The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-03-26
DEMAG0GUE AHLWARDT.
he is NOW THE HERO OF A JEW
BATTING MOB.


BATTING MOB.
He Reiterates at Two Public Meetings
the Charges Against Prince Bis
marck and other Prominent Per-
sonaRes Which the ReichstaG Re
pudiated-The Coming Election.
BERLIN, March 25.-Scotched, but not
killed, Ahlwardtism continues to rear its
ugly head aloft. If Ahlwardt had an atom
of regard for the contempt heaped upon him
in the Reiohstag, or tor the universal voice
Of scorn in the public press, be would van-
ish from political life, but with the front OF
a thrasher aud sustained by the jew batting
mob be remains a dangerous factor in
public slife. Since his exposure in the
Reichstag his reception on the streets and Rt
two public meetings which he attended has
been like what might be accorded a great
servant OF the state. Within a few hours
after the complete collapse in the Reich
stag of his charges against Prince
Bismarck and other well-known
personages, Herr Ahlwardt repeated and
enlarged them at a meeting held at Spandau.
The meeting was very largely attended by
wOrkingmen, many Of whom came from
the royal factories. A large number of
these men were not OF the stamp whose
ignorance could excuse them, yet they are
blind supporters of the vulgar demagogue.
The meeting was presided over by Capt.
Herter. retired officer, who crowned Herr
Ahlwardts head with a laurel amid the
frantic plaudits of the spectators. Every
utterance of their hero of the hour was
cheered to the echo by the workingmen.
HE CLAIMS UNFAIR TREATMENT
Herr Ahlwardt said he had been treated
by the Reichstag with gross injustice. The
members he declared, obviously wanted to
suppress the evidence he possessed Co sup
port his charges. He had a hand full OF
documents which he mad offered TO produce
for the examination of the Reiohstag. Con-
tinuing, Herr Ahlwardt said that If he had
been given time no unbiased mind would
doubt the truth of his proofs He refrained
for the present from disclosing how he p-o-
cured the documents, but gave an instance
of how one was picked out OF waste paper
basket by a servant Of q public official. This
paper had been brought to him. 1t was
"a receipt for large sum of money that had
been given TO the judges of CERTAIN court
who had but recently decided suit by
which bTibsrs obtained several millions of
marks.
9th official and unofficial papers concur
in the opinion that it was an error in tactics
10 link the whole question of anti-5emitlsm
with the question Of Herr Ahlwardt's
veracity. In the debate in the Reichstag
| the conservatives repudiated him, yet they
| have taken another step toward strength.
| euing the anti-Semitic platform; twenty
| six members of the party are back OF the
| bill prohibiting Jewish immigration
and naturalization Of foreign Jews
| The bill is designed to catch votes in the
Afskv
spread like an epidemic.
POLITICS LIVELY.
The three weeks Easter recess of tht
| ReichGtag and LAndtag is generally passed
in absolute quiet. This year the recess
sees transference OF political activity to tht
! political platform. The imminenoe of disso.
| luton sends most members to face their
constituents.
| The central committee of the socialists
and national liberals have met here and dis.
| cussed the prospects, the socialists exult-
| antly aud the national liberals despond-
| ingly. DR.. Won Bernigesen warned the ma
| tional liberals that the elections could not
| be fought by them on "a mere platform of
| the acceptance or rejection of the army
! bill. He deplored the want OF unity ia
the party and complained that adj
| dresses coming from the national liberal
| districts declaring in support OF the bill
| had assisted to defeat the arrangement OF
! any compromise With the government.
| Finally the meeting decided to leave the
| method OF conducting the electoral can
vases to individual initiative.
| The center party, which has been repos-
! ing IN the confidence that the result of the
| general election would be a return Of their
| party nearly unchanged, have been
| awakened by the return of Johannes Fus-
sanger, an independent clerical from the
second Armsberg- -Mesched-Olpe district.
| The entire official mechanism Of the
centerist party was employed to defeat
| Herr FussanRer, who is editor of the
! Bochumer VolkS Zeitung and is a rabid
| Prussian hater. One immediate result Of
this centerist defeat is the defeat of Schor-
| emer, on old centerist.
| Herr Chief will withdraw his oandidature
| in the Dortmund election.
The element Of uncertainty introduced
into the centerist calculations may yet in
fuence the leaders to reconsider their atti-
! tude toward the army bill.
On all sides the Easter recess will be de-
| voted TO probing the constituencies.
A SIGNIFICANT APPOINTMENT.
The appolntmen Of Archduke Renter to
officially represent Emperor Francis Joseph
| at the coming silver wedding of King Hum
| bert Of Italy is hailed here as a veri,able
triumph of the quirinal over the vatican.
! The archdnke is an uncle OF King Humbert
| aud might attend the fetes without his
presence being considered as a political
| event. Sent as the representative OF the
! Emperor Of Austria, his Wait may be preg-
nant with consequences. The Italian gov
eminent will consider it as definite Aus
trian recognition that Rome Is the capital
! OF Italy and will now have a
| right to expect Emperor Francis Joseph to
! visit the quirinal. The reasons for this
| blow TO the vatican are found in the pope's
| pro-French policy and Cardinal Rampolla's
uncompromising attitude on the Hungarian