Birmingham age-herald., 1895-07-07
HEWENT TO THE KEEL FETES
AND.Hls OPPONENTS BowLED HIM OVER
An Incident of the German Bye-Elections-A Burgo nssier's Defiant Defense ofSo-
 cialism-F sutherland Facts.

Berlin July 6.-TWO incidents arising from the battle which the government is waging against socialism are occupying public attention. In the recent bye-elec- tions at Goslin Herr Von Gerlach, conser- vative. headed the poll by 25o0 votes over his nearest opponent, the radical candi- date. yet reballot was necessary to an absolute election. Herr Von Gerlach was so certain of being returned that he at tended the Kiel festivities in the capac- ity of a member of the reichstag In the meantime the antiSenites combined with the socialists and the radicals in opposition to Gerach and defeated him in the reballot, returning q radical in his stead.
 The other incident is that of the fierce feud which has arisen between the bur eomaster of kolberg and the govern mental president of his district. The burgOmaster permitted a meeting of so- cialists to be held in the rooms of the corporation, whereupon the president or the district demanded an explanation of his conduct. The burgomaster de- fiantly maintained his right to permit any meeting in the corporation rooms that he saw fit, and declared that the socialists of <olberg were honest, and in every other respect good citizens. In addition to this reply to the president, the burgomaster boldly asserted that
 
 socialists sat ran great risk of finding no resting place in Germany"
 He did not for one moment, he said, re- pent of what he had done. and would unA hesitatingly do the same thing again. The president made a violent response to this deiverance of the burgomaster and charged him with gross violation of duty in willingly furthering the cause of a party which was assailing the order of monarchy and attacking Christianity. The president informed the burgomaster that he therefore fined him the sum of ninety marks. The municipal authori- ties of Kolberg backed up the burgomas- ter, and as a mark of their indorsement of him and his acts presented him with an address expressing their approval of his attitude. The publication of the cor respondence which passed between the president and burgomaster has led to vehement discussion of the affair in the newspapers.
 Simultaneously social flutter has been created by the action of the emperor in sending a count marshal to Dr. Brahm, manager of the Deutsche theater, with an order directing that the imperial sub- scriptions be taken off the list of the the7 ater. police officer accompanied the marshal, who directed that the imperial arms be removed from the imperial box. The marshal insisted upon seeing this done before he took his departure. Dr. Brahms offense consisted in his permit ting the theater to become the scene or a socialist demonstration upon the occa- sion of the performance there or Haupt- mann's "Weavers."
 If is certainly true that the socialists held levees nightly in the Hobbies of the theater and vociferously acclaimed cer- tain passages in the play, but Dr. Brahnl pleaded that he could not prevent sucn demonstration. He appealed to the em- peror's appreciation of the literary value of the Hauptmanns work, but in vain. Dr. Brahm is personally tainted as be- ing among the leaders of the young Ger man school of literature and in sympathy with socialism, and in these circum- stances there is no chance Of his recelV- ing the emperorS pardon.
 The unterhaus of the PruSSian diet has passed an agrarian proposal, by the provisions of which the Prussian land owners are to obtain reimbursement Tor the sums paid by them into the treasury under the land tax reforms of 1893. The bill originated in the upper house, and it's effect will be chiefly to benefit the great land owners, to whom the state must now refund the aggregate sum Of 16, 900, 900 marks
 pr. Miouel. Prussian minister of f. nance. offered a half hearted opposition to the measure, which he justly de- nounced as an instance of junker rapacity
 The anarchist leaders have decided to II. the first issue of which will appear on July 15 The police are awaiting the ap- pearance of the paper in the hope that It will contain something that may be con- strued into a pretext for it's seizure.
 The Volwaerts Socialist organ), In an article commenting upon the opening Of the electrical congress in Munich yes terday. devotes considerable space to the discussion of the various applica- tions of electricity. The paper is espec- ially opposed to the use of electricity as an agent in the execution of crimi- nals. and denounces the execution of Dr. Buchanan at Sing Sing as horrible instance of barbarity.
 The Tageblatt has an article on the same subject, in which 1t says If such an application of electricity were made upon dogs and cats every society for the preyention of cruelty in the world would make an outcry against it and the police would interfere without hesitation. The Americans, the Tageblatt says. seem to desire to increase the horror of capital punishment from terroritic motives.
 Despite the mystery surrounding the illness of the empress while at Klel and the various conflicting statements which were issued in regard 10 it, attributing her indisposition to this, that or the other cause, it has tranSpired that the real cause of her sickness and conse- uuent secluSion was mScarriage, brought on by the exertion of travelinS and the excitement of the fetes The empress, being in the best of health. rapidly recovered from the effects of her mishap, and the emperor was assured of her complete restoration to health before leaving for Stockholm, where he arrived today. Since her return to Pots- dam the empress has enjoyed good health, and has been able to take her usual daily exercises in the open air.
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