The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-06-17
Returns Of German Election
Show Gains by Socialists.
THE NEWS COMING m SLOWLY.
Reballoting viii Be Necessary in
More Than One-Third Of Districts.


BKHlrs, June 1z.-At O'Clock this
morning returns hare been received from
I'D out Of the 81 electoral districts In
ninety-eisht districts candidates have been
b necessary. The National Liberals.
Conservatives and C1ericals are holding
their own. The Richter Radicals remain
far behind. OF the ninety-eight deputies
already elected forty-tvo are counted for
the bill and fifty-s;x against it, The gov
ernment gained two more new seats and
lost one old one since the last report
BERLIN, June l6-The most conspic-
uous two features Of tcday's returns
have been the continued reports Of
the Social Democratic gains and
Richterist. losses Early this morning
most Of the news came from the city con-
stituencies and the list Of opposition
depuues grew rapidly. This afternoon.
however, the dispatches from the agricui-
tural districts revealed the other side of
tho page. From all that can be learned
it Is reasonably safe to conclude that the
government has certainly lost nothing by
the dissolution and probably won little.
Election returns from the agriculture!
districts and small cities come in slowly,
and the new seats are likely to change
hands in these. The government candi-
dates appear to have lost slightly where
yesterdays balioting resulted in elections.
ballots seem assured. the government has
exceptional opportunities 20 win. espe-
cialiy where the contestants are Radical
Unionists, Who opposed the army bill in
the last reichsiag. but who will support il
in the next, II somewhat modified. The
National Liberals ciaia that they will not
lose more than two seats instead of ten,
as predicted, giving tasm thirty-eighk The
Richter Liberals will have about the same,
their failure to draw opposition votes
being the most surprising feature Of the
election. The Social Democrats claim
sixty seats. about the number accredited
to them before election. The Conserva-
tives and Free Conservatives are likely to
hold their own. Among those elected
were: Won Levetzow, Independent, who
10 favorable to the army bill and was pres
ident Of the last reichstag; Weidenfeld.
Clerical, defeating Won Schorlenstein;
Aist. leader Of the Dissident Clericals, who
favors the army bill.
The elections. as far A. Berlin was
concerned. can be considered almost q
complete triumph f0f the, 0ocialist party.
Not only have thsir voies enormously IN
creased since the last elections, but the
proportion of votes between the Radicals
and Socis, Democrats is such, except in
one ward, that the Radicals practically
have no chance in the second ballots. In
Aovltr~ IL ss I'D haS
cent. Of the electors recorded their votes.
and cut Of total OF $4,000 registered, the
Socialists obtained l52 .0O0. an increase of
nearly one-fifth over the election OF 1890.
Although in the provinces the Socialists
have not been 30 uniformly successful as
in Berlin. yet the returns are eminently
satisfactory TO them, and the results Of the
second ballots will undoubtedly mean. as
predicted. great accessions to the Socialist
strength in the rcichs;ag.
The only unfair maneuver, which might
be described as hit below the belt at the
government. was the action of the Kreus
Zeitnag, which in the morning published
what II declared to % the terms of Rus.
sia's counter proposals for treaty of COM
meroe. These alleged proposals were cal
cuiated TO create the greatest alarm in the
country districts, embodying everything
likely 10 prejudice the German agrarian
interests. and the Krea- Zeitang based on
them violent attack on the government.
whose cowardice, il said, had been taken
advantage Of by Russia To make these
almost insulting proposals. which, il ac-
cepted, would mean nothing but ruin for
the German agricultural interests. The
official organ, tho ReieAsnHssiger. and the
semi-ot,icial Nerd Dcssseae Zeisung, in the
evening hastened to publish emphatic de-
mails. but the mischief had been done, and
the Kseas Zeisang's object gained in hav-
Ing the fictitious proposals telegraphed
throughout the country, where they un-
doubiedly had . material influence on the
farmers choice Of candidates.
At 10 O'Clock this evening the returns
may be summarized thus: In 80 districts
from which reports have been received 8;
deputies were elected, and IN the remain.
ing si new ballots Will be necessary. of
the deputies elected IS will vote with the
government and - against it. The parties
working with the government lost three
seats 10 the opposition. parties working
agains, the government ended the IN after
by losing the same nnmbs, of seats TO
friends of the army bill. The Conserya.
tives elected II deputies. Social Democrats
~. Clericals =, Radical Cnionis,s 1, Free
Conservatives I. Poles s. Democrats S,
An,i-Scmi;es 8. Independents .. Govern
men. Cicricals and National Liberals 2,
The most interesting feature reported un-
I'll nov is probably the gains Of the Social
Democrats and the Radical Unionis,a
Several small election riots were re-
ported today from the provinces. In
ssrassburg last night shortly after the poll
sas announced the Socialists began parad.
ing the streets and shouting for their can,
dida,e. They refused TO disperse, when
the police attacked them. Many of the
rioters cheered for France. The military
eventually broke up fae procession and
arrested eight men. Nobody vas injured
II Rea,lingen. Wariemberg. the police
arrested many Social Democrats, who al.
tackled the police station
In Grnenbesg the Socialists riosed
through the streets. The police dispersed
them with drawn sahers and arrested the
leaders. Ia this city the police ARRESTED
Herr Landauer. an anarchist editor, On the
charge Of insi;lng RIOT