Show THE TH E ELECTIONS IN I N RUSSIA The feature about the elec elections elections in Russia is not the sweeping victory of the Constitutional Demo Democrats Democrats but the fact that they were per permitted permitted to win The name of the party must be to the as a red rag to a vicious bull It is opposed to all that the reactionaries stand for forthe forthe forthe the principles preached by the Constitutional Constitutional Democratic speakers are in indirect Indirect direct contravention of all the theories of autocratic government The people of Russia have declared almost as one man their belief belie In these principles that the Constitutional Democrats pro propound propound propound pound Did the czar and his advisers permit the people tg t win because b cause they hey were afraid to interfere be because ause cause c they were afraid any inter Interference ference f would result rosult in a revolution tion t lon ion that would send the reigning house h ouse crashing to destruction We are arc bound b to believe belleve this unless we accept he the t curious theory advanced by some ome wrIters w to the effect that the Constitutional ional t Democracy Is merely a mas man masquerading masquerading q reactionary organization There are many reasons why it is not possible p to have faith in this theory The most pronounced enemies of the thc autocrats a are the Constitutional Dem Democratic Democratic cratic o speakers And unless all the th kings of liars have taken up their residence r in Russia the Constitutional I I Democrats who have been elected to IC I Ithe the douma will fight bitterly for the thc 1 principles enunciated in the campaign Old General Kaulbars governor of Oj r rOdessa Odessa and one of the most radical of o c I Ithe the reactionaries attempted to destroy destro T the effects of the czars manifestoes by bI r directing his people to choose representatives representatives representatives other than those that had ha I been chosen declaring that they were not to his liking Kaulbars expressed himself as being entirely unable to t understand how the czars govern government government ment men t can be bt b f carried on with such I people He foresaw the end of the thi emperors rule If the people were given 1 any say In the conduct of Russian 1 i affairs Kaulbars was promptly over overruled overruled overruled ruled and the choices made by the peo people people pie of Odessa were confirmed A dispatch d from St S1 Petersburg says say a that the greatest freedom was allowed 1 In the elections there and in Moscow r Campaign orators were permitted to t 0 say whatever they pleased and all they the pleased A few newspapers were sup suppressed suppressed j pressed but there was wide freedom o c of f speech As indicated In the dispatches the choice of ot the government lies be between bEtween tween two alternatives The victor victory y of the Constitutional Democrats ha has LS been so sweeping that the czar mus mm must t either dissolve the douma or issue to t 0 the people a constitution The first course Is hardly probable a Long since the trend of the elections is was apparent If It the czar did not n at t have the courage to face a revolution n fl by b suspending the elections ol el he will wUl 11 hardly have hae the courage conrage to dissolve re rethe the douma for that would assuredly assured iy ly mean a revolution Constitutional Constitution ii government for the Russian people Is in sight at last |