The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1905-11-01
RUSSIANS ARE REJOICING
SOCIALISTS. HOWEVER, TRY TO
KEEP DlscoNTENT ALIVE.

SSStSEt0lN I1SW n "
KEEP DlscoNTENT ALIVE.
ORGANIZE RED FLAG PARApEs
Mo- trtain That Grant OF Constitution
viii Check Violence in ST. Peters.
burg, Moscow and Other Cities.
Anti-Government Demonstrators.
St. Petersburg, Nov. ALL Russia
celebrated enthusiastically the EN-.
peror's gift of freedom, which the
greater part of the people received
with deepest joy, though in ST. Peters.
burg, Moscow and other cities social.
lists and revolutionists organized anti.
government demonstrations and red
flag parades, which, with the patri.
of conflicts between the reds" and
whites" as the anti-government 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 Poltava. Kazan and Kishineff,
and two men were killed.
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 war 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
exuberance OF the moment and spent
the day in parades and assemblies,
which for the first time in the history
of Russia We're freely permitted. I'm.
der the orders of Count White and
General Trepoff the troops generally
were withdrawn from the streets Of
the cities and the fullest rein given
the people to let out the enthusiasm
in demonstrations, which. so long as
they were not destructive, were not
interfered with.
Socialists Stir Up Strife.
Socialist agitators, consisting Of
both students and workmen and mem
bers of revolutionary organizations,
jumped into the forefront of affairs in
st. Petersburg and converted the cele.
bration into great revolutionary
demonstration. There were long pro-
cessions, in which hundreds of red
flags were carried. and to which every
one was compelled to doff the hat. A
great majority of the paraders
Haunted on the lapels of their coats
rosettes and streamers of crimson
ribbon, and socialist orators delivered
fiery orations wherever they could
gather audiences. They declared the
concessions of the emperor's mani
festo were insufficient and that they
must have the freedom of all political
principles, the formation OF national
militia, and the Punishment of Gen.
eral Trepoff and all the troops under
his command twenty miles from the
capital.
Early in the day the Marseillaise
supplanted the national anthem as the
popular marching song. The loyal
lists attempted to take the lead against
the socialists and revolutionists by
organizing counter parades, in which
they carried the red, white and blue
banners of Russia and chanted the
national anthem, but they were driv-
en- off the Nevslly Prospect by the
overwhelming numbers of the reds"
every time they appeared.
Two Men Are Killed.
The most serious encounter during
the day took place near the barracks
of the Seminoff regiment, where a
crowd of demonstrators, in attempting
to march to the chronological insti-
tute, was stopped by troops. Shots
were fired on both sides, with the re-
suit that one man was killed and ten
wounded. A prominent lawyer and a
professor were wounded in a collision
at the polytechnic school. Another
fatality resulted from the demands
made by the crowds that hats be
dotted before the red flags. An Off.
Ger who refused to obey the demand
was set upon and beaten with the
STATS of flags, when he drew his re.
volver and fired number Of shots,
killing one person. In an ARRAY at
the Putiloff works between strikers
and non-strikers, several men were
badly beaten. Ten or twelve men
were wounded in the conflicts on the
| Nevsky Prospect.
Count White announced to a friend
that he was not without hope that uni
versal suffrage would be introduced
before the elections for the state
douma took place. This announce
ment, when 1t spreads among the lib
erals, will enroll many of the latter
among the friends of the new govern
ment against the socialists, who an
nounce that they will be satisfied with
nothing less than a democratic repub
lie on the basis of state socialism.
Constantine Petrovitch Pobiedonost