The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-02-23
GERMANY'S POLITICS.
Emperor William Discovers that
Prince Bismarck
KNOWS MORE ABOUT THEN
Than ne Does-SOeialist Gains-Further De-
tails Ofthe 0utrages at the Political
Prison at Kara.

BERLIN, Feb. copyrighted 1890 by
the New York Associated Press. Last
night an independent and entirely reliable
authority gave figures showing that the
Socialists had actually twenty members
and had good prospects to capture thirty,
more seats on the second ballot. The OPP
position in the reichstag will involve almost
revolutionary notifications. The most
sanguine Cartellers do not expect the
second ballots will make such a change il
the result as seriously to modify their de
feat. The supreme question is, How fa
Will the Socialist successes ultimately go;
Thursday their total record of vote!
reached nearly million and half agaifs
774,O0O in 1882. No combination
of their opponents seems likely
to head them off ON the seeoni
ballot and there is prospect of seeing
thirty FIVE to forty Socialists seated in thf
next reichstag against eleven in the las,
reichstag. Another result suggestive OF
the growth of the popular movement is thu
temperance of the Volks parter or Demo
Gratis, so called. In the reicbstag in 1884
this party held eleven seats. Taking the
whole result together as it stands in actual
results and as ii is likely to stand after the
decision of the second ballot, the pros
pect is that the opposition will have
government groups. This opposition will
be made up as follows: Centrists or Ultra
mOntanes, 10; German Liberals. or Lib
erals properly speaking, As; Socialists, 81
V olkS parter or Democrats, q; Poles, IL:
Alsatian, II; Polesters and Guelphs, u
This is d very heterogenus opposition held
together by no devotion to a common pur-
T1nC hut xy~ bar, 80 cl,s-
Yet 1t is bound to give the government
some lively times.
One OF the Incidents of the contest
is the defeat of Prof Virchow, the
famous and popular man of science
and distinguished Liberal by Jani
szewski, poor iourneyman book
binder and Pole. Herr Woestam, Bis
marck's friend, the great Hamburg ship
owner and candidate of the National Lib
erals, was defeated by Dietz, Socialist.
This astonished the Socialists themselves
Hamburg is now entirely in their hands.
The opposition press comments freely
upon the fact that after twelve years
operation of the law for the suppression of
the Socialists the great populace centres
of the country have become hotbeds of
Socialism. 1t is argued that since the law
expires in September next the government
must abandon the attempt to repress- rAis
movement by legislation or dissolve the
reichstag and appeal TO the nation on This
special issue. The press generally, in so
far as it might give any reflection of the
official feeling, refrains from all attempt,
but the Progressionist papers recur %
their predictions that Bismarck will imme-
diately resign the presidency of the Prus-
sian MINISTRY and be succeeded by Boet-
ticher. Official opinion on this subject ia
vors the view that Bismarck's posi-
ton has been strengthened by the
result of the election. The Emperor
was confident the rescript would
check the successful progress of the So
cialists, and is consequently enraged at the
discovery that this was ali illusion. The
officials quote Bismarck's saying, ''the re
scripts would assist the Socialist candi-
dates and could not weaken them' 1t is
thought likely therefore that the Emperor
will return to the guidance of Bismarck.
Otto, of Bavaria, is bed-ridden and in
the last stages of general paralysis.
AT 9 :45 tonight there are some additional
particulars known of the election. The
German Liberals are claiming that their
returns show that they have to contest in
supplementary elections sixty-tWo seats.
AS forty-two of these are agalnt the Car
Uellers and fourteen against the Socialists
they are confident that their party will
have in the reichtsag sixty-tive to seventy
votes.