St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-02-23
No Combination Of Their OPP
ponents Seems Likely to
Head Them OFF.
The Backbone Of the Cartel
Combination Broken at
the Polls.
Revolutionary Notifications
in the Composition of the
ReiehStag.
Kaiser William Is Now Will
ing to be Led by Bis
maPek.

BERLIN, Feb. 22.-Oficial influence
and the bureaucracy system are pulling
together to delay the official returns of
the election, and to atJenuate the i'm
pOrtance of the success of the Socialists
at the polls. Last night an independ-
ent aud entirely reliable authority gave
figures showing that the Socialists had
actually elected twenty members and
had a good prospect to capture thirty
more seats ON the second ballots. The
semI-Official press records to-day the
election OF sixteen Socialists; other pa
perS say that nineteen Socialists are
elected. Slight divergenceS such as
this in the result will not altar the lead
ing and dominant fact that the Cartel
combination is destroyed. The COM
position of the reichstag will
involve almost revolutionary mod
ifications. The most sanguine
of the Cartellers do not expect that the
second ballots will make such change
in the result as to seriously modify their
defeat. The supreme question is, how
far will the Socialist successes ulti-
mately COP On Thursday their total
record of votes reached nearly 2.500.G 600
against a record of IA, 12S i'll the elec-
ton OF 1887. No combination of their
opponents seems likely to head them off
on the second hallHts. and thus we have
before US the prospect Of seeing thirty
five to forty Socialists
SEATED IN THE REICHSTAG.
This party held eleven seats in the
last reichstag. Another result suggest
I've Of the growth of the popular move
ment is the temperance or the VOlkS
partei. or Democrats, 5o-called. In
the reichstag of 1884 tnis party
held eleven seats. II vanished conf
pletely in the parliament OF 1881, for as
it stood in the borderland between the
German Liberals and the Socialists its
efforts became absorbed respectively In
these. It has now captured three seats
and has q fair prospect OF gaining eight
on the Second ballots. The position of
the German Liberals is doubtful. though
Herr Eugene Richter. its leader, pre-
diets that it will have fifty seats. 1t
now has thirty-five. As this party is in
German politics the one tnat' might
properly be called the Liberal party,
using that word without qualification
and as ii is ordinarily used in the dis
elimination of parties, this Increase is
to be hoped for Formerly, however,
the strength of this party was much
greater. The chief sufferer. however,
now and prospectively, is the National
Liberal Darty-the party of BennigSen
and MiQuei-and the backbone of the
Cartel combination. 1t is doomed TO
Teappear in the reichstag with the GER
tain
LOSS OF THIRTY SEATS.
In the last Teichstag it h I'd ninety
three seats. Taking the whole result
together as it stands in actual results,
and as il is likely 90 stand after the de-
ci5ion on the second ballots, the pros
pect is that the opposition will have 224
in the house, against l73 for the govern
ment groups. This opposition will he
made up as follows: Centrists, ar u
tra-mOntanes, 100; German Liberals, or
Liberals. properly speaking, IS: Social
lists, 81; Folks Partei. or Democrats, Z;
Poles, II; Alsatian ProtesterS. IL;
Guelphs and Danes together, IL. This
is very heterogeneous opposition, held
together by 10 devotion to a common
purpose, but only by the negative tie
of objection; yet it is bound to
give the government some lively
times, and to play a mOmentOus
part in the history of Europe. Some in
cidents of the contest are SO Strikingiy
notable that they ale likely to figure in
any historical record OF the caprices of
selection. One of these is the defeat of
Prof. VIrehOw. the famous and popular
man of science, and distinguished Lib
eral. He was defeated by JanisZewski.
iOurneyman boOkbinder, and a Pole;
a very old man and extremely poor,
who speaks broken German. Yet the
Second district of Berlin placed him at
the top of the poll because he has heen
the victim of repeated prosecutions.
Herr Woermann. Prince BiSmarck's
friend, a great Hamburg Ship-Owner.
and the candidate OF the NatiOnal-Lib-
erals. was defeated by DietZ. the social
list. This astunished the socialists them
selves. Hamburg is now
ENTIRELY IN THEIR HANDS.
The opposition press comments freely
uDun the fact that after twelve years of
the operation OF the law for the sup
preston of the Socialists the great pop
ulOuS centers of the country have be-
come hOtbeds of Socialism. Its argued
that since the law expires in September
next the government must abandon the
attempt To repress this movement by
Legislation or dissolve the reichstag and
appeal to the nation on this special
issue. The VOssische Zeitung attrib-
utes the defeat of the Cartel or govern
mrnt combination to the Increased bur-
den of taxation upon the poor people,
scripts. The Germania holds that the
condemnation of the government S ire
VOcable and that dissolution and the
election of new reichstag would only
confirm the result. Ii says that with
the socialist vote far beyond a million
the emperor should separate himself
forever from the Opportunsts aud
create body of serious social legisla-
ciOn. The KreuZ Zeitung traces the de-
feat to the aband, nment of religious
ideas as the basis of party union, and
urges the parties concerned, for the
maintenance of the existing order Of
things, to combine for joint action on
the second ballots. The Post and the
National Zeitung also urge union. while
tile North German Gazette declines to
discuss the results
UNTIL. THEY ARE COMPLETE.
The press generally, in so far as it
might give any reflection of official feel
ing. refrains from the attempt; but the
DrOgreSSist papers recur TO their
predictions that Prince Bismarck will
Immediately resign the presidency of
the PruSsiau ministry, and that he Will
be succeeded by Herr Boetticher. Of
fetal opinion OH this subject favOrs the
view that Bismark's position has been
strengthened by the result of the cleo
the rescripts would check the success
full progress of the Socialists, and he is
consequently enraged at the discovery
that this was all illusion. The officials
of the chancellerie quote Bismarck's
saying that 1.-THE rescripts would assist
the Socialist candidates and could not
weaken them" 1t is thought likely.
therefore. that the emperor will return
to the guidance OF Prince Bismarck.
This attributes to him capacity to take
a broad-minded view. 1t is very diff
cult for a smaII-minded man to admit in
the face of the world that he has made
great mistake. According to report
in the Nactrichten, the early assem-
bling of the labor conference is assured.
This report SAYS that Great Britain,
France, Italy, Switzerland. Belgium.
Holland, Austria. Hungary, Sweden and
Norway have consented to send dele
gates. while
RUSSIA HAS DECLINED,
on tho ground that her Industries are
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