The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1892-03-05
A CONSPIRACY.
Imperial Family Was to Have 6een
Taken Prisoners.
Tho German tGovernincnt Said TO lie
Rather Gratiilcd by the DlsorderIy
Demonstration, Because the Com
spiracy Has Been Unearthod.

Tho German tGovernmont Said TO lie
Rather Gratliicd by the Dlsorderly
Demonstration, Because the Com
spiracy Has Been Unearthod.
LONDON, Feb. 30 "A Berlin dispatch
says that the police of that city claim
to have already got on the track of n
socialist conspiracy, as the origin of
the present troubles. This conspiracy
appears to have no connection with
the socialist-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 to accomplish their aims with
out resort to force or disorder Their
great gains in the Reichstag in recent
years seem to justify their expectations
of a constitutional victory, and they re-
gard the anarchists and revolutionists
who claim the party name, while refus-
ing to accept its policy, as the worst
enemies of the social democracy Hence
the bitter denunciation of the rioters
in the Vorwarts, the organ of the
party.
The government, on the other hand,
is said to be rather gratilicd 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 ut
the revolutionists alone, but also at the
regular socialist democratic party,
which is looked upon rs much more
dangerous to the monarchy than the
rabble who como out to be shot.
The workingmcn who were induced
to march against the Alte Schloss. as
the ancient castle of Prussian loyalty
is called, are not supposed to have had
any share in the plan of the agitators
who melted them to their mad pro-
cceding. The plan, it is rumored. was
nothing less than the capture
of the palace aud the imperial
family, or as 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 a blow
that would secure their own safety by
preventing the use of the military in an
! attack that would endanger their pris.
| oners They hardly hoped to capture
the emperor, but, even If he escaped, it
was thought that solicitude 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 as the fna
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 tha
there is some connection between the
| WalSall anarchists, recently detected
in the manufacture of dynamite bombs
and the Berlin conspiracy. 1t has beer
believed from the first that the wcap
ons were intended for Germany, al
though the time and tpacc of their use
had not been developed. German de
tectivcs who have been in England fol
several weeks, following up the Wal
sail case, arc, it is reported, of this
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 forme,
link, their business being chiefly tn
.f.. l.. L L.
others on the continent, In arrestinI
the dynamitcrs and seizing their am
munitinn, it is suggested that the Lon
don police may have been greatly in
strumcutal in preventing y more ser
ous outbreak than that which surprise
the German emperor on Thursday