is bound to react on his | fore them, disregarding altogether his| his innocence. g taught ‘in the Bible from Gene- His suppression of | previous sentence. The present procedure is the ap‘;;li-‘ e e iae tion is due to his al-| M. Coupers said: “I have no doubt | cation for revision, signed by Dre}Tus e i force of will, but it does | whatever that according to the mili- | to-day. It will be sent to Paris. The| } : that he is i ble to the | tary code Dreyfus must undergo deg- | clerk of the court-martial must send a | Dreyfus really believed him innocent.” € 1 physical torture he has un- | radation again, as he w reinstated | complete dossier of the trial, includ-| The Daily Telegraph says: “This in- ing all the documents submitted. A reporter will be appointed to examine it minutely and ascertain whether there be any flaw in the proceedings. | The result will be submitted to the | Court of Revision, which will main- | tain or annull the sentence. | An interesting fact developed to-day is that the police had taken every pre- | | caution to get Dreyfus safely out of Rennes in the event of acquittal, in which case it was unanimously agreed there would have been serious disor- der and probably an attempt upon his | ife. The police had arranged to con- | duct him back to the military pnsenvi after the verdict, with the same pre- | On the contrary, ap- the fam;]_\'l‘ as a captain in the army and he oo - ? | cautions as during the trial. He was | b to have been given civilian attire and | a false beard and then to have left the h § prison by the small door of th~ re-| / cruiting office leading to the Avenue | B e T SR SRR L S SR S SO de la Gare. No one would have ex- pected him to leave through that | building, which is attached to the mil- itary prison, and, thanks to the dis- guise, the police hoped he would reach the station safely, where a special train was waiting to rush him off before the crowd could have heard of his leay- ing. PRESS OF THE WORLD RINGS WITH EXECRATIONS LONDON, Sept. 10.—With the excep- | tion of the Jesuit organ in Rome and the anti-Semite papers, the press of the whole world is ringing with exe- crations. Even the Russian press joins in the chorus, although perhaps the | Jews are nowhere more hated than in Russia. The judges are everywhere described as criminals, and gloomy speculations are indulged in as to what future is in store for France. The German press Is especially in- dignant, the National Zeitung remark- ing that ‘‘even the worst enemy of France could not have wjshed what R e e e e SRS S X has happened.” + MME DREYFUS, FAITHEUL WIEFE OF THE PRISONER. §|bashappened’ e ooy 1 . with the idea of boycotting the exhi- | bition. At a special meeting of the Emanu-El Sisterhood held :rtesttzl'titu£1 aft- 4| “The Daily Chron;lcle,nayu that Mer- b o1 the cil directel y ablegram to be sent to Mme. g | cier issues from the case one of the } Dmoon the council directed the following cablegr: : \ R e h;i‘“‘?’-x T uct - . The Emanu-El Sister- | "'The Daily News remarks: “It is no : . l“m.:h:?rrea)rf;!t.hfx:eli'h F;z::c:nhoode ot en Franolico, t | lxonger tD{:lyfus, but France herself that : ” final tri- | is_on trial. )t prays with you, and with you hopes for.2 Lot | “The Morning Post declares that “the )4 [Ddigation, BELLA LILIENTHAL, Erestdent, | mitigation of the sentence will be in- - NE ROTHSCHILD, Secretary. terpreted all over the world as evi- dence that the judges who condemned SR S e A A an as ] famous judgment dishonors her army, insults the Kaiser and offends the best principles of hu- manity. There seems nothing left for France but a revolution, and a war will reduce her to the level of Spain The Standard says: ‘“We are watch- ing by the sick bed of a great nation, none knowing what new and deadly form the malady may assume.” The Times observes: “We do not hesitate to pronounce it the greatest and most appalling prostitution of jus- tice the world has witnessed In mod- ern times. All the outrageous scan- dals which marked the course of the trial pale into insignificance beside the | crowning scandal of the verdict.” The Daily Mail says: “Rennes is France's moral Sedan. The Dally Graphic says: “ The Rennes verdict will live forever as the supreme effort of human wrong-head- edness.” B INDIGNATION OF THE REVISIONIST PRESS PARIS, Sept. 10.