The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-03-04
BOMBS NEAR CZAR'S PALACE
FOUND ON Two MEN ARRESTED
AT TSARSKOE-SELO.
Terrorist Campaign Against the Coming
MISUNDERSTANDING Duma Is to Occupy
Under Guard OF T~rOOps-POlice Re
preston Destroys Faith In Election.
Special Gable Dispatches to THR SUN.

Special Gable Dispatches 10 THB SUN.
LONDON, March "a despatch to the
Exchange Telegraph Company from st.
Petersburg says that two men with bombs
in their possession were arrested to-day
near the imperial palace at Tsarsk oe-Selo.
ST. PETERSBURG, March 3.-Reports from
the great provincial centres describe the
reception OF the announcement Of the con-
vocation of the Duma on May 10 as most
hostile. Public opinion everywhere regards
the coming campaign as devoid Of serious
ness owing to the universal police repres-
sion exercised against all parties except
the Loyalist Moderate.
Even the prosperous Moscow merchant
GLASS is strongly opposed to the Witte-
Durnovo Administration on the ground
that they have already deprived the first
Duma of all national authority. Their oppo-
sition is 80 outspoken that some have been
ordered to leave the city because Of the
severity of their criticisms Of the two Min
listers.
There is great depression on the Moscow
Produce Exchange, which ia generally ac-
cepted as q barometer OF the situation in
the central provinces. The peasantry are
increasingly inclined toward the revolu-
tionary party. The landowners in Mini
Novgorod province say the peasants there
are almost unanimously supporting the
Constitutional Democratic party, whose suo-
cess is ascribed to the Governments at
tempts to suppress it.
The next ten weeks will show in st. Peters,
burg and other cities how far the rewolu-
tionaries will advance from their policy Of
hpu0otf Go for tha,r bo,,a oIopfad 70 otinG
Of ignoring the Cars offer, while multiply
ing their attempts at overthrowing the en-
tire regime, and now clamor for joining
forces in an attack on the Duma itself.
They win have no members sitting in it,
for the most advanced Of the parties which
is accepting the Governments control Of
elections and is willing to vote for mem
bers of that body Is the Constitutional
Democracy, which does not act with the
revolutionaries. The Government has suo-
ceeded in keeping the revolutionaries en-
tirely of the register, but as the date of the
meeting approaches it is manifesting ex-
IRENE nervousness lest they break loose
with violent r~eprisals. Even now the Duma
building, which is still in the hands Of the
workmen, is guarded night and day by
soldiers.
AS neither the Gear nor Count Witte will
be present at the sessions of the Duma the
Terrorists can hardly expect to find any i'm
portant victims for their bombs. All the
same, there are signs that they will try to
make the Duma impossible as a political
experiment and thus drive the bureaucracy
a stage nearer it's last ditch. They now
realize fully that the bureaucracy needs
the Duma, that the Duma will be accepted
as a guarantee of good faith by foreign
bankers and that without it there will be no
more foreign money.
1t isnoteworthy that everybody, including
the Ministers themselves, acknowledges that
only the imperative necessity Of ready
money has caused the Duma to be con
voked for ar early day. There is no pre-
tence of a sincere desire that the people
share in the Government. The position of
the bureaucracy is hat of a b%eleaguered
garrison which has to surren der because
the besieging army has cut of its supplies.