The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1912-02-10
CATHOLIC PARTY
STRONG IN GERMANY
Results of the German Election
Interesting Viewed as Test
of Socialism.
Centre Party Now Strongest Factor
in Allaying the Progress of
Doctrine of Marx.
Socialist Gain Causing Anxiety
for Kaiser-Present Standing
of the Parties.

Despite the severest campaign ever
waged against the Center party, the
Catholic members of the Reichstag
held their own in the final balloting
Of the German elections. The Con-
servative Ccntrist coalition tho
Blue Black" bloc-has lost It's aior-
servatists but the Catholic Center re-
mains impregnable, issuing from the
lists with practically the same repre-
sentation as before.
The Socialists made pronounced
gains at each of the three ballotings
and their representatives now number
ITO, a gain of over twenty seats and
d record representation. Some of this
gain is accounted for by the transfer
of the allegiance of many voters from
other radical parties of the opposi-
ton to the Socialists. The Conserva-
tives lost several seats, particularly
in the larger cities. Potsdam, the seat
of the Kaiser's suburban palace, re-
turned Socialist representative
The last thirty three reballots in
the elections were held last Friday and
the Reichstag is now complete. The
Socialists secured further victories
and they now have a record member
ship of ITO. Tho blue Black" bloc,
consisting of the Conservatives and
Ccntrists, which supported the Gov
crnment, was defeated in that it's to-
tai membership has fallen from 1888 to
159. There are 397 members in the
Reichstag and the House now stands:
Socialists. 110; Ccntrsts, 93: Con-
servatives, &C; National Liberals, AZ;
Radicals, "A; Poles, is; all others, 10.
The disappointment OF the Socialists
over the defeat Of Herr Duewell by
Herr Kaempf in the palace district
at Berlin was compensated for by the
victory at Potsdam. This is the first
time that a Kaiser district has ever
been represented in the Reichstag by
a Socialist. 1t remains to he seen
whether the Emperor will carry out
the threat ascribed to him by the Con-
servative press that he would Quit
Potsdam, close his own and the other
royal palaces, withdraw the crack reg
iments and ruin the town from COM
,i,,l
elected.
The victor, Herr Licbknecht, is IA
lawyer and the son of the Socialist
leader of the same name. He finished
recently a sentence OF eighteen
months detention in a fortress for his
anti-mlitary propaganda.
Among the prominent men who have
been elected are Herr Molkcnbuhr, the
Socialist; Count Schwerin-L -Loewitz,
the former President of the Reichstag,
and Count Kanitz and Herr Heyde-
brandt, Conservatives.
Herr Stoecker, the Christian Social
list, and Herr Hahn, the Conservative
Agrarian leader, were defeated.
The most sensational feature Of the
second reballoting was the winning by
| the Socialists of Cologne, which has
been in the uninterrupted possession
of the Clericals since the founding OF
the Empire. Another notable Socialist
victory was won at Frankfort on the
Main.
Colmar and Strassburg were cap
tured from the Centrists by the So
cialists, who also defeated DR.. Mug
den, the Radical leader, in Goeritz, and
DR.. Rosann, the National Liberal
leader, in Darmstad. Count Won OPP
persdorff, the leading Clerical, barely
escaped defeat by the Radicals In
F'raustadt.