The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-03-21
PREMIER LvOFF IS
 THE STRONG MANI. OF REBORN RUSSIA
-.ong Champion of Peasant and Democracy Is Now
 Man of the Hour.

best-brained men in the worlds lar- gest nation.
 Prince George E. Lvoff, stern ana given to "a few words, believer III none but systematic efforts. has Tor years tbeen associated with nberal movements in Russia. He was one or the leaders of the Zemsvo movement which dates from the sos and made its last bid for Russian liberty in the struggle which culminated in the ln- famous Bloody Sunday of 1905, when the streets of Petrograd-then called St. Petersburg-and Moscow and other centres ran scarlet with the blood of the revolutionists.
 Tn that rebellion Lvoff gained little save scorn and denunciation. He was called a revolutionist who was afraid to take up arms; his incapability of taking advantage of the psychological moment was compared to that of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark.
 However. 1t was just this refusal to take part in an active revolution at that time which left Lvoff alive and at liberty Silent in the face of cri- ticisrn, he kept working and planning keeping strict record of those who could be depended upon when the time came. .
 Ever since the events of nearly two years ago, when the Russian hosts, ill., provisioned and without munitions to reply to the fire of the enemy, were driven beyond Warsaw by the Ger
 mans and the Austrians, the new pre- n1ier has felt that the disgust of both the army and the people over the in- efficient and criminal manner m ,srt.s% <o;~ 6ov v,a1 hod opened the way for a successful revo- lution. But still he stayed his hand.
 we have been afraid to put our prentice hands to task perhaps too great for our powers" he said in & secret talk with an American a year ago. You remember that famous edi- torial article that has gone the rounds of Russia from the Baltic to the Pa ciffc. The pen picture is drawn ir the form of a story that the simplest peasant can understand. .
 "A man with his dear mother is rid ing along a dangerous road hebind an unslxilied and reckless chauffeur. He sees the danger of keeping still, he sees the danger of taking the wheel away from the unskilled driver-in the operation the machine might be precipitated into the abyss.
 we are in the same predicament as the fearful man. What shall we do !? Should we start revolutionary movement at this precarious time Or is it better to help the driver, beseech him to keep cool? But, of course, if we see him driving straight to de- struction, there will be only one thing to sdo--unseat him and take the wheel In our own hands"
 Evidently then Lvoff and his col- 1eagues could see nothing ahead but destruction if the old regime was to be left in power: the time was ripe and they struck. So great has been their success that cable advices show Us that the verx ones who in 1904 and 1905, held the new premier up to scorn. are now firm believers in his , 'systematic method of moving.
 f However. Lvoff achieved popularity some years ago before this final :. stroke: in fact, since. the beginning of 7 the war he has been looked upon as the, most popular man in the empire. { LatA1y he has been the organizer and ! distributor of food supplies to the ar | my in the field and power in the { Duma. For some time he has been [ locked upon by students of Russian faff6trs as the man to head any pro- ! vistOnal government that might be l organized, or to be president or pre- mier of the nation.
 He is Russian through and through and is probably the only man kin the country. who has the entire iconfldence of the Russian people in { all strata of society. While liberal Header. he has never Identified himself ] with other nberansts; while they were tdelfYering fiery speeches and writing : 1nflammatory articles, he was quietly Z concerned in his task of construction. For this reason he has held the re- r1ard of all classes and has come to be thought of as the only man in Rus Feia capable of holding together a coal- ttion cabinet. such 4s has been form ed: he commands the highest respect !. of all the parties represented, mainly because he has always held aloof from party. pickering and quarreling. This characteristic of the new minis ter, 1t Is said guarantees the stability of the new government
 Consider the task that he has un- dertaken. In this cabinet Milukoff, the brilliant leader of the Constitu- tiona1 Democrats, man of sane and mature statesmanship. joins hands with Kerensky, the versatile and elo- quent socialist leader. The wealthy Konovaloff, appointed to the minis try of commerce.; the conservative 0odneff. controller of state, and Ter estchenko. a Kieff sugar manufactur er, who is minister of finance. are all Octobrfsts," formerly the government party.
 In times of peace such an tagglom- eration of various party units would be unthinkable. But Lvolff has call ed them together as the master minds of the nation, and those who know him hold that he will be able to keen them in line.
 Next only to Prince Lvoff in gen. eral interest is Professor Paul N. Milukoff. the new minister of farefen affairs. Twice as the result of his revolutionary. activities, has Milukoff been banished from Russia, but each time he has returned to find himself stronger than ever in popular favor.
 Michael Rodzianlzo; president of the DumaN and strong Liberal, was in Pertograd the visible head of the rev olution which has brought the new government into being. He is a large 1andholder in Ekaterinoslav and in 1ha Duma has labored long and per- sistently for a free Russia Though wealthy he is a sympathizer with the downtrodden peasants of his native land.
 M. Kerenski. the new minister ot justice, is Socialist. Versatile, elo- 2 Quent and efficient. he has risen to