The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-05-14
.GERNAN ELECTIONCON7EST
Neither of the Parties Have Ac-
complished Much.
A COMPLICATED CONTEST.
Eight Candidates in the Field in Sew.
eraI Districts.
Government Organs Carefully Reproduce
Reports in French Papers as to How
France Rejoiced Over the Re-
lection of the Army Sill.

BERLIN, May i3.-The first week Of the
electoral struggle ends without any Of
the parties knowing where they stand
and without any OF them having any
thing reliable from which to forecast the
result of the contest for members of the
reichstag. Members OF the Social Democ-
racy alone seem to retain thorough grip
on their organization. They can reason
ably hope to secure fifty-five seats, a gain
of nineteen. 1t is thought that over
hundred second ballots will be necessary
to decide the election and therefore it is
highly probable that the end of summer
will have been reached before the house
is finally constituted. 1t is most likely
that it will then meet only to
hear the emperor's speach opening
the session and then adjourn untili the
period of opening, in October. In the
meantime, it is evident that parties will
be reconstructed on a platform in which
the army bill will have almost secondary
place. Each party seems determined to
eXpend every available resource in con-
testing districts which has the remotest
chance of success. Indeed, in some con-
stituencies each of the eight recognized
parties has a candidate in the field. The
contest is further complicated by class
interests which is demanding attention.
Government organs carefully reproduce
reports in French papers as to how France
rejOiced at the rejection OF the army bill,
adding sinister rumorS regarding the de-
signs OF the French government. They
also publish doubtful kilograms from
Strasburg, reporting that the French gar
risons along the frontier have already
been or are being reinforced and the
~ fr1~l 70 oil n rr,T-
diers and officers has been stopped. Ths
alarm which these organs profess to feel
has not spread among the people. Every
one knows that the rejection has neither
diminished the defensive strength of thoss
in the alliance nor added to frances
power of offensive. Outside of Chancellor
Won Caprivi's organs the idea IS ridiculed
that France and Russia viii attack Ger
many because the reichstag refused to
grant all the government demanded.
The annual Berlin art exhibition will be
opened to the public tomorrow. Among
the prominent paintings are Lenbach's
Bismarck and Guenter's Hussars at
Lgny.
An echo from some foreign quarter has
reached here in regard to the newly pub
lished ukase ordering the wholesale ex-
pulsion of Hebrews from the Russian Po-
land frontier. By inquiries made it is
ascertained that the only movement
against these Hebrews has been the dis
lodging at several places along the from
tier of a number of Hebrews who were
suspected of being engaged in smuggling.
Apart from the ordinary observance of
old DEGREES seemingly to keep the Hebrews
within fixed pales, no movement against
the race has taken place in Poland.
In autumn the maneuvers of the Ger
man army on the vastest scale ever at
tempted will be held between Treves,
Metz and Urasburg. Emperor William
has invited the emperor of Austria, the
king of Italy, the duke of York, the duke
of COnnaught, and all the German princes
to attend the maneuyers