Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-09-15
SOCIALISTS.
Great Progress Made by the Party in
Germany-lts Power in Politics.
The Forthcoming Social Democratic Con-
gress at Halle-EnglIsh Passenger
Carriage In Disfavor.
Copyrighted, 1890, by the United Press
Powerful Party Political

Copyrighted, 1890, by the United Press.l
Powerful Party Political.
LONDON, Sept. 1s.-The forthcoming Social
Democratic congress which opens at Halle oc-
tober II will mark new epoch in the develop
ment of the socialistic movement in Germany
There is no blinking at the fact that Socialist
party in Germany is the most perfectly organ
lied political body in existence, and tt at it is
immensely powerful. The cohesion and
integrity of the party were OBJ
tanned under the stringent arbi-
This iron band is to be removed on the first of
October, in fact has already been loosened, and
the effects are evident. All those elements with
in the party which suppressed, or were forced to
suppress, their individuality and personal as
piratlons under the strong wills of a few famous
leaders now
FIND ROOM AND OPPORTUNITY
to develop these aspirations. Circum-
stances, conditions and actions which were
dured under the law are now freely and openly
criticised and the autocratic, tyrancal and UNI
comfortable powers of the leaders are challenged
not in accordance with the original principles
of the Social Democratic platform. Foremost in
this new and expected opposition against the old
and tried leaders are the Berlin and Magdeburg
Soc ialist clubs. The great industrial centers
always were more radical more extreme,
adherence to socialism than the smaller
provincial towns: In Berlin the anti
DR.. Willie and Herr Ranisch and at Magdeburg
by young law student named Muller. and the
assistant editor of the weekly journal, Won
Pfnaer. In the Saxon midlands the anti Bebe1
party is mainly led by Baurath Kessler. These
opponents are
worked out new programme by which the en-
tire direction OF the party would be in
the hands of newly elected council
control o the parliamentary reichstag faction,
which would have ultimate decision in all mat
tiers placed before it. Against this autocratic
system the young ones vehemently rebel.
Meetings have been held all over the country,
which have adopted resolutions pro and con
the new programme. but there can be no doubt
whatever that after I prolonged and certainly
very animated debate between the
friends and opponents OF Bebel, the old party
demigod, with his financial supporter, Singer,
will eventually win the day Several meetings
already held have been
MARKED BY VIOLENT DISORDER,
and in some blood was shed. The Berlin Madge-
burg sections with Willie, Muller, Hanisch and
Kessler thus far still in the minority and
seem certain to remain so. At the Halle congress
faction will doubtless be adopted by a goodly
majority the working programme of the
Socialistic party in the near future, but there
are signs that point to the later triumph of the
Willie faction if for no other reason than it is a
progressive body, while the Bebel-Singer fac
ton is becoming SO conservative as to check the
principle of even healthy growth.
DEMAND FOR BETTER SERVICE.
There is plainly perceptlble growth of public
sentiment in favor of a change in the present
style of passenger carriages on English rail-
roads. The people are realizing that much
of the discomfort attendant upon travel could be
az oided by the introducing OF cars something
like the American plan. The first-class carriages
now in quite satisfactory. but as the
saying goes, Lords and fools ride first-class,''
and the phrase is sometimes amended to
Chords, fools and Americans The second
class carriages most of the lines
fairly comfortable and decent, but at best
are stuffy and small. The great bulk of travel
&c III rd lose nd uat n he md
who shall say a good word for the ''thirdsi''
On some lines they are little better than cattle
trucks, ana the most forlorn, low-roofed, old
fashioned smoking car a remote single-track
rallroadin America is luxurious IN comparison
with some of the third-class railway carriages
that Englishmen continue to travel in every