The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-10-19
RUSSIA AND THE GERMANS.
PRIvY COUNCILLOR sHIsHKIN IN
BERLIN.

Discussed-The Relations of the
Powers Not Changed by the Cars
Visit to Paris.
Copyright, 1896, by the United Associa ted,
Presses.
Berlin, Oct. 1S.-A great deal of import
ance is being attached to the repeated con-
ferences which have taken place between
NJ. Shishkin, privy councillor to the Rus,
sian foreign office, and acting minister of
foreign affairs. pending the appointment
Of a successor to Prince Lobanoff- Ros-
tovski, and M. Dewitte, Russian minister
of finance, on the one hand, and Prince
Hohenlohe German imperial chancelloc,
| and Baron Marschal Won Bieberstein, Ger
man minister of foreign affairs, on the
other, but the balance of proof appears 20
be on the side of the opinion that the con-
| ferences have concerned the commercial
relations between Germany and Russia,
rather than any matters of a political
character. 1t is probable, however, that
the emperor and NJ. Shishkin, who has
been in Berlin during the last week, had
a talk of political nature over the visit
of the czar to Queen Victoria. Prince
Hoheniohe invited NJ. Shishkin to luncheon
on Wednesday, and the luncheon came Off
at the chancellerie according to pro-
gramme. The guests included Count Won
Ostend-Sacken, the Russian ambassador,
Baron Marschal Won Bieberstein, the for
eign minister, and several of the high Off
cials of the foreign office, and attaches OF
the Russian embassy, but NJ. Shishkin ola
| Ia
next day that the emperor, NJ Shishkin
and Count Pahlen, the Russian state sec.
| retary, at the time that the acting Rus
sian minister of foreign affairs was eN>
| pected at the chancellerie, were taking
| luncheon together at Potsdam.
Press surmises are rife over the meet
ing, but none of the papers are able to say
| what transpired at the conference, from
| which the emperor deemed it advisable to
| exclude all German officials. After leaving
| the palace at Potsdam, NJ. Shishkin pro-
! ceeded directly to the chancellerie, later
conversed with Baron Won Beberstein at
the foreign office for few minutes and
then started for st. Petersburg.
Whatever truth there may be in the re-
port that Gen. Count Won Ro-
| nontsoff- -Daschkof will be made
the successor of Prince Labachoff-
Rostovski as Russian miHister- of-foreign
affairs, instead Of NJ. Shshkin, the fact
remains that NJ. Shishldn will be persona
gratia here. The German officials, with
whom he has come in contact, declare him
to be a keen, yet broad minded diplomat,
and a hard worker but a man without
| prejudices and a decided opportunst in
his views. His most formidable compet
itor, Gen. Count Won Ronontsof-Dasch-
koff, has the overwhelming advantage of
belonging to the haute mobile, while the
! link which connects NJ. Shshkin with the
| OH ig hp
| he married the Princess Hochonskow.
! Count Won Ronontsoff-Daschkoff is in
! tensely pro-French, but NJ. Shishkin, upon
| the subject of Russias relations with
| France, is not committed to any absolute
! policy; hence the latter is preferred in
| high German official circles.
| Out of the multitude of conflicting ru-
| mors in regard to the czars tour of Eu-
| rope nothing can be CLEANED that has the
! stamp of reliability. Vienna and Paris
! are the focuses of sensational stories, but
| the sum of the official view here is that
the relations of the powers have not been
! in any respect changed and that the czar
will not move from the position Russia
| has hitherto held if his action should
| risk disturbing the European equilibrium.
Diplomatic correspondence and negotia-
| tions are still proceeding as regards the
best means of dealing with Turkey, and in
| the meantime the sultan continues to
A review of tne proceedings of last
weeks sitting of the socialist congress at
| Sieblchen, near Gotha, leaves the impress
sion that socialism is losing something of
| it's external combative force, and increas-
ing in the elements of internal conflict,
though the old formulas of the party have
certainly obtained the usual marks of ap-
proval A quarter of a century ago Gotha
was the scene of a contest between the
Marxists and the Lassellists, out of which
issued the programme which has since
been held up as a sort of confession Of
faith, and the German creed of socialism
became an established process. The inter-
nal differences of the party began to de-
velop under the rule of that triumvirate
of dictators. Singer, Bebel and
Liebnecht, which rule was vigorously dis
puted in the congress. Herr Liebnecht
complained of the interference of the
ruder proletarians in the management of
the party and said that as soon as the
academically trained bourgeoisie adopted
socialism and began to give valuable in
tellectual or material assistance to the
marty they were Immediately clubbed
down by others who had risen from the
ranks of the proletariat.
In resenting this sort of dictation TO the
leaders on the part of the proletarian
members Of the party, Herr Liebknecht
completely ignored his old-time songs OF
praise over the "dictauon of the proleta-
RATS" which he once regarded as a party
plank. at least to the extent of obtaining
recruits to the ranks Of the party, and his
attention was called to his evident change
of views. The next notable feature of
the congress was the contest Of the South
German socialists with the central bosses
In Berlin. Herr Vollmar, the South Ger
man leader, is stilh too III TO take an ac-
tive part in the affairs Of the party, but he
sent potent represen tatives to the con-
gress in Herr Grlilenberger and others to
defend the agrarian propaganda, which
is now a burning question in Southern
Germany.
In the course of the debates, Herr Lieb-
knecht found occasion to deprecate the
differences which had arisen within the
party in regard to the value of modern
art and literature as compared with the
works to which the proletarat are ac-
customed to give their approval. A major
ity OF the delegates became indignant
over naturalism In art as portrayed in
the Neue Zeit, the literary review OF the
socialist party. Herr Steitger, editor Of
the Neue Zelt, made a strong defense OF
naturalism as contributing to the eleva-
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