The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-02-13
And Is Annoyed and Worried by the Intrigues
of His Foes and Imaginary AffrOnts from
Members of the Imperial Family.
LIE Caron Completes His Story, Returns
Thanks, and Bows Himself Out.
Political Interest in France Centers on Revis-
ion of the Observation-Disclosures Reform"
Measures Approved by the Car.
Physical and Mental Ailments Cause Z
Chancellor to Show Bad Temper.

Physical and Mental Ailments Cause the
Chancellor to Show Bad Temper.
BERLIN, Feb. 12.-Prince Bismarck's at
tack of neuralgia is complicated with rheu-
matism, renal disorder, want of appetite
and insomnia. He continues to work,
against the advise of his doctors. His visits
to the Chancellerie are marked with fre~
quent outbursts of passion and other evil
dences of extreme irritability. Apart from
his morbid physical conditions, party in
trigues, aiming to sap his influence with
the Emperor, worry the Chancellor more
than ever. Count Won Waldersee. whom
the Ultra Conservatives hope to see succeed
Bismarck at no distant day, scored against
the Chancellor by getting the Emperor to
assent to the stopping of the action against
the Kreuz Zeitung. A court report says
that when Bismarck went to the
SchlOss to protest that the action
must proceed, he was kept waiting
a quarter of an hour in an ante-chamber,
sitting in a fit of violent rage. He told
Chamberlain Mirbach that the delay was
an intentional insult arranged by the cabal
against him, and that the Emperor, hearing
the broil, left his room hufriedly, apollo
gized to the Chancellor, succeeded in calm
ing him, and obtained his assent to the
abandonment of the prosecution. Bis
marck, if in sound health, would probably
care little for the enmity of the ultra Con-
servatives. He can afford to despise the
Waldersee clique, but he fears losing his
hold over the leaders of the government
groups.
A significant inspired article in the Ham
burg Nachrichten, and quoted in the North
German Gazette, is the cause of excited dis
cussiOn in political circles. The article at
tacks the National Liberals for taking
a neutral position in the Geficken de-
bate and for increasing apathy in their
support of the government. The article
proceeds to ask whether the National Lib
erals are speculating on the speedy disap-
them that, anyhow, it would be wrong to
count on change favorable to them in
either the internal or the external policy of
the government, as Count Herbert Bis
marck, although not becoming the leading
man of the state, with the full power of
his father, would still hold the reins of for
eign affairs, while some man with the pro-
gramme of Waldersee, or some other hostile
to the National Liberals, might pick up d
part of the powers left by the ChancellaS
If the leading motive Of the article is to
rally. the governments supporters in the
Reichstag around the Chancellor, to assist
in the struggle against the court cabal, it
has already met with a warm response.
Privately the Chancellor is receiving assur-
ances of undimishsd confidence, coupled
with enthusiastic expressions of personal
regard, all the more fervent because allow
ance is made for his physical troubles.