The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-10-17
DR., M|CHAELIS
FACING CRISIS
IN REICHSTAC
Socialists and Pan German
lists Displeased by Chan
cellor's Attitude.

Ccl1OI k4Gt10lN1C.
Amsterdam Oct. 17-At a Socialist
meeting in Berlin Monday Phillip
, Scheidemann, leader of the Socialist
majority In the reichstag. deplored
! the fact that Germanys enemies had
! "scoffed at the German desire for
| peace
I'VE will not renounce a square foot
| of German soif.'' he added.
DR.. Michaelis, Herr Scheidemann
| declared, was unsuited to the post of
chancellor.
At the opening of the Socialist con-
ference In Wurzburg, Bavaria, mon
/ ster demonstration in favor of peace
| by understanding" is said to have
taken place. Philip Scheidemann
told the audience that all conditions
of life warranted the Socialists in their
/ present attitude toward the war.
/ In Austria and Hungary some So
cialfst newspapers are making a strong
/ attempt to start an anti-peace propa-
/ ganda, the Krupp and other similar
/ interests, said ito be backing it. Two
/ million marks are reported to have
| been set aside to establish an anti
| peace newspaper in Budapest, Its ac-
| tivitfes to be carried on n largely
! through motion pictures.
/ 1t Is believed that the political stu
/ alton which has arisen because of dis
| content in some quarters with the Inn
perial chancellor will reach crisis
before the reichstag reassembles in
December. DR.. Michaelis remains in
Berlin, comforting with retchstag lead
ers and his personal advisers, en-
I - a -
! uation.
The political leaders and the news
4 papers continue to declare his unfit
ness for the high office he holds They
| point out his failure TO develop any
positive program or to exercise any
/ effectual leadership.
The chancelior's biggest blunder. In
the eyes of the moderate press, was his
I rehabilitation of the Independent So
! cialists by his disclosures concerning
the mutiny~ on German warshipS
| thereby driving the Socialists into OPP
position which many persons believe
will unite the two Socialist wings into
a powerful radical opposition. Even
| the Pan-Germans say that unless DR..
Michaelis is able to rule the situation
| with a stronger hand he had better
resign.
The Socialist paper vorwaerts in an
| editorial on the political situation says:
4 1T Is enough to make one weep to
think that we have a chancellor like
/ Michae1is, a. vice-chancellor like Helf-
H ferich, war minister like Won Stein.
a naval secretary of state like Won
Cape1le. It is enough to make one
weep that in this critical time of the
empire a government should be in
II power which neither at home nor
abroad can command or even lay
fsc1aim to respect; a government aa
whose ineapacity there is, general
consensus OF opinion from Heyde-
brand to Schiede1nann and from Won
Revenlow to Ledebour,l and that we
cannot even tell whether or no this
government will be forced to make
way for another more capable"
After referring to the governments
recent b1unders Vorwaerts asserts that
IL the majority party had refused on
Tuesday to have any truce with 1.-The
present unspeakable government" and
had acted as the Socialists did and re-
fused to vote supplementary budget
Michaelis would have had to disap.
pear. -
The Hamburg F'remdenblatt says
the German government has decided
to prosecute Herren Haase. Dittman
and Gogtherr, the three Socialist
deputies, whose names recently were
linked with the mutfry in the Ger
man feet. IL possible. The govern
men had submitted evidence against
the three deputies to the imperial
4 court at Leipstc and therefore has de-
clined the suggestion that a parlia-
mentary committee of investigation be
appointed.
The Loka1 Anzefger SAYS the report
! that Admiral Won Capelle, the Ger.
, man minister of marine, had resigned
evidently emanated from vonN Ca.
pelle's friends This newspaper de-
clares untrue the assertion. that VoT
Capelle exceeded the instructions OIL
Chancellor Michaelis in making hi
declarations to the reichstag recently
regarding the mutiny.
The Berlin Germania says, that tn.
Central party organization is abou
to request the members of that part,
not to join the new fatherland party
of which Admiral Won Tirpitz is on,
| OF the leaders. =