The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1912-01-19
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following election s1w coalition OF an
conservative force. against the socialists.
Tho slogan Of the campaign vos "nowu
with the SOFIA .i,tsl" An assimilation
like that of Good Government by the
machine in 10. angeles took place. The
socialist. increased their vote from g.
|0lo,0oo to S.25o,ooo, hut in the teeth
Of an allied opposition, their representa-
ton dropped from 81 to a..
Things have been doing in the coun
/ try of the Rhine aud the socialists will
probably control upward of 30 seats
when the results of the rcballoting are
|alD in.
Notwithstanding the tremendous move.
mout of population to the cities. there
has been no rcoprortionmcut of repre-
scutatiyc- in Germany since 1871. This
gives the rural and conservative strong
holds a great advantage over the work
ing class industrial eentcrs. The old
parties do not dare to make the reap
portionment, and by the time the social
/ lists are strong enough to force such
measure, reapportionment will not be
necessary.
The Sunday P.-Ls account of the cleo
ton is as follows:
Berlin. Jan. Unofficial returns
from the result of the polling of the
elections to the rcichstag have been re-
ceived from all of the S97 consttuen-
cies. but owing to discrepancies in the
tabluations it is still difficult to make
any definite prediction of the complex
ion of the new reichstag. There are 1S9
constituencies in which a second ballot
viii be necessary.
Coalition Badly Shaken.
"The conservative clerical coalition,
which has had uncontrolled domination
of the imperial parliament since the fall
of Prince Buelow, has been badly shaken.
It's absolute majority probably is a
thing of the past, but the combination of
two powerful parties must still be reck-
oned with as the strongest factor in the
reichstag
The socialists have run up the num-
Der of their elected members to sixty
four, or, according to some reports, to
sixty-six, of whom twenty-six wrested
their seas from members of other parties,
and the socialists also are concerned in
1872 second ballots. They have ballots
to return to the reichstag as strong
numerically as they We're in 1908, when
their representation reached high-water
mark.
Pay for Socialists Feast.
"This year probably they will pass
their old limit of eighty-one deputies by
ten, as they seem to be almost certain
of securing ninety or ninety-one seats.
'The national liberals and the radicals
have paid the major portion of the bill
for the socialist feast at the first ballot,
but the conservatives and centrists will
pay the remainder of the reckoning at
the second ballots.
"The latest and most correct non
official figures of the results of the first
ballots follow:
"Of the conservatives, with their anti
Semitic and Agrarian allies, thirty five
have been elected, against fifty nine
elected at the first ballots in 1907, and
as compared with 1O3, which was their
strength at the dissolution.
Socialists Elect Sixty-Four.
"Of the centrists, with their Polish and
| Alsatian allies, 1912 were elected, against
1O8 at the first ballots in 1907 and
lao at the dissolution.
| "Of the national liberals five We're
elected, against eighteen at the first bal
lots in 1907 and fiftyone at the dis
solution.
"Of the radicals none were elected,
against nine at the first ballots in 1907
and forty-nine at the dissolution.
"Of the socialists sixty-four were
elected as compared with thirty at the
first ballots in 1907 and fifty three at
the dissolution.
"Two Independents also have been
elected.
Net Gain Is Twenty-Eight Seats.
"The conservatives are contestants at
the second ballots in eighty-two constit-
uencies, the centrists in forty-three, the
ro+;ono1 I;Lor,11 q, e;1,+,- fo,,r +bo ,.o1;
Gals in fifty-six and the socialists in
I122.
'The gain of the socialists thus far is
twenty-eight seats, of which eight were
captured from radicals, nine from ma
tional liberals, two from centrists and
nine from conservatives. A disturbance
occurred at Dortmund during the cleo
tions, the socialists and national liberals