Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1905-11-21
another MANIFESTO
TO Be ISSUED soon.
RUMoR OF AN IMPERIAL EDICT
PROMISING LOCAL GOVERN
MENT TO POLAND.
RUSSIAN RADICALS
ARE HELD IN LEASH
Latest Strike Seems Doomed to End
in Failure = Agitators Abandon
Proposed Demonstrations-sc
Details of Penza Disorders.

st. Petersburg, Nov. 20.-It is re-
ported that another manifesto promis-
ing a general zemstvo and local mu-
nicipal government to Poland may be
issued shortly.
Radicals Held in Leash.
The sudden awakening of the con-
servative and liberal elements to the
imperative necessity for resisting to
the utmost the attempt of the radicals
and socialists who are conducting the
present strike to obtain the upper
hand, has galvanized the leaders into
action and has started a healthy move
ment in favor of entirely cutting loose
from the radical wing. NM. Dmitri
Shipoff and Guchkoff and other lead
ers of various groups, including the
constitutional democrats, have gone to
Moscow to urge the zemstvo congress
assembling there to unite all the forces
which desire to prevent anarchy in
condemning the political strike and to
join in supporting the government in
its efforts to restore tranquility and
Introduce the new regime. The gov
eminent is able to take firmer stand
because of this reaction in public opin.
ion. Count White believed that such a
reaction must come, but he wisely
waited until public sentiment showed
disposition to support the govern
ment before initiating energetic meas.
ures. By his direction the project of
police, Gen. Dedulin, issued the pro.
clamation instructing the tradesmen
not to yield to the threats of the agi-
tators and walking delegates, who or,
dered them to close their shops, and
promising the tradesmen police and
military protection.
Edict Has Desired Effect.
The proclamation of the project of
police had the desired effect in pre-
venting the agitators from trying to
execute the threats which they made
to compel the closing of the shops and
also led to the abandonment of the
demonstrations planned to take place
in front of the prisons. The break in
the ranks of Inc strikers in Poland and
the refusal of many organizations in
the interior especially those of the
railroad men at Moscow, to strike on
account of Poland and the fierce dis.
sensions which have broken out
among the workmen's leaders at St
Petersburg seems to doom the strike
movement to failure and temporarily,
at least. must inflict a defeat on the
/ social democrats. The government has
taken the occasion to officially deny
that the measures taken in Poland
were in any way melted by Germany
or that any arrangement exists with
Germany upon the subject
Scanty Details from Penza.
st. Petersburg. Nov. 20-Dispatches
received here from Penza give only a
confused account of the agrarian dis.
orders in that province, where a false
emperor Is said to have appeared. The
reports from Penza mention the exist.
ence Of false emperor, but give only
scanty details of the number of his
followers, which evidently was large.
~ over-estimated. An order has been
issued placing that province, as we'll
as the province Of Saratoff, under the
authority of Gen. Sakharoff.