Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-26
GOVERNMENT IS
VICTORIOUS At
GERMAN POLLS
Socialists Crushingly
Defeated
Won Bueow's Administration Is In
dorsed at Popular Elections-Great
Enthusiasm Greets Announce
ment of Peoples Verdict
Special TO The Herald.

Special to The Herald
BERLIN, Jan. 25.-The government
has won definite victory in the gem
eral election held here today for the
new reichstag. The Liberal, Radical
and Conservative parties supporting
Prince Won Buelow's colonial policy,
have won at least twenty seats.
More important for the government
than the success of it's colonial plans,
however, is the smashing defeat ad
ministered to the Socialists, who will
lose seventeen or eighteen seats.
This is the first election since 1887
that the Socialists have not increased
their representation in the reichstag
by from five to twenty seats. They
have lost especially in several large
cities, among these places being Bres'
lau, Halle, Magdeburg, Leipsic and
K koenigsburg.
The clerical center holds almost all
of it's former 100 seats, having last one
or two of the Poles in Silesia. There
is a possibility, however, that reballot-
ings in the undecided districts may
lose one or two more seats to the CEN
ter party.
The Conservatives have won six
seats, two from the anti-Semits, two
from the national Liberals and two
from the Socialists.
Reballoting probably will be neces-
say in 175 constituencies, so that COM
plete returns will not be in before Feb
ruary 8.
Certain districts in upper Bavaria are
heard from, but they are considered
safe for the center party.
When it became evident at a late
hour tonight that the government had
won, immense crowds streamed from
the neighborhood of newspaper offices
and in the palace in the Wilhelm
strasse OF Chancellor Won Buelow.
The people massed in front of the
buildings singing enthusiastically.
Won Buelow Speaks
Prince Won Buelow came out, and ad-
vancing to the railing of the palace
garden spoke as follows:
"I thank you for your homage and Z
am especially delighted that your ma
tional feeling brought you here. My
predecessor in office, before whom we
all must respectfully bow, said forty
years ago, Put the German people In
the saddle and they will ride soon
enough
"The German people have shown to-
day that they can ride. l believe and
| nope lndC every Olle VII uutJ
also in the reballoting. Then will Ger
many stand respected and mighty be-
fore the world. Let them unite in the
cry, Long live Germany and the Ger
man nation. Hurrahi'
The multitude burst into enthusiast
tic cheering and soon after set off for
| the Imperial palace. But on reaching
the castle bridge over the Spree,
strong body of police opposed the
crowd and forced it back with some
violence.
The people then formed in line again
and marched down Unter den Linden
| to the palace of Crown Prince Fred
erick William where they sang and
cheered.
The crown princess appeared on a
balcony of the palace and bowed re-
peatedly to the people. The crowd
| then quietly broke up and disappeared.
Never before has there been known
such after election enthusiasm and
noisy demonstrations by singing and
cheering crowds. The emperor's pic
ture, however, was hissed when 1t was
| flashed on a transparency in front of
| the office of the Lokal Anzeiger. but
these Kisses were lost in the volume of
| cheering.
The newspapers gave away hun
dreds of thousands of copies of extras
| during the day.
Not a single incident of a disorderly
character was reported from any of
the polls.