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Show PEASANTS TELL KING TO HEIGN BUTNDTCOVERfi Outspoken Frankness Mrk Bulgarian Conference at Sofia; Premier Forceful in Address to Monarch SOFIA, Bulcarla. July 1. Ths key not of ths ooiurre of peasants hel, In Sofia last month was Ita hostility to the bourgeois, to the profiteer and to th commercial class generally, and Ita moot striking single Incident doubt-leas doubt-leas was the remarkable speech of Premier Pre-mier Stamboullsky to Boris, the young king. The premier waa clear, forceful and convincing and spoks with aa amaslng frankness. "You shall reign, but you shall not govern." he said to his sovereign. "Th people wlllpever become a party of the palace. We will nor tolerate a king following ths dangerous paths of former sovereigns. Sire, you hall -reign so long aa you .have the confidence confi-dence and support of the majority of the people, who could elect you aa president of the republic. Sire, we do not treat you like the former sovereigns sover-eigns 0f old Bulgaria, but aa the monarch mon-arch of new Bulgaria, whljh knows only tha national sovereignty. From this day there begins the government of the farmers, who have been obliged down to the present to wsge a war to the death against enemies from within and without. Sofia la our worst enemy. ene-my. It Is the center of the merchants and the headquarters of the partlea which have for us Implacable hatred. On another occasion Stamboullsky. th vigorous statesman-farmer-reformer, told the congress that Bulgaria would establish a republic with King Boris aa Ita preeldent of the Intellectual Intellec-tual classes attsmpted to seise tha reins of government. His words were received with volleys of applause. The fact la that Bulgaria, today la in a-translllonal ntage from a monarchy to a sort of socialised republic. Tha country la ruled entirely by. farmers. . With one or two exceptions the entire cabinet Is composed of peaaanta and schoolmasters. The king Is a negligible negligi-ble quantity. Stamboullsky exercisea the powers of a dlotator. His attitude toward the king la Ilk that of a stern father toward a zealous son.- But ha Is very fond of the young monarch, and many Bulgarians believe that If he Is able to retain office he will carrea. out his Idea of making Boris the first president of the Bulgarian republic |