The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-01-26
TIDE RUNNING
AGAINST THEM
German Election Returns Show
Heavy Losses for the
Socialist Party.
SEVERAL LEADERS BEATEN
RADICALS AND NATIONAL LIB
ERALS WIN.



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Y porting Prince Won Buelow's CO. ,
y lonial policy, have won al least =
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y 10 the Socialists, who will lose =
Y seventeen or eighteen seats. .
Berlin. Jan. 25.-Emperor William re-
ceived the election returns at the palace
from The Wolff bureau, the principal
news agency in Germany The first
bulletin came in at $50 this evening. 1t
was dated Altoona, and said:
Frohoe. socialist, elected by a great
majority"
This was taken TO indicate socialist
gains. This inference, however, was
quickly reversed by a rapid succession
OF dispatches announcing socialist
losses.
The socialists lost i'm Leipzig and
EssllnGen to the national liberals. in
koenigsberg and Breslau West TO the
radicals and in Breslau East to the con-
serVatiVes. Some of the urban dis
tricts show surprising socialist losses
since 1903. In that year Leipzig elected
a socialist deputy on the second ballot.
and now ii has returned n national lib
eral member with large majority.
Herr Haase Defeated.
Herr Haase, one of the most able of
the socialist leaders, has lost Koenigs-
berg. where he was elected on re-
ballot i'm 1903 by nearly 1000 majority
Prince Hatzfeldt, conservative, has
carried Breslau East by 5,5S7 votes, re-
versing the former socialist majority Of
$500. and Herr Bernstein. one Of the
leading socialist thinkers of the So
called ''revisionist wing" i'm the reichs-
tag, has lost BIesau West by 1900
votes. Herr Bernstein was elected in
1905 or the first ballot by a majority of
1888
The radicals increased their vote i'm
the first district OF Berlin by 1.S00. while
the socialists in the same district lost
275 votes. 4 re- ballot in this district will
be necessary. but Herr Kaenpf. radical,
is sure OF election.
Radicals and Liberals Winning.
The radicals are thus defeating the
socialists i'm the latter's attempt to
sweep Berlin, but all the other districts
in the capital again went socialist by
large majoritieS.
The radicals and the national liberals.
according to the returns, are increasing
their vote generally throughout the
country.
The clerical leaders. Mueller. Fulda,
Roeren Groeber and ErZberger. have
been reelected.
AS the returns came in il was seen
that the ti6e continues TO run against
the socialists.
The radicals carried Gmuenth and
Coeppingen. where the socialists major
ity on a re-ballot in 1908 was 5,SSS; and
Bremen, which was carried by the So
cialists on the first ballot in 1903.
Re-Ballots Necessary.
In Bremen re-ballot against the rad
icaIs is now necessary. The national
liberals will again enter demand for a
re-ballot against the socialists at bort
mund. which was carried by the social
lists with a slender majority in 1909. AT
Frankfort on the-Main also a re-ballot
between the socialists and the radicals
will be required.
THE I,ol1al Anzeiger estimates the So
cialist losses at sixteen seats on the
first ballot, and predicts still greater
losses as an outcome of the second bal
/ lot.
The socialists are losing seats in Sax
ony. ,...:
Magdeburg. which the Socialists
carried on a re-ballot by 1000 votes II
1903. now goes to the National Liberals
The Socialists hold Lubbock by -
votes. as against 1850 in the previous
/ election.
Herr BebeI Reelected.
, c,o;o1ist JIar,