The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-10-28
HAD THELAST WORD
COUNT GUTENBERG CREDITED WITH
THE CAPRIVI CRISIS
Socialist Measure and the Polish
Question the Original Cause OF
Contention-Emp eror Led to Be-
lieve Caprivi Was Too Indeperd-
ent of Imperial Policy.
Copyrighted 1894 by the Associated Press.

/ WOrlu In general, mas Dteu Clearly aou CA
cusively foreshadowed in the dispatch es
to the Associated Press, and its CORES
! pendent here is now in a position to state
that the information which he has cabled
upon this subject was obtained from
| Chancellor Won Caprivi himself, although
| the correspondent was not then able 70
make public the source OF his informa'
ton.
The important intimation given in these
dispatches were based on statements which
Won Caprivi himself made in conversation
| with the Associated Press correspondent.
| The latter, himself. for the time being,
was pledged to secrecy respecting the
source of his information, rs the generals
tenure of his official post naturally pre-
| cluded the use of his name in connection
| with such a subject. Now, however,
! Caprivi is again a private citizen aud the
| seal of silence imposed by his Office has
been removed from his lips and he consent
| ed to give the Associated Press an inter
| view for publication.
| SOCIALISM AND THE POLISH QUESTION.
In consequence the correspondent called
at General Caprivi's residence last night
| and the general repeated what he had pre-
viously stated, that the leading question
upon which he found it impossible TO rec
peror and Count Botho Zu Gutenberg, was
the anti-reyolutionary measure. The sec
ond bone o; contention between the same
parties he added, was the proposed treat
meut of the Polish question.
Caprivi said he could not acQuiesce to
EuIenberg's opinion that drastic and ex-
ceptioual meatures were necessary TO cope
with the progress of Socialism. Moreover,
he was convinced they would not be rati-
fed by the reichstag. The general asserted
that he himself, was thor oughly conserv-
alive, but that he did not believe i'll reac-
tionary measures, such as Gutenberg pro-
posed to them in order to prove them ELI
cacious to ward off Socialistic danger.
Continuing, Caprlvi said: 81 have made
an honest attempt to fall into line With the
views of his majesty aud Count Eulen-
berg, but have failed. My whole policy
has been based upon reconciliation OF the
Socialist differences and Cancellation of
the Poles Both questions, however, have
been rendered acute lately, against my
own advice"
In the audience the chancellor was given
by the emperor, the latter expressed his
dissatisfaction that Caprivi was without a
working majority in the relchstag, which
in his ~ jesty's opinion, accounted for the
fact that the adoption of the proposed
socialist measures was doubtf III.
EMPEROR DISSUADED THE CHANCELLOR.
Th. emperor also insisted upon a reunion
of the chancellorshp and the Prussian
premiership, and here again CaprIvi found
himself directly at variance with the views
of the emperor. The retiring chancellor
pract ically finished up the business of his
office at 5o'clock yesterday afternoon, when
his aide de camp, Ma jor E. b. Myer, left,
and the general spent the evuning quietly
at his residence seeing a few friends, and
retired at an early hour.
Emperor Williams attitude toward
Caprivi has undoubtedly changed greatly
during the past week, and since his ma jes-
tvs visit to Count Zu Eulenb berg the Ger
man ambassador 20 Vienna, at Liebenberg
On Tuesday when Caprivi found that
Count Botho Lu Gutenberg persisted in
opposing the government program and
that he Intended to resign the presidency
of the Prussian council OF ministers, the
chancellor placed his own resignation in
the hands of the emperor, in order to end
the ministerial conflict. The emperor,
however, rs cabled exclusively to the As
ISOLATED Press at the time, drove to the
chaucellor's residence, and, il now ap-
pears, by assuring him of his approval of
the generals policy, succeeded in dissuad-
Ing him from insisting upon resigning.
SET WILLIAM AGAINST CAPRIvL.
The emperor then. apparently regarding
the trouble as tided over, at any rate for
the present, proceeded 10 I4leDeuDurg Tor q
few days deer stalking with Count Philip
Zu Gutenberg, who Is an Intimate friend Of
the emperor.
4. Lieden berg. however, the opportun-
ity was taken to set the emperor against
Capriv by several members of the Eulen-
berg family. including the ex-premer, his
brother the court chamberlain aud Colo
mel Zu Eulenber-, who was gathered there
to greet the emperor.
Tho attacks on f'Ouut RntbO I'm IN
berg, in the Cologne Gazette and other Ca
privi organs, such a. the North German
Gazette and Hamburg Correepon-
d-uze were brought before the emperor's
notice and it WAS intimated to him that
the articles Were inspired by Caprivi in
order to discredit the PruSsian premier in
the eyes of the country. The emperor Is
understood to have expressed great Indig-
nation at these attacks. and to have been
Influenced also by hints that the confer
euce of the ministers of the federal states
was Summoned by the chancellor for the
express purpose Of giving an open rebuff
to Gutenberg, whose policy was certain to
be disapprovei by these statesmen.
HIS MAJEsTY's TEMPER WAS RUFELED.
Consequently Emperor William met the
chancellor yesterday IN a ruffied tenn per
and showed sympathy for the Russian
premier, whereupop Crprivl, who took the
opportunity TO promptly tender his
resignation, for which action he had ad-
ditiunal ground in the difference OF opiu-
ion between the emperor and himself on
the question Of reunitlug the two offices,
the chanceilorship of the empire and the
residency of the Prussian council of
ministers. The fierce attacks made upon
him by the organs which hsve supported
Caprivi certainly gave Gutenberg ground
| for complaint. They have been very I'M
successful and unpoiitic in Commiques
| published during the last fortnight and
designed 70 convey the impression that
the emperor and the chancellor agreed
! upon leading questions aud that Eulen-
! berg stood alone
Won Caprivi's position for a long time
/ past has been one of extreme difficulty. He
| was in an uneGvlable situation in having
| to look forward TO meeting the Teichstag
without a working majority at his back.
From the conservatives he could only ex-
| pect opposition, while the Centre party
| was not pledged AID its support depended
upon concessions The chancellor was
| left with only a scattered following. Even
/ the polish faction was emo!ttered against
( him by recent events.
WHAT CAPRIvI had TO MEET.
The Bismarckian move has naturally
been revenge; the colonial party has been
| dissatisfied with the chaucellor's aver
| sion TO an active colonial paTtF and
| the Agrarsans are d4scontented al
/ the commercial treaties and hsIl the chan
| c~llor's fall with uufeigned delight Fin
| ally powerful force against which the
| general has 10 contend is DR.. MIGUEL, min
/ lister OF fiaauce, whose policy has been ep-
| paTeutly dictated by bis own ambition.
| This opposition nevertheless mace IIt,le
| hesdwsy against CaprIvi until they en-
| listed Eule1 berg IN their ranks snd as the
| Prgssisu min stTy was then played on
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