Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-07-02
STORY OF BISMARGK'S FALL.
The Old Kaiser Had Determined to
OPPOSE the Chancellor.

III kaust--h oTobS ftct bI NtpOtlbnls
New York World cablegram.
NJ LONDON, June 29-The Times to-
morrow morning will publish the fol-
Moving interview, which its correspon-
tleft, M. Blowitz, had with Count Won
IEIunstcr.
Its effect will no doubt be startling.
tIhrowing as it does an intense and brill
ptiant light on subject which has
llitherto been allowed to filter to the
Ipublic only through darkened channels.
III If the question is asked why such i'm
Uportant facts have hitherto been kept
back, the answer is simple
Count Won Munster did not feel iusti-
Ned in making the story public before,
{seeing how closely it would tread on
the heels of the facts themselves.
~ Now, however, Il sufficient time has
-Gtlapsed, and he has removed the re-
i u friction he placed upon himself, and
through M. Blowitz he tells the follow
ing remarkably interesting story in his
own words:
"On Wednesday, the 10Th of March,
last year, arrived in Berlin, and my
first call was on Prince Bismarck. I
was quite ignorant OF what had passed
on the previous day. The prince, after
We had exchanged our first greetings,
told me that he had resigned.
ale stated this in calm voice, with
smile on his lips, as if congratulating
himself on being able to resume the
n country life of which he was so fond,
a and being able, during the few remain
ing years left to him, to be himself
again, and to pass his whole time with
out being harassed by constant ankle
ties and worries.
a,.i, ,,J IL Al. l..
and attempted to make some objection,
but did not keep up this line long, for
the language, countenance and tone of
voice with which the prince said all this
\ much impressed me and, | should add,
filled me with admiration of him
m 81 discovered in him a wonderful
W philosophy. He spoke with the accents
A Of man who divests himself of his
honors and his power with ease and
manly resolution, and who, with the
satisfaction of having we'll occupied his
'- life and accomplished his duty, resumes
1 the path which leads him TO a nobly
won repose.
81 asked myself how such mans
place could be filled up, and | did not
comprehend how, in view of the atti-
tude he must to the last moment have
maintained, the young emperor could
have taken IL upon himself to part with
man who, by the self control Of which
he was now giving proof at so very
critical moment, showed what emf
nent services he might yet have rem
del lto~bis master. Yes, | confess, the
more the princes attitude excited my
admiration, the less could / account for
the emperor having decided on over
4 turning him, and still less could see
how such u man could be replaced.
"Ihis two-fold idea haunted me while
the prince was speaking, and thcn, as
koften happens in such circumstances,
N all at once called to mind, in full detail,
q two scenes which | had witnessed, two
81 conversations which | had heard, and
+ from that moment, while listening to
the princes monologue, | understood
a how the emperor could have conceived
Wand realized the idea Of provoking and
81 accepting the chancellor's retirement,
4 and what SUCCESSOR he would give him.
A 81 was clear from that moment on
Nthese two points. | knew the young
"A emperor sNperfect veneration for his
4 grandfather. put together this respect
Ii full homage and the first scene which my
ot mind called up the year before his death.
w. AT tea party which he attended the
old emperor, who had long been CON
versing with a lady, raised his voice so
Vi as TO be heard by me and by Others
a and uttered the following words, which
dt fixed themselves on my memory
n "Yes. ! assure you you do not sec
n things as close at hand as / do, but Bis
II marck has become very headstrong, and
il it takes all my strength of will TO put
up with him. But when am driven
10 extremities and things cannot go on
"a any further the choice of his successor
IN will not embarrass me, for it is already
M settled in my mind. 1t will be General
4 Won Caprivi'
al "On the lady looking amazed at this
5aN name, the Emperor William continued
AMI Yes; he is man not much known, but
Hg ! have had him under my orders.
Al had often talked with him, and, assure
III you, his appointment is the best choice
~ to be made, if il is ever Necessary to part
~ with Bismarck
n II was, therefore, almost convinced
u that Gen. Won Caprivi would arrive in
II office; for | knew the Emperor William
i. well enough to know that he must
n have held the same language to his
ri grandson, to whom he always repeated
N the next day the conversations he had
y had, and to whom lie must actually have
Repeated the one have just recalled.
"While | was talking with Prince
Bismarck and listening quite surprised
at the resignation with which he was
relating his resignation another of the
emperor's conversations came to my
npd and greatly lessened the surprise
oil ad at the iigst moment experienced
'.en Prince Bismarck informed me OF
'nisresignalioW.
81 remembered that good while be.
fore the Emperor William |. s death, al
a time when his health was pretty good
he atteHded punch given by his grand
\ son, tRe present emperor, to officers OF
y all aryns.
Z "P9ince Bismarck had shortly before
appointed his son, Count Herbert, his
secretary of state, minister OF foreign
affairs. The Emperor William l., speak.
ing (aloud and concealing nothing that
I he said from those who were listening
saif
Il 1T must be allowed that this young
NJ Count Herbert has got on prodgiously
K FIST under the rule of his father, and il
lci rs the greatest act of nepotism which
al politics have ever recorded
M "ltook the liberty of saying to the
,tci emperor, But how is it your majesty
Mr. mas not made the remark to him, for
nv ain that this act of favor, of such inn
Mid b,ftance for public affairs, has not es.
,resen tped your observations?
jhair,nss Why said the emperor, Il cannot
ttee was us moment part with the prince; he
bite Necessary to his country and is still
|, kew cessary to me. ! should readily have