Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-10-31
IMPERIAL FEELINGS


BERLIN. Oct. N.-It Is UNDERSTOOD ohat
the emperor has accepted the new chan'
oellor's view that the appointment oil
reactionary Protestant, like Count Zu
Gutenberg. as governor of Alsace-Lorraine,
would create bad feeling in that province
The emperor's desire to appoint Count
Zu Gutenberg to the highest post next 70
the chancellorship, with salary OF Sao'ooO
higher than the chancellor receives Us
compensation for the sights cast upon
him in the Caprivi press, Is further In
stance of the intrusion of imperial feehng
Into the government of the country, which
Is little calculated to enlist popular ap'
proval.
His majesty has summoned Prince Ho-
henlohe- Langenberg, head OF the Neuen'
stein line of the Hohenlohes, to Potsoam
as a possible governor Of the reichstag.
Prince Hohenlohe- Langenbcrg is an uncle
of the emperor He belongs to the Gle
chen Liengen families. He was formerly
a member of the Free Conservative party
in parliament, and has taken deep interest
in colonial matters. He has made no par
ticular mark in politics.
The other candidates for the same post
are General Won Loe, Prince Frederick
Hohenzollern and General Count Won
Waldersee. 1t is believed that Prince
Hohenlohe-Langenberg has the best chance
of appointment.
Public opinion is fast recovering from
the shock of the ministerial crisis. There
is q feeling of relief that it has not turned
out worse, and that the long threatened
storm has burst and cleared the atmos-
phere 1t begins to be regarded that the
emperors position was exceedingly dlfli-
cult in face of the endeavors of Count Won
Caprivi, Count Won Gutenberg and the
political parties to make capital out OF
his support, and that he concluded that
the only course was to cry ''hands OIL.
The New Chancellor's Career.
Prince Clodwig Carl Victor Won Hohen-
lohe- Schillingsfurst is the chief of the sec
ond branch of the princely line OF Hohen'
lohe- Waldenburg. He was born at
Rothenburg. March 81, 1919. He sue
ceeded in 1916 to his brother, Philip Ernst,
in the titles and qualities of Prince OF
Hohenlohe Schillingfurst by virtue of a
contract with his elder brother, Duke Vic
tor of Ratibor.
He was educated in the universities of
Gottingen, of Heidelberg and of Bonn,
and initiated into his diplomatic career in
the Prussan administration. When he
obtained the domain of Schillingsfurst,
which is Bavarian, he passed into the
Bavarian government.
A hereditary member Of its house OF
lords, he became minister to the kings
household and of foreign affairs. He was
appointed at the same time president OF
the council At first favorable to Prus.
sian politics,
Apprehension Of Bismarcks Tendency
led him into the program which all the
secondary states of Germany, anxious tC
retain their autonomy, adopted.
In 1868, when he was elected vice prcsi.
dent of the customs parliament, Prussiar
opinion attributed to him the idea of form
ing southern confederacy, while Bavariai
enmity suspected him of Partially TO-
Prussian interest His conduct of internal
affairs of the state was apparently liberal.
He was a Roman Catholic, but he resisted
ultramontane exaction.
When the election of 1869 resulted in ar
ultramontane victory, he rendered his
resignation, which the king refused to &C
cept. Hostility of the parliament how.
ever, made his withdrawal imperative in
1870. He voted for the incorporation o.
Bavaria into the new German empire H.
1871, and as member of the reich
stag tacitly adopted all the plans O.
Bismarck He was deputy for the dis.
trict of Forcheim to the first German par
| lament, and was made its vice prcsiden
March %, 1871 When Count Won Amin
was recalled from Paris he was nppointt d
The German Ambas sador There,
| and it was his inventory of the archives
of the embassy which was the basis of thu
suit against Won Arnim.
He was reelected to the rcichstag in 1875
and 1877, but ultramontane opposition de
| feated him in 1881. In 1885 he was APP
| pointed governor of Alsace- Lorraine, a
successor to General Manteufel, and sur.
passed the latter in efforts to Gcrmanize thu
! province. 1t was under his administration
| that the formality Of passports intended
| to suppress the relations between Franc,
| and the annexed country was exercised
most vigorously. Kaiser Wilhelm in 1891
had to interpose rescript.
| Prince Won Hohcnlohe was married In
1S46 to Princess Won Sayn- Witthenstein
Berleburg They have five children; TIT
eldest Philip Ernest, is 81 years old and o
| captain of cavalry in the Prussian army