Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1893-05-14

can't feature OF the campaign as regards
South Germany.
Each party seems determined 10 cxpend
every available resource in contesting dis
tficts where II has tho remotcst chance of
success INDEED, IN manN instances candi-
oates Will stand in districts where success
appears impossible. Thus in Berlin the
tentr'sts Will contest every district.
although they know the Catholic vote -
certain TO be swamped by tho immense
prcponderance OF the FreIsinnige and
Socialist votes. In some constituencies
each OF the eight recognized parties has q
candidate IN the field.
CLASS INTERESTS.
The contest is further complicated by
class interests, which are demanding at
tcntion. The Agrarian League demands
special pledges before giving it's support
TO candidates, tho trading guilds insist
upon being heard. and the anti-Semites,
blmctallsts. and host of faddists arc
making turmoil, which will not cease
until the frs, days balloting clears the
atmosphere and brings into prominence
the grand principles at stake.
The retirement OF Count Ballestrem and
other Ccntrist leaders is under reconside-
ration. The bulk of the party shrinks
from the prospect of DIR. Lieber becoming
the leader of the party. Under him tho
democratic evolution of the party would
proceed AZ full pressure. The aristocratic
element OF tho party views such pros
poet with dlsmay.
LIEBEH TOO VIOLENT.
Dr. Iieber's recent declaration that he
was Prussian against hrs will and his nj
tacks on the monarchical principles rs re-
prosentei ~ Emperor William have made
u impossible for him 10 be recognized as
chief Of q united Centre party.
The two wings OF the Fresinnige party
have stegted in with opposing candidates
~ Berlin and elsewhere. The provincial
freislnriEe organizations. however, genc-
rally supper, Herr Eugene Richter. the
leader Of the faction known as the Radical
Peoples party.
TIE GOVERNMENT CAMPAIGN.
The government organs carefully repro
duce tEe reports IN French papers as 10
how France Is rCiUiced at the rejection Of
tho army bill, adding sinister rumors re-
garding the designs OF The French govern
m~nt. They also publish doubtful tele-
grams Rom Strasbourg, reporting that the
French EGrrisons along tho frontier have
already been or are being reinforced, and
that the granting OF furloughs TO all
French soldiers and officers has been
stopped. The alarm which these organs
profess 20 feel has not spread among tue
people. Every one knows that the rcjec-
ton has neither diminished the defensive
strength of the Triple Alliance nor added
20 frances power of offence. Outside Of
Chancellor Won Caprivis organs the idea
IS ridiculed that France and Russia VIII
attack Germany because the Rolcnstag re-
fused 10 grant all the government de-
manded.
ALLESED ATTl-HEDETw OUTBREAK A MYTH.
An echo from some foreign quarter has
reached here of nowly-publishcd uka5e
ordering the wholesale expulsion of He
brews from the RUSSIAN Poland frontier.
by inquiries made 1t las been ascertained
that the only movement against these H.
brews has been the dislodging at several
places along the frontier of q number Of
Hebrews who were suspected Of being en-
cagei IN smuggling. The families thus re-
moved can settle in the interior. Apart
from the ordinary observance OF the old
DEGREES aiming To keep the Hebrews with
in fixed palcs. no movement against the
race has taken place IN Poland. The al
legged outbreak OF persecution IS myth.