Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-08-27

army. In this attitude of Russia is to be
seen an example of despotic cruelty and
cold determination to roughly ride over
all human rights to the attainment of
specific end, that has few parallels in his
tory.
1t now develops that the deposition of
the Prince was a miserable farce His
troops being absent upon the frontier to
meet the feint OF Servian aggression part
of the Russian plot-Zanloff, with cor
rupted body of militia, and few hundred
people won over by fattery and Russian
gold, surrounded the Palace, and in the
dead of night seized the Prince and bore
BIN from the State. 1t ought not to be be-
lieyed that Alexander signed any act of
abandonment; the now bare bones of the
scheme negative the idea that he commit
ted any such folly. If he did, he was I'M
der duress, and it has no binding effect.
The latest account is that he not only did
not sign, but that he spurned with hot
anger the paper offered him, and
with it the liberty his captorS rendered.
The idea that while nation Of some mill
ions slept in peace, and the Capital city
was enjoying the usual quiet of the night,
a revolution by the people was accom-
plished, is ridiculously absurd. At the
very time that Zankof. proclaimed his
provisional Government, with Karavelof'
as Premier, that parsonage was safely
locked in prison. At the very hour when
Zankof pronounced the army in favor of
the deposition OF the chosen head OF the
Government, the troops were on the Ser
Wan frontier, blissfully ignorant of all that
was taking place at home,
Turkey is the Suzerain of Bulgaria, but
not the slightest intimation had the Porte
that revolution was in progress, or that
cause for it existed in the nominal prov
ince the Sultan is bound to defend Bis
marck and the Austrian Cabinet assume
to be surprised amazed at the overthrow
of Alexander, but it is holIowness.
They knew the schemes of the Gar, and
by silence at least gave consent. East
Roumelia has pronounced for the Prince,
the army marches for Sofia to restore him,
the people of Philippopolis and Tirnova
demand his return, the troops at Rustchuk
shout his name as Prince, even vacillating
England invites him to resume to his seal,
and deputation of loyal Bulgarians
has gone in search of the lost ruler who,
in all probability, is under Russian lock
and key, despite the rumor that the Gar
has permitted him to flee to Germany
What will be the fate of this unhappy |
Prince whose gallantry less than year
ago commanded the admiration of the |
world, and won him the devotion Of the
Bulgarians, foreigner though he is TO
them? He viii, in all probability, not
be permitted to return. Russia with grim
threatenings will warn England to cease
its advice; Austria and Germany will
assume hypocritical attitudes and condole
with the Battenberg refuge, while counsel
ing permanent retirement. Unsupported,
Turkey will, after 4 brief struggle, be
compelled to yield her Suzerainty, and the
Gar will Russianize Bulgaria, and take
one more long stride toward CONSTANT
nople.
Such rapid revolutionary and counter
revolutionary changes have not been re-
corded in modern times, as have been
witnessed within the week. In less than
five days time the whole Eastern question,
apparently safely quiet, has been put on
the top wave of agitation; 4 ruler has
been dethroncd aud recalled; expelled
from the land sby the people apparently,
and by the people in reality declared the
lawful sovereign; within five days the
great nations of Eurpe have been involved
in complications that may plunge them
into war And these are the results of
monarchical systems; results, however,
that in the steady march of the enlight-
ened peoples of the world contribute to
bring the nations of men closer to the
realization of the democratic principle
that demands for all government the CON
sent of the governed.
The nomination of Judge T. b. Ne
Farland, of Sacramento, by the Republi-