Omaha daily bee., 1906-04-09
LIBERALS ARE TRIUMPHANT
Success in Russia is Beyond Anything
They Had Hoped For,
NOT ONE REAcTloNARY HAS BEEN CHOSEN
Result Indicates Constitution MUst
ne Proclaimed or the Assembly
Dissolved ~ soon ~ ~
Meets.

ST. PETERSBURG. April s.-The cleo
toral colleges IN twenty-eight out OF the
ffty-one provinces in European Russia to-
day elected rs members TO the national
parliament-about one-third Of its entire
men1bership-and returns received up 10
midnight indicate that the widest hopes
OF the liberals have been realized, tho con
stitutional democrats and other progress
sivists practically everywhere, having
gained a tremendous victory over the Oc-
toberists and other conservative parties Ae
far as ascertainable, not a single reaction
arv candidate pulled through and nowhere
did even the Octobcrists score triumph.
Tho naiorities obtained by the radicals
clinch the character of the victory. From
the Volga to the frontier of Poland and
from the stin. icc-bound coast Of Archsngnl
to the BLACK Sea- the story Is substantially
the same.
one of the astonishing as well as hopeful,
signs for the future. is the character OF
many of the peasants elected. Before the
electoral college began TO select the mem
bers allotted "A province the peasants sep
arately chose one OF their number as cam
didate This provision was designed 10
appease the peasants and was regarded by
tho government as insuring conservative
nucleus. but this has been sadly upset. for
I'm almost every instance the peasants
elected not only were progressves. but the
most highly educated among their class
the majority of them at least having
high school education A peasant in Sim
brisk named Altadin was educated in
England.
Peasants Are Radical.
In the Volga district and central pro-
vinces where famine and agrarian dis
orders have been the greatest, the peasant
vote was most radical. In Samara by
vote Of So to 3. they chose NJ. Cuttandont,
socialist, while the members elected by the
college were doctor, four zemstvolsts
and FIVE progressive peasants.
In PARKWAY IRA, the border territory the
Orenburg Cossacks returned solid, pro-
gressive delegation, consisting OF four Rus
SLAMS and six Mussulmans.
The effect of the revolutionary outbreaks
al sebastopol was reflected in the results
in Taurida. which includes the whole Of the
Crimea. where the peasants chose a social
revolutionst.
In the provinc of Grodno, in the Jewish
pale. n solid progressive delegation was
chosen, including two Jews ..
Tver. where Governor General Slopt1or
was assassinated SATURDAY was swept by
the constitutional democrats by an over
whelming majority. Ivan Petrunkevitch
the leader OF the constitutional democrats
and against whom the opposition was con
centrated. and NM. Rodicheff and Kuz-
minkavarieff were triumphautly elected
While no definite results of the municipal
elections held today are known, they seem
also everywhere 20 have gone in favor OF
tho progressives.
I'm Minsk province the radical Russians
and Jews and Poles formed coalition and
decided to put up It joint ticket comprised
of four Jews. two Poles and one Russian.
Today's results prove beyond question
that the calculations of the government
have been rudely upset and that the op-
position elements will control the national
parliament by a decisive majority. Premier
Whites efforts to induce Emperor Nicholas
to proclaim a constitution should now be
greatly reinforced.
Another crisis plainly confronts the gov
eminent. for the sweeping character OF
their victory undoubtedly will encourage
the liberals to push the government to the
wall and it would seem that the emperor
must yield to the entreaties of those who
counsel a final surrender by issuing a con-
stitution to the people or dispensing the ma
tional Parliament as soon IL assemblies
There seems no alternative except the
choice of one of these two courses.