The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1894-11-14
Will There he An Appeal to bismarck

Lie ROT me rererrd, the King will send fol
ME again. These are said to have been the
words with which the architect Of the Ger.
man empire took leave Of Berlin, on receipt
of the information that his services could
be dispensed with. The young man who
owes 1t to BISMARCK that he bears an i'm
perial as we'll as a royal title, has tried to do
without him for some years, and it is to the
honor of Gen. Won CAPRIvI that the i'm
possibility Of replacing his predecessor was
not long ago mad manifest. But CAPRIvI
is no longer Chancellor, and more interest
ing even than the news of his downfall, is
the telegraphed report that Prince HoHEN-
LOBE, his successor, will visit BISMARCK
soon with the Emperor's approval, N will
seek BIsMARCK's advice upon all important
occasions.
IL to this determination WILLIAM ii. has
come at last, it is not easy to overrate the
good that Germany may reap, both as re-
CARDS its foreign relations and its internal
welfare. From the viewpoint OF German
patriots, the accession of NICHOLAS ii. to
the Russian throne presents a juncture at
which 1t is n matter Of primary moment
to strengthen the pro-German party at st.
Petersburg: The men who supplanted the
reformer LoRIS MELIRoFF, and who
launched ALEXANDER III. on q reactionary
curse in Church as well as State, will not
retire without a desperate although clan
destine struggle, in which palace intrigue
and surreptitious recour to national preju-
dice will play their parts. At such a crisis,
when unfriendly tongues would dwell on
the past failures Of WILLIAM III. to pro-
pitiate his Russian kinsman, the scale might
be turned in the mind of the new Gar by
the knowledge that henceforward the for
eign policy of Germany would be guided by
the statesman who repeatedly declared that
the friendship of Russia was the safeguard
Of the HoHENzoLLERNs, and that, sooner
than leopard it, he would regard Bulgaria
as not worth the sacrifice of a Pomeranian
grenadier.
Even more nearly decisive as to the atti-
tude o: German political parties would be
the belief that BISMARCK had shaped or
sanctioned the programme to be submitted
to the Ieeichstag, BY the appointment of
Prince H~OHENLoHE to be Chancellor of the
empire and Prime Minister OF Prussia, Will
LIAM ii. has apparently placed himself in
the hands of the Conservative-Agrarians,
who have returned only about a quarter of
the members of the popular branch of the
Parliament, and who are not much
more strongly represented In the Prussian
Landtag. How Is Prince HOHESLoHE to exc
the majority indispensable to carry the
and political measures which
must shortly he brought forward To pass
any bill he must gain the support OF the Ma
tionalL Liberals, Of the Unlonist Radicals, and
Of that section Of the Centrists which rallied
to CAPRIvI in his hour of need, and gave
him the desired addition to the army by a
small but adequate majority. How can a
man who typifies the Junker element, and
who possesses none of CAPRIvI's skill in de-
bate, hope to collect about him the diverse
factions, which agree in nothing ex-
,ept devotion to the unity and glory OF the
German nation
II it be true that Primes H~oHESLoHE is to
Oe but a fgurehead and mouthpiece, and
hat SNARE is TO be the real pilot of the
ierman ship of State, the change of SOW
in Russia bodies no evil To the peace
# Europe, He who bulit the German yes
can best steer il. The RELOCATION of the
if not the Ostensible guidance OF
ierman politics to the man In whom is per
omitted the work of 1855 and 1870, would
'e a tardy but splendid recognition of the
ruth that in the case of great men age
wisdom and prestige with every
ear, and that in the mere name of Bis
lies a power with which To c%onjure
nd to conquer.