Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1905-11-09
WITTE IN POWER
DELIVERANcE COMES TO THE
PEOPLE OF RUSSIA.
TYRANNICAL RULE AT AN END
Emperor Nicholas Grants a constitu-
tlonal Form Of Government, and
Count Witte Comes Into Power as
Minister President.

ST. PETERSURG-Th autocracy o.
the Romanoffs and the old order Of
things have ceased to exist in Russia
Emperor Nicholas has surrendered and
Count Witte comes into power as min
ister-presldent. with an imperial man
date which will enable him to convert
the farcical national assembly into a
real legislative body elected by greatly
extended suffrage and to confer upon
the people fundamental civil liberties,
including free speech.
Following is the text Of the imperial
manifesto:
We, Nicholas II, by the grace of God
emperor AMI autocrat of all the Rus
slas, grand duke of Finland, etc, de-
clare to all our faithful subjects that
the trouble and agitation in our capt.
tails and in numerous places fill our
heart with excessive pain and sorrow.
The happiness Of the Russian sover-
eign Is indissolubly bound up with the
happiness of our people and the sor-
row of our people is the sorrow of the
sovereign.
From the present disorders may
arise great national disruption. They
menace the integrity and unity of our
empire.
The supreme duty imposed upon us
by our sovereign office requires us to
efface ourself and to use all the force
and reason at our command to hasten
in securing the unity and coordination
Of the power Of the central government
and to assure the success of measures
for pacification of all circles of public
life, which are essential to the wellbe-
ing of our people.
We. therefore, direct our government
to carry out our inflexible will in the
following manner:
First-To extend to the population
the immutable foundations of civic
liberty, based on the real inviolability
of person, freedom of conscience,
speech. union and association.
Second-Without suspending the al
ready ordered elections to the state
douma, to invite the participation in
the douma, so far as the limited time
before the convocation of the douma
ulation now completely deprived of
electoral rights, leaving the ultimate
development of the principle of the
electoral right in general to the newly
established legislative order of things
Third-To establish as an unchange
oh r,,I1 thof 10 oh Hn
able without the approcal of the state
douma and that 1t shall be possible fol
the elected of the people to exercise
real participation in the supervision o
the legality Of the acts of the authori
ties appointed by us.
We appeal to all faithful sons o
Russia to remember their duty TOWARD
the fatherland, to aid in Terminating
these unprecedented troubles and t.
apply their forces in cooperation will
us to the restoration of calm and peac,
upon our natal soil.
NICHOLAS.
Count WHITE, Russia's first premier
tonight sent the following message I,
the American people through the AssC
clated Press.
II am sure the American people, VIII
understand what freedom Is, and tn
American press, which voices the wish
es Of the people, will rejoice with tn
friendly Russian nation at this me
ment, when the Russian people hav
received from his imperial majesty tn
promises and the guarantees of fret
dom and will join in the hope that tn
Russian people will wisely aid in tn
realization of those liberties by oc-op,
rating with the government for the
peaceful introduction. Only thus wi
1t be possible to secure the full ben
fits Of the freedom conferred upon tn
people"