The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-12-25
CAPRIVI NOT TO RETIRE.
Count EulenbuTg Has Raised a Flag
Of Truce.


Probably Jeopardize His Position as
Premier of Prussia-Crispis Return
to Power-Christmas Shopping
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Copyright, 1898 by the United Press
Berlin, Dec. A.-Since the commercial
treaties with Roumania, Spain and Ser
via were passed, Chancellor Won Caprivi
has professed to be tired of his Office and
willing to resign Immediately after the
passage of the treaty with Russia. The
statement that he has told the Iemperor of
his desire to retire is heard daily in
high official circles, but by the public at
large it is taken with grain of salt. The
conservative agitation against the chan
cellor is more energetic than ever. His
old Prussian associates are especially Bit
ter, but no influences on any side have
abated the emperor's determination to ad-
here to his foremost official.
EULENBURG GIVES IN.
Count Botho Zu Eulenburg, the Prus-
sian premier, having found his intrigues
thwarted by the emperors confidence or
prejudice, has gone over to the chancel-
lor's side completely in the last few DAYS
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statesmen has ceased, hence Count Eu-
lenburg's circular ordering high Prus-
sian officials, whom he tacitly permitted
during the last days OF the
landtag elections to oppose the govern
ment, to stop their obstruction tactics
1t is late in the day for Count Eulenburg
to issue the order. The supreme signif-
cance of the circular lies mainly in the
fact that in it ne recognizes the permanence
ofuthe chancellors position, which he
sought to undermine. If Count
Eulenburg had acted honestly during
the relchstag and landtag election
there would not not have been in the
retchstag twelve conservatives and free
conservatives, who, although holding
official places, are luke warm to Chancei-
lor Caprivi, nor in the landtag some
forty bureaucrats who never even pre-
tended allegiance to him. Count Eulen-
burg never ventured upon active opposi-
tion. His resistance was merely passive,
although it fretted the emperor and
chancellor none the less.
WHY THE COUNT GAVE IN.
1t was the defeat of the agrarians In
the Reichstag that caused the Prussian
premier to change his tactics. Instead
of coming in on the crest of a victorious
agrarian wave, he has found himself
forced to lie low to save his official head.
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made an explicit statement at the Prussian
cabinet council last week concerning the
effect of Count Eulenburg's policy in
hampering imperial affairs. The chan
cellor made this bold stroke to determine
once for all whether the Prussian pre-
mier would submit or resign. discourse
was jvstifed by Count Eulenberg's hasty
submission. 1t is the general belief
among officials that the vote of the cabi-
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he did.
CAPRIvI's CHARACTERISTICS.
Although Count Eulenburg has been
thus temporarily disarmed the conviction
in official circles is that Chancellor Cap
rivi must overcome the special Prussian
opposition to the imperial policy in order
that the imperial machine may work
smoothly Chancellor Capriyi has not
Prince Bismarck's masterful qualities to
enable him to override intriguing oppo-
nents. He is agreeable person
ally, and the soul of politeness and
honor, but weak occasionally when it is
necessary for him to enforce his will by
riding rough shod over those plotting
against him. While his disposition
qualities him well for his association with
the domineering young emperor, it is a
great disadvantage when he is called upon
to deal with his stiff-necked antagonists
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and quick-tempered than he would
long since have been at skies and
sevens with the emperor. The best in
formed men of all groups, literally in
clined, while recognizing Chancellor Ca
privi's yielding disposition, say they
much prefer an emperor with chancel-
lor to a chancellor with an emperor-in
short are better satisfied with the pres
ent relations of emperor and chancellor
than they would be with any other re-
lations possible in the German political
life of today.
oRIsPI's RETURN TO POWER.
If some foreign dailies were to be be-
lieved, there would be little doubt that
Premier Crispi's reception in the Italian
Chamber of Deputies forebodes both
trouble for the triple alliance and the
failure of the new cabinet. The foreign
Office here, however, does not share the
opinions spread in alarmist reports. Of
fetal opinion is that while the present
Italian chamber will be difficult to man
age, the complications were accurately
foreseen and provided for during the pro-
tracted negotiations for a ministry.
Premier Crlspi is ready to dissolve
the chamber Immediately after his first
defeat, trusting to the country to return
deputies who will support his financial
and foreign policy. Nothing has surprised
ance, or assumed ignorance, of foreign
politicians as regards the fact that the
Crispi cabinet has been considered and
favored Germany as inevitable. while it
has been required by almost every factor
of Italian political life.
THE WINTER MANEUvBRs.
The winter maneuvers in Brandenburg
will be postponed until hard frost shall
set in. The emperor wishes to see a series
of displays by soldiers on skates, ice
shoes, ice boats, sledges drawn by horses,
and the like, all to reach a climax in
grand winter battle.
The approach of Christmas is evident
everywhere in the capital. The Freid-
rich Strasse, Inter den Linden, Leip-
zieger Strasse and the market places are
thronged. The outcry about the depres-
sion of trade and the hard times seems to
be utterly disproved as never before
have there been such enormous crowds
in the shops and markets. The beer sa-
looms, like the shops, were filled TO over
flowing yesterday, when everybody in the
city seemed to be out enjoying the bright,
mild weather To-day saloons are closed
in the interest of the politico-social move
ment recently inaugurated.
THE SOCIALISTS
The socialists are not converting any
meetings these days and nobody heeds the
doings of the little groups of anarchists,
or independent socialists, who are ready