The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1898-09-19

NhR-AlAlS Ot' AsNAtsSf-A0AH'
NEW YORK, Sept. ls.-Elghteen
years ago in shat very BeautlvSgs Hotel
at Geneva. where the body OF the muir
dered Empress Of Austria laid in state,
watched by praying nuns and priests,
awaiting lis transfer within few hoars
to Vienna. spent an entire night, clos
eted with ex-Professor Dragemanofr,
who was then, and still rentaIns the
moving spirit of the nIhllIst party. and
the man In whose house Vera sassculItch
was then living. after having effected
her escape trum Russia, in spite OF the
efforts 70 arrest her on her aeGaittal Of
the charge OF shooting at and woundlns
General Trepofr. chief of the police at st.
Petersburg. The professor was then a
inild-looklng man, with red beard and
hair and kindly eyes peerIng forth
through spectacles. No one TO gaze on
him would have believed that he was the
originator and author of all the most
notable outrages of the anarchist party
Of Russia. Yet. throughout that entire
night.he argued with me and expounded
his theories and doctrine on the subject
OF regiclde and of The assassination OF
people high In office and rank.
Just before we parted-lt was long be-
fore daylight-moved perhaps by the
bottles OF Rhine wine that we had drunk
through that warm autumn night, he
animated that before long would have
an opportunity Of learning that he had
given a practical denomination OF his
doctrine. A few weeks later, the entire
f,oor OF the dining room OF the Winter
Palace at St. Petersburg was blown to
pieces, a ecore OF servants and officers
being Killed and wounded. The car
would have been among their number
had he not been delayed for ten minutes
beyond the appointed time In his apart
ments by visit from Prince Alexander
OF Bulgaria. to which alone his escape
was dua. And in the following March
the car was blown 70 pieces by nitro
glyc.rIne bombs,subsequently proved to
have been manufactured in Geneva. in
all probability under the supervision Of
my learned and mHd-mahnered Profess
SCR Dras5manoa.
IfIreealI tonight this Interview with
Dragomanoft It Ia because the theories
which he expressed, and in fact, his
whole utteranses on that occasion, were
so similar 10 thore which, according to
thc dispatches from Europe published
to-day, nave been protsssed by the as
Il sslh OF Empress Elizabeth. They are
10 tho effect that this assassination OF
e.c great. and especially OF royal per-
fnsagcs, Is not the offspring OF any SEN
tlrcnt Of personal hatred or vengeance.
Nihll,Ets and anarchlsts-they are one
and the same thlns-know full well that
one monarch killed win ba merely sue
ceeded By another; that twenty officials
can be found without delay to take the
place of a murdered dlgnitary, and that
there Is no direct and Immediate adyan-
tage to be obtained by the assassination
OF young girl such as the queen of
Holland or Of an empress SO entirely
aloof from all political and even social
life and influence as Elizabeth of Aus
tia. Such deeds, according TO Drago-
mnnoff, who, before being sentenced to
death, was exlled to Siberia, whence he
escaped, was one OF the leading profess
sors of the great Univerity Of Moscow,
are Justified by the necessity of roofing
out from mems minds the habltual re-
0pect for the powers that be, AS the at
taeks on people OF rank and power in
crease, the more Will the people get to
understand the absurdity Of the respect
and veneratlon with which especially
crowned heads have been regarded for
centuries.
"our mission" he declared, us one Of
universal relentless and terror-siriking
destruction, and In the selection of our
Victims we are guided by the relative
use which the cause .! anarchists would
derive from the death of any particular
person. In the foremost rank OF those
cases stand the people whose sudden
and violent death will have the effect OF
terrifying both government and classes.
Our battallons are so numerically weak,
and our enemies. on the other hand, are
% mighty that we are morally justified
In making use OF all attaInable methods
Of striking terror into the hearts of our
fOCs."
These principles. In which must be
sought the cause for the Otherwise alto
Eether unaccountablt assassination of
Empress Elizabeth. do not, however,
owe their origin to Professor DrlEoman-
OF. but TO his friend and mentor, Bakou-
nine, who may Justly be described as the
founder OF nihIIlsm and OF anarchy.
Born noble. with the title of baron. in
his youth a page Of Gear Nicholas, this
extraordinary man, giant In stature,
first originated and founded the gospel
OF anarchy. HIS school, entirely distinct
from socialism. which merely aims 81
levellnE everything he's for iis object
destruction. In Its sight everything as
It now exists is rotten. and before any
thing well can be created all existing In
stltullons must be destroyed. Religion,
the state. the family, laws, property and