Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-01-22
RUSS EDITOR SENTENCED.
Years Imprisonment in Fortress for
Printing Manifesto.

Alexis Alexerevich Souvorin, editor of
Russ, at St. Petersburg, has been
sentenced to a years imprisonment in
fortress for publishing In December last
the manifesto of the workmen's council an
nouncing that the government had declared
civil war on the proletariat and saying that
the challenge must be accepted.
Efforts being made to secure miti-
CATION of the sentence The cases of seven
other editors of newspapers, including Prof
Milukoff of the Svo Bodanarog and NJ. Hes
sen of the Pravo are still pending.
AT the constitutional democratic conven-
ton it eclipsed the interest of the discussion
of the agrarian question, which was the Or
der of the day. NJ. Hessen and Prof Miluk-
off were the centers of agitated groups dur
ing the evening. Their friends made it no
secret that they believed the same fate was
overhanging them and the other editors IN
der indictment. Conviction will debar them
from further participation in the new po-
litical regime. Prof Milukoff said to the
Associated Press: 1T is my turn next"
There was veritable panic in the camp
of the liberal press after the sentence of NJ
Souyorin was made known. The Nashashisn
has refused absolutely to print the appeal
of the League of Leagues proclaiming Mon
though the manifesto expressly stated that
the demonstration would be confined to tho
placing of crepe on windows and abstaining
from labor. The Russ, which yesterday
prominently displayed proclamation of the
Workmen's Union. prints only a harmless
line concerning 1t.
There is a strong movement in favor OF
direct appeal to the emperor, through the
ministry of justice, in favor of a reduction
of the sentence of M. Souvorin to three
months Imprisonment. This is approved by
several judges of the courts. NJ. Souvorln is
given month to appeal before being taken
to the fortress to serve his sentence. His
attorneys have declared they will file petit
ton with the senate for revision of he SEN
tence and asking for new trial.
The technical accusation against NJ.
Souvorn was mediation of the people TO
high treason by publishing proclamations
and statements designed to instigate riot
SeGition and armed revolution, and tending
to cause the bankruptcy of the state. The
charge was based not only on the publica-
ticn of the manifesto of December Is in the
Russ, but on series of seditious proclama-
lions by the Postal Telegraph Union apply
ing TO the revolutionary power adjectives
additionally sacred to the emperor and
also the appeal of the league of leagues, in
which ii was stated that the political lib .
erty of the people was obtainable only
through an armed uprising for a great bat
tie against the autocracy.
M. Souvorin pleaded in his defense that
the communications and proclamat lions pub
lished in his paper gave, In his opinion,
facts of political life of such Importance
to all circles of society that 1t was i'm
possible and contrary to the interests of the
government to pass over them in silence.
It is the general opinion that this feature
of his defense merely aggravated the Of
Tense in the eyes of the judges, and that
without 1t he would have escaped with a
fortnight's sentence given to M. Notovitch,
editor of the Novosti. for publishing state
ments subversive of the existing form OF
government.