The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-07-29
.PLEHVE'S BLOODY RULE
 DENOUNCED BY WHITE
HIS PART IN KISHTNEFR MAS
 SACRE OF JEWS.

Former American Ambassador to Rus
 sia Declares It Caused Him to be
 Held in Adherence by the Whole
 worId-His Connection With the De-
 struetion of the Liberties of Finland
 --The Most wicked Thing in the His-
 tory of the Last Two Centuries.
 Syracuse, N. r. July 2s.-The Post Standard tomorrow will say: Former Ambassador to Germany Andrew D. White was seen by Post-standard re- porter at the residence of his brother, Horace K. White, on James street. just before he left for Ithaca yesterday af- ternoon. When asked if he had the ac- quaintance of MT. Plehve, Russian min- ister of the interior, MT. White answer ed that he knew him well. having met him frequently in the course of official business during his stay at St. Peters
 
 of the United States to Russia.
 In discussing Plehve and the assassi- nation MT. White said; At that time MT. Plehve had not arrived at the posi- tion of full minister of the interior, but was the first assistant minister in that department, and in that capacity took up various American matters, especial ly the dealings of the Russian govern ment with some of the great American insurance companies. The Russian government had made the companies a great deal of trouble, and l was in structed from Washington to discuss the matter, General Bacheller, now judge of the international court in Egypt. very ably representing the com panies.
 T think both General Bacheller and myself found Mir. Plehve very agreeable and apparently, as far as his govern ment allowed him, reasonable. l also met him socially at various times and found him agreeable and interesting.
 T was. therefore, greatly surprised at learning. when he was promoted to the first place, that his whole character seemed to change.
 His part in the horrible massacre and plunder of the Jews, men women and children, at Kishineff, caused him to be regarded with abhorrence by the whole world. Even more frightful has been his connection with the destruction of the liberties of Finland. In my mind that is the most wicked thing in the history of the last two centuries. There is no time to go into it here further than to say that it has turned the best, the most civilized, the most educated and the most loyal province in the en1- pire into land in which the opposite of all these characteristics is more highly developed than in any other part of. the empire. Other things done by him were also calculated to bring most bitter hatred against him.
 He attempted to help his cause by a defense of his conduct toward Finland, which was published in an American magazine. But 1t certainly must have failed to convince any thinking man at all aware of tho circumstances.
 During two summers l lived mainly in Finland, coming frequently to St.. Petersburg and the transition in pass age from the cultivation and civilization of Finland to the atmosphere of Russia was the most depressing I have ever known.
 q do not wonder at his assassination, although deeply lament it. Among other reasons fir this regret, it will doubtless be made pretext for new oppression and new cruelties toward the Jewish population and toward the Fin flanders. Assassination always defeats its purpose and this will be, fear, no exception to the rule.
 q can only account for MT. von Plehve's atrocities, reactionary and des- potic conduct since he came to the po- sltlon of minister, on the theory that he found that sIle clique in control of the winter palece, men and women, who seem to have brought the present em- peror into subjection to them obliged Ir. von Plehve as a condition Of his tenure of office, to do their will.
 His ambition doubtless led him to adopt their racial and religious hatred, as we'll as their detestation of anything like constitutional government, 7
 MT. White concluded by saying that, having lived twice officially in Russia, he had observed closely the condition of the empire, ard that, though he saw the most wretched conditlon of things dur ing the Crimean war, the situation at present Is the most desperately bad in Russian history and that it has been brought on by an exercise of despotism more unrea sonahle, cruel and short sighted than anything in recent human history outside of the Turkish empire.
 PIeIive's Temporarily Successor.
 St. Petersburg, July 2S.-M. Durnovo,