Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1905-11-08
The Car Yields a, Last.

Romanoffs and the old order of
things cease to exist in Russia.
Emperor Nicholas has surren-
dered, and Count Witte comes into
power as minister president, with an
imperial mandate, which will euable
him to convert the farcical National
Assembly into q real legislative body,
elected by greatly extended suffrage
and to confer upon the people funda-
mental civil liberties, including free
speech.
These welcome tidings reached ST.
Petersburg shortly before 6 o'clock
this evening. Count Witte had
spent the day with the Emperor at
Peterhof, going over the final draft
of the manifesto, to which he insisted
that certain minor notifications be
made, and before taking the train
for st. Petersburg be telephoned to
friend that the Emperor had affixed
his signature, and that the imperial
mandate comprising the conditions
upon which be had agreed to accept
office was in his pocket. These in
clude freedom of the press, the right
of assembly and the immunity of the
person, including the right of habeas
corpus.
Count Witte insisted on cabinet
on the British model, with selected
premier responsible to the Imperial
Douma, or parliament, while the
Emperor clung to the appointment
of members of the Cabinet, on the
American plan, by the Emperor as
Chief of State.
The State department has in
structed Charge d'Affaires Eddy, in
case of emergency, to give American
citizens asylum at the embassy, and
if necessary to charter a steamer.
Foreign Minister Lamsdorff is re-
assuring the ambassadors by formally
guaranteeing the safety of foreign
residents. He announces that the
Government is prepared to afford
them military protection in St.
Petersburg and elsewhere in the
event of disorders.
The following is the text of the
imperial manifesto
awe, Nicholas the Second, by the
grace of God Emperor and Autocrat
of all the Russias, Grand Duke of
Finland, ETC., declare to all our
faithful subjects that the troubles
and aggitation in our capitals and in
numerous other places fill our heart
with excessive pain and sorrow.
"The happiness of the Russian
sovereign is indissolubly bound up
with the happiness of our people and
the sorrow of our people is the sor-
row of the sovereign.
"From the present disorders may
arise great national disruption.
They menace the integrity and
unity of our empire.
"The supreme duty imposed upon
us by our sovereign Office requires us
to efface ourself and to use all the
force and reason at oui command to
hasten in securing the unity and CO.
ordination of the power of the Cen
tral Government and to assure the
success of measures for pacification
in all circles of public life, which are
essential to the well being of our
people.
1--WE, therefore, direct our Govern
ment to carry out our intlexible will
in the following manner:
"First. To extend to the popula-
tion the immutable foundations of
civic liberty, based on the real in
volatility of person, freedom of con-
science, speech, union and associa-
ton.
Second. Without suspending
the already ordered elections to the
State Douma to invite to participa-
ton in the Douma, so far as the
limited time before the convocation
of the Douma will permit, these