The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1906-09-25
THE
OCTOBERISTS
Shipoff Resents Approval of
Courts Martial
SPLIT in THE LIBERALS
The Moscow workmen Not to Go TO-
Douma--Police Forbid Their Stand
ing at the Coming
Elections.
SPLIT IN THE LIBERALS

ST. Petersburg, Sept. 25.--The cause
Of conservative liberalism as represented
by the 0etoberists and Peaceful Regen-
erationists has suffered d great blow in
the loss Of Dmitii Shipoff, the veteran
Liberal, and the central figure in Rus
sian politics, who in a letter to the COM
mlttee Of 0ctoberists announces his
withdrawal from the party which he
led in the last campaign. His retire
rnent II due to disagreements with Alex
ander j. 6uchkoH, and others Of his COLI
leagues, whose views approving Premier
Stolypins measures of repression pre-
vailed after hard eight III the central
committee. NJ. (suehbotf, who has now
succeeded To the leadership Of the party,
III an open letter TO Pince Eugene Troii-
beskoy the Constitutional Democrat, re-
iterates his approval of drllmhead eourts-
martial and other measures of firm re-
preston, declaring that a liberal or even
q radical government would be unable
to cope with revolutionary terrorism
without that and that it is the truest
mercy to strike and spare not. ~Fhere
are things more terrible and more say
age than drulnhead court martial, The
letter says, namely, lynch law, armed
revolt, and civil war The letter con
dennis the Constitutional Democrats for
seeking to persuade the people that al
understanding between the government
and the people Is impossible and for pre-
venting by extrayagant demands any
other issue than actual revolution Even
il the right Of revolution isl recognized
1 nlnst shrink from the fFaticidal strife
which would follow. in ssich 4 pppsila
ton as Rnssa's, itwould exceed in
savagery ana barbarity All previous civil
wars IL those who led Russia into
needless foreign war are guilty, how
much more cnIpable would be those
plunging the empire into a CHASTITY in
tenal war when the situation presents
another issue. ENcesses and revolution
would bury our young liberty and all
Of oiir culture
fhe chief Of police Of Moscow has
forbidden workmen to vote for their rep
resentatiyes in the parliamentary cleo
tions on the ground that the government
considers the council Of workmens deic-
gates revolutionary organization.
At an extraordinary meeting AT kursk
Sunday Of the n.arshals OF the nobility
it was decided BY vote OF 9s TO 3 TO
expel from the ranks If the nobility
three members oil the late parliament,
vice president Of the lower house, who
signed the Niborg manifesto.
II now trahspiTfs that the Black
Hundreds, acting in collnsion with the
anarchists, had elaborated plans for a
violent attack on the Jews on the q.
casion Of the Jewish New Year, and
that the carrying out Of these plans was
only averted by the extraordinary alert.
ness and energy shows by the author
tiles. General Gregofieil, project Of Odes
sa. in the absence Of Governor General
Kaulbars. has telemaphed information
concerning the plot TO Premier Stolypin
Although the danger is believed 10 be
past. the preventive measures inaugu-
rated BY the officials have not been
relaxed The Jews cantipue to be ap.
prchensive Of trouble and the beating
Of Jews in the streets continues.
There are strong suspicious here that
the throwing Of bomb at General Sol
logub, governor general of the Baltic
provinces, at Riga, Saturday, was stage
affair arranged to strengthen his posi-
ton. which ii said TO have been greatly
shaken owing to his inability to restore
order in the Baltic provinces, and e.
pccially because of the representations
made BY the German embassy on the
murder at Riga, September Is. Of Herr
Bush, leader Of thc Germany colony
there, and that the bomb, which exploa
ed ten PAGES away without injecting
even d scratch. was a harmless petaTd.
It's effect is contrasted 10 TINT Of d
bomb left in newspaper Office here
recently, which after being immersed IN
water for fortnight, was drtonated
with terrific force Such measures to
excite sympathy are not without preee-
dent in Russia
It is reported here that the Japanese
are erecting fortifcatious in southern
Saghalin, contrary to the treaty OF
Portsmouth.
Thirty eight men belonging TO the rev
olntionary military league. who have
been working among the troops have
been captured at wilma. Important let.
tiers revealing the leagues workings in
other garrisons were seized
prefect 81 Police Tomnshan OF Boris
sogliebsk. the hoHse Of Mile Maria Spir-
idonovo. who shot and killed Chief OF
the Secret Police Luzhenofssy was fred
Il and seriously wounded IN q street
in Tambov, yesterday. BY terrorists, who
nlso shot the projects wife and two
guards who were accompanying them.
The would-he assassins escaped,