—The revisionist press comments upon the verdict with deepest indignation, declaring that the battle between the civil and military courts will continue until the victory rests with the Court of Cassation. The Siecle has opened a subscription to erect an expiatory monument in front of the Palace of Justice at Rennes to remind future generations of this outrage of justice. The Temps, referring to the rumor that the members of the court-martial signed a recommendation to mercy, but only as regards the degradation of the military rank, says the mere men- tion of extenuating circumstances proves that the judges had a doubt of which the accused should have received the benefit, and it urges the revision- ists to remember that, in order to de- mand justice from the country, it is necessary first of all to act with calm- ness. The Gaulois says: .“A great move- ment of Rennaissance will spring from the Dreyfus case.” GREAT INDIGNATION EXPRESSED IN LONDON LONDON, Sept. 11.—It would be dif- ficult to describe adequately the indig- nation the verdict of the Dreyfus court-martial has evoked everywhere in England. The excitement in the Jewish quarters of London is only natural. Special prayers were offered throughout Saturday in all the syna- disgraces France, | PARIS, Sept. 10, 9 p. m.—The day has been one of absolute quiet, with no | public excitement, even in the Rue de | Chabrol. There was a rainfall this |afternoon, and the streets were practi- cally deserted. | _ Slight disturbances occurred yester- day at Marseilles and Belfort after the | verdict of the Dreyfus court-martial was published. The demonstrators stoned the residence of Jacques Drey: fus, brother of the condemned, at Bel- fort, breaking the windows and other- wise damaging the structure. Many | persons were arrested at both places. | The Premier, M. Waldeck-Rousseau, | was visited this morning by most of | his colleagues. The date of the next Cabinet Council has not yet been fixed. | President Loubet will probably not re- | turn from Ramboullet for several days. | semi-official note has been issued de- | nying the assertion of the morning papers that the Minister of Foreign Affairs, M. Delcasse, transmitted to Colonel Jouaust, the president of the court-martial, through M. Paleologue, Friday, a statement by the Reichsan- zeiger repeating the disavowals of Count von Munster and Count von | Buelow of German relations with Drey- | fus. Tle note also denies that M. Del- casse asked Germany to issue the statement. COURT-MARTIAL JUDGES MAY PETITION LOUBET NEW YORK, Sept. 10.—A World cable from Rennes says: A well- founded rumor is spreading that the judges of the court-martial will them- selves sign a petition praying President Loubet to pardon Dreyfus. 1f this be true, this action and the in- explicable clause in the verdict citing ‘“‘extenuating clrcumstances” clearly | prove that five officers of the court con- victed Dreyfus while they were fully convinced of his innocence. It is almost ridiculous to repeat that these five officers condemned Dreyfus to exonerate the generals and to main- tain the prestige of the army. Accord- ing to the lights of these officers the moral effect they desired has been ac- complished by the conviction of Drey- fus. Now they will try to save him from the ignominy and suffering that the verdict entails. & - VERDICT DESCRIBED AS COWARDLY AND IMPOLITIC BERLIN, Sept. 10.—The Dreyfus ver- dict causes a feeeling almost of stupe- fication in Berlin. It has been hoped that the statement of the Reich- sanzeiger, as emanating directly from Emperor Wililam, would have ren- | _To-morrow M. Demange will visit M. Waldeck-Rousseau and submit a number of legal questions | arising_ out of the trial Al | His parade along cocktail row | lowed to inspect the bids. their positions as members of the com- mittee on supplies to make the deal, and fixed the whole matter up in se- cret sessions, of which the third mem- ber, William A. Kemp, was either not informed or from which he w Te- quested to stay away by Phil Crim- Kemp was not in the division of the bribe, not know that the twenties were fly- If they had been golden kissing bugs he would have escaped in- jury. But this is no fault of his. He says himself that he would have liked to have been considered in the transac- tion, and feels like being kicked for al- lowing himself to be bunkoed out of the boodle. The members of the “push” found lit- tle to console them vyesterday ing after reading The Call's expose of their crookedness. Gedge, who, ac- cording to his own boast, appropriated the lion's share of the bribe money, hid himself during the day. He was not ition into which his own tongue had forced him and