The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-03-01
READY FOR REVOLT
MANY TURKS ANXIOUS TO GET RID
OF THEIR SULTAN.
Widespread Conspiracy for the Over.
Hundred Armenians Arrested.

Copyright, 1886, by the Associated Press)
CONSTANTINOPLE, Feb 29.-The police
and military authorities have been taking
steps for some time past to get at the facts
in what seems to be widespread conspiracy,
with headquarters in this city and branches
al over the empire. Affairs yesterday
and to-day reached a point when 1t was
Judged that energetic action could no longer
be delayed, and over eco Armenians and
numbers of Turks have been arrested. The
Turkish officials claim that the arrests were
made simply a precaution against the
possibility of hostile manifestation against
the Sultan, Abdul Hamid. on the occasion
of his visit to the Topkapou palace the
STEAMBOAT quarter, to-day, on the occasion
of the Midramzah festival. Extensive mill
tary and police preparations were taken.
The route followed by the Sultan was lined
on both sides by picked troops; behind the
soldiers were the uniformed police, who had
instructions to arrest any person, Armenian
or Turk. who might act in a manner calcu-
lated to arouse suspicion.
There is no denying that the Turks are
rapidly becoming far more dangerous to the
rule of Abdul Hamid than the half-crushed
Armenians, although the revolutionary
agents of the latter are still busily at work.
But their plan Of campaign seems to have
undergone decided change, for they APP
pear to have become convinced that their
only hope OF any kind Of redress in the
nature of partial self-government lies in the
STRENGTHENING party is becoming holder as
time elapses; the murmuring among the pop
ulace is more distinct and it has reached
tine an ears manner cansins
the utmost uneasiness and anxiety. OutwiI-
ting the hostile powers when secretly backed
up ny Is With
uprising OF a strong section OF Turks Them
selves The Turks are incensed against the
Armenianssfor the agitation which they have
fostered. but they are also very bitter against
the long-continued misrule Of the palace peo-
pie. Thus the Armenian agitators have really
been playing into the hands OF the govern
ment, and 1t is only now. when the disturb
ances and their sequences have subsidized,
that the situation Is becoming apparent.
against the Sultan has nothing TO do with
the Armenians the treatment they have been
subjected to or their alleged grievances. Ii is
due TO the wrongs suffered by the Turks
themselves and the terrible oppression of the
secret police and tax-gatherers.
Among the lower classes here the matter
might not So further than the numbering o.
favorites and probable Improvement there
by in the general situation. 1t takes a good
the Mosiem population to this pitch of revolt.
But among other classes of the population
much more serious The Softas and the
Ulenah, the army and the navy, are fairly
ripe for an outbreak, as Is well known at the
palace. The army and the navy, Ii should
be added. may be calculated TO follow the
lead of the Ulemah and Sofas in anything
and when it is admitted that the two latter
classes are dangerously disconnected, the sit.
W tion is indeed. critical.
Then again. among the official class gen.
orally the deposition OF the Sultan Is eagerly
looked forward to now, TO longer as a vague
possibility. but a decided probability The
young Turk party demand a constitution. a
parliament and free institutions and shert
are people here bold enough TO predict tina,
they win get their demands before long
What the Turks are looking for Is a rea
leader. When he appears Ii Is safe to predict
that the rule OF the palace favorfte will soor
be ended. one way or the other by the depo-
sition OF the Sultan and by the placing OF
some other man In his place. or by the
adoption or a constitution and parliament
which may make material changes In every,
thing throughout the empire.
The ambassadors OF the powers are keep
ing their respective governments fully IN.
formed regarding the situation but the pres
ence OF the extra gunboats here Is now q
matter for congratulation among them. al
there is no longer the same fear as before
that a disturbance here would result In great
danger to the foreign population OF Constan-
tinople and its suburbs.