St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-12-15
JUPITER'S THUNDER.
Bismarck Is Wrathy at the
Success of His Old
Foes.
Tie Cartel Combination Is
Engaged in Fixing Its
Fences.
En- Apprehension in Govern
ment Groups Because OF So
eialist Schemes.
Strikes Are Extending, and
the Masses in Germany Are
Disseminated.


Center party in the vote in the reich
stag. relieving all theological students
of the obligation to military service,
has stirred up a good deal of a breeze
in the upper world of politics: and
Prince Bismarck complains in regard to
1t that the highest interests of the gov
eminent service are neglected for the
personal interests of individual dep
Uties. The vote was, it appears. rather
a snap victory for the CentristS.
and does not imply that they have been
able TO make any political combination
which would give them the controlling
voice in legislation which that vote
seemed to imply they had secured.
Many men of the Cartel party were
absent ann the CentristS seized the adj
vantage due TO that happy chance. The
National Zeitung announces that the
government will not accept the deciS-
ion. and thus the accident of the
absence of Garter deputies will not
change the fixed policy of the govern
ment on this very important subject.
II was. indeed. not To be expected that
So GRAVE AN INFRINGEMENT
OF the principle of the May laws should
pass unchallenged before these |; VS.
themselves shall become totally obsU,-
Iete. Prince Bismarck, in a natural ex-
plOsion of dissatisfaction with this
vote, wired Herr Boetticher
for an explanation. hauling him
over the Goals a. the lOcum tent ms who
should have prevented it. Her BOetti-
cher promptly threw the blame on
everybody involved in the Cartel COM
binatiOn. and explained that since
the opening of the reichstag they
have not been in their places, but have
been away doing what in the United
States you call taking care of
their fences" They were attending to
their electoral interests at home.
and letting the May laws and other
things in the reichstag take care of
themselves. ThereupOn Jupiter has
Numbered a little, and his answer to
Herr BOetticheT is to the effect that he
himself will return to his official
residence in the first week in
January; that important measures of
government must be settled in the
Teichstag before the middle of Febru-
airy, when he desires to dis
solve that body. and he in
structS the minister to keep the
government groups together more
effectively, in spite of the electoral pre-
occupations of the members. From
which it will be noted. in the Bismarck
Ian understanding of these things, only
BOettiGher is to blame for that
astonishing vote. In fact, YOUR
congressional cattle will always go as
you want them to if your driver isl
the right sort. Herr BOetticher's labo
will not be an easy one.
EVERY DAY HAS ITS CAUCUSSES.
and conventions in every pOpulOus cen |
ter of the empire, and sittingS are con- |
tiuued from day to day of organizing |
committees of Conservatives, National |
Liberals, PrugreSSiSts, Socialists and |
the rest. There is indeed an ex-
ceedingly great political activity. |
Though all are active, the socialists /
are pushing things more enprgetieaIly |
than the others. They have already |
brought forward 205 candidates. Their |
national committee is a strong one
Rebel, GrillentSberger, Liebeknecht |
and MeisteTsiDger. 1t assumes absolute |
authority for the party. and announces |
that all questions relating to the cleo |
tiOns must be addressed to the
committee, and be de c.ded by it. In |
districts where the party is too poor to |
face the expenses of election the faithful |
must make their appeal to the COM
uaTy. and must name the sum
required to make up the deficiency. All
socialists are instructed to attend the
general electoral assemblies to vindieate
their principles, but to abstain from in
terfering with purely party reunions.
They must not, that is to say, introduce
any elements of friction to embarraSS
the smooth
WORKING OF THE PARTY MACHINE.
The manifesto concludes with a few
earnest and eloquent words Oh the i'm
electoral conflict and on the Importance
of the fact that ali men
brought to the front should
be men of unbl9mishPd reputation.
The comments of the journals of the
Cartel party upon all this disclose an
apprehension in the government groups
that the very admirable organization
of the socialists and their |
party discipline will make them |
troublesome customers. and may en- |
able them to carry many seats. The
socialists themselves are hopeful on this
point, and believe they will have thirty
five members in the next reichStag. As
TO this possibility much depends upon
the use that Prince Bismarck makes of
the appeal Of the miners for govern
ment aid and encouragement in their
strike. He may respond to that in such
8 way as will astOniSh the socialists,
and he is a host without whom
it is never safe to count.
1t is certain that the strikers are factor
of great moment in the electoral game,
and the prince may have his inning.
as the socialists are having theirs
and, indeed. have had them in
the fermentation of the trouble.
The strike gains in proportions con-
stantiy, like the vapOTy figure that
arose from the Arabian tiShPrman's jar.
and seems likely TO fill the political
heavens. In spite of the suppoSition
that the Westphalian strikers had been
eppeased
THAT STRIKE IS EXTENDING.
In tie Saar mines, 10000 men are en-
plOyed, and 1000 of these are now out,
while a strike of the whole number is
Threatened, and is daily looked for. In
lower Silesia it is decided there shall be 7
e general TURNOUT upon Jan. LIST. un-
less there Is an advance OF 10 per cent
I'm wages and the concession that eight
hours is days work. Employers de-
clare that it is Impossible to meet
these demands. Complaints have
reached the government that socialists
agitatoTs are taking great part
In the strike movement and
have been addressing meetings of
strikers at Dortmund, Saar and
other places. Two Belglan aharcn'
lists were arrested at ChemnitZ
while propagating their doctrines
among the strikers there. Herr Boet-
ticher, in conference with the diree--
tors of the WestphaIia mines, referred
to the Importance of the speediest
possible settlement with the men
In view of the impending elee-
tons. He pointed OUT that discon-
tented men, and especially men for
whose discomfort there was any good
reason, were a source Of strength to the
Socialist party, which naturally helped
to make it dangerous, and he urged
that concessions be made to the
men. Immediately after this confer
ence the minister ordered the local au-
thorities to fill all conspicuous places
I'm the strike districts with placards
bearing the recent decision of the SUI
preme court for diScOuTaging
THE BLOQUENCE OF AGITAToRS.
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