The San Francisco call., 1896-11-08
But There Are Other Questions
That Also Attract Consid.
cradle Attention.
NOTABLE EUROPEAN INTRIGUE
Bismarck's Double Dealing and Aus.
tria's Partially for the Or.
leanists of France.
copyright. 1896, by New York Times

Dental campaign in the United States,
which closed on Tuesday, has been
liberal education to the present genera
tion of Englishmen. Scores of them
have now a tolerable insight into our
electoral system where one had the barest
notion of it before. l suppose it can be
said with safety that never in her history
has England been so deeply interested in
an election in another country, and the
London papers are still amazed al the en-
terprise which led them to compile tables
and give columns of special dispatches
and com parative comment to the final re-
suits. They had never done anything like
it before. AS for the effect of the result it
self the business classes here fully re-
fected the Joy which thrilled New York
and all the East.
Most Englishmen who are not in bust.
ness began by rather sympathizing With
Mr.. Bryan, despite the free-silver plank
on general politico-social grounds; but
toward the close of the campaign they
came to comprehend that it was a choice
of evils and that Mr.. Mckinley was the
lesser of the two. When the final news
came there was practically no dissent in
the British press from the view that the
best thing had happened.
As have often said before in these dis
patches, hawever, the English Liberals,
and for that matter most of the Tories
too, take the gloomiest possible view of
the power which trusts, railroad com bina-
tions and other monopolies WELD in
America, and they are predisposed to be-
lleve that a revolution is coming every
time any political excitement is mani
tested. The action of the coal trust, for
example, in raising the price of coal IS per
j.. ton in September has been more dis
cussed here than any other American
event in recent years, and l have been con-
tinually asked about it by men who imag-
Inc that it would necessarily lead 10 vio-
lence and civic convulslons.
A year ago this week Lord Salisbury s
Guildhall speech was supposed to be an
epoch making utterance, yet the only VS.
ible change brought by the past twelve
months in the Levant is that many thou
sand Armenians who were alive then are
dead now. There is a very general i'm
preston, however, that important
changes, up TO the present invisible, are
aboi ready to be proclaimed.
NJ. Hanotaux, the French Minister oi
Foreign Affairs, was evidently not in a
situation to disclose any of them this
week, but the fact that he avoided al
mention of Egypt was promptly taken as
sign of his comprehension that negotia
tions were pending which imposed silencs
upon France concerning the subject she
habituallv talks about when the Eastern
question is discussed. Curiosity now Gen.
ters on the chance that Lord Salisbury
may have revelations to make at the
Guildhall on Monday night
Some approach TO deiiniteness we are GER
tain to get for Lord Salisbury has less
talent in the direction of empty word
spinning than any other foreign ministe
known TO history. Already we know that
an abandonment of Cyprus is no part oil
his present plans, and it seems equally
clear that England's position in Egypt is
at least not going 10 be submitted to Euro
pean opinion. Undoubtedly the tendency
OF the past months events has been 10
strengthen England's hands and to put up
the price of her iavors, and no doubt the
consciousness OF this will be manifest in
Mondays deliverance.
What Prince Bismarck humorousIv de.
scribed as "the quacking in the duck-pond
over the splash of stone I Rave thrown
lnlo il" has in the last few days taken on
grayer character. 1t must have been a
serious business, indeed, which kept the
the Kaiser and his chief ministers. while
the chancellor's brother, Cardinal Honen-
loEe, lay dead in Rome. This gave rise to
report that Bismarck's prosecution hal
been resolved on, but every one knows. on
second thought, that such action is lmpos
sible. Count Herbert Bismarck, who
turned up in Paris at the beginning Of
this week, confided to his friends. how
ever, that prosecution of the Ham buree or
Nachrichten was not unlikely, and that
in consequence his father would print
what further disclosures he had to make
In Vienna paper.
Two days later the Neue Freie Presse
contained an article which was immedi.
ately recognized as inspired by Bismarck
1t declared that in 1875 Alexander II
wrote an autograph letter 10 Bismarck
saying that the Russian army was restles.
after twenty years OF peace, and wanted tc
hight somebody, and asking IL Germany
would stand aloof if Russia attacked Aus
tria. The story goes on TO aver that Bis
marck vlrtuously resisted these advance:
with the result that the Gar arranged &
compact with Austria about the Ottoman
Empire, and let his army loose against the
Turk instead of against Austria itself. AL
this is told with such circumstantial detail
and is supported by SO many collateral
facts, that II occurs 10 nobody to doubt its
truth. The excitement it creates in al
three empires is greatly heightened by the
UNDERSTANDING Ihat muc1 moro matter O
the same sort is coming. Count Herbert
Bismarck defends his fathers action, so
hear from Paris, on the ground of lhe ex.
Chanceliors Just rage al seeing the Ger.
man Emp pre, which he hims elf made, now
going to pieces as the effect of stupid, anna
teur mismanagement.
Young Bismarck says the Kaiser ha,
now hardly a friend left among the Ger
man Princes. Some of them he ha,
offended personally, others politically
and as for the German people tvery tim,
a new election is held it is discovered tina
the Social Democrats have doubled in
mum bers. On the other hand the younl
Grand Duke OF Hesse, who is the brothe
of the Czarina, and who. like his sister. il
devotedly attached to his aunt. th
Empress Frederick. is forming q kind o
princely cabal against William with thu
idea OF curbine his authority and forcing
hlm to consult the Federal rulers before
ne acts In important matters, such as th'
selection of Chancellor or the settlemen
OF diplomatic questions. Through the in
1uence OF the Grand Duke and of tn,