The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-04-09
WILDEST HOPES OF
 LIBERALS REALIZED
TREMENDOUS VICTORY OYER OTHER PARTIES IN RUSSIAN
 ELECTIONS.

Constitutional Democrats and Other
 Progressivists Practically Every
 where SuccessfuI-SO Far as Known
 Now Not a Single ReactiOnary Cam
 didate Has Pulled ThrOugh-AnOther
 Crisis COnfrOnts GOvernment-Cxar
 Must Issue Constitution or Disperse
 Parliament as Soon as 1t COnvenes.
 St. Petersburg, April S.-The elector- al colleges in twenty-eight out of the fifty-one provinces in European Russia to-day elected IFS members to the na- tional parliament-about one-third of it's entire membership--and returns re- ceived up to midnight indicate that the widest hopes of the liberals have been realized, the constitutional democrats and other progressivists practically everywhere having gained tremen- dous victory over the Octoberists and other conservative parties. As far as Is ascert1lned not a single reactionary candidate pulled through, and nowhere did even the Octoberists score a tri- umph. The majorities obtained by the radicals clinch the character of the vic- tory. From the Volga to the frontier of Poland and from the still icebound coast of Archangel 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 elect the members allotted a province the peasants separately chose one of their number as a candidate, This provision was designed to appease the peasants and also was regarded by the government as insuring a conser- vatiye nucleus; but this calculation has been sadly upset; for in almost every instance the peasants elected not only were progressive but the most highly educated among their class, the major ity of them at least having a high school education. A peasant in Sim brisk named Alladin was educated in England.
 Zn the volga district and the central provinces where famine and agrarian disorders have been the greatest the peasant vote was most radical In Sa- mara by a vote of S6. to they chose M. Guttandonta, socialist while the members elected by the college were a doctor, four zemstvoists and five pro- gressive peasants.
 In far-away Ufa, the border territory, the Orenburg Cossaeks returned a solid progressive delegation consisting of four Russians and six Mussulmans.
 The effect of the revolutionary out breaks at Sebastopol was reflected in the results in Taurlda, which includes the whole of the Crimea, where the peasants chose a social revolutionist,
 In the province of Grodno, in the Jewish pale, solid progressive dele- gation was chosen, including among 1t being two Jews.
 Tver, where Governor-G General Slept zoff was assassinated Saturday, was swept by the constitutional democrats by an overwhelming majority. Ivan Petrunkevitch, the leader of the con- stitutional democrats, and against whom the opposition was concentrated, and NM. Rodicheff and Kuzminkara- yieff were triumphantly elected.
 Among other prominent persons elect ed are Prince Balataitoff, the well known zemstvoist worker of Simbrick; Prince Shakeffsky of Yaroslav, and Pro lessor Maxin1kovolsky of Khrakoff.
 While no definite results of the mu- nicipal elections held to-day are known they seem also everywhere to have gone in favor of the progressives. In Minsk province the radical Russians and Jews and Poles formed coalition and decided to put up joint ticket comprised of four Jews, two Poles and one Russian.
 To-day's results prove beyond ques- tion that the calculations of the gov | ernment have been rudely upset and thttt the opposition elements will con. trol the national parliament by a deci- sive majority, Premier Witte's ef- forts to induce Emperor Nicholas tc proclaim a constitution should now be greatly reinforced
 Another crisis confronted the govern. ment, for the sweeping character ot their victory undoubtedly will encour. age the liberals to push the government to the wall and it would seem thai the emperor must yield to the entreat. ies of those who counsel final surren. der by issuing a constitution to tht people or dispersing the national parlia. ment as soon as it assemblies. There seems no alternative except the choice of one of these two courses.