Show THE FAMOUS NAMED PRESIDENT candidate ot constitutional D brats cartain of election to pre dency of new russian leg Islat lve assembly st petersburg the douma the representative which Is soon to meet will prot have as its first president M petru who Is the candidate 0 the democrats the tai as he Is cal ed in sla Is the man whose name tor a i of years has been in the russian he does not the leader he undoubtedly Is A bearded mn m n of 60 ot me stature he would hardly attract a ond glance in an ordinary but upon examination the lines and piercing eyes beneath sh brows lend to his otherwise ardi countenance an intelligence and which mark him as a man among he comes from noble stock an family ot the province ot chern where he was reared after having brilliantly college career at the moscow lived tor years upon his estate greatly inte ed in the peasants studying theli and habits and needs at the time he served in the province and there really began might be called his public career his natural inclination to liber and his outspoken declarations in 1 ot measures to educate and lift ui ignorant peasantry aroused hos among the bureaucrats ot st pe burg who were early apprised 0 growing influence and he was 1 from the service e from his native province and toi russian leader ot constitutional brats who will be president of fl douma den to live in either ot the two atals st petersburg or moscow then took up ahli idenie in the government ot where he acquired an estate in thi brict ot and at once becam alve in the affairs of the ati ot under his inspire became renowned as the most danced of all the in russ but it was not until after the ot alexander III that the incleden burred which made name resound throughout the cou upon the accession of nicholas I 1 the sent addresses ditl for the young monarch do lences for the loss of the late geror and best wishes for a long prosperous reign the address ol 01 of however was ai document while repeating the felicitations formulas ot the other it ed that or the welfare of russle new monarch should give a corn alon to his people expressing the ion that only thus could russia 1 ish A continuance of the old it bald will lead the country to p uon this wa the first time that the constitution could be said to have openly pronounced in russia and and Rode cheoff were authors of that historic decumen and the other addresses were fore presented to the emperor 1896 when he received the degutz of nobles and alchi actually they had been sent to the geror in november 1894 a m after the death of alexander III amid grand pomp all those T bo presented addresses to the emi were assembled in the maggit nicholas hall of the winter pa headed the deput from while thanking their patriotism the youthful geror added that one among them of had not realize confidence it has permitted lt bald the emperor his voice cremi and his eyes glancing furtively for port into the cold hard face of pi the procurator of the synod who stood at his side and was the real author of the speech has permitted itself to speak ot a that gentlemen Is a B leis dream those words reproduced in all papers throughout russia drew eyes to and made celebrated he became in a day idol of the liberals it was not until 1904 when pi became the interior that calved permission to come to st pe burg and his appearance there coincident with the meeting of the congress november 1 1904 of which he was chosen president it was this con which adopted the famous of 22 articles and which started great movement which finally belled the emperor to yield to the ular demand tor the people to hav behare in the government of the c try it was followed at short li vals after bloody sunday by other greases in all of which kel was one of the central figures and the majority of which he presided |