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Show OPPOSITION TO REFORM PLANS Reactionary Russians Protest Against Extending Helping Hand to the Jews. Constitutional Democrats Fotm-an. Alliance Al-liance With the Jews In the Western West-ern Provinces, In the Hope of Riding Into Office Elec- " tlon of Extreme Radicals Conceded. St. Peterbsurg. Tho announcement of tho Impending Jewish reforms hns aroused, as expected, tho Opposition. j of tho reactionary elements.- Telegrams Tele-grams of pretest nro reaching tho emperor em-peror nnd Premier Stolypln from nil , parts of tho empire. Tho party of legal order, which formed tho extreme ex-treme right of tho constitutionalist parties at tho last elections, has , Joined tho opehly reactionary leagues. ' M. Stolypln hns received a dispatch j from tho headquarters of the organ!- ' zatlon at Kiev, concluding ns follows: j "Tho extension of tho rights of tho Jows will drlvo tho patriotic Russian peoplo to criminal measures." It Is stated on good authority that ( tho reforms already contemplated will not bo abandoned, nltbough it is the ' Intention of tho ministry to lcavo tho main Jewish question to parliament for settlement. Tho constitutional democrats havo entered Into nn nctlvo alllnnco with tho .lows in tho western provinces. Tho former will nomlnnto a Joint par-llamontnry par-llamontnry ticket with tho League of Jowlsh Equality, and expect tho support sup-port of tho Jewish bund. Tho election of a stronger faction of the extreme radicals Is also conceded. con-ceded. Tho constitutional democrats, on account ac-count of tho extension of their organization, organ-ization, nro npnreutly certnln to return re-turn to parliament as tho largest group, but with the diminished numbers num-bers on account of tho government's action In limiting tho franchise, tho abandonment of tho soclnllst boycott , nnd tho establishment of the regen- J oration party ns a rallying point for liberals who aro avorso to tho full V program of the constitution demo- . crats. |