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ruling party to keep the colored popu-
lation within certain normal bounds.
1t is claimed that for an exclusive white
population southern democrats would
not think OF passing such laws.
BULGARIAN AFFAIRS.
An Interview with Two Leading Char
acters ON the Dethronement OF Prince
Alexander.
Omaha Bee Cablegram.
Bucharest, Sept. 6-I have interviewed
two personages who were prominent in
the taking off of Prince. Alexander,
to-wit: Kissiakof and Thoskorof
soldierly men. The former is fifty years
old, his hair is gray, and,he wears q short
gray beard, o Ia Russo, and his dark eyes
are fiery and restless. Thoskorof is
short in stature and dark oomplexioned.
He has q turned up nose and he wears
his dark hair straight over his head.
After the usual greetings had been ex-
changed, I explained what L wished.
I'm your present situation, messleurs,''
III began 81 have the right to ask your
future plans. l concern myself but little
with the past, In the first place, what
are your grievances against the prince,
ana what were the exact events of the
night oil his deposition ?" -
81 will" replied Kissiakof, "tell you
anything you wish to know in regard to
/ those two points
Everybody knows that Bulgaria owes
all she ia to Russia. The prince used
Russia az a means of obtaining his
obleot. The prince treated with Kussia
as long NIB it suited his purpose. In his
heart he hated Russia aud took every
opportunity to develop a fear of that
power. He succeeded 80 we'll that al
the benefits procured for Bulgaria by
Russia have been forgotten. At a time
when the blood of the Russians was
i being stheta fur tE, and il is not 90 DIR
he surrounded himself with the scum OF
society. 1t is not necessary to name all,
and I will mention two of his character
istics. At the time of the Servian war,
when the prince became oommander-i in
chief of the; army and when the press
we're gagged, three newspapers appeared
; that riyaled one another in their abuse oil
Russia. One of them proposed Prince
Krapkatine, the nlhilist, as a candidate
for the Russian throne. Further, Rus.
sians, who had taken part in the assas.
sination of Emperor Alexander. were
taken into the Bulgarian service. When
the prince disappeared. 80 did they.
One of them, Scribriakof, serves under
the name OF BLANK another under
that OF .'Luthki," whose real name
Ia LaBatian. The prince protect
ed malefactors and bandits, who were
supplied with government money,
Their chiefs were paid by the prince
and the mission OF these organized bands
was to maltreat and Y Q destroy those
in sympathy with Russia, both in the
towns aud in the country. Baurmoff
who has been three times 10 the
ministry, and who is . graduate of the
Russian academy at st. Petersburg, II
March last, and while there, was pre-
to Bulgaria, by way OF Oonstantinople
he was on his way north from Philippe
polls to Sofia intercepted by one of these
band and beaten SO badly that it wat
three months before he oould get about
again. Dimitrotf, the project of Phil.
!lipHopolis, arrested the criminals. bal
the government ordered them to be're.
leased. They were afterwards re.
arrested and twice again the government
interfered IN favor OF. its proteges. What
the state OF things is in the country
every Bulgarian who loves il knows we'll
If it clings to Russia it will have secured
q brilliant future. But when the ties
uniting Russia are broken, Bulgaria will
be lost.
"How is it, then,"I ventured to in.
quire, "that the army is in the main
faithful TO the princeT
"The sentiment Of discipline holds il
together answered the colonel. AS for
The officers, they hold positions out of
all proportion to their age or to the
years passed IN the service. Seven pro
motions OF subaltern officers to the ranA
OF iieutenant-colonel took place last
year after the affair at Phillippopolis
These officers hold to the prince be.
. cause they are afraid of losing thell
rank and salary if the Russian officers
, return to take their old rank in Bulgaria
which would certainly be the case If the
prince was sent away
GLOW is it that the Bulgarians did sc
well against the Servians without theil
Russian leaders," I asked.
"As an old soldier you must know
that we'll trained battaliona will dc
we'll under fire, when commanded BY
] any lieutenant colonel or other youpl
officer. What o young Officer cannot de
however, is to train those battallons up
to perfection in discipline. These are
the reasons that enabled the prince te
return SO quickly, and are quite in ao
) cordance with the Bulgarian nationa
character.
Bulgaria is ~terrorized by bandits, wht
, are devoted to the iprince, and who
. without mis- help, would be poweriess
To prove this let me tell you WHAT Ii
not generally known. Every regiment
in the Buiaarian service, with the ex
: ception of that OF Tirnova
] took the oath OF allegiance e
, the provisional governments ate. tht
events o. the nights of August 81 anG
29. Even in the regiment at Sofia siz
general officers were arrestni and the
commanders Of the regiments Dfought in
their men to take the oath. The popu,
Iation awore fealty too. The reason ]
, except Tirnova 10 that Stembculoff had
la telegraph Office there occupied, and be