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Bisbee Daily Review
Bisbee, Cochise County, Arizona
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In Russia, police are manipulating the upcoming Duma elections through threats, arrests, and disqualifications to favor extreme reactionary candidates. In Moscow province, most radical peasants were arrested, and rural chiefs threaten no third Duma without government wins. Peasants' complaints in Piazsk district were dismissed.
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In one district of Moscow province all except three of the radical peasants in the last electoral college have been arrested. The three remaining at liberty have been declared to be without the qualifications for voting.
The "rural chiefs" threaten that there will be no third Duma at all unless government candidates are elected
The peasants of the Piazsk district complained to the higher authorities that the "rural chiefs" by interfering into the electoral campaign were breaking the law. They received the answer that unless the threats were made in the chief's official capacity they would not be punished.
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Primary Location
St. Petersburg
Event Date
Aug. 3
Outcome
arrests of radical peasants in moscow province; threats of no third duma unless government candidates elected; complaints dismissed.
Event Details
Police are controlling Duma elections via threats, arrests, and illegal formalities to eliminate non-reactionary candidates. In Moscow province, most radical peasants arrested, remaining three disqualified. Rural chiefs threaten no third Duma without government wins. Piazsk peasants' complaints about interference ignored unless threats unofficial.