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| Capt. Alfred Dreyfus. |
Cortland Evening Standard, Saturday, August 12, 1899.
CLAMOR FOR PUBLICITY.
The Dreyfus Trial of Gigantic Proportions.
THE SECRETS MUST BE EXPOSED.
All the Notable Dreyfusites Are Satisfied With the Result of the Proceedings of the Present Court Martial Trial—Military Caste Furious Over Situation.
RENNES, France, Aug. 12.—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 is granted, the military and Nationalist parties will be utterly disgraced. They are convinced that the diplomatic and war office dossiers teem with forgeries. Of course, their impressions are derived from the five counsel present at the examination of these precious papers.
Publicity would mean the pillory for General De Boisdeffrs 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 correspondent of a Russian paper told me that, in a cafe frequented by officers, he unfolded the Dreyfusite Aurore to read. All the military men nearby scowled at him in a marked manner and, after coughing and otherwise showing their disapproval went in a body to the other end of the cafe, as if the Russian were a leper.
All the officers at the military club came out on the club balcony when a bundle of Dreyfus journals was being burned in the streets, and they approved the performance by unmistakable gestures. One now sees the wisdom of the order forbidding officers not attached to the garrison to stay here during the trial.
In unclean magazines the secret military dossier exceeds the worst top-shelf literature. To secure secrecy the scribes who work for Henry and his friends did not hesitate to forge letters from high diplomatic personages. Nearly a score of love letters from a lady high in the diplomatic sphere were supposed to have been seized in the dispatch box of an embassy during transmission to Berlin. The person whom she is represented as having as a correspondent was an attaché of an embassy there and much younger than the lady, who is made to appear impassioned—quite an eloise. Of course she mentions the Dreyfus affair and asks the attaché to help to whitewash the unfortunate captain.
M. Jaures expects that there will be a great exposure of a conspiracy against the republic and that the high handed measures of the present government against certain generals will be more than justified by the coming revelations.
The inspection of the diplomatic dossier was concluded. Dreyfus, on leaving the Lyceum, looked brighter than he had ever previously appeared. Today's proceedings will be memorable in the history of the affair.
Maitre 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 astute advocate understands human nature. He remembers that the seven are ignorant of laws, always ready to sacrifice equity to authority, quick to scout at the rules of evidence and are members of a caste who think they have been attacked by Jews, cosmopolitans and foreigners. Some of them boast of not having read the report of the inquiry before the court of cassation, because they thought it published at the cost of a syndicate and intended to cast odium on the army.
Prepared to Resist.
PARIS, Aug. 12.—When an attempt was made to arrest M. Guerin, president of the anti-Semite league, he refused to surrender and barricaded himself in his house. He says he is prepared to hold out for three weeks, having a good stock of firearms. The doors and windows of his residence are barricaded and M. Guerin announces he will blow up his house before he surrenders.
Heavy Loss to Tobacco Farmers.
CORNING, N. Y., Aug. 12.—News has reached here that the heavy storm which swept through the Chemung valley was accompanied by hail in several sections. In the towns of Corning, Big Flats and Lindley the loss to tobacco farmers will run up into the thousands of dollars.
THE STORM THIS AFTERNOON.
Rain fell in Torrents—Much Wind Accompanied It.
Cortland was visited by a heavy thunderstorm at 2:30 o'clock this afternoon which must have caused considerable damage to uncut grain and to fruit in the surrounding country. The storm came from the west, and a change of wind sent it north from Cortland. For fifteen minutes it was so dark that lights had to be used in all business places, and the streets were as dark as they are at 7:30 in the evening. A heavy wind prevailed and a number of limbs were blown from trees. A limb fell across a trolley wire on South Main-st. and hindered traffic a short time.
The fire alarm system was visibly affected by the electrical disturbances and the firebell rang a number of times. The wires were found to have become grounded near the H. M. Whitney Wagon company's works.
From 2 to 3 o'clock the thermometer fell from 84 degrees to 64 degrees and the amount of rainfall was .88 of an inch. Hail also is reported from various parts of the town.
Funeral of Mr. Watrous.
The funeral of Mr. Henry Watrous, who died Wednesday evening from injuries sustained in falling from the roof of the Schermerhorn-st. school building, was held at the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Watrous, 20 Clinton-ave., at 10:30 o'clock this morning and was very largely attended by relatives and friends of the deceased. Rev. John T. Stone, paster of the Presbyterian church, officiated.
Mrs. James Walsh and Mrs. Charlotte Nash-Head sang "Come Unto Me" and "Lead Kindly Light." A great profusion of flowers and floral offerings almost completely hid the casket. The bearers were Messrs. Fred I. Graham, W. R. Cole, Louis A. Samson and Harry C. Givens. Burial was made in the Cortland Rural cemetery.
Relatives from out of town who attended the funeral were Mr. and Mrs. N. R. Wickwire of Hamilton, Mrs. John McCormick of Buffalo, Mr. and Mrs. Adelbert Legg of Berkshire and Mrs. H. J. Messenger and Harry C. Givens of Ithaca.
