Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-26
VICTORY FOR KAISER
Social Democrats Beaten in
German Election.
GAINS OF LIBERAL PARTY
Reichstag Will Support Governments
Military Program.
FIGHTING AT KRUPP WORKS
Indications That Socialists Will Lose
Thirty Votes in Imperial
Legislature.
FIGHTING AT KRUPP WORKS

SoAuoAy GU he latest re-
turns show that the disaster to the social
democratic party in yesterdays elections
Tor members of the reichstag was complete.
Ihe figures at this hour bring their losses
OF seats up to eighteen. against two gains.
IL is inquired that they will lose a dozen
more seats In the reballoting. There is a
considerable increase in the socialist vote
In the Westphalian Industrial districts.
Fierce fighting is reported to have oc-
Cured among the workmen at the Krupp
works at Essen. Several of them were
injured.
The socialist candidate in the eastern
district Of Breslau was beaten by Prince
Won Hatzfeldt, an imperialist and the
possible successor of Chancellor Won
Buelow.
When the defeat of the social democrats
became clear toward midnight an immense
crowd gathered at the chancellor's palace
and cheered loudly. The chancellor came
TO window and made speech, saying:
The Chancellor Speaks.
Forty years ago my great predecessor.
whose memory we all cherish with respect
and gratitude. said that once the German
people were seated in the saddle they
would learn Of themselves to ride 1 think
that today has proved the truth of Prince
Bismarcks saying. If in the coming Sec
filled with proper appreciation of the
empires magnificence and glory, then will
the German people be able to overcome
every obstacle. no matter whence it comes.
Long live the German people,"
The Lokaonzeliger, in a semi-official
editorial, says: chancellor Won Buelows
fective The position of the social demo-
Gratis in the next parliament will be far
weaker than 1t was in the last. 1t can
even now be asserted that the object of
10 n In Ger wi no nhcfo
has been achieved, there was only
wanted the transference of some twenty
votes from the left to the right to secure
a majority for the conservatives and lib
erals on important questions.
THE social democratic defeat means
a weakening of the centrums preponder-
government and the bourgeoisie will not
in the future be compelled to rely on
them"
The Berlin Returns.
BERLIN, January 26.-The election re-
turns for Berlin now complete. They
show that in the first district Arons, the
social democratic candidate. and his op-
ponent, Kaempf, progressive, will COM
pete again in a second ballot. In the sec
ond district Fischer, social democrat, de-
feated Burgomaster Reicke, progressive.
Ffscher's victory Is indicative Of the great
strength of the socialists in Berlin, as
Herr Reicke is highly popular and ex-
tremely liberal, while Fischer is hated even
by the workmen as the tyrannical man
ager of the printing office of the Vorwaerts,
the socialists organ. The social democrats
carried the third, fourth, fifth and sixth
districts, the successful candidates being
Herren Heine, Singer, Schmidt and Lede
bour.
The most notable feature of the elections
thus far is the striking setback received
by the social democrats. They have al
ready definitely lost sixteen seats, all to
tl1 Nd ix-a lrfin
Among these seats are those representing
their great Saxon strongholds, Magdeburg,
Halle and lillian.
The progressives routed them in Leipsic
They lost two seats in Breslau and were
also ousted in Brunswick. Bremen and
Gotha. Their successes besides those in
Berlin include the reelection of Herr Bebel
and his two colleagues in Hamburg, and
the retention of their seats for ChemnitZ
Mannheim, Hanover City and Nuremberg
Thus far the returns show that the center
party has neither gained nor lost, but there
is probability that it will lose five six
seats on the second ballots.
Kaiser's Demands to Be Met.
The situation at present denotes victory
for the government in 80 far that it will
have its demands for the army and navy
ratified and its colonial policy generally
supported. 1t means, too, a serious blow
to the social democracy, almost amount
Importance, especially If, as is generally
expected, the party suffers several further
losses on the second ballots on February
5.
When the twelfth social democratic loss
was announced the Lokal Anzeiger's
transparency showed a portrait of the
kaiser. Part of the crowd tried to sing
Hell dir I'm Sieger Kranz," but they were
drowned out by the hooting and kissing
of the social democrats, who formed the
majority of the crowd.
The socialist slump is emphasized by an
examination of the returns. The huge ma
jorites by which the triumphant ca 1ii-
dates of the party were returned in 1858
are greatly reduced. Even in Berlin tho
diminutions range from ], 800 to $500 votes.
DR.. Reicke only narrowly missed being
elected. He polled 1000 more votes than
in 1903. 1t Is regarded as certain that Herr
Arons will be defeated on February 5, and
that the kaiser's constituency will thus
be saved from socialism.