Morning journal and courier., 1888-07-14
AN RLEmErT oF s1GN1R1oANoR

In the Coming Political Campaign
 Three.Quarters of a Million of Rus.
 sian Jews Deeply Interested and OP.
 posed To CleveIand-One Thousand
 In New Haven-The Bayard Extra
 dition Treaty-TruckIing To Rus-
 sian Tyranny New Haven SO-
 c1ety.
 One of those undercurrents which some
 times covers so much in political history is
 now gathering head and promises to rise in
 to power of significance before the crisis Of
 the campaign. The movement is among the
 Russian Jews of the country and is directed
 against Grover Cleveland and his secretary
 of State, Thomas F. Baysrd. What has in- censed these Russians toward the adminis-
 tration is the action respecting the pending extradition treaty between this country and Russia.
 This treaty stipulates, among other things, that the United States shall hand over to the
 Russian government all persons fleeing to this country on account of political offences and the like; and, moreover, that embeZzlers to the amount of $200 or more shall also be delivered to Russian officials on the presenta- tion of a warrant sworn to this effect. This, the Russian Jews claim, is simply 8 move of the Russian government to arrest persons whom they could not otherwise get hold of. They say that anyone who knows the way things are done in Russia, knows how easy it is to swear out such a warrant on anyone and how ready the government is to do it to obtain it's ends.
 The same treaty has been offered to the ministers of France, Germany and England, and all have refused to accept it. It was then offered to the United States, approved by President Cleveland and signed by Secre- tary Bayard. Congress not being in session at the time, the treaty went straightWay into effect, and remains so until the action of the houses next session. It is looked upon as . direct act of oppression by the Russians, who have fled from despotism and is the more galling in a country whose proudest point IS equal and exact justice to all and the touch of whose soil makes every man free from tyranny.
 This large class of political exiles and per secuted aliens have heretofore taken almost no part in our politics. The action of the Democratic leaders, however, has driven them into the field, and their great numbers and passionate value of freedom above all other boons is looked upon as dangerous menace to the administration.
 The persecution of these. people in their own country was going on in 1880 and 1881, and it is estimated that some 750,O00 came here then or soon after. These will all be ready to take out their second papers before election, and the above number is thought 10 De small u2ure TOT Gne VOE0rS or bnlS class who will first go to the polls in Novem- Der. In New York city alone there will be 250, 900 new Russian voters, and this is suf- fcient to sweep the State. for Harrison. An organization was formed last July with it's headquarters in New York and having branches in several large cities where the Russian Jews were numerous. Of late the movement has taken new force and in the past three weeks sixty new clubs have been formed. The society in New Haven was formed about year ago and exists to-day l with membership of some two hundred, but | nothing is to be done here until orders are received from the New York headquarters. Everything is, however, ready to advance and six hundred Russians in this city who have not before voted can be mustered by Novem- Der.
 The organization has plenty of money which has been received in fees from the large membership of the societies and this has been carefully invested, secured and sent to the headquarters at New York. Anarchists, Socialists and all who are struggling against despotism ara expected to join in the move
 ment and million votes throughout the country is reckOucd as uOue too large to place the number of new voters