The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-10-22
Slight Hesitating Man Who
Flushes; Often Opponent
of Stolypin, His Pre-
decessor.
BY VLADIMIR TRENTZ
: 10 The Tribune.

Special Gable 10 The Tribune.
ST. PETERSBURG. Oct. 21.-The moro
Russians discuss the appointment o.
Vladimir Nikolaeievitch Kokovtseff as
Stolypin's successor. the more they real
ize the truth OF TursenieT's words, eve
Slavs seek salvation in extremes"
No two men that were ever born diff
fered more than Kokovtsef and Stolypin.
Stolypin was vast, violent; he ronred
rather than spoke. He had the simple
positive intellect OF a child and consid =
cred all problems of government as sim
pie as drinking beer He quite seriously
| believed that arbitrary DEGREES. eHses
and haneings had a magical value In
solving insoluble problems and even in
changing the thoughts Of mem
KoEov,sen is an understood. slight.
| hesitating man. with tlmlo manner sna 10
a blush He has silvery voice. and Is
the only Russian minister who can make
even q tolereble speech, Instead OF he
ing. like Stolypin. impressed Win the
dously serious. cautious man. who knows
that governing Is no joke, who walks
tentatively, takes measures slowly. asks
for opinions, and ,n Is aI,osesher gwen 10
Part OF this Is due 10 temperament
Part OF 1t is due 10 his excellent training
as SIS. years minister Of hnancs, Fus- ss
even 'Tiberalizes" This is Russian
word for dabbling in a dilestante way
what outside people think. Stolypin's g
misfortune was thar he missed this eS-
celleuf training. He was merely min"
lister nf the Interior are Russian min
listers of the interior are merely over
grown policemen. Stolypin remained this
10 the end But all Russian ministers
men, and KokovtsefY fulfils this tradi-
Tory, But Conservative.
or course Kokovtsef fs a Conserva-
tive, or, some say, reactionary All Rus
sian bureaucrats are. But his record here
experiments ne regarded the duma from
the first with doubt In those days the
frightened court. the big bureaucrats.
and Stolypin himself were talking about
the merits OF the new order Nokovt-
self shook his thoughtful head.
But when the court. the reactonariee.
and stoypln with them. finding the rcvo-
luton crushed. rushed into the widest eX-
cesses of reaction, kokoNtseff shook his
head again. He opposed Stol5ptn's vio-
lcni rnea sures, and even fought his chief
in the senate. At the time OF Stoly
pins death there were throe lawsuits
OF finance Which Illustrates the theory
Of cabinet solidarity
Kokovtscn Is bonn n noble. or Nov
Sorod province. He began his work IN
the ministry q! justice and sat on
commission which alloviated the misery
of prisoners. In 1895 he was assistant
secretary OF the council Of the empire.
year later Witte made him assistant
nnnnce minister
Kokovtsen helped to work ont the
great vodka monopoly. People said hn
differed much with Witte. Next he was
secretary of the council Of the emnre.
I'm 1907 he managed the Huancc ministry
during Peskes Illness. This was after
Whites dismissal In 1904 he tecane
fulI minister Of fnenca. From October.
1905 TO April. 1905. ne WAS out OF office.
Minister Of Finance.
On tho fall OF the Witte-D -Durnovo cabi-
ne, he BECAME minister OF finance again
and he has remained at that post ever
yincc. He has entirely re"estabiishsd
Russia's finances after The collapse
caused by the Japanese war. and icr
two years he has reported considerable
surplUses. , c.,,
Kokoviseffs differences with stolynin
arp analogous 10 the differences between
the two mems characters. They give
good idea OF the new mans futuTc
policy Unlike Stolypin. he is not .
fanatical Nationalist. He condemned