The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1897-09-06
BIsMARCK's SECRETS.
lie Tells Some OF Thsm-IIls Flights with
Women Intrlguers.


LONDON, Sept. 5.-Prince Bismarck,
tn addition to the statements already
cabled to America from the Times Ber-
lin dispatch giving an account of the
interview with the eS-chancellor, pub
llshed by the Zukunft. In another inter-
view said to have been probably OBJ
taIned by Count Limburg-Stirum, the
Conservative leader, who recently vls-
tied the prince, Is quoted as saying:
"That exalted lady, the Empress Au'
gusta, powerfully contributed to the
deterioration Of my nerves. She herself
was OF q nervous, changeRble, restless
nature fond OF politics, and she at once
famed up II one would not or could moi
acqulesee with her plans. The friction
between US began at an carly date.
when In lS4S the Prince Of Prussia
wanted to go to England, and / wished
to see HIN 10 advise him urgently TO
remain at Potsdam, as the whole army
and u great part of the rural population
were on his side and the journey would
have bad effects, she tried to prevent me
from having access to him. She was
excited and, as was her wont when In
that mood. she slapped her knee With
the palm of her hand and declared to
me that above all things she must pro-
vide for the future Of her son. subse-
quently heard of a singular project
which had been Matched In her palace.
Won Vincko came to me In the diet
and said he intended TO bring forward
motion comforting the regency on thQ
Princess OF Prussia, and he asked mo
what / thought OF 1t. inquired why In
II aA ~ hn
gent and Prince Won Vincko said he
thought Il had become impossible in thu
country. All right said; II you bring
forward that motion shall propose that
you be arrested for high treason Thd
motion was never made because II had
no chance of SUCCESS without the sup-
port OF the extreme right.
IAN this did not improve my relations
with the princess; nor. when she became
queen and empress. could she ever quite
conceal her peculiar grudge against me.
Her liking for everything French and
Catholic intensified this feeling. In the
course OF time there arose at her court
cabal which did not invariably en-
ploy unexceptionable methods to
achieve It's object, and II was so power
full that should have been unable TO
carry things through unless the old
gentleman. who, by the way, suffered no
less than from these things, had al
ways run straight at a decisive mos
ment.
"These conflicts, however, involved the
expenditure OF nervous power, especially
when, at the period of the constitutional
conflict, she would have persuaded the
king to abdicate, and had TO make an
energetic appeal to him and point to hid
word. can safely say that all this pros
tracted ladIes' war injured my health
more than all the public battles have
fought In parliament or In the dlplo-
matte service"
When asked II he was going TO Kiel TO
christian the new German battleshlp,
which ia to DO launched there, and
named the Bismarck, the ex-chaneeiior
replied: Really people seem still 70
think nm like servant girl. once
said to my wife at Varsin, 4 can can
stand anything but being left alone
Now, the fact IL feel very well ut home
and am no longer a man for festive oc-
caslOnB,"