The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1893-06-23
WILLIAM WINNING.
The Recent Elections in the Ger
man Empire.
;natchinS Victory From the Jaws Of De.
feat Later Returns More Favorable
to the Govern-s,cEt-The Army
ELL May Pass.
The German Elections.


from last Thursdays election show that
finally elected that day, while reballots
will be necessary in Isl districts. OF
the number elected 1O1 are certainly
for the army bill and ia against it.
The list of members by parties is as
follows: Leiber clericals, IS: social
democrats. 30: conservatives and agrar-
ians, A.; national liberals, Is: radical
unionists (who favor the bilD. +; Poles,
12; free conservatives, 10: clericals fla
vorable to the billy IL, Alsatians. Z:
south German democrats, 4: anti
Semites, 5. two of them favoring the
bilO: Bavarian agrarians. ,: Guelphs, 1:
danes, 1: Bavarian separa lists, l: Rich
teristS, none.
Among the candidates in the ISL new
ballots there will be 10 Poles, 81 con-
servatives. 9 agrarians, free cOnserva-
tives. Z national liberals. 80 clericals,
u social democrats, IL radical unionists,
So Richterists, Is anti-semites and 8
Guelphs.
The ministry decided Saturday after
. long conference not to issue an appeal
to the country before the reballots as
they are confident that by a combina-
ton of conservatives, free conservatives
and national liberals they can carry a
ma jority of the districts still in doubt.
They depend upon the general alarm
excited by the social democratic victor
les to drive clericals and opposition
clericals into the government campiin
constituencies where the contests are
between conservatives or national
liberal candidates and socialists. If
these expectations be realized, not only
will the government open the reichstag
with almost half the members on it's
side. but it also will be ena bled at the
final poll to keep the social democrats
down to total of forty or fortyfive
seats
That the ministerial eNpecta ton of
general combination against the social
lists is not entirely ungrounded is shown
by the action OF the clerical lead
ers. Immediately after the elec-
ton they sent out 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 socialists 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 democratic candi-
dates. even in cases where such a
course will lead to the election of a con-
sentative or national liberal.
The defeat of the Richtcrists appears
to be irretrievable. Their organs ad-
nit the crushing character of the dis
aster, but the Berlin Freisinnige Zeit-
ing finds comfort in predicting that
the ultimate poll of the party. combined
with the volksparte, centrists and So
cialists. will form an overwhelming
plebiscite against the army bill and the
Huene compromise. 1t is certain that
if the plebiscite were to decide the fate
of the government the enormous social
list vote already cast would decide that.
But the army bill will depend upon
flial party combinations, regarding
which it is still hazardous to attempt to
form any definite conclusion.
Herr Richter himself Says it is doubt
lul "hCehCA tAS Jill
can yet be inferred from the ascer-
tanned results. In calculating what ac
cession of strength the socialists will
gain in the reichstag, the fact must be
remembered that the whole force of the
party has always hitherto been polled
on the first ballot, whereas other par
ties, through anti-socialist coalitions,
show the greatest strength on reba Hot. |
1t was thus in 1890, when the Freisin-
nige party won in all thirty-five of the
reballots between them and the social |
lists. About eighty socialists will stand
in the coming reballots, and it is a ra-
tional estimate to credit them with Sc
curing twenty-six more seats. Before
the elections Herr Volmar, one of the |
sanest heads of the party, predicted
that forty of his colleagues would ap
pear in the new reichstag.
SWIMMING RECORDS BROKEN.