The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-12
Dissatisfied With Taxation and Financial Methods
 of Government
MOROCCAN TREATY CAUSING TROUBLE
Liberals and Socialists Will Make Gains. It Is Conceded, Extent Only in Doubt-Forty Par
 ties in Germany

Ser,,n. January 1.-The campaign Tor the general election to the reichstag To- fmorrow closes today with last appeals by candidates of the various parties through the newspapers and by means of leaflets sent to voters.
 Interest in the elections, judging from the attendance at the final meetings ana the space devoted to the campaign by the newspapers, is much greater than al any election since 1907, when the people were appealed to in connection with the vote Of appropriation for the expedition 10 southwest Africa.
 The opposition parties which are max ing feature of the taxation and hhah- cial issues are eagerly ringing the charses on a story published yesterday that the government intends 10 meet the extra eN- penditures caused by the proposed ln- crease of the army by imposing super tax on incomes. An official denial of the report was issued, but this will not be seen by many who read the original state ment and numerous votes probably Will he transferred on this account to the lib- erals.
 Rarely has an election excited more in terest since the founding of modern Ger many and rarely has greater importance attached to the result.
 The widespread dissatisfaction over the policy of the government in the Moroccan negotiations, dissatisfaction which left it apparently without single friend in the reichstag, and the great increase in the cost of the necessaries of life, which bears most heavily upon the wagework- CTS and all persons of small Incomes, have created a situation in which the most acute political prophets find themselves at a loss to predict the probable result at the polls.
 It seems to be conceded that the parties of the left-the liberal groups and the socialists-will make gains, but their prob able extent is uncertain.
 Present Reichstag
 The relchstag just dissolved was elect ed in January, 1907, and sat for the five year term provided in the constitution. It was constituted, following the elections of 1907, as follows:
 Right Conservatives, free conserva-
 tives, agrarian associations)..... 113 Center (Cathohcs, Poles) ............. 129 Left national liberals 55. radicals 51.. 106 Social democrats (socalistsl .......... 43 Scattering tparticularistic parties)....
 The great growth of the cities at the expense of the rural districts has worked especially against the socialists, whose chief strength in Germany, as elsewhere, is mainly in the great centers' of popu- lation. Five of Berlin's six delegates to the late rechstag were socialists as were all three of Hamburgs delegates.
 The original two parties of 60 and more years ago-the royalsts and democrats have developed since the erection of the modern empire into no less than 40 par ties Of these 13 had representatives in the late reichstag and seven delegates moreover were without any nominal party allegiance. Disregarding, however, all but the essential points of variance be- tween these various parties, five great groups can be named which comprehend