The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1893-06-25
GERMAN BYE ELECTIONS
GOVERNMENT WILL HAVE a B.tRE
MAJ0RITY IN THE KEICHsTAG.
Social Democratic Displaying Wonderful
Activity-Richter Ia be Retired ~
Leader Of HE Party.

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days bye elections appears to support the
Governments calculation that the re-
baloting will give IL sixty-nine seats.
Taking the adherents OF tie Army bill
elected on the first ballot at l3o. the
Government will thus have In the new
Reichstag l99 votes out OF 3T. a bare
majority OF one vote Is not much to re-
joice over. yet the Government organs
express content with the result.
In Berlin Thursday the phenomenal
quiet prevailed in the Second district,
where second ballot was taken.
The National-Liberals and Centrists
voted for Professor Rudolf Nirchow, the
candidate of the Radical Peoples party.
but the united strength of three parties
was not SUFFICIENT TO deftat Fischer. the
candidate OF the eocinl-Democrats
Owing to the absence from the voting
on the part of Conservatives in the First
Berlin district. whore a reballot is also
necessary DR.. Langerhaus Richter $50
cialisD scored the first success yet
credited TO that party or faction.
The success of Langerhaus was partly>
due 70 the support OF the Natlonal-I.ib-
eral ard Centrists.
Everywhere the Social-Democrats are
polling their last man. wftie the coalitions
against them are irregular ana indolent.
Personally Richter gives no signs OF de-
feat. lie Is energetic. cheerful and con-
iident OF the early reconstruction of the
Freisnnlge party.
feature Of the campaign has been
the appearance OF large number OF
foreign Socialists, Czechs and Austrians,
.x~k... H. a
man brethren. F'reisinnlge sent out a
regimerI of men carrying sandwiches for
the voters of the Freisinnige party, and
they were seen to-day patrolling the
streets In the vlnclnity OF the polling
places.
The weather In Berlin to-day IL sutry.
Up to o'clock barely 25 per cent. of the
eiectors had cast their ballots, but after
that hour they came In "A rolling tide, the
workingmen swelling the Socialists totals.
Easing the calculation on the most
reliable data, the aggregate Socialist
vote will fall short of The two million
predicted by the vorwaertr and the
Cologne Gazette. II n esttmated That the
vote will siIow an intrhase OF 373,pD0
over that polled IN 1890 IRE anti ser,l-,
tic vote is calculated at Copo09 being
ten times the number cast by that bastyiu
1880. Both sections OF tho Ffeif innfxe
party cast total vote OF 10000. o id,s.
Of 3l4,300 votes since 1890. The ef.or~
nous increase in the anti-Semitic vote
accounts for he failure OF the Socialists
to reach the hgue they expected. the anti
Semites drawing a large proportion OF
their gains from electors who would
otherwise have voted for Social Demo-
cratic candidates.
The papers recall how Prince Bismarck
Ia, he o,tt oft
its inception as a preventative 10 the
movement against capitalism.
Chancellor Won Caprivi also, speaking
at the last session Of the Reichstag, said
that both the anti-Semitic and Socialist
streams come from a common source.
The Vorwaerts, therefore, Justly holds
that large part OF the anti-Semitic vote
ought 10 be placed to the credit OF So
cliaiisrn.
The speech OF Emperor william open
ing the session of the Reichstag, Is await
ed with much anxiety as report widens
that his language will menace restric-
tion OF the suffrage.
In an interview to-day a prominent
minister ssid that the Government peith.r
anticipated a further dissolution OF the
Reichstag nor any encroachment IN the
suffrage. On the contrary. he hoped that
an entente between dominant political
groups would be effected and the Army
bill speedily passed. Chancellor Won Ca
priw. DR.. Miguel. DR.. Stephan and other
political notabilities voted for '.any,r-
haus to-day. With this decisive example
before them ministers actually supD1'.-
ing an opponent OF the bill rather than
TO allow a Socialist to triumph, adhesion
by electors 10 Government candl iases
where they are opposed by Socialists has
become secured.
All the ministers voted at II o'cl)c in
the forenoon so as to allow tho vo-ers
on the second ballots throughout the
country no know their position This
had it's effect Thus at Speier. the centre
party withdrew its support from the
Socialist Erhat. In other districts Sc
cret arrangement for an exchange OF
Centrist and Social votes collapsed.
Richter will probably be retired from
the leadership Of the Freisinnige party.
The Tageblatt. Vossisch Zeitung and
other organs demand his resignation. as
they hold him responsible for the cx-
tlnction OF the party.
The results OF the second ballots In sew
enty-nve constituencies were known at
with these additions 10 the
list OF candidates elected June 18th. the
strength OF the parties, as far as known,
was.
servatives and Agrarians. So: National
Liberals, 80; Radical unionists, II; Poles.
l3; Free Conservatives. II; Government
Clerlcals. II. South German Democrats.
s: Alsatians. 7; Richter Radicals, ~; Anti
Semltes. r: Guelphs. T. Danes. T. Bava-
rlan Peasants League. !; Bavarian Par
ticularists, l.
OF these deputies lis are counted with
the opposition, and l39 with the Govern
ment.
The main features Of yesterdays elec-
tions were the Wrestling OF Essen from
the ClericaIs by Cannon King" Krupp,
the retirement Of Professor Rudolph Nir-
chow 10 private lie at the end OF his
thirteenth year In the Reichstag, the
defeat of Max Brooemelt. the leader OF
the Dlssident Radicals. by the Socialists
I'm Stettin: the victory I'm Halle Of DIR.
Alexander Meyer, also dlssident Kadi-
cal leader, over the Social Democrat
who held the seat In the last Relchsfag,
and the election In Hagon Of Eugene
Richter. the leader 81 the remnants OF
the opposition Radical party.