The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1904-12-02
RUSSIA WAITING
FOR THE DECISION
Gear Has Petition Of Zemstvos,
but tias Not Adopted
Course Of Action.
REVOLUTION in SIGHT
REVOLUTION IN SIGHT
Truce Declared to Allow the Admins.
tration to Decide What to Do-if
Petition Is Denied. Trouble
Will Begin.

ST. Petersburg. Nov. 2S.-Aceording to
Che best Information ~obtainable, the
Zemstvo memorial is still under con-
sideration by the car at Tsarkoe selo.
Emperor Nicholas is said to be under
no illusion regarding the gravity of his
decision, and is giving The memorial
most careful and earnest consideration.
BY some ne is represented as greatly
concerned and grieved over the situa-
ton, both at home anG abroad, and to
he weary of the war and ready to wei
come any honorable means to bring it
to u conclusion. and anxious To remove
the causes tor discomfort and secure
tranquility at home, The b~ureaucratS,
however, are said to be almost entirely
hostile 10 any concessions. The state
melit. made several days ago. That the
revoiutionaries had announced q truce
pending the decision OF the government
on the question of c~onvoking some sort
OF an elective national assembly to pass
upon the program, is confirmed from
several quarters, and fear is expressed
that il the whole program is rejected
there may be a revive. of old terroristic
days.
MirskY Will Win or Resign.
The emperor is said TO be acQuaint-
ed with interior Minister Sviatopolk-
Mirslty's irreVocahle decision not to re-
main in The ministry if the policy of
liberalism on which he went into Of
fec is abandoned. The rcactionists
and b~ureaucrats profess to see no dam
ger in present situation, declaring their
belief the agitation provoked by the
HemstVosts VIII soon sink out of sight
AMI affairs resume their normal way.
II concessions are made. they say, they
will be slight and will mean little.
Mirsky himself, although for different
reasons. is represented as also opposed
to a radical departure of n liberal char
acter. According to his opinion. 1t must
come gradually and without a shock.
THE tremendous earnestness with
which the masses of Russia are pre-
pared TO Insist on some substantial
gains along the lire of the zemstvos
demands Is now apparent. Correspond
encc from Russia is meager and un-
certain. but from all sections come re-
ports that the eyes of the nation have
been on the little unofficial meeting at
ST. Petersburg. and that the people will
not submit to be turned away without
benefits from their petition. The COM
parison of Russia's present condition
with that of France at the eve of the
revolution is everywhere used.
The zenlstvos resolutions embraced
ten sections. They declared there is
complete estrangement between gov
and people. and demanded
freedom OF conscience, press. speech
and assembly. legal guarantees of pop
uiar rights by Independent courts, and
n national legislative body, elective by
the people.
'Zemstvo'' is the name of the prov
incial legislature in the districts of
European Russia. The latest reports.
those of 1897. indicate that there are
36l zernstvos in thirty-four provinces of
European Russia. They represent an
Aggregate electorate of 4O,172 l%andhold-
ers, 1901 city householders and 1856, 1873
peasants. The elec. rs themselves are
apparently elected by the classes lower
down. The zemstvo delegates number
1886. of whom SIS per cent. are of the
nobility, l5 per cent. of the merchant
class and IS per cent. peasants.