The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1892-03-03
A CONSPIRACY.
Imperial Family Was to Have Been
Taken Prisoners.
The German Government Said to BE
Rather Gratificd by the Disorderly
Demonstration, Because the Con-
spiracy Has Been Unearthed.

LONDON, Feb. ga Berlin dispatch
says that the police of that city claim
to have already got on the track of a
socialist conspiracy, as the origin of
the present troubles. This conspiracy
appears to have no connection with
the socialist-democratic 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 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 gratified 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 revolutionists alone, but also at the
regular socialist democratic party,
which is looked upon as much more
dangerous to the monarchy than the
rabble who come out to be shot.
The workingmen 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-
ceeding. The plan, it is rumored, was
nothing less than the capture
OF the palace and the imperial
family, or as many members of the
family as could be taken, and hold
ing them as hostages, while debating
terms to the state. 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-
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 final
and desperate resort Such, in outline,
is the scheme represented as having
been carefully and deliberately planned
,yyf se<,
liamentary agitation too timid and slow.
The London police a.'e 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-
tectives who have been in England for
several weeks, following up the Wal
sail case, are, it is reported, of the
same opinion as 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 We're prob
ably not themselves aware of the ex-
tent of the chain of which they formed
link, their business being chiefly the
manufacture of weapons to be used by
others on the continent. In arresting
the dynamiters and seizing their am
munition, it is suggested that the Lon
don police may have been greatly in
strumental in preventing a more seri-
GUS outbreak than that which surprised
the German emperor on Thursday.