The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-04-08
BISMARCK AS A PATRIOT
VICTORIA'S MEDDLING BORNE FOR
HIS COUNTRY'S SAKE.

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BERLIN, April Prince Alexander, of
Battenberg, comes to Charlottenburg next
Thursday, and his betrothal TO Princess
Victoria takes place early in June. Prince
Bismarck has withdrawn his resignation
solely because he believes the domination of
Empress Victoria would lead to a speedy
breaking up of German unity. Nothing
since the accession of Emperor Frederick
has occurred that has so strongly animated
the Prussian Conservatives against
the Empress as the marriage
question. 1t now becomes known
that the Empress will impel her helpless
husband to thwart Prince Bismarck with
out regard to the respect due to the late
Emperor, or to the national safety. The
policy of the Conservatives at this time rep
resents the genuine feelings of the whole
German people All the Radical news
papers, such as the VoSSiche Zeit,,ng, which
treats the Battenberg question with dlsdain
as of no consequence to German policy,
ignore the fact that Battenberg is only one
chord in the general discord struck by the
party Of the Empress.
RETICENCE OF THE PRESS.
The reticence of the Berlin press in refer
ring to court intrigues has been greater
than was required by Difference to the
Emperor and the leading officers of state.
Matters have been concealed or only par
TALLY alluded to which ought to he discussed
with the fullest publicity The Battenberg
marriage becomes almost minor incident
in the court intrigues Among other
successful schemes the Emperor has been
induced to send to Count Won Moltke a
series of statements on the condition of the
army, followed by request that the Gen
eral preside at the meetings of the commits
sion on reforms in the army Count Won
Moltke has replied that it would be impos-
sible for him to preside over a commission
without knowing how it was constituted
and what reforms were desired. Conse-
quently the commission has been dropped
MERE TRUCE.
Another move of the party of the EN-
press is to overhaul the diplomatic appoint
ments. II Prince Bismarck had consented
Prince of Reuss, Minister at Vienna, would
have been displaced, Count Won Munster
would have been withdrawn from Paris and
Baron Hatzfeldt from London, because
each is knit into Prince Bismarck's policy
The position now is mere truce.
To-night's National Zejtung says that the
betrothal has been postponed, but circum-
stances may arise under which Prince Bis
marck will no longer oppose the union An
happens, through Vienna says that in CON
sequence of a memorandum laid before the
| Emperor by Prince Bismarck, setting forth
| the difficulties which, from political point
of view, stand in the way of a matri-
monial alliance between Prince Alex
| ander of Battenberg and Princess
| Victoria, it has been arranged
that the affair shall be postponed until the
| political objections now raised shall cease
| to exist. The establishment of settled order
| in Bulgaria, and the removal of all posslbil-
| ity of Prince Alexandria raising rallying
! cry will deprive the marriage of all polit-
| ical importance.
QUEEN vICToRIA's VISIT.
| The visit of the Queen of England to
| Charlottenburg therefore, will take place
| as arranged, but the betrothal will not pub
| lcy be brought forward on this occasion.
| This is an official statement and
| simply means that Prince Bismarck s
| advice has been overrued. The Queen Of
| England comes here with her Battenberg
protoges to carry out her family projects,
| without regard for the sentiments Of the
| German nobility or the German people, and
equally regardless that her daughter, the
| Empress, thwarts the policy of the minister
who made her an Empress, and without
whom imperial Germany might cease
to BE-. Nothing in Prince Bis
marckS UIe kB SO honorable, so
| full of selfcommand and loyalty TO Ger
many, rs his temporary submission to tho
Empress regime. He has the enthusiastic
support Of Count Won Moltke and othsr
leaders of the army and the leaders of the
Conservative and National Liberal parties
| and even has the begrudged approval of the
Progressist chiefs. The Chancellor does
not, therefore, rely on the military party.
He has the support Of the whole country
~ tho
federation, and is absolute master of the
situation.
FREDERICK NOT so WELL.
The Emperor's condition gave rise to
serious alarm yesterday. Both his cough
| and splitting were augmented and he also
suffered from nervous excitement. To-day
| he rested for several hours, and after par
taking of a luncheon of oysters drove out ,
for the first time in seven day, in a closed
carriage. To-day's bulletin says that for
the last few nights he has been unable
TO sleep well on account of headaches,
| and that the malady from which he is suf-
| fering now appears to be moving from the
back of the larynx to the front, which is
| regarded by the physicians as favorable
symptom, because the danger of the disease
! attacking the esophagus will be thus
| averted.
PosEN's TERRIBLE FLOODS.
The Empress will go TO Posen on Monday
| to inauire into the condition # the sufferers
| by the flood Dreadful accounts have been
received from Posen. Two hundred and
fifty villages are in ruins and
| 1900 persons are without shelter
| When the embankments gave way a large
number Of lives were lost. The loss in live
stock is incalculabe. Troops have been
actively engaged in repairing the damage
done. The fund raised by subscriptions in
Berlin for the relief Of the sufferers is in
significant in comparison with the losses
Famine is threatened in Posen, Pomerania
and SILICA, and the number Of persons emf
grating to America will soon be enormously
increased.
IN NEW LIGHT.
The Vossische Zeitung's st. Petersburg
correspondent says that the proposed mar
riage of Prince Alexander and Princess
Victoria is regarded there as favorable TO
Russia, because IL is believed that the mar
riage would preclude the Princes return to
| the Bulgarian throne, it being impossible
that a son-in-law Of the Kaiser should be-
come Turkish vassal.
ANXIETY IN ENGLAND.
LONDON, April THE government are
concerned in regard TO the Berlin crisis.
They fear that the growing irritation in
Germany against the Empress and her
mother, Queen Victoria, will extend TO the
British nation, resulting in the de.truction
of the cordial relations now existing between