THE DAILY STAR-MIRROR
OLUME TI
MOSCOW, LATAH COUNTY, IDAHO, SATURDAY, MARCH 17, 1917
NUMBER 184
STRIKE POSTPONED FORTY EIGHT HOURS
RUSSIAN PEOPLE TO VOTE
ON FORM OF GOVERNMENT
Popular Ballot Will Decide Whether Monarchy Will
Give Way To Republican Form of Government—
Grand Duke Refuses Throne.
PETROGRAD, March 17.—Declining
the throne offered him after Emperor Nicholas II abdicated at midnight
last night on behalf of himself and the
heir apparent, Grand Duke Alexis,
Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovitch
today issued a request that the Russian people obey the provisional government established by the duma until a popular vote could show what
form of government is preferred.
Officers of the army here have unanimously resolved to recognize the
authority of the duma, declaring that
the army realizes the indispensable
need of reestablishing order immediately.
The provisional government has ordered the arrest of Governor Zein of
Finland, and has named Deputy Rod
licheff minister of Finnish affairs.
Complete order has been restored
in Petrograd, and the triumph of democracy seems assured with the ending
of the Romanoff reign and the establishment of what is now practically a
republican form of government.
The outcome now depends upon the
reception the 6,000,000 soldiers at the
front receive the manifesto of the provisional government, as to whether or
not a republican form of government
shall continue and Russia shall see
the end of autocracy.
The duma  Uses proved itself the center of attraction of the popular will, and it is felt that whatever minor exigencies may now continue to exist between factions in control, a firm foundation has been laid for the future of Russia. 