The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1915-12-09
VOICES
SPIRIT OF REVOLT
Crown Advised Further Usurpa-
ton of Constitution May
Bring on Strife-Re-
sents Coercion.
Paris. Dec. 7.-Lliphtherious yenize-

Paris. Dec. 7.-Lliphtherious Venize-
los, ex-premier of Greece, has issued
q manifesto addressed in the name of
the liberal party to the people of his
countrdy, advising abstention from
voting in the Forthcoming general cleo
tions. The manifesto was issued No
vember 81, but it's transmission by tel
egraph was prevented By the Greek
government, n it reached Paris to-
day by mail.
The manifesto calls attention to the
fact that the internal crisis was
brought about solely by the wrestling
of power from those to whom the peo-
pie had confided it at the last cleo
ton.
DAY by day." says M. venizelos.
"the constitution is deforrned into a
simple scrap of paper and we find our
selves at present in a deviation from
u policies amounting to suppress
sion of the constitutional regime"
Explains Party Aims.
Ex-premier Venizelos points out
what he calls the entire absence OF
necessity or excuse for an appeal to
the people for the second time in a
few months, amid the confusion of war
He declares the chamber of depu-
ties overturned the Greek cabinet, not
for the mere pleasure of exercising it's
opposition, and that it would have ac-
copied the new cabinet with the sole
l SACluSlOIl VI III munster VINO mad in
suited the chamber, and says:
In spite of the affront intention
ally inflicted upon the national rep
r%esentation by the promotion Of that
minister to the highest grade at the
royal court, and in spite of his main
tenance In the reconstructed ministry
the opposition contented itself with de-
claring that it would abstain from the
sessions.
THE chamber had in view only the
defense OF its own dignity and had
no intention of interfering with tn.
passage of urgent laws. AL these con.
cessions were insufficient to turn tht
government from its decision to dis.
solve he chamber and to proceed witt
the electlons while all the men in The
kingdom who could be modified wer.
under arms.
"The ancient regime that wa.
hough to have been abolished by thu
revolution Of 1909, came again to lf,
with the ministry of the month Of Feb.
ruary. Beaten in the elections fiji,
regime concentrates all it's forces toda,
in a supreme effort to suppress tn,
liberties of the people because it canno
live otherwise"
Iron Rule of the King.
After calling attention to What h
terms the difficulties that make ia.
elections impossible, NJ. Venizelos de
clareS that the government is Secretl
arranging TO have home on leave al
modified men which it can count upo
to vote for government condition:
while all the adversaries of the govern
ment are being refused leaves of alb
Sence.
The duty of the liberal party" say
the ex-premier. sis not to participat
in the political comedy, whose obiec
is to prevent a manifestation of til
national will, and to give an appearance
which would be false that the election
were an approval by the people of TIL
non-execution of the treaty of allianc
thanks to which Greece has extende
her frontiers as far as Nestos."
The liberal party has no intention
; abandon the struggle, and it would
a mistake thus to interpret it's decision
says NJ. Venizelos, who adds that tt
party's object now is to prevent inter
, necine strife and to leave the question
, at issue to be settled after the exterit
crisis has passed, eff the disasters no
being prepared by the government {
rot take on such proportions that IL
faith in a future Hellenism be not ei
tirely shaken"