The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-01-18
EVEN RUSSIA MUST
 ENDURE POLITICS All Parties Lining Up for the
 Elections PROPAGATION CONTINUES One Little Independent IsIet Has Inde- pendent Government and Has AL
 ready over.nrown One
 President.
PROPAGATION CONTINUES

St. Petersburg, January 1.-The holiday truce in Russian politics is over and now the political parties are mastering their strength for Russia's all important electoral campaign. The opening guns will be fired tomorrow when the delegates of the constitution will assemble to discuss their elaborate platform. The party rep resents the advanced liberal opinions of the zemstvo majority and the platform will closely follow the resolutions of the last zemstvo congress. The allied moder- ate parties which are standing on the basis of the manifesto of October 90 will also be early in the field. There will be a conference of the leaders from various parts of the empire this week.
 The coalition which embraces the party of la wand order, the Octoberists and five lesser factions has chosen the name of constitutional monarchists and will nomin- ate candidates in common, realizing that singly they are too weak to meet the well organized democrats, social democrats and social revolutionists.
 VIII Seek Representation.
 Though officially they are on record as
 
 assembly and continuing the armed revolt. the social democrats and social revolu- tionists have awakened to the necessity for securing a representation in the com ing national assembly and are concen- trating their attention on securing a full registration from the labor professional and socialistic organizations. With the league of leagues they have formed cam paign committees in each election district n n In quence of the great rush to register the period of registration which expired yes- terday has been extended for two weeks. Under the new electoral plan by which the workmens representatives will be merged into general electorial committees in the cities and provinces there Is little chance of an abolute majority for the socialists but the leaders hope to get enough cleo tors to hold the balance of pawer and force an alliance and a division of seats with the constitutional democrats.
 Modification Goes Forward.
 During the holidays the pacification of the country has been steadily going for ward. By an unsparing use of the mili- tary and wholesale arrests of the lead CTS of the fighting organizations, the rev olutlonists have been driven under ground and have been forced to return to their old methods of assassination. Not day passes without reports or the murder of obnoxious officials In several cities.
 In addition to the caucuses and few localities in Siberia, the open revolt is now chiefly confined to small islands off the Baltic coast, where the difficulty of landing troops hampers the subjuga- tion of the revolutonlsts. The ice break CT Yermak, carrying detachments of ma rines and infantry, has been unable to reach the principal island, osel. at the entrance of the Gulf of Riga, and is now awaiting a light draft steamer to land the troops.
 Following the example of their broth CTS on the mainland the peasantry of even the smallest islands in the Baltic have instituted independent republics. One of these on the Islet of Linnusitt, prob ably the smallest state in the world, al- ready boasts of a revolution and a sec ond president the citizens having risen and overthrown the first president. The present chief magistrate. Janenson, Is ad dressing them in proclamations as My Faithful Subjects"