The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1881-06-18
The SIhiIIst Gover.nspt.

tiyes. an executive power, courts IN
army, police. They have a republic.
an form of government. The Cnncress
OF Representatives chooses the Esecr,.
tive Committee and the editors ~ ths
clandestine journals, and decides IN
principal. upon the policy to be pur.
sued. The Executive COMMITTEES bpids
all the strings connecting the different
circles fkyryok), appoints the agents If
ponce tne nghting corps. the finance
subcommittee, the subcommittee on
new members. aud so on. The work of
tne consplrator is SO admirably ar.
ranged that there can be no collision
oetween the different departments AZ il
often the case with the Cars Govern
ment. Every conspirator is instructed
10 mInd his own business. So. for in
stance, kibalchitch was charped with
the duty OF preparing dynamite and
bombs though he did not know when.
where or by whom these articles would
De used. So Rysakoff, though he was
one OF forty-eight volunteers for throw
ing bombs at the Car, did not know
when and where his services would be
needed. So Jellaboff, though he voted
against constructing mine in Iittle
Garden Street. yet obeyed orders and
sook part in digging it as diligently as
The Executive Committee, in yirtue
OF the urgency of the situation, is vested
with the judicial power. and when oc-
casion requires, it sits as supreme
court 1t tried and condemned to death
General Trepoff, the Governor of st.
petersburg, and the execution of that
sentence was intrusted to Vera Sassu-
Itch; Prince krapotkin, the Governor
OF hharkoff, who was shot and killed
by the Nihilist Goldenberg; Baron
Heicking, Colonel of Gendarmes. Killed
by an unknown Nihilist; General Mez-
entref, Chief of the Third Section.
stabbed and killed at noon on a street |
OF ST. Petersburg; General Drenteln.
Cnief OF the Third Section, shot at but |
missed by Mirsky; General Melikoff. |
shot at but missed by Mladetsky: Car |
Alexander Nicholaevitch, shot at but
missed by Solovieff, and at last. After
three unsuccessful attempts, killed by a |
bomb. A number of spies have also
been tried, sentenced to death, and ex-
ecuted. And who in Russia knows
where that court viii stop?
The Nihilist police is undoubtedly a
most wonderful and mysterious BODY.
IL Is indeed ubiquitous and omniscient.
IL mas means to see and to know what
Is gong on in the Cars private cabi-
net, IN the secret State council, in the
oiiice OF the Third Section 1t is aware
OF the Cars intention to go here or
tnere, as II 1t were his most confidential
friend. The explanation is this: Ladies
OF the highest rank, the maids of honor
included, are fascinated by the daring
Nihiiist plans, and perhaps by the nj.
hilists themselves, and are performing .
the duty of spies on the Car and his !
highest officers. 1t has been discovered ::
that there are Nihilists among the civil :
and military officers, as well as among
the agents of police. That is the reason /,
why the chiefs OF the police have 70.
peatedly tried to "purify'' the force.
but all in vain. The Cars police can, :
not bear comparison with the Nihilist !
police. There are hundreds of STRIKING
incidents proving the superiority OF the !
'atter. The latest case is this: The po.
lice suspected that there was a mine in :
the officers made search
lor IL IN the very house where it was. 4
ana yet they did not find anything sus. !,
picious! The Nihilists, man and wife, i,
who occupied the house, were reckless .
enough to stay at home three days after (
= became apparent that the mine was
,ot needed, the Gar having been killed
~ bomb, or perhaps they wanted to
guard it for some future use. Who
Knows? In
The Nihilist printing Offices are per- G.
,etual puzzle to the Government. More Y
han half dozen of the clandestine Ell
'filces have been seized; each time the
'oilce thought that at last the, Nibilists G.
would be silenced. And vet there are n
Few and ever new printing Offices one d.
atlng somewhere. 1t is an established re
act that there are itinerant Nihiljst Oh
'rlnters who carry type about their W
.ersons. II has been found ont Also pr
hat some revolutionary proclamations SO
Tere printed in the Government pr;pt- oil
ng houses and that revolutionary print
1g presses were kept in the most re- 50
pectable aristocratic houses. Now the tn
Ear police receive the secret publi- WI
at'ons as matter of course. without w
ne slightest hope of ever checking ~
hem. 81
The question of the Nihilist finances or
lso battles the Government. It plain Oh o..
lat the conspirators spend money as -
sad:ly as ii they commanded the Treas va
ry. But nobody can tell whence the sn
'oney is obtained. 1t said here that a.
millionaire, on receiving an order pr
ON the Executive Committee, paid at M
ice 700 roubIes. He was rebuked
the Chief of Police, who said that w
e millionaire ought to have applied to pm
% government for protection. .Let AS
g government protect itself first and sn'
en- ! will believe that it may be able 90
protect me-" was the reply. en-
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