Omaha daily bee., 1888-10-14
GOSSIP HsoM pEnLIN.
Mack cnzie's Book sArouses Great In
dignation i'm Germany.

tents to arouse savage indignation in official
circles. Putting aside the medical dispute
the charges which DIR. Mackenzie levels
at Prince Bismarck, OF inciting the German
doctors TO entrap him into doubtful declara-
ton as to the nature of the emperor's dis
ease, are felt to be u poisonous slander on the
reputation of the chancellor The simulta
noous appearance OF letter Of the Empress
Frederick to DR.. Mackenzie indicating his
treatment is held TO prove concerted action
to blacken Prince Dismarks character. Dr.
Mackcnzie's attack on Drs. Ger
hardt and Bergman can be an
wered in the courts of law
here or in England, and can be met also by
the opinions Of eminent European specialists
not German but Prince Bismarck is power
less to deal with DR.. Mackenzie, He will,
however, use every recource of his craft TO
render the Empress Frederick powerless to
do him further harm.
The report circulated yesterday regarding
the theft of cipher code from the emperor's
room indicates that the chancelor's game of
surveillance over the ex-empress, which
ceased by order of Emperor William after
her surrender of Frcderick's papers, will be
renewed. A watch will be kept over
her partisans and her movements, in
cluding her proposed visit to Windsor.
Meanwhile Bismarck is having a bad time.
He Is suffering fron o renewal Of his attack
OF gout in serious form, partly arising from
worry. 1t is said that his condition will
probably oblige him to retire from public af.
fairs within few months The progressists
overlook the fact well known in official cir
cles, that Emperor Williams experiences in
Vienna and Rome have riveted him closer
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made him feel helplessly dependent upon the
guidance of the chancellor.
Popular feeling certainly sides with Drs.
Bergman and Gerhardt against DR..
Mackenzie's aspersions, yet the progress
ist papers select the most offensive
passage for prominent comment. The
congress of naturalists, in session at Cologne
has already adopted vote of censure of DR..
Mackenzie and the members of the various
Berlin Institutes, clinical, pathological and
physiological, and everybody associated with
the medical profession, condemn the English
physician.
The prosecution has been baffed in their
search for the original diary, though they
have secured the copy from which the
Geffecken extracts were made. 1t is in the
handwriting Of a person named Krug, now
dead, who was an official of the
court, and was for eighteen years
| in the service of the then crown prince
Krug accompanied the crown prince every
where, and often acted as his amanuensis.
| His widow has thl ee manuscript volumes of
memoirs of the, crown prince written by
| krug, embodying passages in the diary pub
| lished BY the Deutsche Rundschan. Inquiry
| hinges upon the question: Does Geffecken
| speak the truth when he says he got the
diary from Frederick with his permis-
| sion to publish il, or, did he procure copy
| through Krug or some other person belonging
| Empress Frcderick's party! Judge Kirsch-
| fela, of the Berlin court, who has been in
structed from Leipsic to conduct the inquiry,
| is trying to discover whether Geffecken
| acted Of his own initiative in publish
ing the diary, or if ho was
prompted to ai, publish 1t through
secrecy is maintained, everything known
| goes to encourage Geffecken's friends in the
| hope that the prosecution will be unable to
prove reasonable intent on the part OF the
accused or completely in the plans of political
| personages. Advocate Predoche, declining
to plead for Geffecken, Advocate Woffron
has been retained to defend him. The reve-
| lations of the diary in relation to the rcpug-
corporation Of his kingdom into the German
empire is confirmed by semi-official declara-
tions in the Bayersche Vaterland,
and to the effect that when the
project of restoring the empire was
mooted King Ludwig first asked
the emperor of Austria, and next the czar to
| support him In resisting such u step. Both
refused to interfere, and King Ludwig only
| assented to the proposal after getting the
| opinion of his war minister that the Bavarian
| army could be relied upon to resist the moor
| poration.
The official journals chant hymns Of peace
over Emperor Williams progress in Austria
| and Italy, still loud undertoens Of war con-
| tinue to produce sense of insecurity. The
| Fremdenblatt publishes advices from War
| saw announcing the formation of fortified
| camp of the first order near the German
| frontier, opposite Theon, and the eXten-
| sion of the works of the citadel of
| Nevgorgiwik, requiring no less than two
| hundred new cannon. Other reports, to
the effect that supplementary military con-
| vention has been signed by the empcrors
| William and Francis Joseph and King Hum
| BERT and that it has been decided to increase
| the effective forces of Austria and Italy, put
| another gloss ON the meaning of Emperor
Williams journey.
| There are strong symptoms of a revival of
strength among the progresssts. At Konigs-
berg the national liberals have rejected the
conservatives proposals for coalition, and
have concluded compact with the pro-
| gresssts. The national liberals, jeal-
| ousy that the conservatives would gain
by an alliance with them is the root
| of the rupture. The Geffecken affair has
added to the discerd among the castle parties.
The free conservative organs are assaiiing
the conservatives as being in sympathy with
Geffecken. An article in the Freie Conser-
vative Post, declaring that the revelation in
the Rundschau was the legitimate issue of
the extreme right, while it was only the
adopted child of the progressists, coupled the
home of Baron Hammerstein, editor of the
] Kreuz Zetung, with those of Herren Wind
thorst, Richter aud Liebknecht Baron
Hammerstein was eiIraged at the association
of his home with the others, and offered to
| fight duel with the writer Of the article.
The Post declined TO accept the challenge
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