The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1900-09-09
WALDERsEEs 4nERpAN WIPE.
The New York Girl who Undertook 10 over
throw the Iron Chancellor.

PrCr ~ Pail McV fGss''S
Tp 20 tha time 81 ;his marriage Count Wal
dArSea d.votAi hms4, entirely 20 his military
ducie~ under the influence Of his wife. how
ever. ~ began gradually 20 take a. active in
,erv-t in politics. Countess Nalderse- i an
American by birth. she was a MIS- AaotN
York. and her Art husband va aPrn~ otSchl=-
WiS-Aolsta.n. She il one 81 the c!everest md
most autarously ambitious women in all
Europe. and in the early eighties she was one
Il The mot attractive Even now. although
sell advanc-d in vesr. shN i -irEIlar,y charm
Ing. a, once brilliant aad sympathetic. II
minor Is 20 - relied upon, no sooner vas she
married 70 C0gu, Walder-@~ thar -he made
w her mind that he ~hog!d ~ Installed In
Primo B.smArcs's place a. linz eriL Chancellor
BE this a. IL may. she certainly thrpV herself
eagerly into every movement TIA, had Tor its
oh.~-t the iAvarting o. Bismarck and she chose
out h. hltterp-t easm.- FOR her special friends.
pr S,6cAer. the famous 0oVrI chaplain whom
Bi.marck dismissed from hi, oftce. vas her
CuadJutor and adviser IN ali she did. A. time
raised she founded a salon, the rrst and last
salon Berlin has ever yet seen, and a perfect
h1thed q anI-BlsrnArck intr.sue IL Wa. Il
Anti-Semite iHtnsu@ too. for the Countess
hates the Jews only one degree 4es bitterly
than she used 20 hate Bismarck She Ia I'M
this point. indeed. n tn AEn-Semi,e journals
ar "a te believed ne i nov a. strong Al Anti
~aug.'s a. -ts =, ana Nul4l = Tie leader gs
lie AnriLSemIle parry were he not a solder
Near while The CoIlte~ had gai-ed uu-
bounded influence over The present KAse-lr.
10 whom her frat husband Wa related, she
had gained. too, the nrm friendship OF the
ur%Nnt Kaiser. then Prince william. She
i The only woman, indeed. 20 whom hi, MAJESTY
has ever teen known either TO h~ten NIth serl-
ous attention, or 20 appeal Tor advice. In
-ho<A troublous davs that followed the old
Kzl>-r's death, hardly = day pasSed without
as paylrg her 4 vlsit-he would discuss soc!aL
p!o5iams with her tor The hour together
and Whenever he APPEARED In public her Aus-
band S4s by HI side.
Naturally enough. Puuce Bismarck had
from the rrst regarded the friendship 70 tNe@n
Prnc- William aad the Wa.dsrse<- VITA cant
aHproval he wen; out Of his way. indeed. more
t6Sr once ." treat the CoUnt~S, with marked
When he took 70 hur!Inc sarcasm
-hs vas one Of III 'svOrta ta-sst- IL va
not. however, until Prince William VaS kai--r I
fha' the old Chancellor realized how forwl- .
dabie a rival he had Then ne soon became
thoroughly alarmed for not only did As MA~ty
continue 10 lavish marks % hs favu- on the
Count, bu, UPON more than one occasion 10 7
turned pcintsd.y from Bismarck 20 him sor
aducp. ard he insisted on tskIrS hun with
on e long yaghtirs expedition. To maze .
matters wore. certain journals t@sa- 20 sl~ak
Openly n Count Ader~N@ - The future Chan F.
cr,lor ThI~ was the hltt.--slEUA dung
the months that followed there WAs war to .
the dAarh betveru bismarck 90 the ore SIDE
aid the Nalderse-- N the 7thsr. and Bismarck
carried the day.