The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1893-05-28
THEY name THEIR PRICE
Terms 0lsrsd BY Tho CslRkt Party
For Support Of The Government
PEASANT SOCIETIES QUIT
They viii No Longor Follow
Leaders Who Have lil Treated
Them-Hungariap Mar
riaGe Law.

BERLIN. Nay 27.-The electoral outlook
has considerably cleared since the issue
BY Licbsr Of . manifesto Of tho center or
Catholic party. The labored phraseology
Of tho manifesto aud its long winded
sentences were not calculated to impress
the public and have elected ridicule from
the prsss. But the declaration did not
fail 10 inform the government 90 to tho
price Il must pay FOR the support OF the
party In the now reiclstag. Behind the
verbiags about the intolerabls military
burdens imposed by the empire. and ad.
vice to tile electors to take decided posi-
tion against the army bill and the Hu enc
amendment TO that measure. there lies =
principle
I'VE shall trpnsfsr." says DR.. Lieoer.
''the Windthorst resolutions to tho new
parliament and uss them as guiding
light In discussing all future military
questions
The Lieber faction Of the centre party
Is, in short. ready to negotiate with Caprivi
an the hasis Of q repeal of the remaining
religious disabilities aud tho readmission
OF Jcsuits In return for its adhesion to tho
governmeut's military demands.
Reactiouary conservative organs
threaten that. u the new reichstag 10 in.
tractahle. the government will restrict tho
franchise and thus get an obedient par
lament. The manifesto replies 10 this
that the highest Law IL tho constitution.
adding: I'VE hold fast to the character
OF the empire as . federal state. The
prerogativcs OF the people arc based upon
universal. equal, direct and secret suf-
frage."
A factor that 10 causing o panic among
the Bavarian centrists 10 the independent
action OF tho peasants' societies, which
have hitherto always supported the cen.
trist candidates. These societies havo
now issued an electoral address, stating
that their representatives. up TO this time,
have boon cooperating In legislation that
is ruionous TO the peasant proprietors aud
paying altogether too much attention to
religious questions In tho coming elec-
tions. the peasants' societies will support
only those candidates who are devoted to
the agricultural interests OF the country
and wh" are reliable as citizens without
regard TO religious belief or social posi-
tiou.
The social democrattc party will turn
- disruption pf the centrisss 10 tho hest
account. Amid this electoral charivari.
the conservative. national, liberal and
freisinniee parties are not much heard Of.
The struggle lies between the socialists,
who form compact. we'll directed party,
and tho new political bodies composed of
the old elements. yet hardly In . condition
TO know themselves.
The kulsurkampf In Hungary, acccriing
to the 0ssmaaio, 10 tending toward . set.
tlcment, the pope offering to assent to .
form Of civil marriage consisting OF the
presence of civil registrar at the church,
. nuptiai ceremony with subsequent reg.
istration OF marriage. Other advices
from Hungary show that tho cabinet In
not willing 10 accept this compromiss, a.
majority Of the Hungarian diet want the
full liberty OF civil marriage.
Throughout North Germany. Austria
Hungary and Bulgaria, sufficient rains
have fallen to insure . good harvest.