Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1893-03-26
AFFAIRS IN The FATHERLAND.
Ahlwardt and the jew Baiters are Still
Stirring Up strife-AhlwardE Has nc
Sense OF Shame.

Ahlwardt and the jew Baiters are Still
Stirring Up strife-AhIwardE Has no
Sense OF shame.
BERLIN, March 25.-Scotched, but
not killed, Ahlwardtism continues to
rear its ugly head aloft. II Ahlwardt
had an atom OF regard for the contempt
heaped upon him in the Relchstag, or
for the universal voice of scorn in the
public press, he would vanish from po-
litical life, but with front OF brass and
sustained by the Jew batting element,
he remains dangerous factor In public
life.
Since his exposure in the Reichstag,
his reception on the streets and at two
public meetings which he attended has
been like what might be accorded
great servant of the State. Within a
few hours after the collapse in the
Reichstag of his charges against Bis
marck and other well'known personages,
Ahlwardt repeated and enlarged them
at a meeting at Spandau. The meeting
was very largely attended by working
men, many of whom came from the roy
al factories. A large number OF these
men were not OF the stamp whose ig'
norance could excuse them, yet they
are blind supporters OF the vulgar
demagOgue. The meeting was presided
over by Captain Herter, a retired OIL
Ger, who crowned Ahlwardts head with
laurels amid the frantic plaudlts OF the
spectators. Every utterance OF their
hero of the hour was cheered to the
echo by the workingmen.
Both the official and unofficial papers
concur in the opinion that IL was an oc-
casion to link the whole question OF
anti-Semetism With the question of
Ahlwardt's veracity. In the debate in
the Reichstag. the Conservatives repu-
dated him, yet they have taken an-
other step toward strengthening the
apti-Semitic plank in the party plat
form. Twenty-siX members OF the
party are back of bill prohibiting
Jewish immigration, and the naturaliza-
tion of foreign Jews. The bill is de-
signed To catch votes In the country
districts where judenhetze spreads like
an empidemic.
The central committees OF the Social
lists and the National Liberals have met
here and discussed the prospects; the
Socialists exultantly, aad the National
Liberals despon1ently. Dr. Won Ben
ningsen warned the National Liberals
that the elections could not be fought
by them on a mere platform Of the ac-
cordsnce of rejection OF the army BILL
He deplored the want OF unity in the
party and complained that addresses
coming from National Liberal districts
declaring in suppost Of the bill had as
sisted to defeat the arrangement OF any
compromise with the government.
Finally the meeting decided to leave
the method of conducting the electoral
canvasses TO individual initiative.
The Central party, which has been
reposing in confidence that the result OF
q general election would be the return
of their party, nearly unchanged, have
been awakened by the return of Johan-
nes Fussanger, Independent Clerical
from the second Arnsbeg-M g-Meschede-
Olpe district. The entire official mechan-
ism of the Centrist party was employed
to defeat Fussanger, but the efforts
failed. Fussanger, who is the editor Of
the BOchumer VolkS Zeitupg, is rabld
Prussian hater. One immediate result
OF this Centrist defeat is that Schorl-
emer-Alst, the old Centrist chief, will
withdraw his candidature in the Dort-
mund by-election. The element of un-
certainty introduced into the Centerist
calculations may yet influence the
leaders to reconsider their attitude
towards the army bill.
According to the V0Ssische Zeitlt1ag, a
syndicate has acquired from Herr DOVE,
the Mannheim tailor, the bullet proof
cloth invention, which has made the
tailor's name famous everywhere.