Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1905-10-29
WflTE MAY
AT LAST BE
TOO LATE
To Save Tottering Govern.
ment Of the Gar.
WITH TREpOFF 6E ALONE
CAN STEM THE TIDE
St. Petersburg in State Of Siege
Isolated From Rescue Without and
Torn by MObs Within.
Crash Coming Fast.

st. Petersburg, Oct. 2S.-Day after
day passes without the promulgation
of Russia's new governmental organ.
responsible ministerial cabinet to
bring order out Of the present admin
lstratlve chaos. Count Witte, to
whom all factions look to assume the
premiership, has spent almost the en-
tire time of the past two days at
Pererhof wrestling with with the en-
peror, insisting upon conditions in
connection with his appointment
which his majesty was unwilling to
grant Upon his return to St Peters
burg tonight Count White announced
that the cabinet project, which has
been lying signed for three days on
the emperors table, would not be
promulgated tomorrow, intimating
thereby that his program. which is
known to include a species of consti-
tuition involving the granting of the
-Four Liberties" freedom of speech,
freedom of assembly, freedom of the
press and reedom of the person-has
not been accepted
1t is felt here that the delay can,
not be long protracted and that 1t is
only question of hours when the
emperor confides the fortunes of the
dynasty and the government to Count
Whites hands.
Meanwhile the situation Is passing
from bad to worse, with matters at
the summit in a state of unstable
equilibrium. The chiefs of state are
at loss how TO act, and the revolu-
tionlsts, encouraged by the inactivity
of the government are growing bolder
and more insistent in the demands
made IN their speeches.
Think TrepOff Is Weakening.
1t is true there has been no disorder
in St. Petersburg and that Genera
Trepoff, Russia's other strong man,
has taken every measure to put down
i'm uprising in its incipiency. but he
has not felt sure enough of his posi-
uon to act boldly with regard to the
revolutionary meetings at the univer-
sity, and has contented himself with
issuing warnings which, not having
been enforced. are taken by the agi-
tators as lack OF backbone.
AS before Fridays giant meeting al
the university, 1t was again announces
today that further meetings there
would not be permitted, but the col
lege portals were again open tonight
and the hospitality of the university
was extended to a group of lawyers
and other professional men, one o.
whose orators referring to the >-0ld
Russian folk legend that the world Is
supported on the backs of three
whales, said that the autocracy rest
ed on three cetaceans MONEY, THE
ARMY and THE LOYALTY OF THE
PEOPLE, but that Russia is now
bankrupt and the moral sympathy OF
the people allenated, and that the
army alone remains true, and this 1t IS
predicted. would not be for long.
Another speaker openly preached
terrorism and advocated Making an
example" of a number Of high per
sonages.
Count Whites ally in the stupen-
dous task he is about to undertake
will be General Trepoff, who. though
all his life has been spent as an instru-
ment for repression, and though he
twice has escaped attempts to execute
the terrorists' sentence OF death, has
come to realize that the old order OF
things is changing and giving place te
a new. and Is now a genuine convert
to the policy Of giving the Npeople a
share in the government Should
Witte and Trepoff now fail the best
opinion is that nothing will save the
present government from complete
ruin. Many shrewd observers believe
that Witte comes too late.
81. Petersburg In State of Siege.
The condition in st. Petersburg Is
that of city under siege, with an up
rising threatened from within, almost
completely isolated and its scanty
store Of provisions being rapidly ex-
hausted. phe garrison however, Is
overwhelmingly large.
General Trepoff has 10000 troops
under his command. which are dis
tributed In every section of the city.
There Is scarcely a block without It's
military patrol. Infantry and cavalry
are quartered in court yards all over
town, the barracks are crowded, and
the watch-ires of the soldiers who
are bivouacking in-the streets light up
the thoroughfares where electricity
has been extinguished The Nevsky
Prospect, the city main avenue
which last night was in darkness. tqk
night presents weird appearance. \
powerful searchlight mounted at tht
admiralty illuminates the center OF
the avenue with a binding light
leaving the sidewalks in darkness
Drivers In the roadway dazzled by the
glare, we're unable to see where they
were going anu liit AulOiiHo III W.
security on the sidewalks were In bul
little better plight. There was con-
Htant confusion. which was augmented
during the evening by an attempt OF
Cossacks and gendarmes to clear the
sidewalks. Two hundred thousand
men are idle. Workmen's meetings
held throughout the city today unani'
mously favored continuing the strike
The LAWYERS during the afternoon
stopped all business of the courts.
Moscow Also Paralyzed.
The situation at MOSCOW parallels
that Mn 81. Petersburg. The same
paralysis has seized Russla's second
city. The strike is general. The peo
re are defving all prohibitions ane
are swarming to the universities an,
other meeting places. A provisional
government has already been organ.
ed and Il waiting to exercise III
powers The university Is barricadet
agains the troops.
rhe populations Of other towns ar,
growing more violent and representa-
Tres Of disorders are arriving In in