The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-07
Fierce Feud Between a Burgo-
master and a Federal
President.
Won eERLAoH SHOWED UNDER
So Confident of Election Was he
That He Went to Kiel as a
Member of Reichstag.

mystery surrounding the illness OF the
Fmnress while at Kiel and the various
conflicting statements which were issued
in regard to it, attributing her lndlsposl-
ton to this and that and the other cause,
it has transpired that the real cause OF ner
sickness aud consequent seclusion was an
accident brought on by the exertlon OF
travelling and the excitement OF the fetes.
The Empress, being in good health, rap
idlv recovered from the effects of her mis-
hap. and the Emperor was assured OF her
compIete restoration to health before leav
inc for Stockholm, where he arrived to-
dav. Since her return to Potsdam the
Empress has enjoyed good health and has
been able to take her usual daily exercise
in the open air.
Two incidents arising from the battle
which the Government is waging against
socialism are occupying public attention.
In the recent bye-election in Goslin, Herr
Won Gerlach Conservative headed the
poll by 300 votes over his nearest oppo-
nent, the Radical candidate, yet re-ballot
was necessary to an absolute election.
Herr Won Gerlach was so certain of being
returned that he attended the Kiel festivi-
Reichstag. In the meantime the anti
Semites combined with the Socialists and
the Radicals in opposition to Gerlach, and
defeated him in the re-ballot, returning
a Radical in his stead. The other
incident is that of the fierce feud
which has now arisen between the
Burgomaster of Kolberg and the Govern
mental President of his district. The Bur
gomaster permitted a meeting of socialists
TO be held in the rooms of the corporation,
whereupon the President of the district
demanded an explanation of his conduct
The Burgomaster defantly maintained his
right TO permit any meeting in the corpor-
alton rooms that he saw fit, and declared
that the socialists of Kolberg were honest
and in every other respect good citizens.
In addition to this reply to the President
the Burgomaster boldly asserted that "per-
sons who would not sit where 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 IN
hesitatingly do the same thing again. The
President made a violent response to the
Burgomaster and charged him with gross
violation of duty in willingly furthering
the cause OF party which was assalling
the social order of the monarchy and at
lacking Christianity. The President in
formed the Burgomaster that he therefore
fined him the sum of 80 marks. The mu-
nicipal authorities OF Kolberg backed up
the Burgomaster, and as a mark of their
Endorsement of him and his acts presented
him with an address expressing their ap-
proval of his attitude. The publication of
the correspondence which passed between
the President and the Burgomaster has
led to vehement discussion of the affair
in the newspapers.
simultaneously social f1utter has been
created by the action of the Emperor in
sending a court marshal to DR.. Brahm,
manager of the Deutsch Theater, with an
order directing that the imperial subscrip-
tons be taken off the list of the theater.
A police officer accompanied the marshal,
who directed that the imperial arms be
removed from the emperial box. The
marshal insisted upon seeing this done
before he took his departure. Dr. Brahms
offense consisted in his permitting the
theater to become the scene of a
socialist demonstration upon the occasion
of the performance there of Hauptmann's
Waivers" 1t is certainly true that the
socialists held levees nightly in the Hobbies
of the theater and vociferously acclaimed
certain passages in the play, but DR..
Brahm pleaded that he could not prevent
such demonstrations. BE appealed to the
Emperor's appreciation of the literary
value of Hauptmann's work, but in vain
DR.. Brahm is personally tainted as being
among the leaders of the young German
school of literature and in sympathy with
socialism, and in these circumstances there
is no chance of his receiving the Emperor's
pardon.
The Unterhaus of the Prussian Diet has
passed an agrarian proposal, by the provis-
ions of which the Prussian landowners are
to obtain REIN bursement for the sums paid
by them into the treasury under the land
taxreforms of 1898. The bill originated in the
upper house. and its effect will be chiefly
to benefit the landowners, to whom the state
must now refund the aggregation of 49,
lister Of Finance, gave half-hearted OPP
position to the measure, which he justly
denounced as an instance of junker ra-
pacity.
The anarchist leaders have decided to
publish an organ, entitled Die Freiheit, the
first issue of which will appear on July Is.
The police are awaiting the appearance of
the paper in the hope that it will contain
something that may be construed into
pretext for its seizure.
The railway station at Dortmund was de-
stroyed by fire last night and two men
were killed by the falling of its walls.
The Vorwaerts Socialist organ) in an ar
ticle commenting upon the opening of the
electrical college in Munich yesterday, de-
votes considerable space to discussion of
the various applications of electricity. The
paper is especially opposed to the use of
electricity as an agent in the execution of
criminals, 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 it says that if such an APP
plication of electricity were made upon
dogs and cats every society for the proven
ton of cruelty in the world would make
an outcry against it and the police would
interfere without hesitation. 1.-THE Ameri-
cans, the Tageblatt says, "seem to desire
10 increase tho horror of carifa1 ,op1ieh