Sharp County record., 1881-06-30
The yihiIist Government.

-iTes. IN executive power. courts n
army, q police. They have arepublie-
an form Of gOT6rnmen1- The Congress
Of REPRESENTATIVES, chooses the Excel
tive Committed and the editors Of the
cLaEdes5ins journals. and decides. n
principal. uDou the policy 10 be pur-
saed. The Executive Committee holds
all the strings connecting the different
circles <srEJ0&j, appoints the agents Of
police, the fighting corps. the HuaHce
subcommittee, the subcommittee on
new members. and 80 on The work Of
the cOusDiratOT IS so admirably IL
ranged thai there can be No collision
between the different Departments as Is
often the case with the Gar Govern
meut. Every COnspiratOr IS Instructed
TO mind his own business. SO, FORM
stance. kibalchItch was charged with
the duty Of preparing dynamite and
bombs though ne did not know when.
where OF by whom these articles would
be used. So RvsakOI. though he was
one Of f0rtT-eight volunteers for throw
ing bombs ut the Gar. did not know
when and where his services would be
needed. So JellabOf, though he voted
against constructing a mine in Little
G4rUen Street, yet Obeyed orders md
took part in digging II as diligently az
anybody else
The Executive Committee, in virtue
Of the urgency Ofthe situation, isvested
with the Judicial power. and when Oc-
casiO1 requires, it sits rs O supreme
court. Ii tried and condemned to death
General Trepotf. the Governor Of St.
Petersburg, and the execution Of that
sentence was iutTusted to Vera Sassu-
Itch: Prince kraDOtkiD. the Governor
Of khark0tf, who was shot and killed
bV the Nihiiist GoIdenberg; Baron
Heickiny. Colonel Of Geudarmes. killed
BY an unknown NihiIist: General Mez-
entref. Chief Of the Third Section.
stabbed and killed ac noon on q street
Of st. Petersburg; General Drenteln.
Chief Of the Third Section. shot at but
missed BY Mirskv; General MeIikOf.
shot at but missed By MladetskV: Gar
Alexander EichOlaeyitch, shot at but
missed 5y Solovief, and at last. after
three unsuccessful attempts, killed by q
bomb. 4 number OF spies have also
been tried. sentenced to death. and eZ-
ecuted. And who in Russia knows
where that court viii stop?
The Nihilist police is undoubtedly
most wonderful and mysterious body.
tt IS indeed ubiquitous and Omuiscient.
It has means to see and to know what
IS going on in the Czar's private cabi-
net, in the secret State council, in the
office Of the Third Section. 1t is aware
Of the Cars intention to 90 here or
there. as f It were his most confidential
friend. The explanation is this: Ladies
Of the highest rank. the maids Of honor
i-c-uded. are fascinated by the daring
E.l.lst plans. and perhaps by the Nj
l.-sts themselves. and are performing
the duty Of spies on the Gar and his
highest officers. It has been discovered
that there are Nihiiists 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 re-
ueatedlV tried to purify the force,
bu5 all in vain The Cars police ean-
not bear comparison with the NJ sist
uOlicc. There are hundreds Of striking
incidents proving the superiority OF the
latter. The latest case IS this: The pO.
lice suspected that there was mine IN
construction: the officers made search
for It in the very house where it was,
and yet they did not lind anything sus-
piciOus. The Nihilists, man and wife,
who occupied the house, were reckless
enough to st3v at hOn1ethT DAYS after
il became apparent that the mine WIS
mot needed. the. Gzar hzEing been killed
bva bomb. or perhaps they wanted to
guard it for some future use. Who
Z knows?
The Nihilist printing offices are a per-
petUai puzzle to the Government. More
than half dozen Of the clandestine
offices have been seized: each time the
police thought that at last the Nihilists
would be silenced. And vet there are
new and ever new printing offices Ope-
rating somewhere. 1t is an. established
fact that there are itinerant Nihilist
! printers who carry type about their
! persons. 1t has been found out also
/ that some revolutionary prOclamations
were printed in the Government print
/ ing houses and that revolutionary print
ing presses were kept in the most re-
spectacle aristocratic houses. Now the
/ Car police receive the secret Dubi-
cations as a matter Of course, without
the slightest hope Of ever checking
them.
The question Of the Nihilist finances
also battles the Government. Its plain
that the cOnspiratOTs spend money as
readily as if they commanded the Treas
urv. But nobody can tell whence the
money is obtained. Itis said here that
millionaire. on receiving an order
from the Executive Committee, paid at
/ once $4,000 roubles He was rebuked
0Y the Chief Of Police, who said that
the millionaire ought to have applied to
the Government for protection. Let
the Government protect itself first and
then / viii believe that it NAV be able
to protect me. y was the reply.
BeaeOnsiield's Heir.