The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-07-08

Veterans of the former Napoleonic,
secret police. among others, the wei
known NJ Hyrvoix. We're engaged 10 90
the so-called dirty work, nut were s'ol
ousted by young bloods who decidieI
themselves ready 20 accept any KIM VI
subordinate position and to perform any
amount of work which until theh hau
been regarded as uuclean. 1t seemed as
interesting as it was amusing TO act III
the capacity Of a detective and 10 IraEe4
on secret missions 10 Paris ana Jenna ~
the expense Of the associations ana Win
the feeling that one was perIorulne
patriotic service ana considered IN the
light of a personal protector Of the car
OF course. the Official police looked upon
the concern with anything but friendly
ewes. the only member thereof VINO
showed sympathy with the Holy Band
being Gen. Tchereviue, who closely
identified himself with the movement
seeing therein a prospect OF alliance with
the aristOcracy and highest society ln'the
land
The beginning gave promise ana lot
time the Holy Band was looked upon
as the salvation Of Russia ana as having
given the death blow to the revolutionary
dragon. 1t was at this uncture that rene
revine put forward his project for the
formation of a separate ministry OF police
with himself as its head, and undertook
to work in unison with the ASSOCIATION
| This however, only served to raise me
hostility of the imperial police, and. es-
peCially, of the ministry OF the interior,
to the boiling pitch and the cars atten-
ton was drawn 10 fact which had until
then been kept quiet. namely, the confu-
sion resulting from the independent
working of a voluntary police department
alongside of the regular force, the TWO
being forever in conflict. resulting IN gro
tesque scenes that We're the talk OF
the town 1t sometimes happened that the
agents of the "Holy Band and their
myrmidOns arrested whole sections OF the
state secret police, while at other times
the reverse happened, At length the
car came to the conclusion that the
Holy Band" was a source of danger and
ridicule rather than of safety, that its
members looked upon their vocation
either as Il means of enrlchlng themselves
or as an opportunity for indulglng in adj
ventures which brought neither advan-
tage nor honor TO the country, and so he
determined quietly TO dispense with its
services and to be satisfied with the pro-
lection Afforded by the regularly consti-
tuted police That was the end OF the
Holy Band and almost proved the
deathblOw of the career Of General
| IChercVine
While there are some short-sighted
people who may envy the general his
new Office for the almost aGt0cratic and
despOUc power which it COnters upon HIM,
there are others more shreWd who Will
look upon him hCnCefOrth as n second Dam
ocIes with terribly sharpcned sword
suspended over his head by the very
smallest Of threads. The retention of his
present post is dependent entirely upon
the immunity of the car from any at
tempted assassination, and should any
harm happen to mis- MuscOvite majesty, ii
is the general VINO would be held respOn-
sible not alone by the Russian people but
by the whole of the civilized world. 1t
would serve to brand him as presump-
| tuous and Incompetent man, his name
would be covered with obloquy at
home and abroad besides being
stigmatiled by the history of his
country; while exile and dis srace would
condemn him TO obscurlty and shame for
the remainder of his days. And the car,
it must be remem bered, is a much-threat-
ened man. As the whole of the pre- sent
autocratic regime in Russia centers in
! and around his person, his death is nat
urally the first object Of every one who
! aims at bringing into existence a more en-
| llghtened, progressive and liberal state
of affairs. Fanatics, half-cra2ed victims
| of administrative persecution and mis-
guided patriots all sharpen their knives
and design their bombs f0r- tt1C dFStrUc-
ton Of the car, whose life is more men
aced than that of any other potentate on
the face Of the globe. And ills upon the
preservation of this life, not only from
death, but even from mere harm, that de-
ponds theentre existence of Gen. Techer-
| evine. Loris Meikof, the most en-
lightened and SagaciOus statesman
VINO ever figured at the head
of the Russian government.
| lost his post of dictator and of prime
minister solely because he had failed to
| provide for the safety of the late car at
the time when he was killed by Nihilst
bomb, and was forced to leave Russia for
| foreign ports. where he died broken
! hearted, ruined and ostracisel not alone
! by his countrymen, but also by the higher
| classes of every capital Of Europe Yet
NE was not the minister of public safety
of the emperor, as is Gen. Tchereyine; he
! had not undertaken to assure his majesty
from harm, nor had he assumed, to the
exclusion of all others. the RESPONSE bility
| of acting as the cars watchdog.