The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-15
OCTOBER|STS ID
 BE OFFICIAL PARTY
Strength of Administration Will
 Be Centered Here
MEMBERS ARE IN PRISON
Polish Revolutionists at Warsaw Cap ture Several Thousand ReVolvers That Had Been Purchased by
 the Russian Government

St Petersburg, October 1.-The League of Oetoberists has been adopted by Pre- mier Stolypin as the government party, and 10 1t all the strength of the adminis- tration will be turned in the coming cleo tions The premier's personal organ, the Rossa. in a leading article today re- nounces the idea of the formation Of an independent government party and hais the Octoberists as the real constitutional and liberal organization in whose platform the friends of peaceful regeneration Will find the expl ession of all their sneerest desires.
 We greet such a firm declaration or principles' the Rossia says, seeing therein a correct point of view for rela- tions between government and party ln which there can be cooperative work ad- vantageou to both"
 The announcement foreshadows the en- trance of A J. Guichkoff into the cabinet.
 The door is even now open to M. Gulch- lxoff but tho party is pledged not to ac- cept a portfolio unless control oi lhe ministry is surrendered.
 The attitude of the administration to- ward the constitutional democrats has not been altered by the partial backing down from the proposals of the Nlpofs manifesto at the recent congress in Hel- singfors Tho organ of the constitutional
 democrats in Saratov province was sup l pressed todaf.
 Eomng Elections. lJref, Gf01 mi has announced that the remuneration of the passive resistance idea in the coming elections will not be sufficient and that the party still will be considered openly revolutionary. The application of the fuil power of the administration against the partv is Justified until it dons sack cloth for all the acts committed at Niborg. The congress at Hesingfors was re- markable for the first open admission of
 the absence of fallability in constitutional democratic tactics in the recent parlia- ment Up 70 the present time the liberals have insist sd that the partys procedure 1 in parliament was entirely correct. and l that the government was the blame for the dissolution. M. Nabukoff, the floor l leader of the party in the last parliament declared at lIelsingfors that the constitu- | tional democratic deputies had been too 1 greatly influenced by the zeal of the | group of toil," and had committed q great tactical mistake by the adoption
 of the appeal to the people which justified
 and forced the government to close the | session.
 | Twenety- four ex-members of the last parliament are now in prison on various l charges. Ten fled to avoid arrest, five were deported from their home provinces and two have been hogged. One ex-mem-
 Der, a priest, is reported to have gone insane during confinement in a monas- l tery.
 Statistics of drumhead courts martial
 show there was lS2 executions during the ! first month of their existence, and that 1 the daily average of executions is now | higher Sixteen men were executed yes
 terday A majority of the sentences passed | and executed are not for political 1 crimes, but for highway, bank and train
 robberies. mold ups in stores. and murder. ! all of which have flourshed under the | demoralization attending the revolution.