Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-08
To CAIN REPUBLIC
SLAvS WILL DIE
REVOLUTIONISTS PLOTTING
FOR CRISIS
Armed Revolt Will Be Next Move,
Which Is Intended to Sweep the
Country - Army May
Assist
BY Associated Press.

BY Associated Press
NEW YORK, April 7.-Some inside
facts in connection with the revolu-
tionary movement in Russia were told
yesterday by one of it's chief agents,
who for the last five weeks has bean
in hiding in this city with price of
$4,000 roubles on his head, laid by the
czar's government. This man appears
now as Ivan Narodny. He was the
leader of the Cronstadt uprising last
October and was the head of the pro-
visionaI republic, which unknown to
the outside world existed in the Baltic
provinces during three weeks in No
Vember and December last, until 1t
was Snuffed out in an orgy of blood
and excesses by the Cossacks, who
killed Narodny's wife and two children
and burned his home. 1t was then
the price was set on Narodny's head.
Prior to that he had spent four years
in the fortress of st. Peter and st.
Paul, the grim bastile of the czars cap
ital. NJ Narodny came to this Coun-
try with credentials from the Russian
revolutionists for the purpose of rails
ing funds to render effective the new
Russian revolution. In this he will be
aided by Nicholas Tchaykoffsky, who is
known as "The father of Russian rev.
olution," and by Maxim Gorky the
W
Russia Will Be Free
our next move" said NJ. Narodny,
"will be more far-reaching and en-
tirely different from any of the move
ments that have preceded it, These
have been little reVolts; this will be
an armed revolution. The uprisinEs
that have gone before have been more
or less local in nature and generally
started by some one party or organ
ization. This movement will sweep the
country and will have behind it every
organization working for social re-
form. Its ultimate goal will be not a
constitutional monarchy but republic
"a few months ago many of the lib
eral organizations would have been
eatisfied with a constitutional assembly
and a constitution. Now we will not
stop short of a republic. On that point
there is complete unanmity among all
the revolutionary bodies who now FOR
the first time are working harmonious |
ly together through a central commit |
tee. Russia will be free.
I'm the coming revolution we place
almost our chief reliance on the army. |
If we could not do SO an armed upris- |
ing would be a folly. But the army is !
more prone to start a revolution than
almost any part of the Russian peo- |
pie.
II know the army very well, for l
have been in intimate touch with 1t for
many years. A majority of the officers
and the men in practically every in
fantry and artillery regiment in st.
Petersburg and northern Russia are in |
sympathy with our movement now.
Others will be won over before fall. |
'The only uncertain element is the Cos |
sacks and the crack cavalry regiments !
of the guard, but even the latter have
been reached by our propaganda. !
would almost be inclined to say that
the COssacks are the only standby of
the Russian government, and they will
desert when the government is unable
to pay them"
Douma Not Satisfactory
NJ Narodny was asked what influence
the cOnvening of the douma would
have on the revolutionary movement.
None whatever he replied. "The
people in the provinces will never he
satisfied with the douma. The leaders
of liberal thought to whom the op-
pressed people looked as their future
delegates to the national assembly
have either been killed, cast into prison,
sent to Siberia or into voluntary exile.
''The government has placed I'm the
hands of the officers supervising the
ELECTIONS in the provinces list con-
tanning the names of candidates that
must be elected. Some tool of the gov
ernment places them in nomination
md the people are either coerced into
'oting for them or, where this is imprac-
-icable, they are declared elected on
fraudulent counts. In large cities,
however, where public opinion is bet
er crystallized and under more COM
;etent leadership, the government can !
lot commit the same outrages a i'm the
'ountry districts where there is a lack {
# such leadership. Especially is thus
rue of st. Petersburg, which besides {
n Il sense is under the keen gaze of
he outside world. But the douma will t
n no sense be a body representative
# anything except the existing gov /
and few of the people in Rus {
ia are fools enough to believe it will" ,