Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1898-07-05
BERLIN CABLE LETTER
The Recent Elections Are Causing
Trouble In Germany.
SOCIALISTS WILL CONTEST.
Emperor William VIII Not Sanction Re-
turn Of Jesuits-Prsss Less Venom
Gus Toward Us-Sonae Idess
Regarding Cuba.

tinues to be absorbed in the quinquen-
NAL elections recently held In this ooun.
try and their results. The newspapers
are teeming with incidents indicative OF |
queer electioneering methods observed !
during the campaign, and mass Of
evidence is presented proving that In
timidation was resorted to In many dis |
tricts, notably in the rural sections.
The Socialists will contest q number
Of seats. including the Dantzic constit-
uency, where the director Of the impe-
rial navy yard Is charged with coercing
voters to support the government can
didates. They will also contest the
seats in Cassel. Elbing and Dorbmund
and in the Second and Fifth districts OF
Berlin. In the later place, 1t Is alleged,
enough illegal ballots were counted in
favor of the anti-Socialist candidate to
vitiate the result. The defeat Of DR..
Theodore Barth, the Freisinnige leader.
at Rostock, was due to the candidacy
Of the Agrarian representative, DR..
Paasche, and the enormous increase In
the Socialist vote, which aggregated 49,
900 above that of 1893.
Csntrist Demands.
The increased strength of the Cen
trists is now 104, and the weakening OF
the government side in the reichstag
has induced the Centrists to formulate
a list of demands for the coming ses-
sion, including the recall of the Jesuits,
the abolition OF the last remnants OF
Culturkampf legislation, the reinstate-
ment in the constitution Of the articles
granting absolute political equality to
the Catholic church and the restitution
Of the Catholic department in the min
istry of public worship.
Your representative learns, however,
from good authority, that, although he
cannot pass new measures without the
cooperation of the Centrists, Emperor
William will not sanction the recall OF
the Jesuits, which the Centrists regard
as the most important Of their demands.
Emperor William recently declared that
as long as he was king Of Prussia the
bundesrath should not have Prussian
| vote in favor Of the recall Of the Jesuits
nor for the other demands enumerated.
1t Is probable, therefore, that there will
be trouble between the Centrists and
the government during the next session,
especially as number Of those elected
| on the reballots who were aided by Gen.
trists votes are pledged to support the
Centrists demands, giving the Centre
at least 100 votes. The issuance Of de-
cree by General Won Pedoiolski. the Sec
rotary of state for posts and telegraphs.
forbidding the postal employees, who
number $4,000, to have any connection
with the Socialists occasioned the dis
covery during the campaign that the
department is largely permeated with
Socialism. Frequently kilograms con-
nected with electioneering for govern
ment candidates were delayed In favor
| of telegrams addressed to their Socialist
opponents, and others were bungled. ap-
parently purposey, so as to lead to Sc
rious Misunderstanding on the govern
ment side. Besides the decree, other
preventive measures have been pro-
posed to Dust Socialism from the postal
department.
Anti-Amcr;can Feeling Lessened.
The press of the country is now COM
menting upon the Spanish American
war in a more unbiased manner and
with less. venom toward the Americans
although the military editors continue
to regard the situation as very unfavor'
able for the Americans as well a. foi
| the Span1erQS. OHe Ol tHeeV oAp0A -
said to the correspondent:
IF Admiral Camara's fleet were hur'
ried to Manila it might put Admra
Dewey in as sad plight as is Admira
Ceryera. as Camaras fleet Is much su
perior to Devey's and reinforcement
could not reach the latter In time. Th'
only way to save the fleet wopld De To-
It to leave the harbor before Admira
, Camara's arrival
With regard to Cuba 1t is though
that the American forces there, apar
; from yellow Jack and the influences o
: the climate, are entirely inadequate. Al
: the American operations since the Unit
,, ed States forces landed, 1t is assert
,, ed, have been i'll advised and showe
. lack Of foresight. The fact that tn
army of occupation is so insuffc1entl
= equipped with everything needfu
:. shows, the papers declare, poor general
ship.
Some comment has been aroused b
Mr.. Tilman's speech in the unite
States senate regarding the philippines
Il The National Zeitung reiterates tn
y statement that Germany has not ye
# shown a desire to interfere except I
! protect German subjects, should the ne
= cessity arise which is by no means ur
& likely, as neither Spain nor the Unite
g States seem able to cope with the ma
% tlves The paper adds: If the Unite
l. States should conquer and retain tn
d Philippines or If Spain relinquishf
them to the United States, then the
would become theirs by right OF wa
and II is improbable that any pow
would go to war with the United STATE
N in order to dispute their possession
l. Should Spain, however, lose the Philil
n pines without the United States conquer
e. ing them, then all the countries int
Dr. ,sted in the far east would be concerne
- in their fate
- New Naval Stronghold.
4. The government intends to trans1or
- Nordenhaem. which the North Germs
Iloyd company has abandoned, into
naval stronghold. The preparation
work has been commenced, but great
v, crecv Is maintained. The reichstag W
s, not be informed regarding the matt
u until all preliminaries have been cor
X pleted.
n At a meeting of the Colonial socie
er at Dantzic on Tuesday, at the instan
p of the president, resolution was adop
d. ed which is liable to create a variety
trouble. The resolution provides tn
no German, no matter where he mi
emigrate hereafter, shall lose his n
tai tionality, except on his own initiatiN
ok A bill embodying the resolution, VIII
I'D Is Endorsed by the emperor and by mai
raj members of the reichstag, will be intr
err duced at the coming session.
ed
lr- KILLED by the Heat.
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