The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1917-11-09
Kerensky Deposed Without Blood.
Shed-Garrison Assists
MaximaIiSts.
MASTER SPY IN POWER
Lenine Cheered at Meeting of Sol
diers' and Workmen's Council
Trotsky Announces Prov-
sional Government No
Longer Exists.

London, Nov. 9-Maximalists have
seized control of the Russian pro-
visional government and have deposed
Kerensky. the Russian news agency
reports i'm a dispatch from Petrograd.
The news agency, which was seized
by the bolshevik, also reports that
a proclamation was issued by the new
government saying an immediate
peace would be proposed and that Of
flcials of the Kerensky government
have been arrested.
Aided by Garrison.
The maximalists were assisted by
the Petrograd garrison, which made
possible the victory without blood
shed.
Leon Trotsky, president of the cen
trail executive committee of the
Workmen's and Soldiers council, is
sued an announcement that the pro
visional government was no longer
in existence and that some of its mem
bers have been arrested. The pre-
liminary parliament has been dis
solved.
Text Of Proclamation.
military revolutionary reads:
ITO army committees of the active
army and to all councils of Soldiers
and Workmen's delegates and to the
garrison and proletariat of Petro-
grad:
I'VE have deposed the government
of Kerensky, which rose against the
revolution and the people The
change which resulted in the doposi'
tion of the provisional government
was accomplished without bloodshed.
THE Petrograd Council of Sol
diers and Workmen's delegates sol
emnly welcomes the accomplished
change and proclaims the authority
of the military revolutionary commit
tee until the creation of govern
ment by the Soldiers and Workmen's
delegates.
Announcing this to the army at
the front the revolutionary commit.
tee calls upon the revolutionary sol
dlers to watch closely the conduct
of the men in command. Officers who
do not join the accomplished revolu-
tion Immediately and openly must
be arrested at once as enemies.
Announces Peace Program.
THE Petrograd Council of Work.
men and Soldiers considers this TO
be the program of the new authority:
First: The offer of an immediate
democratic peace.
Second The immediate handing
over of large proprietorial lands. to
the peasants.
Third The transmission OF all
authority to the Council of Soldiers
and Workmens delegates.
Fourth: The honest convoyation
OF constitutional assembly.
THE National Revolutionary army
must not permit uncertain military
detachments to leave the front for
Petrograd. They should use persua
sion, but where this fails they must
oppose any such action on the part
Of these detachments by force with
out mercy.
The actual order must be read
Immediately to all military detach
ments in all arms. The suppression
Of this order from the rank and file
by army organization is equivalent tc
great crime aginst the revolution
and will be punished by all strength
of the revolutionary law.
Soldiers! For peace, for bread
for land and for the power OF thu
people.
(Signed)
THE Military Revolutionary Commit
tee"
Won't Obey Government
Delegates from the three Cossacl
regiments quartered here declared
they would not obey the provisional
government and would not marcl
against the Soldiers and Workmen'
delegates, but that they were pre-
pared to maintain public order.
The Petrograd Council of Soldier
and Workmen's' delegates held
meeting at which M. Trotsky mad
his declaration that the government
no longer existed; that some of tn
ministers had been arrested and tina
the preliminary parliament had bee
dissolved.
Cheers For Lenine.
Nikolai Lenine, who received prt
longed cheers, outlined the problem
now before the Russian democracy.