Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-06-18
MANY LIBERALS
FEAR A RUPTURE
Popular Agitation Intense at St.
Petersburg
OVER CAR AND THE D0UMA
Radicals Striving for q Union With
Democrats.
TO BREAK WITH GOVERNMENT
Urging Immediate Action for Sur
render of the Bureaucracy
or Revolution.
OVER CAR AND THE D0UMA
TO BREAK WITH GOVERNMENT

ST. PETERSBURG, June I8.--
The constitutional democrats seem
almost ready to throw in their lot
with the revolutionists. The popu-
lar agitation is SO great that at a
caucus lasting three mornings the
question of changing the party's
tactics abandoning any further at
tempt to postpone an open rupture
with the government was seriously
debated.
Nm Roditcher and Naboukoff, leaders
of the constitutional democrats in the lower
house, led the radical wing, urging the ao-
soiute necessity of keeping pace with the
revolutionary movement and insisting that
unless they moved forward to battle I'M
mediately they would be overwhelmed and
left stranded Prof. Milukoff, M. Vinaver
and others counseied caution, saying 1t was
not yet time to bend to the storm, but the
radicals were in the majority.
The Novoe Vremya today says the con-
stitutional democrats have actually re-
solved to break with the government with
in few days, but M. Struve. editor OF
the Osvobojdneie informed the Associated
Press that no decision had been taken. lie
admitted however, that the leaders plans
were secret. Many of the liberals fear a
rupture and regard the contemplated step
as grave error They claim that the
constitutional democrats cannot hope 10
keep step with the advanced radicals, VINO
at meetings held in the suburbs OF ST.
Petersburg last night not only condemned
the lower house of parliament, ana chdr-
acteriZed the constitutional democrats as
traitors, but denounced the Group of Toll
Noted Leader Kissed at Meeting.
M. Aladdin was hissed because he tried
to explain the absurdity of the contention
that the house must demand that the en-
peror summon constituent assembly The
meeting refused to listen to his statement
that the government could not De asked
TO sign it's own death warrant.
Constituent assemblies, he said. were con-
stit,lted and not summoned by the govern
ment. The orators at the meetings giorifed
the coming dictatorship of the proletariat
and cheered the cries of Down with the
government and the mi, die classes!
The bakeries continue closed today, the
strikers threatening TO wreck the snops
where attempts were made 10 pake oIeao-
little hardship, however has thus far re-
suited The lower classes were warned and
supplied themselves with black bread In ad-
vance The strike of the bakers Is to be
followed in a few days by butchers
strike.
The news from the interior shows that
the wave of strikes is spreading, but 1t Is
too early to tell whether this movement,
mich seems more spontaneous than organ
lied will precipitate a crisis New strikes
are reported at Yekaterinoslav, at Saraton
and at the collieries OF Bakmuth.
Lawlessness and Anarchy
The usual number of robberies are report
ed today emphasizing the growing lawless-
ness and anarchy in the country. There
have been two murderous train robberies
In the Caucasus, and three stage coaches
were held up in Poland. A case of arms
and 5000 cartridges have been confscated
at Riga on an incoming steamer.
The government seems to fear I'epeti-
ton of the November mutiny at Cronstadt
fortress. where the sailors and marines and
the soldiers and workmen are reported to
be extremely turbulent. Two infantry, regi-
ments have ben hastily dispatched to Cron-
stadt from Krasnoye Selo, and two bat
teries of artillery of the guard and two
machinegun batteries have been sent there
from Oranienbaum. The streets of Cron-
stadt are filled with troops, and the we'll
to-do inhabitants are hurriediy leaving the
island on which the town is situated.