The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1910-12-05
ENDED REBEL PLOT
DEATH OF ToLsToi SAID 70
HAVE CHECKED RELIGIOUS
UPRISING IN RUSSIA.
Claim That lie Was to Head Fanatl
cal Uprsiao-Churchma Tells
Sensational Story lnvolv.
ing High official.

st. Peters urg, Dec. 4-During the
debate in the Duma on the appropra.
ion for the imperial police, M. Stoly-
pin, the premier, who Is also minister
of the interior, declared that it was
impossible TO reduce the requirements
Of the director of the police depart
'ment N. Stolypin subsequently stat.
ed that although public order ap,
peared to be satisfactory on the sur.
face and the rural situation was nope.
full. the4 educational world was more
intractable than ever. Thus the feud
between tne universities and the holy
SYNOD has become more angry since
The death Of Tolstoi The political
methods Of the holy synod We're --us-
t.ated by the GRAFTON Of Aivascff, a
we'll known orthodox missionary, to
the Moscow council of the League OF
9ussina Men. He said;
"Tcheytkoff and Tolstoi's unfilial,
registering daughter Alexandra were
taking the old man to the Caucasus
10 collect there, in his name, an army
u all inc secretaries. Long ago the
French writer, Daudet, said that Toll
toi would in time place himself at
he hcad If an unparalleled revo.u-
tionary agitation, based on religious
lnatic,s1l. The prediction was near
r. fulG
ToIstoi Slated for Leader.
"Tostci was TO take the lead in a
qew revolutionary Uprising and in the
7ame of religion was to lead all the
e'es and robbers against the foun-
ltipn Gf church and state. To this
nd Tolstoi was being taken to tie
Caucasus TO unfurl the banner Of
revolution; but the plan did not sue
eel, praise be to- the church, which
wrecked this hellish plot"
There is a specially bitter cam
agn against Count Tchertkoff as To-
os mos nfexble disciple. The
ief charge against him is that as
n at' at}t at Tolstoi's sick bed he
ct a message from the Metro
c,itan antonius of st. Petersburg ap-
ealing to Tolstoi to make his peace
9Th tha church from being read to
the Oil nan, and also prevented a
riest from entering the room Had
any ifet reached Tolstei's bedside,
vcn for a moment, it is certain thai
row the great mass OF the Russian
nlle people would believe that he
cd a penitent follower of orthodoxy.
he convinced Tuistoians and anti
'ereaIs are, therefore, championing
rlhrrtkoff against Tolstois sons. who
IRE described as rustic bourgeois OF
atHer less than ordinary capacity.
Daughter Defends Secretary.
The Youngest daughter Alexandra,
one in the family defends Tchert
#. and as all OF Tolstoi's written
natter was left o her. the church is
artain to do its utmost to prevent
ertgof from assisting sf as lit-l
rary executor, though it is under
c1d Tat the dead author left let
IS In which he expressed the hope
vat st.ah an arrangement would be
ade
Count Tcnertkoff is former officer
II The imperial guard, whose children
we're taken from him by the church
0rtts when he adopted To'stosn,
Il sbsolrte belief in the TolstoicI
reed will doubtless preclude himI
RON answering the angry arraien-
cuts ct Tolstois son Leo VINO
targes him with being his fathers
'rrderer
Ire fued absorbs more attention
an anything else in Russia, and has
veatly intensified sentiment against
he executive powers of the church.