Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1906-01-03
ROLETARlAT
PLANNING DAY
OF MOURNING
Gssat Demonstration Preparing los "Red
sunday When I've Greatest Slaughter
Of the Revolution Took Place.

eral meeting Of the workmens com,
mittee and delegates OF all the pro-
letariat organizations has been III
session secretly since last night per.
fecting their future program, All
that IL thus far known IL that they
are planning to turn the anniversary
|of January 22nd. RED sunday" when
the most serious rioting In St, Pc
tersburg occurred, into . day OF
mourning, during which It IL planned
to make demonstrations In memory
OF the martyrs" All shops, factO-
ries and theatres will be closed, and
the street cars and railroad service
will be stopped. It Is proposed to
make tigahtic. peaceful. nanifes-
tation, but e they attempt to carry
| Il out. the leaders fully understand
Il is sure to precipitate bloodshed on
. large scale.
cahlse Working. s
New York. January S.-The cable
companies were advised today that
| the telegraph lines to st. Petersburg
are now working well. There IL COM
Imunication with all stations except
Odessa, SsratoR and Samara. Calis
casus and Siberia are still cut on.
The Dleedy Axe. y
Moscow, January 3.--According to
stories circulated. the number Of
summary executions OF revolutionists
is large. II Is stated that an Eng.
lishman named Smith. whose factory
burned yesterday, says he personally
witnessed q number Of executions
without any form OF law. Tie arrest
ed men were asked few questions,
and then marched out and shot imme-
diately after capture. The work of
clearing the city Of revolutionists 10
going on systematically and arrests
| are constantly being made.
I Calls Wltts ! osmbsSr.
st. petersburg. Jan. s.-TAs sloyo,
| ne conservative organ @hick recent
.t4y turneli On Count witte, dkiivers :
broadside. net only impughing the
motives Of the premier in the present
war against the Reds" but openly at
tacking the records OF members OF the
cabinet. 1t says:
Russian society supports the war
against anarchy, but refuses to believe
that Witte Is making fight In the In,
terest of freedom as all his life he has
, been the prince OF bureaucrats. Witte
, Ia a good deal Of broker and sOnie-
, thing Of journalist, but at heart he Is
q political gambler and lacks the ring
, OF sincerity. No government without
. honesty can aspire confidence.
. "The fact That one. minister waa
caught in shady grain operation
that another was found to be supply
Ing railroad ties. that another was en-
I gagged In questionable transactions In
, commercial paper. and that another
was selling national secrets, justifies
the nation in distrusting the Russian
| Bismarck.
), THE revoluti0nists are to be con
, demned, but when the unwritten his
, tory Of the past 20 years Is recalled, II
, win be seen that their methods ol
robbery, violence and falsehood wsrs
, only the usual methods of the bureau
, cracy. Could the lies Of the revolu
, tionaries exceed those of the foreign
Office or their pillage equal ten years
of the administration Of the ministry
OF finance? We do not want geniuses
but clean men such as the Douma only
/. will be able to give u.s.
No Moro Reign Of Terror.
/ Moscow, January 3.--Governor-Gen
eral Doubassoff said to the Associat
led Press last night:
II Il consider a repetition Of the re
volt in Moscow to be impossible. Th'
reds have alienated the sympathy 0
n large portion Of the liberals VIII.
lhave been inclined 10 looK with soms
Ithing more than complacency on TIN
lrdoa oS an armed uprising. Th
oyents o, the last few days, however
Ina,e fiIeu them with horror am
have driven the LIBERALS and eve'
1.-THE radicals To the side OF the gov
ernment, which alone IL able to pre-
serve order. Most Of the ringleader
Iof the revolt have either been kille'
or arrested, and practically all tn
arms which they have been accumu
lating for months have been captui
ed. No matter what ,he inclination
OF those still at liberty may be-, J a'l
convinced thai they will not agaiI
|. lie able 10 precipitate a reign Of ter