did not frequent the haunts that knew him well Conlon his colleauge, also dis- played his modesty by keeping out of sight. Kemp, who was left out of the deal. and was not even given a chanceto take any bad money, was in evidence early in the day. When he began to *“smell a mouse” a couple of months ago, he undertook the gigantic contract of drowning his sorrow in liberal potions | Although he | of the ‘“real old stuff.” has stayed faithfully with the job. the contract is by no means fulfilled. so he | resumed operations yesterday morning as soon as he saw a copy of The Call was a counter- from the noble effort, but when he marched and broke away stereotyped order of “a little straight, | please,” the mixture disagreed with | him and he retired in disorder. But his sorrow was drowned for the day. His mind was in such a condition at| the finish that he actually thought that | Gedge and Conlon Mad divided. Gedge's admissions at this late date explain the peculiar methods that were adopted by the School Board at | | the time the supplies contracts were | | under consideration last June, and which created considerable comment at the time. The opening of the bids at the meeting of May 31 was rounded by such an air of secrecy and | mystery that suspicion was at once | created that ‘‘something was doing.” | No one was allowed to see the figures | of the bids in the open meeting. Su- perintendent Webster opened them, ex. | plained that the necessary certified | check accompanied each, and, under | instructions, gave out no other infor- mation. The reporters were not al- | At the suggestion of the Supplies | Committee—Conlon, Gedge and Kemp— | the proposals were referred to them. | They had possession of the documents for two weeks. It is not charged that | they altered any of the figures to suit | the favored ones, but they certainly | had the opportunity, and men who ac- | cept bribes and boast about it might have no compunction about a little thing llke changing the figures in a| bid to the detriment of some honest bidder. But this was not done, there | being no necessity for such action, for | the reason that the specifications had | already been tampered with so that| no one but the bidder who was to pay | the bribe could possibly win, and that was all that Gedge cared about and all that interested Conlon. | Kemp, as has been stated, did not! The reason is that he did | morn- | sur- | 's Peculiar Action. | figure in this, much to his regret, but he came in heavy at the finish, when | there was an opportunity for a little | grand stand play, and unwittingly gave the first hint that there was & andal of some kind in the ink and paper contracts. The committee recommended that the bid of Payot, Upham & Co. for that class of goods be accepted. Their fig- ures on ink were 15 cents a gallon higher than those of Brown & Potter, and on paper 30 cents a ream higher than the bid of the la - firm. A man named H. R. Williar had been called in by Gedge and Conlon to ex- | pert the samples of paper offered, and | he recommended the Golden Gate brand handled by ot, Upham & Co., which v Iy mentioned in the spec . This was one of the changes that barred many bidders. It developed later that this man Williar was the representative of the manufac- turers of the Golden Gate paper, which was handled exclusivély by Payot, Up- ham & Co., and it was nothing more than natural that he, in the capaeity of expert for Gedge and Conlon, should recommend to the exclusion of all other brands. These charges concern- ing Williar were t forth in a letter from the Union Pulp and Paper Com- pany, which Kemp produced at one of the board meetings he did attend. Brown & Potter offered a paper made by the Union Paper Company, from | whom they received figures before they made their bid. They also offered Penniwell's ink, a home production, which previous contractors had substi- tuted for a highe: fied in their agr they were charging. offered it at nts a gallon. Payot, Upham & Co. were awarded the con- tract to furnish Stanford ink at 65 cents a gallon. Brown & Potter were anxious to comply with the specification and furnished figu on Golden Gate paper, but Williar, the agent of the manufac- turers, refused to sell them any of it. Members of the firm of Payot, Up- ham & Co. deny that they or any one representing them bribed the Supplies Committee of the Board of Education. H. R. Williar, who posed as the com- mittee's expert, and whose employers in the East profited by the award of the contract