The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-07-08
OFFICEHoLDERS WILL FIGHT.
WILL DEFY ANY MINISTER PUT
OVER THEM BIZ. THE DUMA.
They Form o vast Army and Their Secret
CHIEFS Are Dangerous Men state
Employment the biggest vested In.
trrest I'm Russia and Best Organized.
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: ST. PETERSBURG. July THE COM
narrative civility which now marks h rela-
ion Of the members Of the Government
md the leaders oftthe Duma Ii due rather
IN III cir common danger than the likelihood
NJ the country passing successfully through
the crisis. 1t has never been the Intention
Of tho Cars friends either to dismiss the
Ministry or disperse h Duna. Their
plan has been throughout to hold the
puma az a buffer betw cen themselves and
reyolutionists, The Kadet constitutional
DemocraticO majority in the Duma has no
option but to I'LL this r5le. They realize
that the formation OF a Cabinet of Con-
stitutional Democrats would only pre-
cipitate civil war.
The vast army OF ofioeholders have
absolutely decided to fight for their liveli-
hood. They will defy any Minister placed
over them by an elective assembly. Their
mower is greater than the Russian poll
ticians realize. State employment Is the
biggest vested interest in Russia and the
best organized. 1t extends to classes Of
EMPLOYMENT outside of the imagination Of
the Western world.
The secret chiefs Of this strange army
hesitate as little to terrorize the Sovereign
as to murder the humblest radical agitator.
Two of their names which were mentioned n
the Duma disclosures of the Black Band
organization are worth remembering. One,
Ratchkovsky, h was named as a high
protector in the Ministry Of the Interior
of the provincial pogrom fomenters, ia
the same ~Ratchkovsky who when he
was Russian political agent in Paris, dis
covered the spiritualist Philippe at Lyons
and procured his introduction to the Rus
sian Court, where his seances profoundly
Impressed both the Emperor and Empress
with the belief in their divinely inspired
autocracy.
The other, Gen. Bogdanovitch, who was
named as the central figure in the murderous
counter revolution organized by the police
after the October manifesto, is the came
B~ogdanovitch who was the author of the
memorable illustrated scroll on the oc-
casion Of the baptism of the Czarevitch
1t showed in ford oolors the Imperial
infant surrounded by haloed saints and the
accompanying words exhorted the peasants
never to cease thanking heaven for the
marvellous blessing Of having such rulers,
Amillion copies were printed by the Ministry
of the Interior and distributed at the Gov
ernment's expense by the police throughout
the country.
This r~eactionary force will fight to the
last ditch before it allows the Government
and the Duma to reach a working basis at
its xpense. The Duma tells the Govern
ment to find famine relief funds and land
purchase funds in administrative econimies
and not in loans. The Government dare
not economic on the soldiers pay and il
will be almost as dangerous to economic
on the other army of professional patriots
kept by the police.
A report furnished by a pro minent
member of the Kadets, Swof, regarding
the achievements of this organization is
published. Il narrates all the plans issued
from Gen. Trepof after the October mani
festo. The ceatral figure was Bogdano-
witch, who made a tour of Russia, organizing
patriotic troops and ~Hooligans' in all
towns and the so-called league Of the Rus
sian People. They numbered over 10O, 900
men. This army, under black flags, was
divided into detachments, each under q
sotnia commander. During the October
railroad strike these company commanders
were detained at st. Petersburg, where they
had been instructed, but before the strike
was finished Gen. Trepoff was able to secure
a special hospital train which took them
to Moscow, whence after the strike they
we're dispersed over Russia to engage in
street %slaughters with revolutionaries
Their leaflets we re printed at the head.
quarters Of the st. Petersb urg police, the
gendarmes acting as compositors, and
they bore Gen. Trepoff's seal authorizing
them to be published.
Any constitutional COVER nment would
have to disoand forthwith this army OF
provocateurs which, abet ted by the entire
body Of provincial tax gatherers. can levy
desperate war on the Court, the Govern.
ment and the D una alike.