Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-05-03

E~uTtSHfoutH. ne WpEk OF TEl0DviuZ HIS
furniture from the annex of the winter
palace back to his old residence on Yeia-
gin island has already begun. While rea-
sons OF health are assigned for his re-
tiremeut, It must be accepted as victory
for the reactionists at court. Count White
simply served the enperor's purpose as
barrier between him and the people dur
Ing the trying months of the revolution.
and now that the uprising Is suppressed
and the treasury again replenished the
count has been ANONYMOUSLY dismissed.
Goremykin Clever Actor
NJ Goreanykin, the new premier. was
exposed by WHITE in 1899. and since then
has been the retiring premier's I'M
relenting enemy. At that time the former
minister OF the interior made re-
port to the emperor to the effect that the
stories of famine and suffering which
were said to exist in certain provinces
were untrue. White. who then was min
lister OF finance. thereupon produced doc
uments to prove that the conditions in
the interior were as they had been repre-
scented to be.
When the emperor confronted NJ. Gore
mykin with this he Is said to have fallen
on his knees before the emperor, to have
wept and to have begged forgiveness. The
minister was 50 overcome that the emperor
himself brought him glass of water. Later
M. Goremykin took part in the Won Plehve
cabal. which drove Witte from the min
istry of finance in 1908.
NJ. Goremykin Is considered mediocre
man, OF insignificant appearance as well as
capacity. He wears side whiskers and
looks like an English butler. While for
some time he has been called liberal, 1t
was only in contrast with such men as
Won Plehve and M Stpiaguine the late
interior minister. He began his career in
the ministry Of justice, becoming assistant
minister. from which post he was called in
1895, as a protege of the dowager empress.
to become minister of the interior.
Retaliations by White.
The student troubles, the forerunners of
the recent revolution, were then just be-
ginning, and NJ. Goremykin lacked the en-
ergy necessary to end them. He was sup
planted in 1899 by III. Sipiaguine. Last
year, when Interior Minister Durnovo
legisiated out of existence the rural COM
mission, OF which wdtte was president and
which had been investigating the agrarian
question several years, NJ. Goremykin was
appointed head Of the agricultural COM
mission, which supplanted 1t. When he be-
came premier, White retahated on M.
Goremykin by dtssolving the agricultural
commission.
The new premier comes from a noble but
not prominent family of Novgorod province.
where his estates are situated. They are
especially noted for the excellence of their
cows and their dairy products, which are
sent to ST. Petersburg In fact, M. Cor
emykin practically supplies the capital with
milk
Whether changes in the cabinet are In
volved in Count Whites retirement have
not yet developed, but Ii Is Thought the
emperor intends to heed the voice OF the
country by calling representatives OF the
constitutional democrats to power:
1t is stated positively that Mr.. Goremy-
kin and Interior Minister Durnnvo had
falling out recently, and that the iatter
continuance in the cabinet Is Impossible.
Count White, unQuestionabiy the Disgest
man in public life in st. Petersburg, goes
out unwept and unsung and amid the re-
ioicings of the reactiontsts, who nate the
liberals, who dtstrust him YET even TO-DAY
1t is predicted that when the next great
crisis comes the emperor will be forced TO
summon Witte from his retirement.
Why Witte Withdrew.
A cablegram from London says: The st.
Petersburg correspondent of the Telegraph,
who is a friend and admirer of Count
Witte says NJ. White has really withdrawn
because he was being used by politicians as
a cloak for people whose policy he could
not approve. After explaining the situa-
ton at considerable length the correspond
ent says that Count White has resolved not
to become premier again. whatever turn
events may take, but he might accept
diplomatic post.
The writer attacks NJ Goremykin as
bureaucrat of the bureaucrats and as the
high priest of pigeon-holes. Heaviness, cum
ming and Incidence are his main charac-
teristics. He has dabbIed In company pro-
noting for which he might have been
prosecuted had 1t not been that the late
M. Plehve, minister of the interior, refused
to move against him. His appointment, the
correspondent says, is calculated to fill the
friends of Russia with the greatest appre-
hension.
The Times St Petersburg correspondent
widely differs with the correspondent or
the Telegraph as to the cause of Count
Whites retirement. He says that the pre-
mieS insisted upon the immediate promulga-
ton of new and immutable organic laws,
with the object of leaving him a free hand
and depriving the douma of any initiative
in matters concerning the future govern
ment of the country. The car would not
hear of the project, which he declared to be
unseemly, unwise and dangerous He
added:
at is my wish that the government be
conducted In an orderly fashion and that
the country have peace. These new laws
would only stir up conflict and compro-
mise me before the people. He must wait
until the douma has begun work and then
see what changes are necessary"
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