Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1893-06-22
The REICHSTAG.
Late Returns Unexpectedly Favor
the Government.
THE ARMY BILL HAY BE PASSED.
The Socialist Victories Scare the Clericals,
Who VIII Drop Mother Church on
the Second BaIlots-Jubilant
jew Baiters.

f1ERl.lN. June 10 ne OtSCIkOn
turns were virtually complete at 8
o'clock yesterday afternoon The re-
p 1rt from but one district was then
lacking. The revised returns may
necessitate a few alterations, but they
viii be trivial The candidates elected
number 215 Of these I01 will vote for
the army bill, ia against it In the
following list by parties, the anti
Semitic conservatives are included with
the conservatives and the independents
are treated as members of the parties
with which they affiliated in the reichs-
tag:
Lieber clericals, 6s; social democrats.
%; conservatives and agrarians. ~; ma
tional liberals. Is; radical unionists
twho favor the billy, 4; Poles. IL; free
conservatives. 10: clericals Favorable to
the bilD, II; Alsat ianS. q: south Ger
man democrats, 4; anti-Semite. 3 1.-TWO
of them favoring the BILL; Bavarian
agrarians, 2: Guelphs. 1; Danes, L; Ba-
varian separatists- L: Richterists, none
Among the candidates in the Isl new
ballots there will be 10 Poles, 50 con-
servatives, Q agrarians, free conserv-
atives, national liberals, 80 clericals,
a. social democrats, II radical unionists,
SIS Richterists. I6 anti-Semites and
Guelphs.
As was expected, the latest returns
have increased steadily the list of MEM
bers upon whom the government can
rely for support Where the victories
of the social democrats have been re-
garded with alarm, their immediate
effect upon the fate of the army bill
will be more than offset by the losses
of Richter radicals. After four hours
in conference yesterday afternoon, the
ministers who had met the chancellor
to discuss the results of the election
decided that in view of the re-
cent returns it would be super
huous and inexpedient to issue an
appeal to the country before the
second ballots On Friday several
ministers favored this mode of arousing
the voters to support the government
candidates, but yesterday only two of
them were still in favor Of the plan.
The great ma ority of the ministers are
confident that by means of a conserv-
ative. free conservative and national
liberal cartel, they can secure large
number of seats at the second ballots,
from the Richterists and clericals.
They depend on the general alarm
excited by the social democratic
victories to drive clericals and
opposition clericals into the govern
ment camp in constituencies where the
contests are between conservatives. or
national liberal candidates and social
lists If these expectations be realized.
not only will the government open the
reichstag with almost half the mem
bers on its side. but it also will be en-
ab!ed at the final poll to keep the social
democrats down to total OF forty or
forty-five seats.
That the ministerial expecta ton of
general combination against the So
cialists is not entirely ungrounded is
shown by the action of the clerical
leaders Immediately after the cleo
ton they sent out a circular letter to
the constituencies to admonish Catholic
voters that under no circumstances
should they vote for army bill candi-
dates in the by-elections. Since then
the socialist scare has been so general
that the leaders have revoked their
first letter and have sent out another
calculated to solidify the Catholic vote
against the social democrat candidates,
even in cases where such a course will
or national liberal
1nS VI l1C -NCI III
German clericals, and several other
Catholic dailies, are now urging the
Catholics in constituencies contested by
social democrats to ignore the army
bill issue and vote solidly for conserva-
tive, free conservatives, or national lib
erals Where socialist successes are in
question, says the Germania. the Cath
Ollie voter must subordinate all other
duties to the duty OF doing his best to
prevent the danger of the social demo
cratic triumph at any cost
The official returns from many con-
stituencies have been received and will
be published tomorrow. They con-
tain much interesting information as
to the votes polled by conspicuous can
didates- Count Herbert Bismarck. who
was elected by the agrarians in the
Jerichow district. received IL 600 votes
to G, SIS cast for Ferdinand Woellmer.
radical, who was the last member
for the district. Gloecke, the social
democratic candidate, received 4.431
votes. Count Herbert's majority over
all, therefore, was 4S0. He polled the
strength of the conservative vote, which
on the first ballot in 1890 was 11.Is2.
The radical vote in 1890 was 9, 554 and
the socialist vote 2.4S7- These figures
illustrate clearly how the socialists
sapped the strength OF the Richter
ist vote. In Metz, DIR. Haas, AL
satrian and clerical. was elected by
1858 votes to 3. 436 cast for Liebermann
Won Sonnenberg. the anti-Senite. and
3. 42S for Wilhelm Libknecht. leader of
the social democrats In Ragn;tz, Count
Won Chanitz. the high protection on
sentative received $3.50 votes to 1.Ts7
cast for his opponent, DIR. Braesicle,
of the radical union Rector Ahl
wardt. the notorious jew batter now.
serving {. sentence for libel in the
Ploetzeusec prison, swept everything
before him in the irnswalde district, his
old constit uency.
The Army i:iu VIE Pass.
LoSDoy. June 19.-The Berlin CORE
spondent of the Daily News says:
There cannot be the slightest doubt
that the army bill viii be passed with
a good ma jority.- The Standards Rer-