St. Paul daily globe., 1893-06-16
BAD FOR The KAISER.
Probabilities Are the New
Refchstag Is Opposed to
the Army Bill.
Government Parties Have
Lost Three Seats and
Won One.
Social Democrats Poll an
Enormous Vote in the
Cities.
More Activity Displayed by
Socialists Than Any 9th
er Party.

BERLIN. June 16.-At o'clock this
morning returns from seventy districts
Indicate that thirty-siX have been car
ried by parties opposed to the army
bill, fifteen have been carried for the
parties favoring the bill, and nineteen
are in doubt between the government
and the opposition parties, with the
chances in the majority of them strongly
la favor of the government. The gov
ernment parties have lost three OF their
former seats, two to the RichteriSts or
Social Democrats, as the second bal
lots shall decide, and one to "a South
German Democrat. The government
has won one seat from the opposition.
heSocialDemecrats have won tWoSeats,
besides having secured many chances
for new victories on the second ballot.
A singular feature of their two accom-
plished victories in the new fields is
that they won at the expense of the
Richter Radicals, also enemies of the
army bill, and not as was expected. at
the expense of the National Liberals,
the friends of the bill. Although the
Social Democratic gains are undoubtedly
enormous, they will not prove so large
probably as the reports so far have in
dicated. The returns from the cities
come in first, and it is in the cities that
the Social Democratic candidates
always run best.
Hot Day to Vote.
Election day brought tropical heat to
all parts of the empire. In Berlin the
pavements were sc0rching. Apparently
the election has been a notably quiet
one. In Berlin there was absence of all
excitement. The weather. classes
seemed to be apathetic as to the out
come of the elections The authorities,
fearing disorders among the voters OF
the lower classes, had troops and the
reserve police force keep ill their bar
racks so as TO be ready to suppress any
outbreak. Very few voters went to the
polls before noon. At that hour
the Worknen left the factories.
They walked in groups to the voting
stations and deposited their ballots.
The stations of the Fourth and Sixth
districts, located in Acker strasse,
Bruennen strasse, Chausser strasSe, the
Kottbuser strasse, the Frankfurter
StraSse and at the Rosenthaler Thor,
were crowded. Groups OF men sur
rounded the election posters searching
for information as to the locations of
stations at which they were to vote.
There are 628 stations in the city, 500 OF
them being iii taVernS and restaurants,
while the remaining 1913 are in school
buildings aud yestry halls.
Chancellor Won Caprivi and Dr.. Won
Boetticher, secretary of the imperial
home office, voted at the KaiSerhof sta
ton. They apparently believed in de-
posting their ballots as soon as posi-
bic, for they were
Among tie Earliest Voters
at the polls. All the officials attached
10 the postOffice received five hours
leave of absence i'll order that they
might vote. Arrangements were made
by which the tireInen also and the men
employed oe the tramWay and omnibus
lines might go to the polls in relays.
Each relay was allowed two hours for
voting purposes.
A number of men and women gath
cred at O'Clock yesterday morning at
the Book brewery, the headquarters of
the Socialists in the Second district,
where Fisher ran. They devoted them
selves to receiving orders for electoral
tickets, while others scattered leaflets
in behalf of the party, broadcast.
The Socialists displayed more act
ivity than any of the other po-
litical groups. Women seemed to be as
deeply interested in the success of the
Social Democrats as were the men of
the party, and they labored in every
way to aid the candidates. Early i'll the
day the Social Democrats were reused
by a dispatch to the Saale Gazette lib
eraD to the effect that Fritz Kunert,
Social Democratic candidate in the
Halle district had been arrested on a
charge of melting to theft while he was
making his last campaign speech.
This dispatch, however, was followed
during the afternoon by others, from
which the social Democrats could draw
only encouragement. At the headQuar
tiers Of the executive committee tele
gram after telegram brought news of
Social Democratic gains. An enormous
vote evidently was being poled for
socialist candidates in the Rhine pro-
vinces, SaXOny, Hamburg, Frankfort on
the Main and other industrial centers.
The agrarians were highly elated when
they learned in the afternoon that
Count EEerbert Bismarck
1dd run so unexpectedly we'll in the
Jerichow district that a reballot proba.
bly, would be necessary. The general
expectation was that Count Herbert
would be beaten easily by his free trade
antagonist. The early afternoon re-
ports brought eqnally surprising news
from the first Berlin district, where Col.
Won Egidy, anti-Semite, was said to be
polling a heavy vote among the wealth.
est and best educated voters. His
candidacy was ridiculed during the
campaign by all the Liberal newspa-
pers. The fight was supposed before
today to be between his Socialist and
Rchterist opponents. Not small part
of Col. Won Egidy's anti-Semite support
is due 10 the efforts which Berlin society
women have made in his interest. Cur
iouSly enough, many Jews from the
bourse also supported him.
At o'clock nothing positive was
known of the results of the election, al
though dispatches from 120 electoral
districts indicated that the Socialists
had secured thirty of them, and the
ConservatIsts, Richterists (i{adical Peo-
ple's parity and Liberal ClerIcals had
divided the other ninety among
them. Between 4 and O'clock the
heat increased almost beyond endur-
ance in the street. The beer halls
and cafes became crowded with men
anxious to get the first news from the
polls, and enormous quantities of beer
and wine were drunk. All the work
men left the shops shortly after 4
O'clock. At first they thronged the
streets near the polling stations, then,
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