Bisbee daily review., 1912-03-24
TURKISH SULTAN
 FACES CRISIS
Maintainance of His Race Depends on Election Soon to Be Held
 in Empire
NEW PARTY INVOLVED

STANTINOPLE, March B. Turkey is face to face with another election. on the result Of which will { hang much that Is important, not merely to the well being of the Otto man empire, but also to the main. tenance of peace in southeastern 1 Europe It will mark another step in the checkered career of Turkey in quest of representative government On February II, 1878, after five months of actual sessions, Abdul hamid dissolved the first Ottoman Parliament. On January IS ot the present year, Mehmet the Fifth dis solved the second Parliament The circumstances are not parallel, how. ever, though in 1878 the country was likewise at war. The first dissolution was sine die, and 1t took thirty years of Abdul Hamidian despotism before Parliament was teassemhlcd. The present edict of dissolution orders that within three months new cleo tions shall take place and the Cham. Der once more be convened
 The Grand Vizier is intrusted with the execution of this edict, and it is safe to say that neither the aged Said Pasha, for the ninth time grand vizier. nor any of his possible success sors will have the hardihood to post pone the date of the new Parliament The delay would be the spark to the powder which at present. all over the empire, is lying around loose.
 Fair Election Sought
 Whether or not the new elections will be maneuyered. as would happen in many a more constitutional land, or whether they will be carried out with impartiality remains to be seen.
 The senate, however, is giving its necessary consent that a fair cleo tion should follow. It is said more over, that the annual Union and Pro gTess conyentiontat Salonica last Oc- tober voted that in the event of dis. solution of the Parliament. a new election should be held, without the least injustice Surely an election as remarkable and unique as was the bloodlesS revolution of July. 1908. But it must not be forgotten that the pre- sence of large population of non Turks in Turkey, render the condf tiOns for an election without the least injustice about as feasible as if the promise were made to the ne groes Of the south, in the United States. Moreover. the art of gerrymandering found place, spontaneously generated, in the first election in the fall of 1908.
 The contest today lies between the party os Union and Progress, and a new body, known as the party of Un- ion and Liberty. The party of Union and Progress is the outgrowth of the committee of the same name, which ramihed throughout the empire, final ly accomplishing the revolution Of July. 1908. The rarty of Union and Liberty on the other hand is a coali tion of the elements which have grad ually split away from the party of Union and Progress.
 No one who reads the history of Turkey can withhold admiration from the band of patriotic Turks who han dled the revolution of July. 1908. But few students O. Turkey can justify the subsequent actions Of the young Turks. Or the high-minded men who were prominent in the earlier days of the new regime and who gave the tone to the revolution many are now to be found in the opposition. The hearts which bleed most sensitively for Turkey today are not those of the politicians who have been in office during the last three and one half years. With the beginning of the new regime the Chauvinistic element of the young Turks became dominant and ever since they have been making the Liberty, Fraternity. Equality, Justice" of the revolution a by-word.
 Many Changes Seen.
 The foreigner who has returned to Turkey with memories of Hamidian days can see many changes-new buildings, new sidewalks, new street lamps. The dogs have practically dis appeared from the capital. Travel ing is freed from Hamidian restric, tions. The ten thousand spies of the ex-Sultan are engaged in other, if not more honest, ways. Blackmail is less common. The attempt to re- muzzle the press is only partially successful. Autobuses and automo- piles have made their appearance; telephones. electric trans and cleo tric lighting are awaited at no dis tant day in the capital. And so one might enumerate benefits from the constitution and from the party of Union and Progress.
 But with the exception of freer travel. freer speech and fewer spies, the benefits are superficial. They are far from striking at the root of the evils in the country. Instead of trying to bring prosperity and con tentment to the heterogeneous popu lation in the empire. the government has pursued a policy of Turkification and of hindrance and repression not to be surpassed in the traditions Of | Turkey.
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