Arizona republican., 1917-08-06
KE:RE: ENSKY
 CONTINUES IN POWER
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PE"TROGRAD, Aug. 5.-Premier Ker ensky has returned to Petrograd and withdrawn his resignation. He attend ed ministerial meeting Saturday anC afterWard conferred with various DO htical leaders
 M. Kerensky has issued a manifesto in which he declares that he consider; it impossible when the country is threatened with defeat without and dis integration within, to refuse the heavy task again entrusted to him, Whicl. he regards as an express order iron the country to construct strong rev olutionary government to carry out the principles already laid down.
 At the same time said the man ifestO, T consider 1t inevitable to in troduce changes in the order and dis tribution of government work with out allowing myself to be influenced by the thought that these change; will increase my responsibility in the supreme direction of the affairs O state"
 By a vote of 147 to 46 a joint meet ing of the executives of the workmens and soldiers and peasants council. confirmed the decision of the a.l-night political conference of continued con fidence in Premier Kerensky.
 The maXimalists strongly protested and forty-tWo of the members of this party abstained from voting.
 The duma committee also has con firmed the vote of confidence in M Kerensky.
 The aIl-night political conference at the winter palace which was concluded this morning by the passage of a reso- lution in which confidence in Premie |, five parties represented and il Whicl he was invited to form his own cabinet was conducted in the strictest order but with intense emotion. All the par tcipants were obviously convinced thai the decision which was to be reache, meant Russia's regeneration or heI ruin.
 In conversation with the Associate, Press correspondent who was per mitted to be present. the ministers de cared the conference to be the mos momentous event in tne history of tn empire since 1913, when during th. troublous times of the Polish war an6 internal anarchy, the election fl tn first Romanoff in similar conference of notables at Moscow saved tn country from dissolution.
 The debate resolved itself into {; S6lleS or pdneSNTltS OI tue aDSeul HeI ensky, who was acclaimed the onll man invested with the qualities neces- sary u restore order. while preserving liberty Foreign Minister Terestchenk, declared that peace was inconceivable that Russia must prepare to figh throughout the winter and that Pre- mier Kerensky alone possessed the con fidence of the nation.
 M. Tseretelli, the minister Of post and telegraphs in an emotional speecl echoed the view that Kerensky was tn on,y men who could save the country In order to alleviate his task, declared the speaker, the government would ab stain from forcing through the party program.
 After these men had spoken, th' procurator of the Holy synod, M. Lvofl rose and said that he, too, considere' the premier the man destined to b. Russia's savior.
 Minister of Justice Efremoff said al most the same words in turn. describ ing the premier as an indispensabl man.
 Paul N. Milukoff, leader of the con stitutional democrats, stated that hi party was still ready to attempt tn
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