The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-01-18
TRUCE AT AN END
RUSSIAN POLITICS AGAIN ASSUMES
 GREAT ACTIVITY.
Socialists Realize Necessity of Putting Out Candidates For Proposed Assembly and Hope to Hold
 Balance of Power.

St. Petersburg, Jan. 1.-The holiday truce in Russian politics Is over and the new political parties are mastering their strength for Russias all important electoral campaign.
 The opening guns will be fired to- morrow. when the delegates of the con- stitutional Democrats will assemble to discuss their elaborate platform. The party represents the advanced Liberal opinions of the Zemstvo majority and the platform will closely follow the resolutions of the last Zemstvo con- gress.
 The allied Moderate parties which are standing on the basis of the mani-, festo of October 30. will also be early in the field. There will be confer once of leaders from various parts of the Empire here this week. The coali- tion which embraces the party of law and order the Octoberists. and five lesser factions. has chosen the name of constitutional monarchists. and will nominate candidates in common. real izing that singly they are too weak to meet the well organized Constitutional Democrats. or even the Social Demo arats and Social Revolutionista
 Though officially they are on record as being In favor of boycotting the National Assembly and continuing the armed revolt the Social Democrats and Social Revolutionists have awakened to the necessity for securing a represen- tation at the coming National Assem- bly, and are concentrating their atten- tlon on securing a full registration from the labor. professional and so- cialistic organizations. With the League of Leagues they have formed campaign committees in each election district in order to get out the vote.
 Tn consequence of the great rush to register, the period of registration. which expired yesterday, has been ex- tended for two weeks. Under the new electoral plan by which the worlSmen's representatives will be merged Into general electoral committees in the provinces and cities, there Is little chance of an absolute majority for the Socialists, but the leaders hope to get enough electors to hold the balance of power and force an alliance and di- i vision of seats with the Constitution ! al Democrats.
 During the holidays the paciflcation 1 of the country has been steadily going | forward. By an unsparing use of the | military and wholesale arrests Of the 1 leaders Of the fighting organizations. the rovoIutionists have been driven
 under ground and have been forced to
 return to the old methods of assassi-
 nation. Not a day p1sses without re. norts Of the murder "' obnoxious off, rfa1s ir several cities.
 Tn addition to the caucuses and few localities in Siberia. the open revolt Is now chieflv confined to small islands off the B7ltic coast, where the difficulty of landing troops hampers the subiuga- tion of the revolutionists. The ice breaker Yermak. carrying detach- ments of marines and infantry, has been unable to reach the principal ls- land Osol. al the entrance of the Gulf of Riga, and is now awaiting a light draft steamer to land the troops.
 Following the example of their bro- thers ou the mainland. the peasantry of even the smallest islands Tn the Bal tic, have instituted independent Repub- lies. One of these on the Islet of Lyn- nusitt, probably tho smallest State in the world. already boasts of a revolu- tion and a second President, the citi- zens having risen and overthrown the first President. The present Chief Mag lstrate. Lanenson. is addressing them in proclamitions as My faithful sub- iectsT