Arizona republican., 1905-10-31
AUTOCRAT ADVOCATES

| of absolutism exercised by him and i Romanoff ancestors for 300 years.
 AN ABSOLUTE SURRENDER. A single perusaI of the manifesto shows how complete is the empeTOr's l abdication of his autocratic power. The very style of the document is clear and ! direct and devoid of the verbose, vague and bOmbastic phraseOlOgy, which here | tOfOre has characterized his majesty's manifestOS. It not only betrayS the real authorship, but shows that the em- peTor at last has irrevOcably bowed to 1 the inevitable. He does not even con- ceaI the fact that the discontent and 1 agitation of his subjects has driven ! him to take the step, and practically | yields everything-civil liberty, inVio- l liability of person and liberty of con- science, speech and assembly. He not ] only converts the farcical imperial dOuma, with only consultative power, into an absolute legislative assembly without the assent of which no measure shall become a law and before which all governmental authorities must make answer, but promises eventually i universal suffrage.
 The title "Autocrat of all the Rus sias," with which the manifesto begins, now takes it's place with the title of King Of Jerusalem" borne by the king of Spain and the emperor of Austria, and with other obsolete titles of Euro pean sOvereigns.
 J. Pierpont Morgan, Jr., and George w. Perkins, were with Finance Minis ter Kokovsoff when the latter receiv- ed the news. It was a dramatic mOm- ent. The minister was called to the telephone and when he returned he was greatly agitated and said: Gentle men, the old order of things has chang ed. Russia has a constitution
 A BOMB IN REPLY.
 The news spread like wild fire throughout the city. The revoIutionists and active agitators generally declar- ed loudly that the governments pro- mises would no longer suffice, and that the strike must be continued. Tn fact an hour after the news became known the revolutionists took occasion to throw the first bomb in St. Petersburg used since the strike began. The incl dent occurred near the polytechnic school, but there was no fatality.
 Practically all classes, except the so- cialists and the extreme radicals. how ever, read the document with delight and amazement and declared that it could not fail to rally the moderates to the support of Count Witte. By the irony of fate, while the strikers are cIamorFg for a constitution it has been impossible to persuade the striking printers to resume work, and therefore not a single newspaper except the Of ficial Messenger will print the mOm- entOus document for distribution to- morrow.
 SPREADING THE NEWS.
 Arrangements, however, have been made to placard the manifesto on ev- cry dead wall in the city and the text will be teIegraphed tomorrow to every city, town and hamlet with which there is telegraph communica- ton. It also has been ordered read in all the churches of the empire The foreign embassies were notified, and lights are burning late tonight in the chancelIOries, where the news Is being put into cipher. Official notifications will also be sent to the Russian am bassadors abroad.
 The effect throughout Russia is eX- pected to be instantaneous. While the extremists threaten an attempt to keep up the present strug- gle, the best opinion is that the back kbone of the strike is broken, but in the final analysis the effect will depend on how far Count Witte will be able to execute the heavy task winch he has assumed.
 Some persons high in the govern ment believe it still will be necessary to use ball cartridges to suppress the present movement, but Count Witte appears confident. He has become the bridge whereby the people are to cross to constftUuonalfsm. The count has all ready tentatively selected the members of his cabinet. He will himself hold no portfolio.
 THE NEW MINISTRY.
 All the present ministers, except those of the war. navy and foreign af fairs, will be retired. Prince Alexis Obelensky, one of the counts former assistants in the ministry of finance will become minister of the interior; M. ROmanoff, another former assist ant to the ministry, will take the if nance portfolio; NJ. KOni at present a senator and Russia's ablest jurist, will be minister of justice; M. KrosOvsky president of St. Petersburg municipal council, will take the ministry of edu- cation, and NJ. SeigIer Von Schaff- hausen, chief of the railroad depart ment of the ministry of finance, will become minister of ways and commit 1 nications.
 Late tonight, after the news got abroad crowds began marching up and down the Nevsky Prospect, sing ing the national hymn and hurraning for liberty. It is significant that the great searchlight which has been lighting up the Nevsky Prospect from the admiralty tower for three nights was turned off tonight.
 An incident occurred at midnight at the university when newsboys with an extra edition of the official mes sage hurried into crowd of strikers. The instant the news became known the strikers raised an uprOar of cneers and the Cossacks who were patrollinS the street misunderstanding the inn port of the demonstration and think ing the cries were seditiOus, charged and dispersed the workmen with their