The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-05-28
AN ELECTORAL CHARIVARI.
Germany Enjoying the Discord
of a Political Campaign.
| CENTREIsT MANIFESTO.
Action Of the Peasant Societies Caus-
ing Panic.
Heretofore They Have Always Supported
the Centreist Candidates, but Will
NOW Only support Those Devoted
to Agricultural Interests.

BERLIN, May 27.-The electoral outlook
has considerably cleared up since the
issue Dy Doctor Lieber of the manifesto of
phraseology of the manifesto and its long
winded sentences were not calculated to
impress the public and have elected ridi-
Guile from the press, but the declaration
did not fail to inform the government
the price it must pay for the support OF
the party in the new reichstag. Behind
the verbiage about the intolerable mill
tary burdens imposed by the empire is
advice to electors to take decided posi-
ton against the army bill and Huene
amendment to that measure. There lies the
principle 'sWe shall transfer says
Doctor Lieber, sthe Windthorst resolu-
tions to the new parliament and use
them as guiding light in discussing all
future military questions. The
Lieber faction of the Centre party
is in short ready to negotiate
with Caprivi on basis of the repeal of
the remaining religious disabilities and
readmission to the Jesuits in return for
its adhesion to the governments mill
tary demands. Reactionary conservative
organs threaten that if the new Reicnstag
| is intractable the government will re-
strict the franchise and thus get an ODE
dent parliament. The manifesto replies
to this that the highest law is the con-
stitution, adding: ''We hold fast TO the
character of the empire as federal state.
The prerogatives of the people are based
on universal, equal, direct and secret
| suffrage"
The factor that is causing a panic
among Bavarian Centrists is the indie
pendent action of PEASANTS societies which
hitherto always supported the Cen
trist candidates. These societies have
now issued an electoral address, stating
| their representatives up to this time have
| been cooperating in legislation ruinous
to the peasant proprietors and paying alto
gether too much attention to religious al
fairs. In the coming elections the peasants
societies will support only candidates
who are devoted only to the agricultural
interest of the country and who are reli-
able as citizens without regard to re-
| ligious belief or social position. The
social Democratic party will cause dis
ruption of the Centrists to the best
amount.
Amid this electoral charivari the Con-
sentative, National Liberal and Freis-
sinage parties are not much heard of.
The struggle lies between the Social
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party, and new political bodies composed
of the old elements yet hardly in condi-
ton to know themselves.
Kulturkmpf, in Hungary, according to
Germania, is tending toward asettlement.
The pope is Offering to assent to a form
OF political marriage consisting of the
presence of social registrar at church
martial Ger emory with subsequent regis
tration of marriage.
Advices from Hungary show the
cabinet is not willing to accept this COM
promise, as a majority of the Hungarian
diet want the full liberty of civil mar
riage. Throughout north Germany
Austria, Hungary and Bulgaria sufficient
rains have fallen to insure good harYests.