Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-12

courts time. He said much about the un-
scrupulousness of Hebrews and the injury
they were to modern civilization, but ig-
nored the expert testimony of army officers
as well as the specific charges of the public
prosecutor.
The Judges were expected 10 return with
their decision within 10 or 10 minutes.
They remained in consultation, however,
for six hours, during which the widest
rumors as to acquittal or long term OF i'm
prisonment became current The light
ness of the sentence-but five months i'm
prisonment for insult, instead of libel
was general surprise.
The Anti -Semitics Very Jubilant.
The anti-Semitics are jubilant. and al
ready announce that the ex-rector will ap-
peal to a higher court As he is in debt
and has hardly 20-mark p iece that he can
call his own, it is evident that wealthy anti
Semitics are coming to his assistance for
the purpose of feeding popular feeling
against the Hebrews
The Conservative conference which
crowned the anti-Semitic agitators with its
Endorsement was an uproarious gathering.
Throughout its session a crowd of anti
Semitics of the Christian Social contingent
carried everything by storm, cheering
wildly every outbreak against the He
brews and bowling down every speaker
who suggested modification Of the anti
Semitic portion of the party programme.
This programme, moreover, had been de-
cided upon previously in a committee
packed with men of the Parson Stoecker
stripe. AS all the more liberal members of
the party had been excluded from this COM
mittee they absented themselves, with one
or two exceptions, from the conference
The kulturkampf Now Impossible.
Baron Manteuffel presided He made
powerful speech against the influence of
Hebrews in Germany's national life, and
expressed the belief that the Conservatives
could induce the Clericals, with their 108
imperial Deputies, to join them in the anti
Semitic movement Part of his speech on
this point was as follows:
In these days a revival of the Kultur.
kampf is impossible We must live in peace
with our Roman Catholic fellow.citizens,
most of whom are good Conservatives in
principle. and together with the Cler1cals
and Conservatives, must maintain a nrm
attitude against the Hebrews and the Social
Democrats.
The only vigorous denunciation of the
anti-Semitio policy was made bv Herr
BlumenthaI, who ignored Herr Won He'll
dorff's request that he should absent him.
self from the conference as he preferred to
warn the party against the dangers of its
present course. He denounced Ahlwardt
as a conscienceless and irresponsible dems-
gogue, and as type of the Jew-Daiters who
were using the Conservative party merely
as a means to their own ends.
These truths were unpalatable to the
audience, who protested so loudly that the
speaker was obliged to shout with all his
power of lungs to make himself heard
The SociaI-Democratic Movement.
After disposing of the anti-Semitic ques-
tion the conference discussed the Social
Democratic movement. The majority were
at first inclined to handle the Socialists
without gloves, but the sentiment of the
conference Was changed by protest from
Parson Stoecker. The Anarchists had no
claim to consideration, he said, but it would
be grave mistake to class Anarchists and
Social-Democrats together Anarchy wasa
mere fungus growth on Social-DemocracY.
Large numbers of Social-Democrats were as
devotedlv attached to Grown and Father
land as we're the Conservatives The Social
Democrats should not be treated as outcasts,
but as men who had strayed from true po-
litical principles Christian love and fore
bearance should be brought to bear upon
them, that they might be brought back to
the fold whence they had strayed. This
appeal led to the expunging of the objec-
tionable anti-SoeiaIist paragraph from the
programme