TYLER & SMITH.
The New Proprietors of the Model Clothing Store.
Mr. Fred J. Tyler, who for the past year has been a popular and efficient clerk in the Fair store, has purchased an interest in the Model Clothing store and the business will hereafter be conducted under the firm name of Tyler & Smith. Mr. R. F. Smith, who has been manager of the store since it was opened nearly a year ago, still retains his interest in the business. The store has been closed for inventory this week and will be open at 5:30 o'clock this afternoon. Mr. Smith, during time he has been in business in Cortland, has shown himself to be a wide awake, progressive and hustling manager, and has made many friends among Cortland people. Mr. Tyler, while new at the clothing business, has had practical experience in other lines and is a young man of ability and good business judgment. The new firm will doubtless receive a liberal share of patronage.
Scotch Picnic.
The tenth annual Scotch picnic will be held at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Hicks on the McLachlan homestead, two miles south of Groton, Wednesday, Aug. 30, 1899. All Scotch people and their friends in this vicinity are cordially invited to be present and help make the occasion a most enjoyable one.
THE HOPKINS FAMILY.
About Sixty Members Attended the Annual Reunion To-day.
The annual reunion of the Hopkins family has been held to-day at the pleasant home of Gideon Wright and E. P. Wright, 90 Lincoln-ave. and it was a very happy affair. This branch of the family includes descendants of five brothers, Hiram. John, Stephen, Elisha and Isaac who descended from a family of Irish Presbyterians that came from the north of Ireland in 1720 and settled in Connecticut. About sixty persons attended the gathering to-day. The dinner was served upon the lawn under a large tent. Illness prevented the attendance of the president and secretary, Mr. Nelson Hopkins and Miss Emily Hopkins of Groton. The reunion will be held next year at the home of Harvey Hopkins in Groton, which adjoins that upon which Isaac Hopkins settled in 1800. The time will be fixed by a committee.
Tenth Cavalry Reunion.
The Thirty-eighth annual reunion of the survivors of the Tenth New York cavalry will be held in Cortland Aug. 29, 30 and 31. Headquarters will be established at the Cortland House and the meetings will be held in G. A. R. hall. The local committee consists of Mark Brownell and E. D. Phillips of Cortland, and L. P. Norton of Homer, the adjutant.
The first business meeting will be held Aug. 29 at 2 P. M. That evening will be devoted to a camp fire. Business sessions will be held at 9:30 A. M. and 2 P. M. Aug. 30, and that evening a free banquet will be served. Thursday, August 31, will be given entirely to visiting and goodbyes.
BREVITIES.
—New display advertisements to-day are—Palmer & Co., H. O., page 7; Tyler and Smith, Clothing, page 6.
—The baseball game between Cortland and Oswego was declared off on account of the storm this afternoon.
—William Pendell paid a fine of $1 in police court this morning for violating the village bicycle ordinance last evening.
—"The Bible as Literature" will be the subject of Prof. Vernon P. Squires' address at the First Baptist church to-morrow morning.
—Mr. Joel B. Phillips died at his home, 114 Clinton-ave., this afternoon, aged 66 years. Funeral services will be held at the house Tuesday at 9 A. M. Burial in DeRuyter.
PROF. W. A. CORNISH and his father, Mr. Robert W. Cornish of Gillette, N. J., who have been enjoying a carriage drive through Otsego county, returned to Cortland this afternoon.
—Everett Webb of Cortland, mounted on a Stearns racer, won the mile open bicycle race in connection with athletic events at Alexandria Bay Thursday. He took it in two straight heats. Time 2:24.
—The Republican convention for the second school commissioner district will be held at Keator opera house in Homer Aug. 24 at 1 o'clock P. M. The formal call appears at the head of the editorial column.
—A slight change in time goes into effect on the Erie & Central New York railway Sunday, Aug. 13. Train No. 1, the regular morning train, will leave Cortland at 7 A. M., instead of 7:15 as heretofore.
—Through a typographical error yesterday the item in reference to the judgment rendered by Justice Harrington in favor of Theodore Stevenson against Chas. H. Harrison was made to appear just $100 too much. The judgment was for $50 damages and $10.59 costs.
PAGE TWO—EDITORIALS.
The County Ticket.
The Republican county convention held yesterday afternoon had only to endorse the already declared and well understood wishes of the Republicans of the county. Hon. George S. Sands of this village for member of assembly is the present incumbent of that office, and has made a record which entitles him to the unanimous renomination which he received. He accepted the nomination last year with reluctance, as he has this year, and at a sacrifice of personal, professional, and business interests. He has made an unusually able, faithful, industrious and acceptable representative and will be re-elected by a largely increased majority.
Mr. W. H. Foster of Homer for county treasurer is already serving his second term in the office, where he has demonstrated his integrity, accuracy and general fitness for the place. The high compliment of a third nomination to the office is one which he has honestly earned. His re-election goes without saying.
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