St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-02-21
THEY ARE The PEOPLE.
Socialists Score q Series OF
Victories at the Polls in
Germany.
A Tremendous Vote Case
Without the Suspicion OF
a Fraeas.
Conservatives Lose Heavily.
the Freisinnige Party Be-
ing Wiped Out.
Rismarek's Greatest Enemies
Appear to Have the Whip
Hand Now.

BERLIN, Feb. 2o.-The general cleo
tionS Tor members of the reichstag took
place to-day. The size of the vote pOlled
was phenomenal. The weather to-day
was favorable to the opponents of So
cialiSm. Previous experience shows
that socialists disregard the elements,
but the pleasant day brought out the
other vote. The socialists had forced
the closing, wherever possible, of all
workshops and factories. There was
tremendous voting in the afternoon,
One great point in the vote in Berlin
was the complete absence of the anti
Semitic faction. who abstained
from voting becaus the candi-
proval of the Cartel electoral commits
tee. Disorder was thus averted. Th-
indications are that the Deutsehe
FreisSinnige party may secure at bess
two seats in Berlin; and it is not un-
liEely that this party will lose all 9TH
ers throughout the country. The great
fact of the election is the enormous and
unexpected increase in the socialist
vote. This party has manifested
strength in places where it was un.
known before, and other parties will
against 1t to stem the tide ON the sup
Elementary elections. In the vote in
Berlin alone these changes are shown,
The
SOCIALIST VOTE Is INCREASED
10000. the Deutsche Fressinnige 5000
and the Conservatives have lost $4,000.
During the day Prince Bismarck drove
in closed carriage to the Prussian par
liamentary building, where he alighted
and proceeded to the polling booth In
the restaurant attached to the upper
house, where he deposited his ballot.
He voted for Herr Zeidler, ConserVa-
tive candidate for member of the
reichstag. When Prince Bismarck en-
tered the polling place everybody pres
ent arose from their seats except one
probably the last time shall ever vOte.'
The chairman expressed the hope that
he might enjoy his strength for many
years. ~bisiIfarcissaid, "Why, am seys
enty-fve; at my aye five years is very
long time" Liebknecht polIed 30,295
votes. Richter is elected for Hagen.
The socialists were successful at Elber-
field, Barmen and Frankfurt, and have
good prospects for success in the second
elections at Stettin, Breslau and
Bremen. The semI-uff1cial agency
but the emperor has ordered
the complete returns TO be
published in a special addition of the
ReichSanzeiger. 1t is reported that
socialist is elected for Konigsberg:
three Carteliers are elected for Worms,
in Dessau, two Poles for Posen, and
six UltramOntanes for Cologne and
Treves. Won MOlske was a candidate
for the Fourth Berlin district. In Ham,
burg, in the First and Second wards,
the socialist
MAJoRITIEs WERE OVERWHELMING.
In the third the contest was closer.
but the socialists pOlled 5000 votes. Tho
election of two socialists as representa-
tives of this city IN the reichstag is GER
tain. In four districts of the city no
candidate has majority. Therefore
there is no choice in those districts, and
supplementary elections will be neces-
sary. Four Conservatives. one Nation
al-Liberal. eleven Centerists. seven So
cialistS, two Poles, two Alsatians and
ten of the Deutsche Fresinnige party
are elected. In the Fourth dis
trict, Singer, the socialist, received
4O.5O0 votes. and Richter, German Lib
eral. IA, 100. In the Fifth district, Raum-
bach, Deutsche Freisinnige, 10000;
Auerbach, the Socialist, 1922; Luedtke.
SOHSOl NdbtNOs f3O~fs ~ SHC1iltitEs OtA-
eny, Schippel, the Socialist. was
elected. He received 23,847 votes. At
Leipzig there must be a second election
between Rebel, Socialist, and G0etz.
National Liberal. In Leipsig, Geyer,
the Socialist, is elected. In
this city the vote Is as follows:
in the First district, Progressist candi-
date, 6,700; Conservative, 1880; Social
ist, $3.50. Second district. Prof. Vir-
chow, 1S,001; the SOcialistic candidate,
1900; Conservative candidate, 14,017.
Third district, Progressist candidate,
11,576: Socialist, 1920. In all these
districts. therefore. supplementary cleo
tions are necessary. In the Fifth dis
trct the Progressist candidate had TO-
100 and the Socialist 7,240. AT Magd E.
burg the Socialist Vollmar is elected.
At Munich a
SECOND ELECTION Is NECESSARY
in the first district in the Second dis
trict Socialist is elected. At StrauS.
burg National-Liberal is elected. At
Leipsig second election is necessary.
Hagen, ProgressiSt, is elected Tor Nur-
emberg. A Socialist is elected fol
Meerane, in Saxony. Auer, Socialist,
is elected for Zwickan. Stole, Social
ist is elected for DanZig. At Zittau,
Koenigsburg, Stetten and Lubec second
elections are necessary. For Mriningen
PrOgressist is elected. AT midnight
the apparent result is that the govern
ment parties have lost fifteen seats, and
the Socialists throughout Germany
have doubled their vote. Herr Lieb-
knecht and Herr Singer are elected.
The latter. Socialist, defeated Eugene
Richter, one Of the most distinguished
of German politicians and leader of
the German Liberal party. Singer is
the man whose libel case against the
Staatsburger Zeitung made a great
deal of noise in December
last. He gained his case, and
the editor was condemned to pay fine;
and this fine the emperor remitted,
using his royal prerogative to set aside
the verdict of court of justice. This
made great sensation, and Singers
candidacy becsme sort of rallying
center for protest against such an abuse
of power. His election was an almost
necessary consequence. In Hamburg
the socialists Debel, Dietz and Metzger
are elected. A
GREAT SENSATION WAS CREATED.
here at o'clock this afternoon by the
sudden receipt of an order from the
emperor for all the troops comprising
the garrison of the city to march to
KreuZberg. forthwith. The order was
instantly complied with. The people
were almost panic stricken until it was
announced that the maneuv~r was
simply one of the military surprises in
augurated by the emperor to Sst the ef-
ficiency OF the garrison to fepel q sud
den attack by an enemy.