The St. Louis Republic., 1905-12-31

/, cIamor Political prisoners were set frea
press Censorship abolished. Finland pfae-
tically restored to her ancient aut000my,
| and. At last October -. Witte the pro-
Gressive was made Premier. Constantine
Pob:edcnotscR. Procura,os Of the Holy
Synod and the evil genius OF Russian
progress. has resigned. and. In spite Of
| such outbursts as those IT Cronstadt. Be-
| bas;oppl and V!adivossok. and even such
| civil war n P0iand'3. Count Write seems
| tat this writIn9D 10 have been slowly
| bringing come order from chaos. leading
from the Egypt Of autocrary into the
promised land Of constitutional monarchy.
ANARCHISTS AND STRIKERS
| spain. Belgium. Italy. France. Turkey.
| China and the United States. ~ we'll a.
! kuAda. have seen evidences Of this an
! srchistic activity which. in the land Of
the Car. has. for once. contributed 70 Q
good end. Statistics show 1896 to have been
marked BY lis attempts upon Russian ON
cials. including that Of January =. when .
'carsaessiy trained cannon nearly brought
Aeash to Nicholas himself: Of which in
tended murders forty-two have succeeded.
Royalty and odlc1a!dom. however. have not
uTVih 0AcUtV StsS" s.sSe bH JUNG q UuxX1u
| vas thrown at Alfonso Mi. and I'resl-
| dent ISoubee; July brought sudden death
; to several Of the suite Of Turkeys Sultan.
| though tho ruler himself escaped: tvo
Queens wcrc threatened in August. Mar
Eher!ta oe Italy and that capable DowaGer
Of China: Will. another Chinese Red
.S.p,. mhsr, threw . bomb which narrowly
missing killing WI Ting s-fsns-leaving him
deaf.
SihIllstic explosions In Spain have
spuffed out seventy lives while great
strikes si Limoges and through Italy and
Austria. taking On violence with extent.
turnea 80 riots what might else have
seemed mere Industrial movements. The
san~ may be said OF the strike OF Chi
Cages teamsserr. which ended July n
after I.3 turbulent days. accomplishing SIX
eea,, Deaths and . total money loss OF Sl3.-
a.s00
REFORMS HERE At HOME
Tho reform entries in 1865 ledge. here
IN America have been a marked feature oS
the year With only six States clean Of
graft -mania-(seorgia. Iowa. Maine. 3laasa-
chuxestn. Michigan and North Carolina
the entire country manifested an honest
purpose 70 bring to book all "faciaIs dev!-
afinx from the path of rec;itude. Election
day saw ''toseism'' In varying degrees cf
corruption swept from power in Pennsyl-
vanis New jersey. Ohio and MARYLAND:
Kansas has ~axcd war AGAINST the Stand
AID oil. and Mtlwaukees Grand Jury has
indicted seventeen os .hs: c!ty's leading
citizens for various public offenses.
Of the municipal battles FER civic vir-
tue that IN Philadelphia attracted vide At
,ent.on. since the inherisors Of ;he Old
Quay machine has so fntrerched them
selves IN power as 70 feel free 70 act In
open defiance cf common right. In April
they orsn-d . campaign - acquire the
city gas works under Guise OF long term
isas~. Iu: the attempted steal Was %
obv.ou. and immense that II Was mss b.
the sN:s:-s: and most thorough revolution
". American civic annals. Eiihu Root pre-
vious 90 his acceptance 81 the STATE port
folio. helped Mayor Weaver lead ,h- In
v.s:ixa,or. and theft after theft came 90
1sh,. eliminating In :he s!!aassrous failure
q! tn. Enterprise Bank systematically de-
bauchsd by ss- machine. When tn" s!,ck.
oc IN. ta,.ot- battle cleared away the cor
rup; organization ,nasIut ~.d'nG nnde: the
name q: Ecpub,icanis.n' vas utterly rout-
cd "Ros. Ia Durham announced his .c-
,ir"cisrl.
George Y COY. Ciacinrsu's bose. has
also retired from y-oi't!cs'-throuGh the
combined attacks o! Secretary Taft and
'hs ci;ys hor~s, cl:!fsrs. iei by Fussnr!si
Dempsey Again. Everett; Colby. running
for State Senator im New Jersey. demon
.srasc.i shat the .:rorG.s: political fnA-
chine car he mastered by tire right man.
Hi. triumph. and ,hst ~ W I. Jerome
reelected C;..r.c, Attorney IN New York
CITY. mor- than mad. ap fn. The de'ss;
Of Partridge reform candidate 20. San
frsnc..co's niayc,ai'y. ai she nanas -
eugene schmi-x-a mar :n::c.e: Gnier s'y
counts. sry one forming ground :or his
!,r,o-s-l,rssr.- cc< u4aiAirn;-fstrA,!"n- The
.srrs elections which s-ouah' th.se d..ei-
5ru,srt. .s. Er N.ryiant n. ae'es; O:
IN. Pc. Amendment looking to ~. dis
:r.r,hi..rl.n, Of .he Coin-~t vote ana ,h.
K.r.uckr fu..onls. victory ever ihr
.-r,.,o.sv iI.rss... sU,oc-s.s - Rrsathit,
County
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