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Show PREMIER WARNS KING TO BEHAVE tn OR LOSE THRONE Peasant Leader Makes Bold Speech to Monarch of Bulgaria FARMERS RUN NATION King Boris May Be First President of Socialized Republic SOFIA. Bulgaria. July I '(By the Associated Press. -The keynote ot the bbbbbbbbI cOturress ot peasants, held In hotm r-ntlv w.. H hostility to the bour-s,.v" bour-s,.v" n,H ....fit.-rs and f. ih.. mm-BtriklnK mm-BtriklnK single incident do.ibtl the remarkable speech of 1 ren'r Stamboullek) to Boris, I He oimg k p k ,h, premie, wan de.r. forceful ., . .1 convincing anS spoke with nn im-inn im-inn frankness. -You shall reign, but you shall not govern." he said to his soverlgn. The people will never become a party of palace. We will noi tolerate s I Icing follow. n I in- uaiiKeiuur of former sovereigns. Sjrc. you shat reign so long as you have the confidence confi-dence and support of the majority ol the people. Who could elect you a. president of the republic. Sire, we do not treat you like the former soy-crcign soy-crcign of old Bulgaria, but as the monarch of new Bulgaria. Which knows only th national ROereigniy From this day there begins the government gov-ernment of th. farmers, who have been obliged down to the present to wage a war to Ihe death against enemies en-emies from within and Without. Sofia is our worst enemy It Is the center of the merchants and the headquarters head-quarters of (he partiei which ha.e '01 us implacable hatred." On anoter occasion StambouTlsky, the vigorou statesman, farmer and reformer, told .he congress that Bulgaria Bul-garia would establish a republic wlih King Boris as its nresidciu if the Intellectual In-tellectual classes attempted to seise th reins of government. His words pjjjjjj w ere receive with volley of applause The fact is that Bulgaria today a transitional stage from a monarch H to a sort of socialized republic. The country Is ruled entirely by farmers "With one or two exceptions the cn-B cn-B tire cabinet Is composed of pe.aw.nts and school mast ehs The king Is a B negligible quantity. Stamboullsk-y e.- H crclses the powers of a dictator. His B attitude toward the King is like that of H a atcrn father toward a zealous son H But he is very fond of the young mon- arch, and many Bulgarians believe that If he is able to retain office he H will carry out hi Idea of making Boris the first president of the Bui-gartan Bui-gartan republic. nn |