The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-02-13
BISMARCK IN THE REIcHsTAG.

Appearance of the Chancellor During the
Delivery of His Great Speech.
Berlin Special to New York World.
While tho prophets of peace and the war
mongers are contending with their various in
terpretations of Bismarck's speech of Monday.
will endeavor to give pen picture of the scene
in the Reichstag on what the Cologne Gazette
pronounces the most memorable day in modern
German history since the browning of Emperor
Wilhelm at Versailles. By mid day the streets
leading from the Chalencery in Wilhelm
strasse to the Reichstag building were thronged.
All Berlin had turned out to welcome the Iron
Chancellor, who has been little seen since his
return from his rest at Friedrichsruhe to give
the stamp Of popular approval to the project he
was about to propose and de1end There could
be no manner of doubt that Berlin at least
willing and glad to give the 100000 men de-
manded for the better defense of vaterland and
the SIC, 900 900 to meet the thus enta lied deficit
in the military budget. From the Foreign Office
to the Parliament building the drive was a tri-
umphal procession. Some people who twenty
five years ago mobbed him because they
thought him reactionary, and. as travelling
American by me put 1T. too big for hi 81 OTIS,
now huzzahed themselves hoarse. Young girls
showered down on him, as he passed, korn biumen,
and these offerings alone won from the ALBANIAN
tine conntenance of the Man OF Iron smile
Though erect and soldiery in his cuirassier
tuuic with yellow collar. l thought the great
statesman looked pale and wan, as well he
might. He seemed fully aware of the weight all
Europe placed upon his words and at first his
care in their choice made his speech slow,
hating Behind his chair placed little
table covered with seltzer bottles and white
Rhine wine His son. Graf Herbert, officiated
as .'arbeiter bibendn The bill having been
read, Bismarck rose. no one naturally challeng-
ing his right to the presiding officers recogni-
ton. Pausing for moment his glance swept
around hOuSo. General
Moltke with folded arms aud with his eyes
closed, and in his busy brain all the secrets of
grand old man of Germany clustered Wind
thorst, Richter, Bennigsen and others who
had strongly opposed him on the septen
ate BILL One hundred and twenty skilled
stenographers sit ready with sharpened pencils
in the press gallery. The telegraph operators
sit behind them with their fingers on the tickers,
and when the first word of the great speech Is
said the first thought that suggests itself is the
wonderful 6isproportion between the speakers
frame and his voice. The one colossal, the
other puny. Gradually. however, it deepens,
broadens and increases in volume until at last
the disproportion disappears. Suddenly gurg-
ling sound comes from the speakers throat like
the suction of ship hump, the seltZer BOTTLE is
uncorked by Graf Herberts skilled hand, the
Rhine wine is poured out and in a moment
the liquid mass has gone gurgling down his
parched throat Irresistibly the image of Glad
stone whom. the Sphinx of Varsin so detests,
up before me, and once more saw the peo-
pies William place his egg flip bottle upon the
dispatch box. draw out his notes and commence
to demolish the himsy arguments of Tory apollo
gists. While the speech, which. according to
newspaper statisticans. contained Is, 933 words,
was being spoken. Count Herbert presented
seventeen times to his thirsty father glasses of
Rhine wine and seltzer and each time the tall
glass was drained. Once he sits down. bis face
is drawn, and evidently those varicose veins
which trouble Europe are twitching but
when he comes to the climax of his Grafton. :
when he says: I'VE Germans fear God and
one else; seek to cultivate friendly rela-
Int wa aft "a no we oQd W.
but against the Juror Teutonicus power
stand;" then the house shouts as man. and
the tckers tell the world that Germany is one
and united ''Auf immerdar" Not word is said
in opposition. The Socialists are powerless to
combat this outburst of patriotism, and Bis
marck walks back to bis house through the
crowded street. his carriage having come,
he knows that the bill is to be adopted unani-
m ously and en- bloc.