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 Richterist 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 1t 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 poIled 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 $4,000 over
that polled 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 cast 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.
mites and Socialist streams came from
common source. The Vorwaerts,
therefore, justly holds that larae part
of the anti-Semitic vote ought to be
placed to the credit of Socialism.
The speech of Emperor William,
opening the session of tho relohstag, is
awaited with much anxiety, as report
widens that his language will menace a
restriction of the suffrage. In an in
tervicW 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 al, entente between the dominant |
political groups would be effected and |
the army bill speedily passed. Chan |
eellor yon Capriyi, DR.. MIGUEL, DR..
Stephan and other political notables
Voted for LancrIlaus
today. With this decisive example be- |
fore them Of ministers actually sup |
porting ali opponent OF the bill rather |
than to slow Socialist TO triumphant, |
adhesion by electors 10 government !
candidates, where they are opposed by !
Socialists, aas become secured.
All the ministers voted az II o'olGua |
In the forenoon. so Cd 10 allow the voters
on the second ballots throughout ihe /
country 70 know their position. Thia |
had its effect. Thus at Spsier the Gen
ter party Withdrew its support from she
S0cialist-EYnalt. In otter districts
secret arfahEeieen. for an exchange of
Censr!st and Socialist votes collapsed.
from the leadership OF the Freislnnlge
party. The Tageblatt and other organs
demand his resignation, as they noid
him Responsible for the exstaosIon Of
the party. Personally Herr Richter
siyes 20 eign Of defeat. He Is energetic,
,heeffnl and sopfdent OF the carly re-
construction Of the Frsisinnire party.
Second Ballot Results.
TIE results Of second balIsis il
constituencies were kcown
1t midnight. With thass additions 10
The list OK candidates aleeted on June
Is, the strength ot the parties. &c far a.
known, was: Clericals, 73; Social
Al; Conservatives and
Aerarians. So; Nasionsi Liberals, 60; !
Radical Unionists, Ii; Poles. 1S:
FrEu Conservatives, Il: Government
Ciericals, IL, South German Dsslosrats.
); Alsatians, Z; Richter Radicals. e;
Anti-Seniites, s.; Guelphs. 1; Danes. :;
Bavariau Peasants league, !; Bayarisn
Partioularist, 4. or these deputies 1t6
ire counted with the opposition and $50 !
With the government. The main feat
ares of yesterdays elections we're :hs
wrestling of Essen from the ClericalS by
Cannon King" Krnpp, tho retirement
,f Prof Rudolph Virehow TO private
Ifs at the end OF his thirteenth year in
The reichstag: the defeat OF Max
Broemel, The leader os the dissidens
Radicals, by the Socialists in Steiiin;
he victory in Halle of Dr.. Alexander !
Meyer, also dIssident Radical leader.
1yer tie Social Democrat who hold the
seat in the last reicEstag, and the elec
ion III Hangen Of Eugene Richter. tue
leader of lie remnant Of the opposition
Radical pArty.