New Britain herald., 1918-09-17
New Russian Nucleus.
(NeW York Times)

(New York Times)
 The last legal Russian Government,
 the only Russian Government ever
 chosen by the people, seems to be on f the point of beginning to function. At 1 Samara, under the protection of the 1 CzechO-SlOVaks about 200 members 1 of the Constituent Assembly elected | last fall have assembled, and accord l ing to report, have selected what 1 amounts to a provisional Cabinet 1 consisting of General Alexicff and
 NM. StepanOH and Avksenticff. The conVocatiOn of the Constituent As Sembly has been demanded not only by the great majority of the Russian eXiles in New York and Paris, but by
 the recently established Government
 in the vicinity of Archangel which
 is headed by veteran rcvoIutionarics
 whose integrity hardly even BoIshe-
 vik could dispute.
 The prompt suppression of General
 Horvath, the demand for the Con- stituent Assembly formulated in Arch angel as soon as allied occupation gave the non- Bolshevist parties there chance to talk, and now the meet ing of this body behind the Czecho -Slo- yak army, all give the lie to the de claration that the Allies in Russia are supporting counter revolutionary forces. The majority in the Assem- ply is composed of Social Revolu- tionists, the party of I<erensl<y, the party which included most of the leaders who were risking their lives for the revolution in the days when the heroes of Bolshevsm dwelt in the safe serenity of Zimmerwald or the Bronx
 The Social Revolutionists were nev- CT regarded as "cOunter- revolutions ary' until the Bolsheviki applied that name to everybody not of their own strictest sect. They have been anti German all the way through; they op- posed the peace, they are credited with the killing of Mirbach and Eich- horn; they are certainly not slaves of capitalism. The Constituent Assem- bly, represents IS nearly as possible the people of Russia, according to democratic ideas-and it must be re- membered that the theory of the working class dictatorship, as applied by the Bolsheviki, is as fundamentally opposed to the theory of democracy as is that of the divine right of the HohenzolIerns. The Bolsheviki ask: Should the conscious workers of the country submit to the dead weight of the unconScious?"
 Why, no, according to the theory which assumes that I and my side are conscious, and that you and your side are unconscious. But on the theory of democracy, that is exactly the sort of democracy, that is exactly the sort of thing that people do submit to a matter of principle. The conscious voters of New York, it may be said, were overwhelmed by the unconscious last November but they did not pro Ceed to send armed men to disperse ! the new administration when it took office. The Constituent Assembly is | something that democrats can sup port whole heartedly in Russia.
 There is evidence that the bulk of i Russia will ago -UDport it. The great ! est service the allied forces which are ! to go into Russia can render is to | supply a real rallying point for the | Russian people who oppose the BOl- : sheviki Constituent Assembly is : long word, particularly in it's Russian form; you cannot expect enthusiasm . for it to sweep the country as rapidly ! as Napoleon swept France on the re- turn from Elba. But the Constituent Assem- bIy is what Democrats must re- gard as the Government of Russia, but it is well to know that it's SUD- pOrters are with us.