The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1893-06-23
THE REICHSTAC.
Late Returns Unexpectedly Favor
the Government.
The ARMY BILL NAY BE PASSED.
The Socialist Victories Scare the Clericals
Who VIII Drop Mother Church ON
the Second Ballots-Jubilant
jew Baiters.

BERLIN. June 19.-The election re-
turns were virtually complete at 3
o'clock yesterday afternoon. The re-
port from but one district was then
lacking The revised returns may
necessitate a few alterations, but they
will be trivial. The candidates elected
number 215. Of these 1O1 will vote for
the army bill. ia against it. In the
following list by parties, the anti
Semitic conservatives are included with
the conservatives and the independents
are treated as members of the parties
with which they affiliated in the reichs-
tag:
Lieber clericals. IS: social democrats,
30: conservatives and agrarians. a: ma
tional liberals. IS; radical unionists
(who favor the BILL. 4: Poles, u: free
conservatives. 10: clericals favorable to
the bilD, II: Alsa tians, Z: south Ger
man democrats. 4; anti-Semite. ) two
of them favoring the bill: Bavarian
agrarians, .: Guelphs. l. Danes, l: Ba-
varian separatists, 1: Richterists none
Among the candidates in the Isl new
servatives. agrarians. free conserv-
atives, national liberals. 80 clericals,
u social democrats, II radical unionists,
50 Richterists. 16 anti-Semites and s
Guelphs.
AS was expected. the latest returns
have increased steadily the list of MEM
bers upon whom the government can
rely for support. Where the victories
of the social democrats have been re-
garded with alarm, their immediate
effect upon the fate of the army bill
will be more than offset by the losses
of Richter radicals. After four hours
in conference yesterday afternoon. the
ministers who had met the chancellor
to discuss the results of the election
decided that in view of the re-
cent returns it would be super
fiuous and inexpedient to issue an
appeal to the country before the
second ballots. On Friday several
ministers favored this mode of arousing
the voters to support the government
candidates. but yesterday only two of
them were still in favor of the plan.
The great ma jority of the ministers are
confident that by means of a conserv-
alive free conservative and national
liberal cartel, they can secure large
number of seats at the second ballots.
from the Richterists and clericals.
They depend on the general alarm
excited by the social democratic
victories to drive clericals and
opposition clericals into the govern
ment camp in constituencies where tae
contests are between conservatives. or
national liberal candidates and social
lists If these expectations be realized.
not only will the government open the
reichstag with almost half the MEM
bers on it's side. but it also will be en-
abled at the final poll to keep the social
democrats down to total of forty or
fortyfive seats.
That the ministerial expectation OF
general combination against the So
cialists is not entirely ungrounded is
shown by the action of the clerical
leaders. Immediately after the cleo
ton they sent out a circular letter to
the constituencies to admonish Catholic
voters that under no circumstances
should they vote for army bill candi-
dates in the by-e,ections. Since then
the socialist 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 democrat candidates,
even in cases where such course will
lead to the election of a conservative
or national liberal
The Germania, organ OF the North
German clericals, and several other
Catholic dailies. are now urging the
Catholics in constituencies contested by
social democrats to ignore the army
bill Issue and vote solidly for conserva-
tive, free conservatives, or national lib
erals. Where socialist successes are in
question. says the Germania. the Cath
| Ole voter must subordinate all other
duties to the duty Of doing his best to
prevent the danger of the social demo
cratic triumph at any cost.
The official returns from many con-
| stituencies have been received and will
be published tomorrow. They con-
tain much interesting information as
to the votes polled ~ conspicuous can
didates. Count Herbert Bismarck, who
was elected by the agrarians in the
| .Ierichow district, received 1859 votes
to G. SIS east for Ferdinand Woellmer
radical. who was the last member
/ for the district Gloecke. the social
1 democratic candidate. received ABB
/ votes Count Herbert's majority over
| all. therefore. was $50. He polled the
/ strength OF the conservative vote, which
| on the first ballot in 1890 was 11-1S2.
/ The radical vote in 1899 was Q. 5G4 and
/ the socialist vote 2.4S1. These figures
! Illustrate clearly how the socialists
Slapped the strength oe the Richter
! list vote. In Metz, DIR. Haas, Al
| satrian and clerical. was elected by
| 1865 votes to 3. i36 east for Liebermann
Won Sonnenberg. the anti-Semite. and
3.42S for Wilhelm Libknecht. leader of
the social democrats. In RagnitZ. Count
Won Chanitz the high protection con
| sentative received $3.50 votes to l, 1S7
| cast for his opponent. DR.. Braesicse.
of the radical union Rector AMI
wardt. the notorious Jew batter now.
! serving Il sentence for libel in the
! PloetzeEsee prison, swept everything
/ before him in the Arnswalde district, his
/ old constit uency.
The Army Bill VIII Pass.
LONDON. June 1o.-The Berlin CORE
| spondent Of the Daily News says
There cannot be the slightest doubt
! that the army bill will be pissed with