The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-01-05
BIsMARCK's HOLD ON POWER
The Great Chancellor Begins the Year
in a Comfortable Frame of Mind.
After Having Exposed, Inundated and Pun
ished Some of the People who Dared
Conspire Against Him-Cable Notes.
THE GERMAN CHANCELLOR.

The Efforts of Three Meddlesome Women
Who Sought to Compass His Downfall
Special 20 the Indianapolis journal
LONDON, JAM 4.-The beginning of the new
year sees Prince Bismarck, to all appearance,
more secure than ever in his tenure of power
He would be more than human if the exposure
and disgrace of his most prominent enemies did
not afford him some gratifying reflections. and
he probably deems 1t q good augury that the
year 1883 has opened 80 auspciously for him.
From the beginning of his career he has been
the object of the hatred and intrigues
OF a coterie comprising some of the highest per-
sonages in the realm. The Crown Prince and
his wife have not hesitated to make known
their dislike to the Chancellor. and to give
tacit appreciation to the plots against him.
These formerly had their inception at the salon
Of the Countess Won Schleinitz, and the group
which that brilliant woman enlisted in her
service labored night and day to convince ruler
and people that Blsmarcks policy was sure to lead
Germany into dangerous complications. Eminent
among her allies young attacne of the
Austrian embassy whom the Countess, when
left widow, subsequently married. and with
whom she is now at st. Petersburg as the
Countess MISUNDERSTANDING. Here she has
relentlessly pursued her intrigues. aided by her
old Berlin friends Her intimate correspondents
have been two sisters, the Countess Perpoucher
and the Countess Prillwitz, wives,
spectively, of the seneschal of the court
and the Grand Chamberlain of the Emperor.
In these letters the projects Of Bismarck were
criticised and commented upon in no very favor
able manner. as may be supposed. and when
proper material was lacking il is stated that the
fair writers did not scruple to manufacture
events and attribute motives with great credit
to their ingenuity. These epstles, as it was il
ford nd nh " nS f6n fson ffnw
ing through the hands of some Of his
relatives of the gentler sex. and caused the
feelings of acerbity between Russia and Ger
many, which has only been recently mitigated.
When Prince Bismarck obtained proofs Of the
identity Of the conspirators, he laid them before
the Emperor and demanded justice. The Count
Prillwitz was dismissed from the high station
unable to endure the associations connected
with the capital, has retired to Weisbaden, where
he proftably employ his time in exchang
ing ideas with his wife as to the
wisdom of any further warfare against Prince
Bismark. Count Perpoucher, after having
made trip to FREDERICKSBURG to tender his apol-
ogies to Bismarck for the mischief done by his
fused to see, is awaiting his probable fate in
humiliation and fear The retired
life led by the Gear for the
past few years has rendered it
possible to deceive him long concerning
the designs of Germany; but it is a sad proof Of
the instability of European affairs that knot of
malignant and INSCRIPTIONS women
nearly involve the two greatest powers of the
continent in a sanguinary war to crafty their
spite against a statesman for whom they cher
ished an. intense and unreasoning personal dis
like