St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-01-05
HIS TENURE OF POWER
Prince Bismarck More Secure
Than Ever in His Po-
Sition.
The Disgrace Of His Promi-
nent Enemies a Source Of
Qualification.
Great Damage to Shipping in
the Irish Channel by a
Hurricane.
Mr.. Balfour Will Soon be
Asked to Take a Higher
Seat.
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LONDON, Jan. 4.-The beginning of
the new year sees Prince Bismarck, to
all appearances, 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 qualification,
and he probably deems it good augury
that the year 1888 has opened SO auspl-
ciously for him. From the beginning of
his career he has been the object of the
hatred and intrigueS of a coterie COM
prising some of the highest persOnages
in the realm. The crown prince and his
wife have not hesitated to make known
their dislike to the grim chancellor, and
to give tacit appreciation to the plots
against him. These formerly had their
inception at the saloon of the Countess
Won Schleinitz. and the group. which
that brilliant woman enlisted III ner
service labOred night and day to con-
vince the ruler and the people that Bis
marck'S policy was sure to lead Ger
many
INTO DANGEROUS COMPLICATIONS.
Prominent among her allies was
young attache of the Austrian embassy,
whom the countess, when left widow,
subsequently married, and with whom
she is now at st. PeterSberg as the
Countess Wolkenstein- -TrOstburg. There
she has rejentlesSly pursued her In
trigueS. aided by her old Berlin friends.
Her intimate correspondents have been
two sisters, the Countess Perpoucher
and the Countess PrillwitZ, wives
respectively of the Seneschal OF the
court and the grand chamberlain OF the
emperor. In these letters the projects
of Bismarck were criticised and COM
mented upon in no very favorable man
ner, as may be supposed, ana Wnen
proper material was lacking, 1t is stated
that the fair writer's did not scruple TO
manufacture events and attribute mo-
tives, with great credit 40 their ingenu-
ity. These epistleS, as it was intended,
reached the eyes of the cZar after pass
ing through the hands of several OF his
relatives of the gentler sex, and caused
the feelings OF. .acerbity between Russia
and Germany which have only been
recently mitigated. When Prince Bis
marck obtained
PROOF OF THE IDENTITY
of the cOnspiratOrs he laid them be fore
the emperor and demanded justice. The
Count PrillwitZ was dismissed from the
high station which he had occupied. Long
at COURT land unable to endure the assOci-
ations connected with the capital, he has
retired to Weisbaden, where he can pro-
itably employ his time in exchanging
ideas with his wife as to the wisdom of
any further warfare against Prince Bis
marck. Count Perponcher. after hav-
ing made trip to FreidichSruhe to ten
der his apologies to Bismarck for the
mischief done by his wife, and whom
the chancellor positively refused to see,
is awaiting his probable fate in humilia-
ton and fear. The retired life led by
the cZar for the past two years has rem
dered it possible to deceive him so long
concerning the designs of Germany, but
it is bad proof of the instability OF Eu-
rOpean affairs.