Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-12-14
MISS BISMARCK.
Feeling Of Insecurity Grow
ing in German Empire.
A State Of Unexpected Weakness Re-
veaIed by Press Scandals.
And Boosted German Strength and solidiiy 70
Not What it Was.

| Berlin. Dee. 13.-The statement pub
| lished in the Reichsanzeiger, the official
| journal, that long ago as October, the
| Kaiser was informed of the source of
| the libels against Freiherr Marshall
Won Bieberstein, minister of foreign af-
| fairs, is taken as proof that the prose-
| cuton of both Baron Won Tuetzow, the
| editor who a Jew days ago, was SEN
| fenced to IS months Imprisonment for
perjury and forgery and Major Baron
| Won Tausch, chief of the political police,
now in jail, awaiting trial for perjury
and forgery and for aiding and abet-
ting others in the commission of those
crimes, has received the full sanction
of the Emperor Conservative news
papers are rather reticent concerning
the matter, knowing that the dominant
influence in the Emperor's encourage is
now that of Baron Marschall Won Bic
bernstein. sFsaat'
One immediate effect of the prosecu-
lions has been the cessation of inspired
utterances in the neMSpapers-- The
court and government officials now
evade and ignore journalists, and the
office of the court marshal even re-
fuses cards of admission to any court
ltStlNllleS, WHICH nave UllucItO OCCu
regularly accorded to members of the
press. Only Hofrath de Grahl MEM
Der of the official bureau. will hence
forth be admitted to these functions
and his report must be bought by the
papers that want reports of the move
ments of the Emperor and court. 1t is
only Independent papers that are now
trying to penetrate the mystery remain
ing around the prosecutions.
The Tagebatt says the trial, convic-
tion and sentence of Baron Won Luet-
zow was the mere prologue to the pre-
sent drama of which the trial of Baron
Won Tausch will be the central develop
ment.
The Lokal AnZeiger asserts that af-
ter his arrest Tausch offered to reveal
everything, even to the disclosure of
the names of the persons who were be-
hind him and inspired the acts of which
he now stands accused.
The national Zeitung insists that the
government shall institute at once an
energetic publication of the police.
None of the independent papers is so
boldly explicit as the Vorwartz, the
leading organ of the Socialist party,
which is daily bowling in triumph over
the downfall of it's old enemy Baron
Won Tausch. Hitherto the Socialists
have denied that Baron Marschall Won
was possessed of any grit.
and their present support of him causes
true Germans to doubt whether he was
we'll advised in forcing for his own in
terests the most extreme publicity of
matters in regard to the dssensions
and sources of discussion.
Official circles are asking whether the
welfare of the public would not have
been better served through some other
mode of inquiry. say by bringing the
proceedings against Tausch
for abuse or his Office. The VOrwartz,
pointing out the fact that
Baron Marschall Won Bierberstein pre-
tends to believe that Tausch had no
me behind him, adds:
Won Bierberstein is too clever and
90 well informed not to know the
whole affair to it's root. AS a matter of
tact nobody acquainted with court or
high official circles, credits the Eulen-
)urg family with having instructed
such directly to operate against Won
and all of the court know
What tremendous influence the Eulen-
'urgs WELD. Their prncely position
md wealth influence all of the German
md Austrian courts. and it is not a
lifiicult matter to conceive that a crea-
ure like Tausch did not need any ex-
'licit orders to act in the Eulenburys
interests
In conclusion the Vorwartz says: IF
he trial of Major Won Tausch is not to
'e farce, Baron Marshall Won Bier
'erstein must insist upon exculpation
through the clearest methods, proceed
ng not alone against Count Won Eulen-
urg, but against Gen. Won Waldersee
'rince Bismarck and Count Herbert
Herr Bebel, Socialist leader in the
has written an open letter
\ which he alludes to the Trinity or
onspirators" behind Tausch. and de-
lares that he will lay statement up-
n the subject before the Richstap.
The world outside of Germany nos
IDLY fails to conceive Of the awfu, i'm
ression made by the revelations con-
erning the weakness of the govern
lent. especially the disclosures Of tho