The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-10-15
Of THE
GOVERNMENT
Premior StoIypin Has Taken
the 0ctoberists Under Of
fetal Wing.
STATEMENT is GIVEN OUT
CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRATS
THE OPPOSITION.

ST. Petersburg, Oct. 14.--The League of
Octoberists has been adopted by Premier
Stolypin as the governmental party and
to ii all the strength of the administra-
ton Will be turned in the coming cleo
tons
The premier's personal organ. the Ros-
STA. In a leading article today renounces
the idea of the formation of an indie
pendent government party and halls The
octoberists as the real constitutional and
liberal organization, in whose platform
the friends of peaceful regeneration will
find the expression of their sincerest
hopes.
We greet such a firm declaration of
principles" the Rossia says, seeing
therein correct point of view for reIa-
lions between government and party in
which there can be cooperative work adj
vantageouS to BOTH.
The announcement foreshadows the en-
trance OF NJ Guchkoff In the cabinet. The
door is now open to NJ. Guchkoff, and
the party is pledged not TO accept the
portfolio until the control of the minis
try Is surrendered.
Same Attitude Maintained.
THE attitude of the ministry toward
the constitutional democrats has not
been altered by the partial backdown
from the proposals of the Niborg mani
fors. The organization of the constitu-
tional democrats in Saratoy province was
suppressed today Through the Rossa.
Premier Stolypin has announced that the
remuneration of the passive resistance
idea in the coming elections will not be
sufficient, and that the party still will be
considered openly revolutionary. The APP
plication of the fun power of the admin
istration against the party is justified
until it dons sackcloth for all the acts
committed at Viborg.
Not infallibIe.
Tho con1ress at Helsinpfors was re-
markable for the first open admission of
the absence of infallibility in constitu-
tiOnal democratic tactics in the recent
parliament Up 10 the present time the
procedure IN parliament was entirely cor
rect and that the government was TO
blame for the dissolution. M. Naboukoff.
the floor leader of the party in the last
parliament. declared at Helsingfors that
the constitutional democratic deputies
had been too greatly influenced by the
burning zeal OF the Group of Toll and had
committed a great tactical mistake by
the adoption of the appeal to the people,
which justified and forced the govern
ment to close the session.
Twenty-four cx-members of the last
parliament are now in prison on various
charges. Ten fled to avoid arrest. five
were deported from their home provinces
and two have been flogged. One eX-mem-
Der, a priest named Afanasieff, is re-
ported to have gone insane during con-
finement in monastery.
Statistics of drumhead courts martial
show there were Isl executions during
the first months of the existence. and
that the daily average of executions IS
now higher. Sixteen men were executed
Yesterday. majority of the sentences
passed and executed are not for political
crimes. but for highway, bank and train
robbery, holdups in the streets and muir
der. all of which have flourished under
the Decentralization attending the revolu-
ton.