The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-04-11
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. LEX4aNDER GUTcHKoFF, who
q has just been elected as Presl-
n dent OF the Douma, and who,
next to Premier Stolypln. is
perhaps the most remarkable man al
the present moment IN the political litc
OF Russia, is forty seven years OF age.
belongs, not TO the aristocracy, but
to one OF the great mercantile faml-
Moscow University. received a COM
mercial training, with the object OF
hitting himself Tor his fathers busi-
ness. and when the war broke out in
South Africa more than q decade ago,
proceeded 10 che Transvaal and took
service under the Boer flag against
the English. He went through the
war in Manchurla, not as a compatant,
Society, and year later at the time
of the instruction in Moscow, he
gathered around him a corps of vol
unteers, to combat the Socialist and
revolutionary insurgents, contributing
thereby in no, small degree TO the
suppression of the rising. and TO the
restoration of order.
Elected to the First Douma, Clutch
kof attracted the attention and won
the good will of the all-powerful grand
zine, who spoke about him to the
Car, and presented him to the lat
ter. Emperor Nicholas took a fancy
TO the man and had a number OF in
stolypin formed his Cabinet. Gutch-
koff was offered the post of Minister
of Commerce, but declined it in order
to preserve his liberty of action, and
thcreupon took a leading .pirt in the
Legislative movement calling for an
end of the interference of irresponsi-
BILE grand dukes In the adm nistration
Of the various departments OF the gov
eminent. 1t was owing to his power
full speeches in the Douma that the
va ri mr. rho raipninEr hn1iSa
We're deprived of their independence
or the ministers and subordinated to
tho authority of the latter in military
and naval affairs. and when the grand
the action of Gutchkoff. and informed
his kinsmen that they could either
Yield or else 20. Gutchkoff is cele-
brated throughout the. length and
over Europe, as having put an end.
with the support of the Emperor. to
grand ducal administration and
usurpation OF authority. It is only
people TO whom Gutchkof objected
were not SO much the princes
themselves as the crowd Of dishon-
est followers and parasites by whom
advantage of imperial favor to defraud
tho government and to obstruct re-
form.
In the Second Douma, Gutchkof rep
resented the MercnantS' GulIu OF MOS
COW, and in tho present Parliament
he is the leading member for Rus
sia's senior metropolis He Is very
rich. is at the head of the great mer-
camille house at MOSCOW founded by
his great-grandfather. added to which
he is president and director Of at
least n dozen banks and insurance
companies,
Much satisfaction has been created
the best clement Of the Royalist
party in France by tho Duke of Or
leans's condemnation of those mon
archical factions known as the "Ac-
ton FRANCHISE" and the "Camelots dut
Roi." They have been devotlng Them
selves to netting officers and men
of the army to disobey orders when
ever the latter were not in accord
ance with their political ideals, and
have indulged in all sorts Of llooligan
tricks. such as the destruction, mutt
lntion, or daubing with paint or mud,
OF republican statuary and memorials,
thereby alternating respectable senti~
classes. The Action Francaise, and
especially the camelots du Roi mostly
of men who have little to
lose and everythinElto gam py noto-
riety, and led by Leon paudet the
eccentric son Of the famous novelist,
describe themselves as 'the advance =