St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-01-02
1t Continues to Bob Up in a
Most Aggravating Way
at Berlin.
The VorWaertS Shows That
. Ten Of the Benefleiaries
We're Officials.
Latest Information in Regard
to the Big Panama
Scandal.
DR.. Parker Delivers a Sem
sational New Years Day
Sermon.

BERLIN, Jan. 1.-The attempts of sew
eral newspapers to smother III ridicule
the Guelph fund scandal have pot sue
ceeded. The details given in the Vor-
waerts' article concerning the distribu-
ton OF the money are too minute
to be dismissed as mere fabrications.
The Social Democratic central COM
mittee is undoubtedly in possession of
information which corroborateS all of
the story published by their. organ.
Although Withholding for obvious
reasons the names Of the recipients
of the brides, the Vorwaerts III
dicates their occupation and
politics with eXaciness. Ten of the
men who were benefciaries of the fund,
it says, were officials of the empire.
Eight were generals, three were
Judges, eleven were journalists and
twenty-five were members of
the reichstag. The deputies in
question were mostly National
Liberals and Conservatives and received
sums varying between Sl,5C0 and 81, 700
each. Three of the principal bene-
ficiaries of the fund are believed to have
been intimate friends of King Ludwig
of Bavaria. The heaviest bribng, says
the Norwaerts, was done in 1886.
The VosSische Zeitung speaks more i'll
sympathy with public opinion when it
says: The social Democrats probably
have other weapons of the same sort in
reserve. France will exult that Ger
many, too, has her Panama scandal. The
present government is in an unpleasant
position, as it lacks means to prove the
authenticity or falSeness of the docu-
mentS held by the social Democrats.
The majority of the Berlin editors
speak fully as sharply against any pol
icy except one of full and immediate in
vestigation. There is no doubt, how
ever. that Prince Bismarck had the re-
ceiptS for money from the Guelph fund
purned every year after he had
submitted the report of eX-
DenditureS to the emperor. The
information supplied to the Vorwaerts
is believed TO have been gained for the
social Democrats by August Begel.
Should Begel be as disiugenuous as he
usually is in cases where an advantage
is to be acquired over the government, AN
investigation such as the one recon-
mended will be exceedingly perlous,
as the governments lack or means
would leave the social Democrats fairly
free to besmirch many high regulations
even ii they failed to command suffi-
clent proof to blacken them.
PARIS, Jan. "A dispatch to the
Matin from Berlin, referring to the
disclosures made by the German social
list organ VorWaertS, in regard to the
disposition made OF the Guelph fund,
says: Interest in the scandal ceHters
chiefly i'll the amount paid to the per-
sons who figured in the tragedy of the
drowning of King Ludwig, of Bavaria,
and the amounts paid to the physicians
and others who attended Emperor Fred
eriek in his fatal illness. 1t is supposed
thatth receipts which the Vorwaerts
refers to were purchased by Herr Bebel
from Zurich editor, who threatened to
publish them in 1891. The illusions
made are so pointed and trans
parent that the public is able
10 see WHO the beneticiarieS were. In
fact, these names now form the subject
of common talk. 1t is to be regretted
that the charge that Minister Won Boet-
ticher received money from the fund to
save his family from disgrace has never
been satisfactorily explained.