The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-06-17
SOCIALISTS SUCCESS
TREMENDOUS GAINS OF PARTY
 IN REICHSTAG ELECTION.
From Returns at Hand They Have Lost Two and Gained Twelve Seats-Hard Work of
 Party Organization.

Berlin. June 17-The leading feature in 1 the Reichstag election which was held | today, was the success of the Social | Democrats. who have probably increased ! their representation in the keichstag by | fifteen seats and their total vote to up wards of 2,50O000, or 100000 more than in 1898. All the parties concede the success | o! the socialists, which has been at the 1 expense of them all.
 The Socialists gained one seat in Der fn and 63,000 votes, seats in Dresden. So- ligen. Pirna, Plauen. Zittau Doebeln. AL tenburg. Darnstadt. Limbach, Schwartz berg, Bielefeld, Beyreuth and Bremen. They lost seats in Sorau and Bernburg. The Socialist gains in Saxony caused Herr Rebel tonight to call Saxony The Red Kingdom"
 The most pronounced Socialist success was in Essen. Krupps, town, where the Socialists increased their vote from 4, 400 to 2 .705. The Centrist party also in creased its vote there from 0,103 to 35,s64
 The returns as yet are far from con- plete. In the city districts, where the Socialists are strong, they are nearly all in. The rural and the small town dis tricts cannot change general results, though their returns may swell the suc- cess of the Socialists.
 Bremen Is lost to the Liberals, Herr Freso being defeated by a saloon keeper named Schmalfeldt.
 A confusing factor in fixing the reia- tive position of parties in the new parlia ment Is the number of second elections which must be held June 9 in all con- stituencies where no candidate received a majority. The number of these second elections in 1898 was 1s2 ont of s97 and probably second elections must be held this yeer in quite as many.
 The position of the parties based on the returns received up to 5 o'clock this ArIn nk- give total members elected. IF; requiring second election, 11S. The elected are: So- cialists, 49; Centrists, 35; Conservatives. Il: Alsatians, S. National Liberals, 5; Free Conservatives, 4; Independents, 3; Poles, 2; Danes. 1; Agrarian League, 1. In the foregoing districts the Socialists have gained twelve seats and lost two.
 An extraordinary feature of the polling in Berlin was the part taken by Socialist women. Hundreds went from house to house, bringing out laggard voters, wait ing at the exits of factories and mills and accompanying the indifferent cleo tors to the polls. While the other parties had paid workers, the Socialists employed 1000 canvassers who were unpaid and alone of all the parties they voted their full strength. They had bought up space on the municipal advertising pillars and placarded doors and windows with party legends. Fifty thousand copies of poem entitled, Vote, Red" were circulated.
 At the most aristocratic balloting place opposite the residence of the Imperial Chancellor. were Socialist watchers and ticket distributors smartly dressed in frock coats and silk hats
 Chancellor von BueIow did not vote, as he Is kept abed by gastric trouble. but nearly all the other members of the Cabi- net voted at this place.
 Baron von Richthoff came in as the judges were disputing the right of Louisiana negro to vote. He averred that he was a German subject but as his papers were incomplete, the judges were in doubt
 He is my French cook" interrupted Baron von Richthoff, "and a naturalzed German"
 The negro's ballot was thereupon ac- cepted.
 The affair of the late Crown Princess the elections In Saxony. where great So- cialist gains were made. for instance of 9.O00 at Chemnitz and 4300 at Leipsic. A more potent cause of the Socialist suc- cess in Saxony, however is the increased taxation, due to decrease in the rail- way receipts and the industrial depres- sion. There, as all over the empire, the Socialist war cries were Bread, usury and dear neat
 The Berlner Tageblatt says the food question gave the Socialists their gains and the results of the elections is ac- cepted by that organ a disapproval of the new tariff.