The herald., 1893-05-14
FROM THE FATHERLANl
A Review Of the Political
Situation.
The Electoral Struggle Very
Complicated.
None of the Parties Seem to Know
Where They Are At.
Government Organs Trying to Create
Fear OF French InvasIon-A
Proposed Great Imperial
Middle Party.
By the Associated Press. |

BY the Associated Press
BERLIN, May 13.-The first week Of
the electoral struggle ends without any
OF the parties knowing where they stand
and without any of them having any
thing like reliable data from which to
forecast the result of the contest for
members of the reichstag. The MEM
bers of the Social Democracy alone seem
to retain thorough grip upon their or
ganizstion. They can reasonably hope
to secure 30 seats against 10,
though over 100 second ballots will be
necessary to decide the election, and it
is therefore highly probable that the
end of the sum mer will have been
reached before the house is finally con-
stituted. 1t is most likely that
1t will then only meet to hear
the emperor's speech opening
the session and then adjourn
until the period of opening in October.
In the meantime it is evident that the
parties will be reconstructed on plat
forms in which the army bill will have
an almost secondary place. Each party
seems determined to expend every
available resource in contesting districts
where 1t has the remotest chance of sue
cess indeed, in some constituencies
each OF the eight recognized parties has
candidate in the field. The contest is
tereBts which are demanding attention.
A FRENCH MAN OF STRAW
The government organs carefully re-
produce reports in French papers as to
how France rejoiced at the rejection of
the army bill, adding sinister rumors
regarding the designs of the French
| government. They also publish doubt
full kilograms from Strasburg, re-
porting that the French garrisons
along the frontier have already been or
are being reinforced, and that the grant
ing of iurloughs to all French soldiers
and officers has been stopped. The
alarm which these organs profess to
feel has not spread among the people.
Every one Knows that the rejection of
the army bill neither diminished the
defensive strength of the triple alliance
nor added e Franes's power Of offensive.
Outside of Chancellor Won Caprivi's or
gans the idea is ridiculed that France
and Russia will attack Germany because
the reichstag refused to grant all the
government demanded.
BISMARCK AND THE KAISER.
The socialist organ, vorwaerts, pub
fishes a letter purporting to be from
Prince Albrecht of Russia to Chancellor
Caprivi, suggesting meeting and public
reconciliation between Bismarck and
Emperor William on the occasion OF the
inauguration of the monument to
the late Emperor William at Gorlitz.
Prussian Silesia. with a view to it's
effect on the coming elections.
NEW GREAT MIDDLE PARTY.
Arendt, Schroeder, Won Dehrdt and
other Free Conservative leaders are try
ing to form great imperial middle
party. Today they waited upon Prince
Bismarck and asked him to patronize
the new combination by accepting the
candidacy for the reichstag. 1t is un-
derstood Bismarck declined the invita-
ton.
THE AUTUMN MANEUvERs.
In the autumn, maneuvers of the Ger
man army, on the vastest scale ever at
tempted, will be held between Treves,
Metz and Strasburg. EN- peror William
has invited the emperor of Austria, the
king OF Italy, the duke OF York, the
duke OF Connaught and all the German
princes 10 attend the maneuverE.
EXPULSION OF JEWS.
An echo from some foreign quarter
has reached here in regard to newly
published uksse ordering the wholesale
expulsion of Hebrews from the Russian
Poland frontier. By inquiries made it
is ascertained that the only movement
against these Hebrews ssrbeen the dis
lodging at several places along the from
tier OF a number of Hebrews who were
suspected of being engaged in SNUG
Cling. Apart from the ordinary observ-
ance of the old DEGREES aiming to keep
the Hebrews within fixed places, no
movement against the race has taken
place in Poland.
THE BERLIN ART SHOW.
The annual Berlin art exhibition will
be opened to the public tomorrow.
Among the prominent paintings are
N hQahta Riornoralr