The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-10-06
DELEGATES TO BE PAID.
Four Women Admitted to the
Gathering as Regular
Representatives.
RAPID GROWTH OF THE PARTY.
Notwithstanding All Obstacles Mem
bers Now Cut Wide SWath in
Germany's Politics.

| BERLIN, GERMANY, Oct. 5.-The Con-
gress of Social Democrats will meet in the
| hall of the Deutschen Kronprinz Hotel at
Breslau tomorrow, when it is expected $50
delegates will be present. The party edi-
tors, journalists and officials of the social
lst party will also attend in full force i'll
view of the intended attack upon their
emoluments by some of the party leaders.
The women delegates to the convention
now number four. Berlin sends Frauen
Hohrbach and Lutz, the latter being the
daughter of Herr Liebknecht, one of the
leaders of the Socialist party in the Reich
stag. Frau Geisser represents Breslau in
the congress, and Stuttgart sends Frau
zelkin, editress of the Gleicheit. The del
egates who are members of the Reichstag
will take leading part in the delibera-
tions of the congress.
The foreign organizations will be more
strongly represented than usual in this
congress, especially in the presence of the
prominent leaders of the international
revolutionary movement in Austria, Hol-
land, Belgium and France. Each dele
gate will receive the sum of nine marks
each day in cash, with third-class railway
fares paid. Including the cost of printing,
the rent of the hall and other expenses the
congress will cost the socialist party
800 600 marks.
The Vorwaerts, the leading socialist
organ, publishes to-day the socialist com
mittee's report upon the progress of the
party, which will be presented to the con-
gress. The report states that party agita-
ton has suffered from the general depres-
sion of business and the consequent dearth
of work and the fact that the employers
'are keeping blacklists with a view to sup
pressing socialist workers by intimidation.
Notwithstanding these obstacles, however,
the report asserts the party is increasing
in power in all of the German diets and
municipal bodies, especially in the popu-
lous centers. The party holds fourteen
seats in the Bavarisn Diet, fourteen in the
Saxon Diet, four in -Altenburg, three
in Baden, three in Hesse, and one each in
the diets OF Saxe-Weimar, axe-Coburg-
Gotha, -Meiningen, Reuss and
Schwarzburg. The party continues TO be
weak in Prussia under the peculiar class
conditions and the nature of the electoral
system.
The socialist press includes seventy-six
political journals and 6fty-three trades
union papers. The profits of the Vor-
waerts for the last year were $500 marks,
but the publication of the party's
leading weekly, the Social Demokrat, was
stopped because it required an annual
subsidy of 1900 marks. The total rev.
enue of the party for the year was 247.450
marks, and the expenditures $50, 354 marks.
The report treats the suggestion of an anti
revolution bill with scorn, and declares
that socialism will thrive under the most
furious assaults of its class enemies.
The North German Gazette makes the
statement that yesterday the Chinese
authorities at Hankow signed with the
German Consul at that place a concession
giving the right to Germany to establish
settlement at Hankow.
Prince Won Hohenlohe will resume his
duties in the Chancellor's office on Mon
day, and the Bundesrath will resume its
sittings next week.
DR.. Stoecker delivered speech at the
Christian Socialist mass-meeting in the
7 urn Halle in Berlin last night, IN order
to clear himself of the charges against
him, arising from his relations with Baron
Won Hammerstein, the Ascending editor
in-chief of the Kreuz Zeitung. The
directors audience was thoroughly in
sympathy with him, and when Herr
Boeckel, an anti-Semite member of the
Reichstag, rose in the body of the hall to
make an attack on the speaker, he was
promptly elected from the place and was
not heard of afterward. After the meet
ing Stoecker left the hall surrounded by
fifty of his adherents.
A pathetic scene was witnessed in the
civil court here on Tuesday. The marriage
of the distinguished musical artists,
Eugene Albert and Teresa Carreno, was
dissolved on the application of the vile,
on the ground that her husband had de-
serted her.
When the decree was announced the di-
vorced woman cried bitterly, and the hus-
band was similarly affected. They were
finally led weeping from the court by their
| respective counsel, going out by different
doors.
The Dresden and Le1psic newspapers are
criticizing the behavior of English and
American visitors generally. Their criti-
cisms are provoked by the occurrence of a
squabble on board railway train return
ing to Dresden from the Nider Se1dletz
playground few days ago. A foreign
lady in one of the cars complained of the
| Germans smoking. Some of the Ameri-
cans in the car tried to persuade the Ger
mans to stop smoking, but as they were in
the smoking compartment, they would
| not stop. The Americans then gave the
Germans good punching. Consequently
English and American manners are de-
clared by the press to be deplorable.
Seigfried Wagner, son OF the composer,
is betrothed to the daughter of Munich
brewer. The marriage will take place at
Bayreuth in the spring.