Omaha daily bee., 1893-05-14
GER MANY'S ELECTION
Kaiser Wilhelm Sounded the Keynote in His
Tempelhofer Field Speech.
DEFEATED ARMY BILL WILL Be THE ISSUE
Efforts of the Emperor to Secure Reichstag
that Will Vote 1t,
OPPONENTS FIRM AND WELL ORGANIZED
Little Detection Noted in the Parties that
Composed the Last Body.
STRENGTH OF THE LIBERALS GROWING
Richter's New Party VIII BE More Power
ful than tho Old-A Majority of
Eighty Against the Bili
Is Now Predicted.

ICopprighted 1923 by James Gordon Benn.u1
BERLIN May 13-[New York Herald Gable
Special to THE BEE. We are in a calm
between two storms, the storm of dissolu-
tion, and the storm of coming elections In
the meantime the kaiser has struck the key
note on which the minority will make it's
fight, for he has branded in his remarkable
speech on the 'Cempelhofer field those who
do not vote for the army bill as unpatriotic.
The courage of the kaiser in thus throwing
his personality into the electoral vortex is
immense, but when, at the conclusion, he
said the people and army were with him. his
statement was very bold one, more espe-
cially as regards the people, who so far have
not in any way shown desire that the bill
should be passed. There are. it is true,
many people who were opposed to the bill
but who may be induced to vote for it, lest
worse may come. To these the speech of
the kaiser appeals. AS to the army, no
doubt the experienced officers are at heart If
not openly against the two years system.
The influential Frankfurter Zietung, in a
long article regrets deeply that the kaiser
should have been so misinformed as to
imagine the bill would pass in It's entirety
Also it deeply 1nplorne .huu cne' kaiser
should use words which, although he did
NV say lhc HdJoIllS WIS ulpiIIlpSlC, Will Dc
thus translated as it imagines from the will
of the speaker at the coming elections,
which were already bitter enough, and con-
tinues:
Some Strong Words.
From the new Reichstag the kaiser cx-
poets a vote in favor of the military bill.
Our hope goes in the opposite direction. The
near future will show which hopes are best
grounded Above all, the Independence of
the vote of the people must be assured. The
kaiser leaves no doubt that if in the new
Relchstag the will OF the people shall be
| against him, he will Notwithstanding do
| all in his power to pass the bill.
| We doubt not, in spite of the hints
| to the contrary made in the past two weeks,
| the kaiser only thinks of constitutional
| means as no enemy from without could put
| the young German empire in such danger as
| would warrant the least deviation from con-
stitutional methods"
| Richter CARING strength.
| The split in the freisinige ranks has
| been made much Of, but from all indi-
cations Richter will not suffer, rs adhesons
to his new Freislnige Volkspartei are COM
ing from all over the country, whilst the
| Bambcrger, Bath and Schrade secessionists
| of Freisnige Vereiuigung have been coldly
| received. Do not be surprised to find
! Richter returned with more followers IN his
new party than he had before, as it is more
| than possible he will snatch some seats
from the national liberal party, which, being
always on the fence, is ever likely to tumble
to the right or left.
| Chances OF Other Parties.
The socialists without any doubt are going
| IN ma olFal toi oinlV tan
| Their leaders seem strangely misinformed,
as the party will number fifty votes in the
I. Ext Reichstag instead of thirty-six.
The Alsace-Lorrainers will retain their
| ten seats.
The great problem of the election is the
center party with its Ill votes. They may
lose a few of these, but the party is well or
ganized and has voted one military bill in
| accordance with the wishes of the electors
| 1t is significant that Graf Adelmann, who
alone Of his party voted against the Huene
compromise has been refused n renomna-
ton. This shows how determined the
electors Of this powerful party are against
| the bill.
The relschpartei is sort of close corpora
| tion and will retain its nineteen seats, repre-
| senting the wealth of its members, as the
employees of the members are sufficiently
numerous in some instances 10 re-elect them.
A falling off in the conservative party may
be expected, especially in the districts where
the jew vote is large, for the Semites will
vote in favor of the freisinnige or for the
socialists.
Some twenty independents will probably be
returned, who may stand twelve against and
eight for the bill. These figures Will give
the probable majority against the bill of
some eighty votes, which might be reduced
by absentees and non-voters.