The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-01-13
Socialists, However, Made Largest Individual Gains In German Elections Disciples of Marx Expect to Corral 30 More Seats In
 Reballoting
All Indications Point to Present Forces Retaining
 Control of Parliament :.
tspecial to ti,e Farmer,

Berlin, Jan. 13.-The Socialists boast that ''red food would sweep Germany at yesterdays election was hardly verified. Returns. at noon, to- day.. indicated that they had elected members in the Reichstag from at least 67 districts, which is a gain of 15 seats. They will have d chance of electing more candidates on the re- balIoting on January 14. in 120 other districts, where none of the contest ants received a plurality.
 Thirty of the districts where rebas- loting is necessary are already claim ed by the Socialists. It Is admitted by some Conservatives that the Social ists will have membership of 100 in them the second most powerful party in the body. There is a bare chance that the reballoting may result in their willing first place over the Gen. trists or Catholic party.
 The Centrists, who had 105 repre- sentatives in the last Reichstag held their own in the ba1ioting. yesterday, much to the disappointment of the Socialists The gains or the SocfaI.5 ists were at the expense of the Pro- gresstves and other parties of the left
 The Socialists are encouraged by the result in Berlin where they claimed the five seats already held and pre- dict that they will be victorious in the First district. than in which the Kai. ser lives. when the second ballot is cast. The result. yesterday. was a great surprise as 1t wac generally be- -1ieved that Duewell. Socialist. did not have chance of defeating Kaempf. Radical. Dueweu. who Is a reporter on the Socialist paper. ver4aEts. ran well. ar as~ltlr-.f fflss- Raaiea7. .s hosueRers and his friends believe that he will be victorious at Inc re- bailoting-
 Returns rom the other districts are coming in slowly and the exact make np of the next Reichstag may not be known before Monday Indications. today, are that the Socialists have made a net gain of at least Is seats
 The coalition of the Conservatives and Centrists (Catholics) will, how ever. continue in practical control of the Reichstag.
 The Socialists made tkeir chief gans in the big industrial centers. Herr Ledebour. one of the Socialist leaders. carried his district in Berlin by an increased vote of 42,000.
 The re-balloting is to take place in ten days and the Socialists are already formulating plans for more vigorous campaign. than the one closed. Thurs their victory in Koenigsburg, where the Kaiser delivered his famous s'Di- vine right manifesto. two years ago, and point to the result there as an indication that the imperial strength is on the decline.
 Germany is a mouse divided against itself so far as politics is concerned: Vnere are aDOuI 1o pt1TllSSs lO which are represented in the Reich tag. which has a membership of 397- A combination of the Roman Cath olic "Center'' (so named from it's po- sition in the Reichstag. with its 1O5 members. and AErarians or Conser- vative party, which Is the "govern- ment' party, number 60. has always been able to control legislative mat ters. This combination has been the governments faithful ally.
 Among the principal questions at issue in yesterdays election were: Overtaxation. high cost of living. fail ure of the government to provide an electoral reform and unpopular for eign policies.
 Under the German electoral system if no candidate receives a majority Of all the votes cast, a supplementary election, called a "stichwahl," must be held in which the two highest can didates are then voted for
 The leading parties had the follow ing representation in the last Reich stag:
 Centre (Roman Catholic) -... 1o5 Conservatives (Agrarians)