Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-01-12
THEY HATEp BISMARCK
Exposure of the Plotters Who Tried to
Make Russia and Germany
Fight.
They We're Trio of Intriguing Court
Danes Who Personally Dis
liked the Chancellor.

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 ex-
posure and disgrace of his most promi-
nent enemies did not afford him some
gratifying reflections, and he probably
/ deems Ita good augury that the year 1855
| has opened so auspiciously for him.
From the beginning of his career he has
/ been the object of the haterd and intri-
cues of coterie comprising some of the
| highest personages in the realm. The
crown prince and his wife have not hest
! tated 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 salon of the Count
ess Won Schleinitz, and the group which
that brilliant woman enlisted in her seq
vice Iabored night and day to convince
ruler and people that Bismarcks
policy was sure TO lead Germany into
dangerous complications. Prominent
among her allies was a young attache of
Austrian embassy, whom the countess
when left widow, subseq lently married,
and with whom she is now at st. Peters
burg as the Countess of Wolkenstein-
IrasSourg. There she has reIentlessly
pursued her intrigues aided by her old
Berlin friends. Her intimate correspon-
dents have been two sisters-the Count
ess PerpoEoher and the Countess Prill-
witz-wiyes res pectively of the seneschaI
of the court and the grand chamberlain
of the emperor. In these letters the
projects of Bismarck were commented
upon IN no very favorable manner, as
may DE supposed. and when proper ma
terial was lacking it is stated that the fair
writers did not scruple to manufacture
events and attribute motives with
great credit to their ingenuity.
These epistIes as il was in
passing through the hands of scores of
caused the feelings OF acerbity between
Russia and Germany which have only
been recently mitigated. When Prince
Bismarck obtained proof of the identity
of the conspirstors ne laid them before
the emperor and demanded Justice. The
Count Prillwitz was dismissed from the
high station which he had occupied; long
at court, and unable to endure the associ-
atiOns connected with the capital, he has
retired TO Weisbaden, where he can profit
ably emplOy his time in exchanging ideas
with his wife as to the wisdom of any
further warfare against Prince Bismarck.
Count Perpoucber, after having made a
trip to Freiedrichrnhe to tender his apol
ogies to Bismarck for the mischief done
by his wife, and whom the chancel-
Tor positively refused to see, Is awaiting
mis- probable fate in humiliation and fear.
The retired life led by the czar for the
past few years has rendered it possible
to deceive him so long concerning the
designs of Germany, but it is a sad proof
of the instability of European affairs
that knot of malignant and unscrupu-
lous women can so nearly involve the two
greatest powers of the continent in q
sanguinary war to CRAFTY their spite
against a statesman for whom they cher
ished an intense and unreasonable per-
sOnal dislike.