Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1915-03-11
OLD ABDUL AWAITS
come BACK CHANCE
AL Turkey Knows Failure OF
Enver May Restore Aged
Prisoner.

Constantinople, (via Rome).-The
thoughts OF all Constantinople if not
all Of Turkey, have suddenly, as If by
magic. conferred Upon one man.
This man is not the one who for the
moment is most in the public eye. En-
YER Pasha, 80 years old, with his i'm
perial alliance, his ministry of war n
his grand ambition to put the old Turk
ish empire back or the map. awakens
no especial interest in the Turkish
mind.
Enver is a dare devil boy, they say.
If he makes good, all very well. They
are quite willing that he have all TIE
credit n reward for it, too. But II ne
doesn't make goodwill, that is how
all Turkey a suddenly begun think
ing about another man, and who, by
way o TRANCE contrast, Is the one VINO
1t the present momen is farthest from
the public eye.
Abdul Harnid, the old sultan, the man
whom the Enver put down and out. and
by whom he is now kept shut up In q
little white prison palace over on the
opposite shores Of the Bosporus-this
is the man of mystery. the man of
Hypothetical possibilities about whom
Turkey had suddenly set itself a
thinking.
What Is passing at his precise mo-
ment, what schemes are forming In the
mind Of that foxy old man-that man
Who was the shrewdest, the cruelest,
the cunningest, the i~nhumanist, Tho
.cleverest OLD lara Turk, every inch
of him-who ever sat on the Turkish
throne. These are the questions
all Turkey is today asking itself.
Say Old Sultan Is Insane.
From the night in 1909 when Enver and
his band of Young Turks deposed him,
shutting him up first in the green high
walled Villa Allataini at Salonika, but
later for safety's sake-theirs, not his
taking him to his present prison palace
at Constantinople, the Turkish public
has known very little about him. AT
around that he is insane. But no one
believes it. The people know just how
much it is to the interest of his cap
tors keeping him shut up to have 1t be-
lieved that he is insane. They know,
too, that he is very much in touch with
everything that takes place in the
Turkish world without, and tina he is
lily as he ever did before-for the mo-
ment when his imprisoners may have
hanged themselves to step GU and rule
again.
After Enver the DeIuge.
And it is only recently--in fact, since
Enver drained all Turkey Of It's last
a it's last ''ptastre," to carry out his
ambitious projects-that the Turkish
ear has heard a few phrases, reputed to
have come from the inside of the little
white prison palace that leaves no
doubt that the sultan knows what all
the rest of Turkey outside the prison
walls knows-namely, after Enver the
de1uge.
For to the average Turkish mind
there now remains no doubt hat Tur-
key is today playing it's last card. If
Envcr, with the help Of Germany and
Austria, is victorious in his plans to
retake Egypt, then the die Is O But
If Enver fails, there is no one who does
not realize that the last Of
Turkey will have been spent. This will
mean also that Enver and the Young
Turks must go, and then-will the old
sultan come back?
And no one in all Turkey today
doubts that Abdul Hamid hal the plans
all laid for his restoration should the
psychological moment. through a fail
ure of the Young Turks, ever come.