St. Paul daily globe., 1893-06-25
BARELY A MAJORITY.
Progress Of German Bye
Elections Supports Ca
privi's Calculation.
Government May Have 1919
Out Of 397 Votes in the
Reiehstag.
The First Riehterist Elected
in the First Berlin
District.
Enormous Increase Of the
Vote Of the Anti-Semite
Party.

BERLIN, June 24.-The progress of
today's by-elections appears to sup
port the governments calculation that
the reballoting will give it sixty-nine
seats. Taking the adherents of the army
bill elected On the first ballot at 13O, the
government will thus have in the new
reichstag 100 votes out of 397. A bare
majority of enc vote is not much to re-
joice over. yet the government organs
express content with the result of the
voting. In Berlin today phenomenal
quiet prevailed in the Second district,
where second ballot was taken to de-
eide which party would have the
seat. The National Liberals and
Centrists voted for Prof. Ru-
dOlph Virchow, the candidate
of the Radical Peoples party, but the
united strength Of the three parties was
not sufficient to defeat Herr Fischer, the
candidate of the Social Democrats. Ow-
ing TO abstentions from voting on the
part of the Conservatives in the First
Berlin district, where a reballot was
also necessary, DR.. Lengerhaus, Rich
terist, scored the first success yet cred
tied to the party or faction. DIR. Len
gerhaus polled S,743 votes against 6.459
cast for Herr Taeterow, who stood in
the interest of the Social Democratic
party. The success of DR.. Lengerhaus
was
Partly Due TO the support
given him by the National Liberals and
Centrists. Every where the Social Dem
ocrats are polling their last man, while
the coalitions against them are irregular
and indolent. A feature of the cam
paign has been the appearance of
large number of foreign Socialists,
CZechs and Austrians, who are assisting
the canvass of German brethren. The
Freisinnige Zeitung sent out regiment
of men carrying sandwiches for the
voters of the Freisinnige party, and
they were seen today patrolling the
streets in the vicinity Of the polling
places. The weather in Berlin today
was rainy and sultry. Up to o'clock
barely 25 per cent of the electors had
cast their ballots, but after that hour
they came in rolling tide, the work
ingmen swelling the Socialists totals.
Baslng the calculation on the most re-
liable data, the aggregate Socialist vote
will fall short of the 2,000,006 predicted
by the Vorwaerts and the Cologne
Gazette. 1t is estimated that the vote
will show an increase of 1920 over
that poled in 1890. The Anti-Semitic
vote is calculated at 100000, being ten
times the number of votes cast by that
party in 1890. Both sections of the
Freisinnige party east total vote of
100000, loss of 214.3O0 votes since 1890.
The Enormous Increase
in the anti-Semitic vote accounts for the
failure of the Socialists to reach the
figure they expected, the anti-Semitics
drawing large proportion Of their
gains from electors who would other
wise have voted for Social Democratic
candidates. The papers now recall how
Prince Bismarck favored the anti-Se-
mitic agitation at its inception as a
safety valve to the movement against
capitalism. Chancellor Won Caprivi,
also speaking at the last session Of the
reichstag. said that both the anti-Se-
common source. The Vorwaerts,
therefore, justly holds that LARGE part
OF the anti-Semitic vote ought to be
placed to the credit of Socialism.
The speech of Emperor William,
opening the session of the relohstag, is
awaited with much anxiety, as report
wdens that his language Will menace
restriction of the suffrage. In an in
terviow today prominent minister
said that the government neither antici-
pated q further dissolution of the
reichstag, nor any encrOachment on the
suffrage. On the contrary, he hoped
that all entente between the dominant
political groups would be effected and
the aruy bill speedily passed. Chan
cel'or von Capriyi, DR.. MIGUEL. DR..
Stephan and other political notabies
Voted for Lancrilaus
today. With this decisive example be-
fore them Of ministers actually sup
porting ali opponent OF the bill ratnor
than TO slow o Socialist to triumphant,
adhesion by electors 10 government
candidates, where they are opposed by
Socialists, has become secured.
All the ministers voted az IL o'olnok
in the forenoon. so as 10 allow the goters
on the second ballots throughout. lhe
country 70 know their position. Th!a
had its effect. Thus at Speier the Uen
ter party Withdrew its support from she
Socialist-Egnalt. In other districts a
secret arfahgepen: for an exchange of
Cen;ri:t and SOCIALIST votes collapsed.
IlStI fttcutel viii piOONUiy ot lct'lCu
from the leadership OF the F!eislanlge
party. The Tagebla,t and other organs
demand his rssignation, as they nold
him Responsible for the exstnoson Of
the party. Personally Herr Richter
gives 20 eign Of defeat. He is energetic,
cheerful and confident OF the carly re-
construction Of the FreisingiVe party.
ssospd Ballot ls scsuiss.
sevsh;y-aye constltuenoies were kSown
the list OK candidates aleetsd on june
IS, tie strength oi the parties. ic Tar a
known, was: Ciericals, rs; Social
democrats, Al; Conservatives and
Aerarians, So; National Liberals, @;
Radical Unionists, Ii; Poles. 10:
Fren Conservatives. Il; Government
Ciericals. IL, South German Democrats.
g.; Alsatisns, Z; Richter Radicals, .a;
Anti-Sernites, s.; Guelphs. !; Danes, :;
Bavariau Peasants league. !; Bayarisn
Partioularist, 4. Or these deputies 1t8
are counted with the opposition and $50
with the government. The main feat
ures of yesterdays elections were The
wrestling OF Essen from the Ciericals by
Cannon King Krnpp, the retirement
Of Prof. Rudolph Virehow TO private
life at the end of his thirteenth year in
the reichstag: the defeat Of Max
Broemel, The leader Ok the dlssideni
Radicals. by the Socialists in Steitln;
the victory in Halle of d.. Alexander
Never, also a dIssident Radical leader.
over tile Social Democrat who hold tho
seat in the last reichstag, and the cleo
tion in Hangen of Eugene Richter, tue
leader of TIE remnant Of the opposition
Radical party.