Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-07-31

~ 1ttl July ou.-Ine pubi1c
prosecutor has started proceeding;
against the members of the Lower
House of Parliament, who signed the
Viborg manifesto.
The change under which the signcrs
OF the manifesto will be brought to
trial, Is violation of Article 129, of
the Criminal Code. which provides for
attempts to overthrow the existing
government"
This IS virtually high treason. the
maximum penalty for which is hard
labor in the mines.
NO arrests have yet been reported.
and the Constitutional Democrats do
not anticipate anything approaching
punishment of their representatives.
II is understood that arrested members
will be admitted to bail pending trial.
Constitutional Democrats are chilly ap-
prchensive that the possibility of pros;
ccution held over the heads of their
leaders will render them ineligible for
reelection. in the same manner that
Professor MilokOff and NJ. Hessen, and
others were excluded from the last
Lower House. Socialists and Radical
members of the late House may have
to cool their heels in cells for long
time and thus be prevented from con-
tinung the full-flcdgcd revolutionary
agitation upon which they are now
cmharking. Many of these cX-mem-
hers are now living under cover in the
houses Of friends in st. Petersburg. or
have gone into hiding in the provinces.
"a correspondent of The Associated
Press today met two prominent peasant
cX-depnties, who had cut off their lux
uriant hair and boards. and who could
be scarcely recognized in this gusc.
st. Petersburg, July 30.-Premicr StO-
lypin has not abandoned hope Of Undue
ing men outside of bureaucratic spheres
to enter a raolganiZcd cabinet and car
ry out his policy of strong handed
REFORM
Negotiations with NJ. Guchkoff,
Prince Lvoff and Count Heydcn are
still in progress. The final refusal of
men enjoying the full confidence of con-
servativc public opinion to cooperate
with the premier would render his task
of even mcasurably pacifying the coun-
try almost hopeless.
A mob of 1000 Workmen comnletely
Quilted a brewery on the Schlus$elburg
road here last night. Before a detach-
mcnt Of Cossacks sent to dispense them
arrived the men destroyed practically
everything.
The rumor in circulation last night
that Gen. Trepoff had been assassinat-
ed turns out to be as baseless as the
report 10 the Same effect which was
current early last week
The fpyt of tho IN
and nary adopted July q by the groups
Of the outlawed Parliament In con
junction with the central committees
of the proletariat organizations, is as
follows:
soldiers and sailors-the government
has by imperial command dissolved
Parliament, and troops have been as
sembled from all sides to Cypress the
people by armed force. The peoples
representatives were elected to lay be-
fore the Emperor the needs of the peo-
pie and to obtain land and liberty
But the Emperor would not listen to
the elected Of the people. He hardened
to his former councillors, the Grand
Dukes. ministers. generals and the
WealthicSt of the landowners. who did
not want to give up their lands, their
properties, their emoluments and their
irresponsible power.
Russia is not divided into two PARTS
On one side is the vast majority, all
peasants and workmen, all the poor and
oppressed the best educated and the
most enlightened citizens, the soldiers,
who see the most clearly. the best officers
and all the martyrs in the jails, includ-
ing many thousands Of soldiers ard sail
ors. On the other side are opprcssors
such as Tropoff, Pobedonostzeff and the
Manchurian generals who ran away from
the japanese but who fired on the peo-
pie at Moscow and Odessa, the petty
government officials. the police spies and
the Black Hundred, and these rely on
your strength to beat down the whole
Russian people. Will you shoot the peo
pie and trarsfX the peoples breasts with
bayonets? Remember that you are the
children of tine peasants and that at the
same time, in the villages where you
were born, your own brothers who are
remaining home are also demanding land
and liberty, and that the government is
sending other troops to shoot and beat
them down.
Soldiers and sailors: We, the legally