St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-05-28
Terms on Which the Leibep
Centrists Will Support
the Army Bill.
Peasant Societies in Bavaria
Assuming an Independ-
ent Position.
Socialists Taking Advantage
Of the Impotence Of the
Old Parties.
Caprivi's Organs Claiming
That the Government Is
Gaining Ground.

BERLIN, May 27.-The electoral out
look has been considerably cleared since
the issue by DR.. Lieber of the manifesto
of the Center, or Catholic, party. The
labored phraseology of the manifesto
and its long-winded sentences are
not calculated to impress the pub
lie, and have elected just
ridieule from the press. But
the declaration did not fail to inform
the government the price it must pay
for the support of the party in the new
reichstag. Behind the verbiage about
the intolerable military burdens i'm
posed by the empire and the advice to
the electors to take a decided
position against the army bill and
the Huene amendment to that
measure there lies the do ut des prin
ciple. I'VE shall transfer" says DR..
Lieber, "the Windthorst resolutions to
the new parliament, and use them as
our shining light in discussing all fu-
ture military questions" The Ger
mania, the clerical organ, has thought
it ecessary to explain to the Catholic
electors that this declaration means the
maintenance of the iuyoilability of the
late DR..
Windthorst's Demands
for the readmission into Germany of
the Jesuits and affiliated orders full
liberty to make terms with the govern
ment on the army bill.
The Lieber faction of the Center
party is, in short, ready to negotiate
with Chancellor Won Caprivi on the
basis of a repeal of the remaining re-
ligious disability in return for its ad-
hesion to the governments mill
tary demands. Protection to Ger
man agricultural interests is another,
but subordinate, plank in the man.
lfesto. The demand for reform in
taxation, the protest against monopo-
lists, and the suggested increase of the
taxation on luXurie8 contained IN the
manifesto are also secondary considera-
tions. That DR.. Lieber has the whip
hand of the party is most evident in the
passage referring to popular suffrage
and the rights of the federal states.
The refractionary Conservative organs
threaten that if the new reichStag- is
intractable the government will restrict
the franchise, and thus get an Obedient
parliament. The manifesto, i'll response
to This threat, declares that the highest
law is the constitution. adding: 1--WE
hold fast to the character of the empire
as federal state. The pregogatives of
the people are based upon universal,
equal,
Direct and Secret Suffrage.
To some of the aristocrats signing
the manifesto-men like Freysing,
Hompeoche, Buol, Bruel, Heeremah
and Won Zundwyk-this language is
foreign. Like puppets in DR.. Lieber's
hands they seem to have assented' to
the declaration without ponder
ing upon what it involved
Therefore, since Baron von Schorlemer-
Alst took the initiative i'll supplying
manifesto more taking to their aristo-
cratic tendencies, several of them. in
Herr Freyslng, pronose to join
the Won Schorlemer-Alst section. This
will lead TO disruption of the Center
party in Bavaria, even worse than the
breakup of the party in Prussia.
Another factor that is causing panic
action of the peasants So
cieties, which have hitherto always sup
ported the Centrist candidates. These
societies have now issued san
electoral address stating that their
representatives have up to this
time been cooperating in leg
islation ruinous to the peasant proprie-
tors, and paying altogether too much
a,siduous attention to religious queS-
tons. In the coming election, the mani
fsstO adds, the peasants societies Will
support only candidates who are de-
voted to
The Agricultural Interests
of the country, and who are reliable as
without regard to their relig
ious belief or social positions.
The Social Democratic party will turn
the disruption of the Centrists to the
best account. Herr Singer took the
field today, and he will stump Rhenish
Prussia and Westphalia. He announces
that he will speak on the action of the
reichstag, with special reference to
the attitude of the Center party.
Throughout SaXony, always a socialist
stronghold. the party seems to be all
.pQtent At the last election, out of the
tBenty-three members Saxony sent to
the reichstag, seven were socialists.
Unless present appearances are falsi-
fed eight more seats will be captured
at the coming elections. This will not
be because socialism has grown so
much. but because of the absolute dis