Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1905-10-29
FOUR LIBERTIES DEMANDED
In Moscow Strikers Unite to Form
Provisional eovernment-Trepof,
Man of Blood, Ready to Use Bay
onets and Bullets, But Awaits Posi-
tive orders.
tRy Associated Press,

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after day passes without the promul-
CATION in Russia's governmental or
gan-a responsible ministerial cabinet
To bring order out of the present ad
illustrative chaos.
Count Witte. to whom all factions
look 10 assume the premiership, has
spent almost the entire time of the
last two days at Peterhof, wrestling
with the Emperor, Insisting upon cou-
diiions in connection with his appoint
ment, which his majesty was unwilling
TO grant.
UEon his return to st. Petersburg
tonight Count Witte announced that
The cabinet project, which has been
lying signed for three days on the
Em%peror's table. would not be promul-
gate tomorrow, intimating thereby
that his program, which is known to
include n species of constitution in
volving the granting of -four liberties
freedom of speech. freedom of as
sembly, freedom of the press, and free
don of the person'-has not been
accented.
Gear Expected to- Surrender.
1t is felt here that the delay cannot
be long protracted and that it is only a
question of hours when the Emperor
conildes the fortunes of the dynasty
and government to Count Whites
hands.
Meanwhile the situation is passing
from bad to worse with matters at the
summit in Il state of unstable equil-
ibrum. Officers of state are at n loss
how to act. and the re~volutionists en-
Outraged by the inactivity of the gov
crnment, are growing holder and more
insistant in the demands made in
their speeches.
Trepof in a ouandry.
1t is true there has been no disor-
der in St. Petersburg and General
rrepoff. Russia's other strong man.,
has taken every measure to put down
an uprising in incipiency, but he has
not felt sure enough of his position 10
act boldly with regard to the revolu.
tionary meetings at the university,
and has contented himself with is
suing warnings which. not having
been enforced. are taken by the agi-
tators as evidence of lack of back
bone.
Meetings Held Just the Same.
AS before Fridays giant meeting at
the university, it was again announced
today that further meetings there
would not be permitted, but the col
lege portals were again open tonight
and the hospitality of the university
was extended to a group of lawyers
and other professional men. one Of
whose orators referring to the old Rus.
sion folk legend that the world is sup
ported on the backs of three whales,
said that the autocracy rested on three
cetacea-money, the army and the
loyalty of the people, but that Russia
is bankrupt and the moral sym
pathy of the people alienated and
that the army alone remained true
n this he predicted would not be
for long. Another speaker openly
preached terrorism and advocated
making an example, of a number of
high personages.
Tfepoff is Whites Ally.
Count Whites ally in the stipend
Gus task he is about to undertake
will be General Trepoff, who, though
all his life has been spent as an in
strument for repression and though he
twice has escaped attempts of the
terrorists to execute their sentence of
death, has come>to realize that the old
order of things is changing and CIV
ing place to a new, II is now a gen.
nine convert to the policy Of giving
the people a share in the government.
Should White and Trepoff now fail
the best opinion is that nothing will
ave the present government from
complete ruin. Many shrewd observ-