The Labor enquirer., 1884-08-30
Prom John swinton's Q Paper.

: rived In New York from Europe; it was ju
q fortnight later that Blaine hounded hi
Z out of the country to Canada, where |
y found safety under the British nag.
In Russia, Mr.. Hartman had been one /
the most active ministers Of the revolution
q ary movement against the menstrous despo
ism that rides his countrysand, as such, hi
adventures had been Of kind never suTpas
ed for daring or danger.
AT last after the failure of the Moseoy
conspiracy against the late car, in which b
was implicated, he took refuge beyond tn
! Russian border, to the chagrin Of the host o
puIsuers and spies who mad been promises
enormous rewards for his capture BY an.
means and at any cost, the Russian despo
was determined to get hold of the dreaded
reyolutionist, and every country of Europe
was secured to find him. AT this time tht
Russian government offered half a million
francs for his delivery across their frontier
After while, his Whereabouts were discov.
eredi he had turned up in Paris. Imme.
diately, Prince Orloff, the Russian ambassa-
dor to France, began operations to secure his
eStradition as prey for the st. Petersburgh
i hangman; and he did so with unlimited
treasure at his command and the glittering
prize of the chancellorship awaiting his sue
cess. OrIoff made his demand upon France,
and Hartman was put under arrest; but it
happened that Gambetta took a deep person
al interest in the case, and at cabinet couT-
Gil held to consider 1t, one OF the foremost
lawyers of France submitted an elaborate
brief in his behalf.
The result Of the proceedings there was
/ that the French government, under its extra
| dition treaty with Russia, took advantage of
technicality in the case, and the Russian
refugee wasInot surrendered by France to the
bloodhounds who were in pursuit of him. In
this business, Gambetta played part which
was to his immortal honor, but the story of
which will probably not be told until another
generation. NJ
From France, Mr.. Hartman went to Eng
land, with the enemy yet after him, hopeful
of gaining in some way the prize still held
out from St. Petersburgh. But England is
not in the habit Of surrendering political
fugitives, and Hartman, though he had taken
part with Sophy Perovsky in the Moscow ex-
plosion, belonged to that category under
English law and custom. Soon after his ar
rival there, in order to make his position en-
tirely clear and to give him full under
standing of his perfect safety in England,
his case was brought up i'm Parliament, after
~, A r,ff fhau
to Mr.. Gladstone the question whether any
representations or inquiries had been made !
to his government by Russia concerning a
certain refugee who had recently taken up his
quarters in London? Mr.. Gladstone's in
slant and emphatic reply was that no such
representations or inquiries had been or
could be made, or would be listened to by
the British government,
Thus ended the parliamentary incident by
which Mr.. Hartman's safety in England was
assured, and he continued to reside In Lon
don without the slightest danger for over a
year, or until July of 1881, when. he took
passage for the United States. 4
Here now was one more chance for the
Cars bloodhounds. Perhaps through the
means at their disposal, they could secure his
extraditien to Russia by the Washington
government, through the State department
then in the hands of Jim Blaine, thus win
ming from the Gar the load of roubles which
he was anxious to disburse for the coveted
captive. ;e.. rs III. III II
Hartman's departure for New York was
by the cable; and, in a few days
after his arrival here, the reporters got hold
of the fact, which was at once heralded
through the papers. Hartman quickly found
that he had to put himself on the alert, for
his pursuers had been ON his track, and he
soon recognized them dogging his steps in
this city. He had entertained no doubt of
his protection in the American Republic, and
no thought of his extradition; but presently
be had reason to apprehend that he was in
danger of being kidnapped or made the vic
tim of policy quite different from that of
Switzerland, France, Holland, England and
other countries he had visited after the MostI
cow attempt at regiclde. "A
All at once, sundry papers of the Blaine !
stripe, headed by the New York Tribune,
Dristled with demands for Hartman's surren-
der to Russia as criminal guilty of regicide.
They were furious in their demands las the
Darrelful of articles clipped out and have
kept till now will show, and seemed all to
be acting under common impulse directed
4 common centre by which their arguments
were furnished. II
Then semiofficial hints of his extradition
began to come from Washington, through {
Jim Blaine's assistant secretary Of state,
man named Hit, to whom Blaine sent all in
luiries on the subject. This man Hit,
Blaine's appointee, spokesman and assistant,
rot up a semi-Official interview with himself
about the case, and this Interview was sent
,ut from Washington to the papers of the
associated press. AS Blaine's mouthpiece,
ne announced s'that Hartman's claim that his
,ct was of political nature would not be
taken into account by the State department.;
that we had nothing to do with the political
aspects of the case; that if Hartman had
tried to take the life of a man, whether the
car or a private citizen, the United States
would regard him as murderer
and that if the Russian government present
ed satisfactory proofs, Hartman would be
turned over to the Russian agents. /:
There was now new hope in the hearts of
the Russian agents who were watching these
proceedings in Washington and New York;
and 1t seemed for time as though they were
almost within sight of the maddening prize,
which they could well afford to divide with
their accomplices in the United States. Il
Hercup0n, Mr.. Hartman's friends tried to