Omaha daily bee., 1905-06-09
BOLD APPEAL TO THE CAR
zsmstvo Delegates Demand an Immediate
OOnvOoation Of Assembly.
STRONG ARRANGEMENT OF BUREAUCRACY
Address Says Country IL on Verge of
Civil war and Does Not Com
tain single word of
Loyalty.

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| ST. PETERSBURG, June 9-1:5O a. M
The voice Of the delegates of the zemstvos
and of the municipalities demanding in no
uncertain tone the immediate convocation
of national assembly to pass upon the
! question of peace or war, to heal internal
| strife and to unite the people for the
| juvenation of Russia. will be heard in the
address adopted by the all-Russian zemstvo
congress at Moscow, which a deputation
headed bye Count Hayden and NJ Shipof
is bringing to present to the emperor. The
document bids fair to become history. The
customary phrases of respect at the open
ing and closing are omitted and it is other
wise unceremonious, employing the direct
| personal pronoun.
| Bureaucracy ArraiRned.
| The address arraigns the bureaucracy and
reminds the emperor that his pledge to con-
woke a national assembly is slow of fulfill
ment. 1t says the country is on the verge
! of civil war and even ventures to criu-
else a royal measure, contrasting the in
! crease of the police power by the ukase is
| sued last Sunday with a weakening of the
| administrative process which the country
! had been led to expect
The address urges the summoning of a
national assembly that the war may become
| national or cease and concludes with a
solemn reminder that the sovereign's duty
is to God and the fatherland. and a prayer
for action before it is too late
There is intense interest to learn whether
the emperor will receive the bearers of so
bold message, couched in terms such as
have never before been used between the
emperor and his subjects. The address is
| followed by a stream of petitions from in
dividuals and municipalities. The doumas
of nearly all the principal cities have ad-
dressed the throne praying that the repre-
sentatives of the people be summoned at
once.
Extracts from the Address.
The address is a lengthy document, from
which the following are extracts:
Sire: Russia has been drawn into a dis
astrous war, by criminal abuses and the
negligence of your counsellors.
our army is powerless and our fleet has
| been annihilated, but more menacing than
this extreme peril is the prospect of civil
war waged by your people against all the
vices OF dangerous and ignorant bureau
cracy.
Proceeding the address declares that the
emperor's reform intentions have been dis
torted and miscarried. while the police
have been given unrestricted power The
address says:
Martial law has been declared and the
Parrod PAN 70 enable @ the truth to reach you is
Sire, before it is too late, for the welfare
or RUSSIA, command convocation of rep
resentatives of the nation, elected by equal
franchises, and let these elected represen-
tatives decide with you the vital question of
MAR MAR or pelaeei thus Transforming the war
Let them establish an agreement with
you a renovated national organization.
Sire, don't delay. Great is your RESPONSE
bility before God and before Russia in this
terrible hour of national trial
The address will not be published in the
newspapers, but its contents will be spread
with the mysterious rapidity characteristic
of Russia.
Throughout the address the word maj
esty' is not used and there is not single
conventional expression of loyalty.
BnII1 Mt Big Indemnity.
There is a significant change in tone on the
part of some of the Russian newspapers like |
the Novoe Nremya, which never heretofore !
have even admitted the possibility of the con- |
clusion of hostilities until Russia had re- |
covered its. military prestige by a victory |
Today the papers discuss calmly the ad- |
visibility of ending the war If Japan's |
terms are reasonable The payment of |
big indemnity they declare would be too |
humlliating. The Novoe Vremya saws
blunty that if Japan asks too much it
definitely; while the Russ argues that il |
representatives of the Russian people are
called together Japan will see itself con. |
fronted by the whole nation and it will !
readily agree to reasonable terms.
Even the revolutionists," the Russ adds |
''are not traitors They are fighting the |
present rotten bureaucracy and not the |
mother country. They would not tolerate
disgraceful peace"
Universal regret is expressed in official !
circles at the retirement of NJ Delcasse |
until recently French minister for foreign |
affairs. He was regarded as a true friend |
of Russia, was personal friend of For |
eign Minister Count Lamsdorff and was |
sincere and unequivocal supporter of the |
dual alliance The Novoe Vremya says |
I'VE know how to appreciate true friends |
We have so few of them"
The Russ and the Slovo consider NJ |
Delcasse TO be the victim of trying to play
the impossible role of a connecting link |
between two rivals, Russia and Great
Britain.
The Slovo says: M Delcasse's policy |
was ever directed toward the isolation of |
Germany, but he forgot that an alliance |
with Great Britain would ruin any DO
litical system aimed against Germany. The
British alliance has not helped France in |
Morocco, but II has embroiled it with Ger |
many. NJ. Delcasse pays the penalty by
retiring complications can be easier
avoided with him out of the cabinet, and
his retirement will not affect the dual
alliance"
1t now transpires that Ambassador |
Myers audience with Emperor Nicholas
had been preceded by a family council at
Tsarskoe Selo, at which 1t is understood
the decision was reached that peace wa :
entertainable If Japans conditions were not
too onerous.
Nevertheless this cannot be oficially con-
frmed and doubt is cast upon 1t by a |
prominent official, who declares that on the
contrary the council consisted mainly OF
high army and naval officers and that the
discussion was devoted TO the ways and
means of prosecuting instead of ending the
war.
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