Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1892-03-05
A CONSPIRACY.
Imperial Family Was to Have Been
Taken Prisoners.
Ihe German Government Said to Re
Rather Gratiiled by the Disor,ierIy
Demonstration. because tho Con.
spiracy Has Becn Uaearthed.


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LONDON, Feb. % "A Berlin dispatch
says that the police of that city claim
to have already got on the track Of a
socialist conspiracy, rs the origin of
the present troubles. This conspiracy
appears to have no connection with
the soclalist-dcmocratic party, but to
be the work of men who broke off from
the recent congress of that party, be-
cause it would not adopt revolutionary
views. Socialist democrats are strict
ly in favor of constitutional agitation.
and hope 10 accomplish their aims with.
out resort to force or disorder Their
great gains in the Reichstag in recent
years seem to justify INTERPRETATIONS
of constitutional victory. and they re-
gard the anarchists aud fevolu1ionists
who claim the party name. while refus-
ing to accept its policy, rs the worst
enemies of the social democracy. Hence
the bitter dcnunciaton of the rioters
in the Vorwarts, the organ of the
party.
is said to be rather gratiiicd by the dis
orderly demonstrated, both because the
conspiracy behind it has been unearth-
ed and because it is hoped the violence
exhibited will form an excuse for Sc.
we're forms of repression, aimed not at
the rcvolutonists alone, but also at the
regular socialist democratic party
which is loo'<cd upon rs much more
dangerous TO the monarchy than the
rabllo who come ont 10 be shot
The workingmcn who were induced
to march against the Alte Schloss. as
the ancient castle Of prussan loyalty
is called, are not supposed to have had
any share in the plan OF the agitators
who melted them to their mad pro-
crcding. The plan, it is rumorcd, was
nothing less than the capture
nl the palace and the imperial
family, or MS many members of the
family rs could be taken, and hold
ing them as hostages, while debating
terms to the stale. The revolutionists
intended in this way to strike blow
that would secure their own safety by
preventing the use of the military in an
attack that would endanger their pris-
oncrs They hardly hoped to capture
the emperor but, even if he escaped, It
was thought that solcitude for the
safety of his household would deter him
from vigorous measures against the an.
archists holding his family captive.
Another part of the plot is said To have
been to introduce dynamite into the
castle, and blow it to pieces rs the final
and desperate resort Such, in outline,
is the scheme represented as having
been carefully and deliberately planned
by the extremists, who considered par.
liamentary agitation too timid and slow
The London police are convinced that
there is some connection between the
Walsall anarchists, recently detected
in the manufacture Of dynamite bombs,
and the Berlin conspiracy. 1t has been
believed from the first that the weap-
ons were intended for Germany, al.
though the time and place of their use
had not been developed. German de
tcctivcs who have been in England for
several weeks following up the Wal
sail case, are, it is reported, Of the
same opinion rs the Scotland Yard.
The Walsall conspirators received
money, it is known, from Germany,
and were frequently visited by persons
having the German characteristic
appearance of German anarchists.
The Walsall dynamitards were prob.
ably not themselves aware of the ex-
tent of the chain of which they formed
a link, their business being chiefly the
manufacture of weapons to be used by
others on the continent. In arresting
the dynamitcrs and scizirg their am.
munition, it is suggested that the Lon.
don police may have been greatly In.
strumcntal in preventing more seri.
GUS outbreak than that which surprised
the German emperor on Thursday.