Los Angeles daily herald., 1890-02-23
THE FATHERLAND.
Surprises Of the Recent Elec-
tiOns.
THE KAISER LEARNS A LESSON.
There Was Wisdom In Bismarck &
COunsel-Remarkable Growth
of Socialism.
Associated Press Dispatches to the HERALD

Associated Press Dispatches to the HERALD
BERLIN, February 22.-[Copyrighted
1890 by the New York Associated
Press. Last night independent and
entirely reliable authority gave figures
showing that the Socialists had
actually twenty members, and had
good prospects to capture the city and
more seats on the second ballot. The
opposition in the Reichstag will involve
almost revolutionary notifications. The
most sanguine cartellers do not expect
that the second ballots will make such a
change in the result as seriously to
modify their defeat. The supreme ques-
tion is, how far will the Socialist SUCCESS
ultimately go. On Thursday their total
record of votes reached nearly million
and half. against IA, 900 in 1887. No
combination of their opponents seems
likely to head them off ON the second
ballot, and there are prospects of seeing
thirty.fve to forty Socialists seated in
the next Reichstag, against eleven in
the last Rsichstag. Another result sug-
gesting the growth of popular move
ment is the reappearance of the Volks
party or Democrats, 80 called. In the
Reichstag in 1884 this party held eleven
seats.
Taking the whole result together as it
stands in actual results, and as it is
likely to stand after the decision of the
second ballots, the prospect is that the
opposition will have 224 in the House,
against 173 for the Government groups.
This opposition will be made up as fol-
lows: Centrists or HUltramontanes, 10 !;
German Liberals, or Liberals properly
speaking, As; Socialists, 81; Volks
Partei, or Democrats, Z; Poles, IL Alsa.
tian Protesters, 12; Guelphs and Danes
together, IL. This is a very hetero-
genous opposition. held together by no
devotion to common purpose, but only
by the negative tie of objection yet it is
bound to give the Government some
lively times.
One of the incidents of the contest ie
the defeat of Professor Virchow, the
famous and popular man OF science, ana
distinguished Liberal, by Janiszewski,
a poor journeyman book-binder and
Pole. Herr Woesteann, Bismarck's
friend, the great Hamburg ship-owner,
and candidate of the National Liberals,
was defeated by Ditz, 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 of
operation of the law for the suppression
of Socialists, the great populous centers
of the country have become hotbeds of
Socialism. It is argued that since the
law expires in September next, the Gov
ernment must abandon the attempt to
repressH this movement by legislation, or
dissolve the Reichstag and appeal to the
nation on this special issue. The press
generally, in go far as it might give any
reflection of official feeling, refrains from
the attempt; but the Progressionist
papers recur their predictions that Bis
marck will Immediately resign the Presi-
dency OF the Prussian Ministry and be
succeeded by Botticher. Official opinion
on this subject favors the view that Bis
ma,ck 81 position has been strengthened
by the result of the elections.
The Emperor was confident that his
rescripts would check the successful
progress Of the Socialists. and is conss-
quently epraged at the discovery that
this was an illusion. Officials quote Bis
marck as saying the rescripts would as
sist the Socialist candidates and could
not weaken them. 1t is thought likely,
therefore, that the Emperor will return
to the guidance of Bismarck.
King Otto, Of Bavaria, is bedridden
and in the last stages of general psraly-
| sis.
At 9:45 tonight there are some addi
tional particulars known OF the election
the German Liberals claiming that theil
returns show that they have to contest
in supplementary elections for 62 seats
As 46 of these are against the carteller
and IA against the Socialists, they are
confident that their party will have il
the next Reichstag 65 to 20 votes.