Show INTERFERENCE IS CHARGED Claim Made by Russian Liber Liberals als Did Not Have at Elections st March of interference of the local police poUce to pre prevent prevent vent the free expression of their will in inthe Inthe the preliminary elections to the county conventions are increasing The Nasha Shim says It has Investigated the rural elections In St Petersburg provInce and alleges that the authorities every everywhere everywhere where forbade popular meetings called by but did not Interfere with the meetings caned called by the priests and other In many places the peasants were ere afraid to vote on ac account count o of the police at the polls Hun Hundreds Hundreds of representatives of the liberal parties were arrested and in some doses es esthere there were even milItary tiomi The government agents openly threatened th the peasants with repressions if certain persons were elected The peasants from three dIstricts have sent telegrams of protest to Emperor Nicholas One of the peasant distrIcts drew up instructions to its delegates to vote for forthe forthe the exproprIation Or of crown and nd state lands and a portion of the private lands The Nasha charges that the conservative results of the dee elec elections were due solely to repression While the returns generallY show a large proportion of priest and village elders elected In some of the provinces provInce especially In the west the peasants dIsplayed great independence at their meetings and talked only of a divIsion of lands Their hostility toward the noblemen and big landlords was in intense intense tense and they defeated nil all the priests and village officials |