Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1906-07-27
CAR FACING A TEST.
PARLIAMENT REFUSES TO DIS
SOLVE, PREMIER QUITS AND
PEOPLE ARE IN REVOLT.
CAUSE OF THE TROUBLE.
Threat to Call for New Set OF Legislators
Carried Out with Exactly the
Results Predicted

ST. PETERSBURG, July 23.-Rus.
sia's great drama entered its most tragic
and possibly its final phase before the
sun set last night, less than twenty-four
hours after Emperor Nicholas invited the
long threa tened revolution by dissolving
the nations first Parliament.
The day was menacingly tranquil. By
nightfall the people had absorbed the full
significance of the Cars action and the
first crashes of the storm broke over the
capital and nation.
Midnight found st. Petersburg trans
formed into battlefield The Narva
gate, where Father Gapon's followers
were massacred that memorable Red
Sunday" exactly Gig hteen months ago..
was where the storm broke most iercely.
For an hour before the clash at the
Narva, rioting and fighting had been iii
progress on a minor scale. Crowds which
attacked the police were charged by
Cossacks.
With stones and whatever weapons
could Be secured the rioters held the
Cossacks at bay until reinforcemenrs lit
orally swept the crowd from the street.
Other collisions took place late last night
III Nicholeysky and Pushkin streets.
What Causes the Storm.
The dissolution of Parliament was or
dered i'll an imperial ukase Saturday
night which fixed the date of the con-
vocation of the new Parliament as
March 5, 1907. This ukase was fol
lowed within Il few minutes by another,
placing st. Petersburs, under Il minor
form of military rule. A large part of
the province of Kiev, where armed up
hisings are anticipated, also is under
martial law.
The fate of the Douma was sealed by
its adoption of the address to the people
on the agrarian question. The Car and
his ministers regarded this as an act of
revolution.
D0uma Moves to Finland.
Before the storm broke the douma de-
cided the hour for the great revolution
had arrived. Within an hour of the pro-
mitigation of the emperor's ukase a hur-
ried secret conference was held. Every
member present at this pledged himself
to defy the sovereign will. They decided
to 90 ut once to Finland and assemble
at Viborg.
At this meeting a proclamation to the
people was drawn up declaring the
dOuma would assemble at Niborg. and
that if the authorities prevent them as
sembling there it is their intention to
take Il steamer and go out into the Gulf
of Finland, and if pursued by warships
to 90 to Sweden.
Late advlceS today state that Parlia.
ment, after Il session made stormy by lis
own diSSension, issued manifesto to the
country and then adjourned. The hope
lcSsnesS of the situation was brought
forward when the encouragement OF
Finland ordered the meeting to cease al
once.
Car Appeals to His People
IL.
idly. Before the first flush of conStcrIla
ton caused by the dissolution of Parlia
ment had worn off an imperial manifesto
was issued which is regarded both as Z
threat and an appeal to the Emperor
millions of moujiks to join in suppressine
1t summons the faithful sons Of holy
Russia to espouse the Cars cause
Many liberals consider this direct
Indictment of the Black Hundreds.
Premier Goremykin Resigns.
Another imperial ukase relieved NJ
G0remylNn of the premiership and ap
pointed NJ. Stolypin premier. He alsc
retains his present post of minister OF
the interior. NJ. Stichinsky, minister Of
agriculture, also resigned.
The governments midnight coup d'etat
is already having the effect of uniting
all the discordant elements of the opposi-
ton and it is certain that an era of re-
preston and all which it entails will
drive liberal and revolutionary alike
to support the most desperate measures.
Although minor rioting continued III
the outskirts throughout the night. the
city is specifically quiet this morning,
but ominous forebodings of coming
storm are apparent on every hand.
City Like Armed Camp.
A correspondent of the Associated
Press made a tour of the city early this
morning. At every block he encountered
reinforced patrols, saw excited groups on
corners and met half a dozen squads of
gendarmes with drawn swords, escOrting
little bands of arrested persons TO prison.
During the night over 1000 arrests of
workmen agitators and revolutionary sus-
poets were made. The railways leading
out of the city have been placed under
martial law and the gendarmes search
the passengers and baggage on all trains