The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-06-18
NEARING A CRISIS.
Russian political situation Grows
More Desperate Daily.

St PetersI drg, June 18.-The constitu-
tionaf Democrats seem almost ready to
throw in their lot with the revolution
lists. The popular agitation is so great
that at a caucus lasting three mornings
the question of changing the partys
tactics and abandoning any further at
tempt to postpone an open rupture with
the government was seriously debated
NM. Roditchen and Naboukoff, lead
ers OF the constitutional Democrats IN
the lower house led the radical wing,
urging the absolute necessity OF keeping
pace with the revolutionary movement.
and insisting that unless they moved
forward to battle Immediately they
would be overwhelmed and left strand
ed. Prof Ailukoff NJ Tinaver and
others counseled caution, saying it was
not yet time to bend. to the storm but
the radicals were in the majority. The
Novoe Vremya today says the constitu-
tional Democrats have actually resolved
to break with the government within
few days, but NJ. Strive, editor Of the
Osvobojdenie, informed the Associated
Press that no decision. had been taken
He admitted, however, that the leaders
plans were secret.
Many of the Liberals fear a rupture
and regard the contemplated step as a
/ grave error. They claim that the con-
stitutional Democrats can not hope to
! keep step with the advanced radicals,
who at meetings held in the suburbs of
! st. Petersburg last night, not only con-
| demned the lower house of parliament
and characterized the constitutional
| Democrats as traitors, but even de-
nounced the group of toll. NJ. Alladin
was Kissed because he tried to explain
| the absurdity of the contention that the
house must demand that the emperor
summon a Constituent assembly. The
meeting refused TO listrn to his state
ment that the government could not be
asked to sign its own death warrant
Constituent assem- blies, he said. were
constituted and not summoned by the
| ings glorified the coming dictatorship
! of the proletariat and cheered the cries
of Down with the government and the
middle classes
The bakeries continue closed today
the strikers threatening to wreck the
shops where attempts were made tc
| bake bred. Little hardship, however
has thus far resulted. The lower
classes were warned and supplied them
selves with black bread in advance
The strike of the bakers is to be fol
lowed in a few days by a butchers
strike.
The news from the interior shows
that the wave Of strikes is spreading
but it is too early to tell whether thi.
movement, which seems more spon-
taneous tn n organized, will precipi-
tate a crisis. New strikes are reported
at Yekaterinoslav. at Saratoff and Al
the collieries of Bakmuth.
The usual number of robberies are
reported today, emphasizing the grow.
ing lawlessness and anarchy in the
country. There have been two muir
derous train robberies in the eau
casus and three stage coaches were
held up in Poland. A case of arms
and 5000 cartridges have been con-
fiscated at Riga ON an incoming steam
er. The government seems to fear {
repetition of the November mutiny a
Cronstadt fortress, where the sailors
and marines and the soldiers ant