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LIBERALS AND RADICALS Or.
FEAf IT u. THE GERMAN
ELECTIONS.
LEADERS ARE FALLING
Haase, One Of Their Foremost Men.
and Bernstein. a "Revlslonist'
Thinker, Fail to Secure
Return to Reiehstaa.

Berlin-The government has won =
definite victory In the general elcc-
ton held for q new reichstag. The
liberal. radical and conservative mar.
ties. supporting Prince Won Buelow's
colonial policy. have won at least 20
seats. More important for the govern.
ment than the success OF Its colonial
plans. however. Is the smashing do
feat administered to the socialists. who
VIII lose IL or is seats. This ia thu
first election since 1887 that the social.
lists have not increased the representa-.
tion In the reichstag by from 5 to 20
seats.
Won 6uelow cheered.
When II became evident that the
government had won. immense crowds
streamed from the neighborhood of
the newspaper offices toward the pal
ace In the Wilhelmstrasse OF Chancel.
lor Won Buelow. The people massed
IN front of the building and sang.
Prince Won Buelow came out, all
advancing to the railing OF the palaces
There were other enthusiastic dem
onstrations.
Surprising Socialist Losses.
The socialists lose in LeipsIg and
Esslingen TO the national liber s. in
koenigsberg and Breslau West 10 the
radicals and In Breslau East to the
conservatives. Some OF the urban dls-
tricts show surprising socialist losses
since 1902. In that year Leips.g elect.
ed a socialist deputy on the secoa.
ballot and now II has returned a IA.
tlonal liberal member with large ma,
jority.
Leading Socialists Defeated.
Herr Haase. one Of the most able OF
the socialist leaders. has lost Koenirs.
berg. where he was elected on a rebal.
lot In 1903 by nearly 1000 majority.
Prince Hatzfeldt, conservative. has
carried Breslau East by 5,5S7 votes. re-
versing the former socialist majority
by $500. and Herr Bernstein, one OF
the leading socialist thinkers OF the
so-called 'revislonist" wing in the
reichstag. has lost Breslau West by
1,500 votes. Herr Bernstein was elect.
ed In 1908 on the first ballot by ma
jority of 1858.
Socialists Carry Berlin.
The radicals increased their vote in
the first districts OF Berlin by l,so0,
while the socialists In the same dis.
tricts lost 275 votes. A reballot In this
district will be necessary. but Herr
kaenpf, radical. is sure OF election.
The radicals are thus defeating the
socialists ip the latter's attempt u
sweep Berlin, but all the other dis
trlcts in the capital again went social.
ist by large majorities.
The radicals and the national lib
erals. according to the returns, in
creased their vote generally through
out the country.
The clericai leaders, Mueller, Fulda.
Roeren. Groeber and Erzberger, have
been reelected.
Tide Running Against Socialists.
As the returns come in. the tide con-
tinued to run against the socialists.
The radicals carried Gmuenth and
Goeppingen, where the socialist ma
1ority on n reballot in 1903 was 5,3sS,
and Bremen. which was carried by the
socialists on the first ballot in 1903.
In Bremen a reballot against the
radicals is now necessary. The ma
tional liberals will again enter a de-
mand for reballot against the social.
lists at Dortmund, which was carried
by the socialists with slender ma.
jority in 1908. At Frankforton.the-
Main also a reballot between the So
cialists and the radicals will be re-
quired.
The Lokal Anzeiger estimates the
socialist losses at 16 seats on the
first ballot. and predicts still greater
losses as an outcome OF the second
ballot.
The socialists are losing seats in
Saxony.