The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1905-11-09
SUCH DAY NEVER SEEN BEFORE
FOR FIRST TIME IN HISTORY
RUSSIANS ARE ALLOWED
FREE REIN.
WANT GEN. TREP0FF KILLED
SOCIALISTS ORGANIZE ANTl-Gov.
ERNMENT DEMoNsTRA-
TloNs.,

TloNs.,
st. Petersburg, Nov. q All Russia
yesterday celebrated enthusiastically
the emperor's gift of freedom, which
the greater part of the people received
with deepest Joy, though in st. Pc
%tersburg, Moscow and other cities So
| cialists and revolutionaries organized
anti.government demonstrations and
red flag parades. which, with the 'patri-
otto manifestations, led to numerous
| conflicts between the "reds' and
Whites" as the enforcement and
royalist factions are respectively
termed. On the whole the day passed
more quietly in Russia than had been
expected, though collisions between
the people and the troops are reported
from Polgava, Kazan and Kianineff.
Such a Day Never Seen Before.
In each of the two capitals, St. Pc
tersburg and Moscow, the day was one
such as the Russians never before
have seen. The Slavic people, which,
during the long wal just closed and
the anxious period preceding the an
nouncement of the new era of consti-
tutionalism, seemed self-restrained
and %apathetic, gave itself up fully to
the exuberance of the moment and
spent the entire day in parades and
assemblies, which for the first time in
the history of Russia were freely per-
mitted. Under the orders of Count
Witte and Gen. Trepoff the troops
generally were withdrawn from the
streets of the cities and the fullest rein
given the people to let out their en-
thusiasm in demonstrations, which, so
long as they were not destructive,
were not i%nterfered with.
Socialists Want More.
From early morning the streets of
the capital were filled with a mass of
demonstrators who paraded up and
down the Havsky Prospect, and, con-
stantly ~augmenting, reached a grand
total of fully 100000 persons, while
down the Nevsky Prospect late in the
afternoon socialist agitators jumped
into the forefront and converted the
celebration into a great revolutionary
demonstration. Socialist orators de-
livered fiery orations declaring that
the concessions of the emperor's mani
festo were insufficient. and that they
must have the freedom of all political
prisoners, the. formation of a national
militia and the Punishment of Gen.
Trepof and all the troops under his
command twenty miles from the cap
ital.
The most serious encounter during
the day took place nea the barracks
of the Seminoff regiment, where a
by the troops. Shots were fired on
both sides with the result that one
man was killed and ten wounded.
Want Treooff Killed.
A feature of the day was the intense
enmity displayed by the orators
against Gen. Trepoff, the agitators uni
versally demanding his removal, and
at a great meeting in the university
last night one orator openly called for
a volunteer to kill him. Count White,
however, does net seem inclined to
throw him overheard, at least for the
present, and has also refused the pro-
posals for the removal of the troops
as sheer folly.
During the afternoon Count White
announced to a friend that he was not
without hope that universal suffrage
would be introduced before the cleo
lions for the state douma took place.
This announcement. when it spreads
among the Liberals will enroll many of
the latter among the friends of, the
new government against the socialists,
who announce that they will be salts
fled with nothing less than a demo.
cratic republic on the basis of state
socialism.
Head Of the Church Resigns.
The dawn of a constitutional era
marks also the passing of Constantine
Petrovitch Pobiedonostseff, the aged
chief %procurator of the holy synod and
the servant and advisor of three en-
perors, who all during his life has
been the strongest defender of the au-
tocracy. He was unwilling to remain
in Office under a parliamentary govern
ment, and last night presented his res
ignation, which was accepted by the
emperor, who at the same time nom
mated him to the senate, TIL Resting
place Of retired statesmen.
Concessions 20 Finland. +.
Helsingfors, Nov. 2.-The proclama-
ton of civil liberty in Russlz was fol-
lowed yesterday by the, announcement
of a return to a constitutional regime
in Finland and'the abolition of the ar
bitrary conditions under which Fin
land has been governed since the &C.
cession as governor general Of Count
Bobrikoff, who in June Of last year was
killed by Schaumann.
After a meeting of constitutionalists
yesterday at which an address was