The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-08-31
WITTE,S SUCCESS ONLY INCREASES HATE OF HIM
ANNOUNCEMENT OF IT BOLDLY RECEIVED BY RUSSIAN
 GOVERNMENT.

At Court Evidently the Very Victory He Has Achieved Makes It All the More
 Bitterly Resented-Hate of Military Party Which Fears Him an Open Se-
 cret--Members Had Felt Sure He
 Could Not succeed---Wil However,
 be Great and Popular Figure.
 Portsmouth, N. H., Aug. 3O.-A very anomalous situation exists as to the impression created by the conclusion of peace. While the outside world ap- plauds, in Japan there is evidently great disappointment in the terms, and in Russia, where it would seem. that
 there should be universal rejoicing over the great diplomatic victory M. Witte has won, the government seems to have received it coldly. With the people It will make M. Witte a great and popu- 1 lar figure and add to his laurels, but at court evidently the very victory M. 1 Witte has achieved makes it all the more bitterly resented. It is an open secret that the military party" hates and fears Witte, and that when the emperor appointed him chief plenipo- 1 tentiary they: expected him to fall. They did not want peace and it was | freely predicted in St. Petersburg when M. Witte left that he had been given I an impossible mission and sent to America to break his neck" They
 expected him to fail in the negotiations or to make a bad peace" and either would have spelled political ruin. In stead, upon the very terms upon which the emperor told Mir. Meyer he would
 make peace, and upon which the milf- tary party did not believe it possible for peace to be negotiated, M, Witte succeeded iii securing a treaty honor-
 able and, under the eircumstances, fa- vorable to Russia. This has evidently only exasperated his enemies the more,
 and intrigue is again at work to dis
 credit him. Since Japan was in a con-
 ciliatory mood they now say he made
 a mistake in surrendering half of Sak-
 halin. Yet he did so by the czar's or
 ders, and, himself insists that person. 1 ally he would have stuck to the end to
 his original declaration not to cede ter ritory or give indemnity.
 Tn Japan the situation is reversed. The government recognized the advis- ability of concluding peace even if all demand for indemnity had to be with drawn. But the people were incensed even at the suggestion of the division .of Sakhalin. That was evident from l the expressions in the Japanese press i yesterday. And that was before there was even a suggestion of waiving de- !mand for any indemnity whatever. To- day Tokio Is silent. Not a word of line about the receipt of the news comes Tout of Japan. The government has its lhand upon every wire. And among
 those who best know Japan here it is oninous of the popular wrath the re- ceipt of the terms of peace has raised, and they recall with a shudder past
 tragedies when ministers have been un- popular. ... Nt Tn view of the situation both at Tolxio and St. Petersburg, alarmists are in clined to make much of the fact that the minutes of yesterdays fateful meeting have not yet been signed by the plenipotentiarie of the two powers.
 It is pointed out that either side could
 still repudiate the agreement, but both plenipotentiaries refuse to admit even
 the possibility of such thing happen ing.