The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1907-02-01
LIBERALS AND RADICALS DE.
FEAT IT if> THE GERMAN
ELECTIONS.
LEADERS ARE FALLING
Haase, One Of Their Foremost Men,
and Bernstein, a "Revisionist"
Thinker, Fail to Secure
Return to Reichstag.

Berlin-The government has won a
definite victory in the general cleo
ton held for a new reichstag. The
liberal, radical and conservative par.
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 de-
will lose II or Is seats. This is the
first election since 1887 that the social
lists have not increased the representa-
ton in the reichstag by from 5 to 20
seats.
Won BueIow Cheered.
When it 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 Chanccl-
Tor Won Buelow. The people massed
in front of the building and sang.
Prince Won Buelow came out, anil
advancing to the railing of the palace
garden, spoke words of thanks.
There were other enthusiastic DEM
O%nstrations.
Surprising Socialist Losses.
The socialists lose in Leipsig and
Esslingen to the national liberals, in
Koenigsberg and Breslau West to the
radicals and in Breslau East to the
conservatives. Some of the urban dis.
tricts show surprising socialist losses
since 1902. In that year Leipsig elect
ed a socialist deputy on the second
ballot and now it has returned a ma.
tional liberal member with a large ma
iority.
Leading Socialists Defeated.
Herr Haase, one of the most able Of
the socialist leaders, has lost Koenigs-
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, n Herr Bernstein, one of
the leading socialist thinkers of the
so-called "revisionist" wing in the
reichstag, has lost Breslau West by
1900 votes. Herr Bernstein was elect
ed in 1908 on the first ballot by a ma
jority of 1853.
Socialists Carry Berlin.
The radicals increased their vote in
the first districts of Berlin by 1900,
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 in the latter's attempt to
sweep Berlin, but all the other dis
tricts in the capital again went social
list by large %majorities.
The radicals and the national lib
erals, according to the returns, in
creased their vote generally through
out the country.
The clerical leaders, Mueller, Fulda,
Roeren, Groeber and Erzberger, have
been reelected.
Tide Running Against Socialists.
AS the returns come in, the tide con
finued to run against the socialists.
The radicals carried Gmuenth and
Goeppingen, where the socialist ma
5ority On a reballot in 1903 was 1888,
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 a reballot against the social
fists at Dortmund, which was carried
by the socialists with a slender ma
jority in 1908. At Frankfort-on-the-
Main also a reballot between the So
cialists and the radicals will be re-
CURED.
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.
UNFIT TO BE SEEN.