Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-01-08

dreams of avarice, and they were not
the kind of people TO allow II to escape
them. Every effort was therefore put
forward to bring Mr. Sturmer to the
notice of the emperor. and to the atten-
tion of all those capable of suggesting
to the latter the choice Of this func-
tionary to replace Mr.. Goremykine, who
had openly declared that he could not
any longer go on fighting against the
subterraneau forces (which were slowly
but surely working against him, and
making his position more unbearable
every day. The candidate who would
have been the most welcome to public
opinion was Mr.. Kriwoscheine, but he
was the last man whom Rasputin's
friends would have cared to put for
ward
on the other hand, Mr.. Sturmer. for
uerSonaI rea SONS into which it is useless
TO enter here, when approached by
Manussewitsch Maniuloff. had not hes
itated a single moment in promising to
indorse the purposes of the small group
OF persons who had made up their
minds to become the real rulers OF the
state As sooE as he had declared his
Willingness to Join with them in the
future an energetic campaign was
started in his favor, not In the press
nor i'm the duma nor even among the
the sovereign, a campaign in which
some OF the highest authorities In the
Greek church were enrolled. and in
which the empress herself was per-
suaded by some of her personal friends
to take part The expected then oc-
Cured. The tar was finally per-
suaded that in Mr.. Sturmer he would
find a faithful servant, which in a GER
tain sense he did. and also a minister
linz to
old principle of autocracy with an ut
ter disregard for the liberal parties as
well as for the duma. The duma had
not spared the government during the
whole summer, and its activity had
been viewed with dismay by certain
members. Yet the country was glad to
find that at last there existed among
its representatives men courageous
enough to say what they thought, ana
to try to save Russia from the abyss
into which it was felt that she was
falling through the influence not so
much of Rasputin himself as of those
who surrounded him and who used him
for their own ends.
THE APPOINTMENT OF STURMER.
This campaign succeeded and Mr..
Sturmer was appointed. His selection
caused an outcry of indignation through
ont the whole country, and distressed it's
hest friends for more IMAM one TedSoh
But even among the functionaries OF
the ministry. which had to accept him as
it's chief. there were found some rebel
lious spirits. among whom was the then
minister of the interior, Mr.. Chwostoff,
who made up their minds that 1t was at
last high time to get rid of Rasputln
in some manner or other. He was also
reactionary. like Mr., Sturmer. and even
a furious one. When he was still dep
uty in the duma he had been one OF the
leaders of the faction of the right ana
before that time had made for hlms2!t
the reputation of being an ultraconserv-
alive in all the different administrative
poSts which he had occupied. Among
others, he had been governor at Nigny
Nowgorod for short period. He be-
Ionged to the number of persons who
held the opinion that Rasputin ought to
he removed. But whether he was really
a PARTY to the extraordinary story i am
going 10 relate is a matter about which
I shall abstain from expressing an opia-
ION.
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