Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-10-26
CHAPTER III

AMONG Rapuns adversres Mr. stoype whO with strong
common sense and great intelligence had objected the i'm
ptan which certain social IN ST. Petersburg lad tried 70
give the soo@ayer At first he regarded the whole matter
kind of wild craze which bound subsde as other
the had dndled nsgnfcance the mast
however, that had concerning
who requented Raspun had given think
that there might be something than stupid in the
various tales which had come to his regard the Prophet
Pokrowskoe He therefore, expressed to see him so
be able to form personal judgment the man. meet
ing was arranged In due course at the house of of the ladies
who paonized Rasputn 1t is related that cast his
eyes him Mr. Soypne when asked give his opinion on
personality of the individual about so many
conflicting reports, had simply replied:
The best thing to do with him to send him light stoves;
he is fit for nothing else"
Stolyptne Opposed to RaSputin
The words were repeated freely in St. Peters,
burg they reached Raspun enagd him the more because
shortly afterwards it Mr. soypne who had insisted
being expelled from the capital who for
refused to allow him to enter it again, When therefore,
early autumn of 1912 the prophet" return
to ST. Petersburg with the feelings of the deepest enmity
against the Minister who had exd him. He had the
finding that during his enforced absence popularity
Sypne had decreased considerable number were
openly talking about overthowng Rasputn very soon dis
the which could be things which
by any hopes he might have nused of being able TO
revenged upon the the injury which
he imagined that the latter had proceeded all
his sermons to compare him with the Anchr and saw that
Russia would be long he remained
The police agent whose have already mentioned
Manaewsch Manulof who always had his eye Rasputn
who had fastened to call him he had
return to the capital slow ouspoken
amOsiy of the latter in Segard to the Prime Minister who
police finding that it could longer do what that
had the liberty and life of the
citizens else be called to by Mr. Stoypne
since his appointment had been working against powers
Of the "Okhrana" had get rid by
fair by foul of determined police
is known in Russia that Mr. Soypnes the
work Of the secret police ITSELF who had found the murderer the
of its agents. whom furnished
revolver with which kill the unfortunate Stoypne.
people dared relate all they suspected regard
crime, and fewer still Of all its Details
manner in which it had been planned
The truth of the that Mr. ManuoH
Rasputns house two three police whom the
said that God himself had revealed him that Russia could
saved from the peri of revolution until the
StOypine. He blessed the officers together with
the that the Jew Bagr fired the Prime Min
er the theatre of Kie during the gala performance given
honor the EmperOrs visit the When Soypn
had succumbed his Rasputn made the salts
faction which his death had occasoned him. exred him
self in favor people who supposed have been
Prime Minister He told his disciples that the fate (which had
taken the unhappy Stpne did surprise him at ALL and that
every of those who would venture him would
with a similar fate in the future.
sense this threat had those before
whom People began dread Raspun
count of lie might have been endowed
with but because they that he had managed get into