The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1905-12-12
CAUTION PREVAILS.
Workmen's Council Rejects PROPOSE
ton for General Strike.


ton for General Strike.
ST. Petersburg (Monday) Dec. IL
Caution having prevailed over the flu
~. aroused by the arrest of strike
leaders, the workmen's council has
rejected the proposition to order
general strike at present as untime
ly The council realized the weak
ness and unpreparedness of the
workmen for general conflict and
had been informed that the railroad
men had already decided against the
strike.
The sentiment &C the worllmen's
delegates, which was extremely de-
pressed, has been somewhat raised
by the receipt of a dispatch from
Moscow claiming that the revolution
ary propaganda has finally taken
root among the Cossacks, the last
hope of the reactionists. The third
squadron of the first regiment of
Cossacks is reported to have held a
meeting and to have drawn up SER
vice demands, claiming that the men
are fed like dogs and shabbily cloth
ton on the part of the Cossacks.
Many of the striking operators have
lost heart owing to the news from
Moscow that when the leaders were
arrested they were indulging in an
expensive supper at a popular Mos
COW restaurant in company with wo-
men strikers and spending funds la
vishly on champagne and expensive
cigars and liquors.
Associated Press Correspondence.
St. Petersburg. Nov. 27.-While it
is impossible in the present confus-
ion to clearly outline the various po-
litical forces which are struggling for
the mastery in Russia, the foreign
student of Russian affairs can with
profit bear in mind the general party
divisions as at present constituted.
Perhars first of all in order of i'm
portarce is the party of reaction am
ong the mobiles, who believe in the
old regime, and among a great mass
of the peasantry who still believe
that all good flows from the Little
Father" and the church which con-
tinues to sway the ''black masses,
the term by which the ignorant pea
santry, who comprise 80 per cent of
the Russian people. can at any time
turn the scale In skillful hands, they,
therefore, will always constitute an
immense force in favor of counter
revolution.
There are two parties under which
the peasantry might eventually be
enlisted, and which may be said to
make up the extreme reactionists,
consisting of those who will never
forgive the Emperor for the abroga-
tion of autocratic power. They talk
of deposing Nicholas and electing
new emperor. Prince Dolgoruki of
Moscow, one of the descendants of
Rurika, is their avowed candidate.
The church party under the name of
.'The Holy Alliance for National
Self Protection has been organized,
and these two parties might eventu-
ally unite for military dictatorship
against the revolutionary forces.
Immediately to the left of this par
ty of reaction might be placed the
moderate conservatives, who support
Count Witte in the introduction of
the new regime Their platform calls
for realization of the reforms prom
ised, for the integrity of the empire
and for strong central government
More radical still is the group of par
ties between the supporters of Count
Witte and the Social Democrats. Its
foremost demand is for constitu-
tional assembly elected by universal,
direct and secret ballot. The Russ,
Novosti and Bourse Gazette are its
spokesmen.
Now comes the party favoring the
complete overthrow of the govern
ment and the establishment of a re-
public Lastly are the anarchists. but
their program is not announced.
TOWN Is BURNING AND
THE MOB PLUNDERING.
Vienna, Dec. pa dispatch from