The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-02-23
GERMAN ELECTIONS.
The Socialists Win Many Of the
Seats.
BISMARCK IS JusTlF.s o.


Copyright hy Ns~ York Associated rs~sa
bERIax. Feb. LAST night an insfepen :
dent and entirely reliable authority gave
agures showing the socialists had actually
twenty members. and had good prospects
20 capture thirty more seats on the second
ballot The opposition in the Rsichstag
wii involve almost revolutionary mclifsea-
tons The most sanguine carseaiers do
not expect the second ballot viii make
such change in the result as to seriously
modify their defeat The supreme question
Is bow viii the socialist successes uits-
mately 60. Thursday their total recorded
votes reached nearly 1.5O.oW asains /
7s4.0Do in lsS-.
No combination Of their opponents
seems likely 20 head them OF on second
ballot. and there Is . prospect Of seeing
thirfy-nve to forty Socialists seated in the
Eext rsichstsg as against eleven in the last
Another result suggestive of the growth Of
the popular movement is the reappearance
OF the voik%partei. or Democrats, 50.
called In the reichssag of 1854 this party
held eleven seats. Taking the whole result
together Is II stands in actual results. and
as Il II likely to stand after the decision on
second ballot the prospect Is that the op-
position will have "a in the house against
i7a for the government groups.
This opposition will be made up as fol-
lows: Centrists or Ultra Monsanes, 10;
German Liberals. or Liberals properly
speaking, IS: Socialists, 81; Noltsparter or
Democrats. :; Poles. II; Alsatian Pro-
testers. IL; Guelphs. Il. This is very
heterogeneous opposition, held together by
10 devotion 10 = common purpose. bat by
the negative tie Of objecsicn yet, il Is
hound TO give the government some lively
times.
One Of the incidents Of the contest Is the
defeat Of Professor virchow. the famous
and populsr man OF science and disiin-
guished Liberal. by Janeisjewski. poor
journeyman hookhinder and Pole. Herr
Woertann, Rismarck's friend. the great
Hamburg shipowner and candidate cf the
national Liberals. was defeated by Metz.
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 oper-
alton Of the law for the suppression Of
socialists, the great pcpulous centers of the
country have become the hotbeds OF social
ism. It Is argued that since the Law ex-.
pires in September next, the government
must abandon the attempts 70 repress this
movement By legislation or dissolve the
ssichstag and appeal to the nation on this
special issue.
The press generally. In 50 far - IL might
give any reflection OF ofacial feeling, re-
Trains from the attempt. but progressionist
papers recur 70 thair predictions that Bis
marck viii Immediately resign the prcsi-
dency Of the Prussian ministry and b sue
ceeded by BostiirchcF.
OnRcial apinien on this subject favors the
view that Bismarck's position has been
strengthened by the resnit of the election.
The emperor Was confident that the Re-
scripts would check the successful progress
of the Socialists. and is consequently en-
ragged at the discovery that this was al an
illusion. Oncials quote Bismarck as say
ing that the "Rescripts would assist the
Socialist candidates and could not weaken
them" It Is thought. therefore. that the
Emperor viii return to the guidance OF Bis
marck.
Otto, OF Bavaria. Is bedridden. and In the
last stages Of general paralysis.
At 9:45 tonight there are some additionass
particulars known Of the election. The
German Liberals claim that their returns
show that they have to contest in supple
mentary elections sixty-two seats. As
forty-six Of these are against Cartellers and
fourteen against socialists they are conf
dent that their party viii have in the Reich
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