to Payton, Upham & Co., could mot be round yéstérday or last evening, and consequently could neither deny or affirm any suspicion that may exist that he is the man who paid the $2000 to School Director Gedge. The Call did everything possible vesterday to give Gedge and Conlon -priced article, speci- ment and for which Brown & Potter ® an opportunity to make whatever statements or explanations they de- sired in connection with the case. Neither of the men could be found; none of their friends or relatives would acknowledge that they knew their whereabouts or when they would come out of hiding. Inquiries at the Gedge residence, 1162 Jackson street, elicited | the information that the School Di- rector had left home in the morning, stating that he would not return dur- ing the day or night. No one in the house knew when he would be back, if at all. The father of Director Con- | lon was seen last evening at the fam- ily residence, 1363 Eddy street. He said that his son was not at home, and that he did not know where he was or when he would return. et HEAD EXPECTED IT. | One Director Not at All Surprised at The Call’s Expose. SANTA CRUZ, Sept. 10.—Concerning the charges made against School Director Gedge in The Call of this morning, School Director Ed Head has to s the fol- lowing “What I and others in a position to know have expected has come to pass, | as we forecasted Gedge's finish when his raw work first came into evidence in con- | nection with the Ginn contract for copy- { books. That contract was considered in an executive session of the board, and Gedge's anxiety that it be awarded was so_evident that he was openly flouted by different members. He buttonholed ev- ery member and pulled every wire he could get hold of to win it out. “I was one of the first sacrifices to the necessity for such a tool as Gedge has sroved to be. He was given his nomi fon by Crimmins and,Kelly, and it was E Chief Clerk I t offered him by of the Justites’ Court, City Hall | lieutenant. When I was chairman of the Supplies Committee that combination ap- proached me on different propositions, and found they could do nothing with me. They generally came at me through this man Kemp. He made no direct proposi- tions, but got at his point clearl to find thefe was nothing doing with me. As a result of it I lost my job as chair- man of the Supplies Coramittee. “I can make mo direct charges against Gedge; there are other members of the board who intend to do that. The so- called “‘club flush’ neglects the business end of things in their desire‘to improve educational matter: but they are not men who will overlook crookedness. Gedge's work has been 50 raw that none of us could help seeing it and Conlon's has been On a par with it, but what the basis of the settlement between them is 1 am_not prepared to say. The. School Board has its evidence, and this expose of The Call will doubtless bring it e 2 o dered impossible the repetition of what is described as ‘one of the greatest judicial and political crimes of any age.” It tys gni ersally agreed that the second verdict is a grave npolitical blunder, a violation of the laws of clvilization, and an act of moral cow- ardice which the world will find it dif- ficult to pardon. The German press unanimously de- scribes the verdict as cowardly and]| impolitic, not to say criminal. The Cologne Gazette says: “It is a cowardly verdict, in the barbarous spirit of the Middle Ages. By this crime the judges have imposed a line of demarkation between France and the rest of the world, which, although it will not prevent diplomatic inter- course and stay the common exchange of products, will, according to all the notions of right, justice, honor, toler- ance and ethics which the civilized world bears with it in the twentieth century, form a barrier only to be re- moved by time and laborious effort. The other leading journals comment upon the verdiet in similar struains. - DREYFUS CANNOT - ACCEPT THE SWORD ATLANTA, Ga., Sept. 10.—Mrs. Dav- id Reichborg of this city, who re- cently started a movement to ralse a fund among American Jews for the purpose of presenting a handsome sword to Captain Alfred Dreyfus, re- ceived a letter yesterday from Mme. Dreyfus, in which she said that the Captain could not accept a sword from American people. DEMONSTRATION OF HAVRE SOCIALISTS HAVRE, Sept. 10.—The socialist and revoluntionary groups demonstrated here this afternoon against the ver- dict. The police dispersed large | crowds and made fitteen arresta,