The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-07
Reichstag Not COnsulted;
Franchise Champions Ousted.
Liberal Press Bitterly Assails
Autocratic Government.
SOCIALISTS DOUBLY PEEVED
See Standpatters for Vote Re-
form "Put on Shelf"
New Chancellor Leans to Eng
land Rather Than Russia.

Berlin. Aug. 7--Dissatisfactlon with
the new cabinet was expressed by the
liberal press today.
The Tageblatt was bitter in It's state
ments that the people had been given
no choice in the new government, ana
declared that real demonstration or
parliamentarization resembling an ex-
otto sea monster is the choice con-
fronting Chancellor Mfchaelis."
1.-THE representatives of the people
had no influence in the cabinet ap-
continents" the Tageblatt declared
germany received the new govern
ment as a gift from above. There is
no pos sbility of acknowledging or re-
fusinR it. Parliament has no more
rights than other parliaments The
great German people have neither di-
rect nor indh ect Influence in the selec-
tion of their managers They nave
no power and no responsibility. They
arc exposed to the strokes OF rate.
Socialists Are Displeased.
while the radical and Socialist press
is dissatisfied at the absence of any
marked concession to parliamentar1sm
in the new cabinets and at the FAILURE
to consult the reichstag in any way
on the appointments,n newspapers OF the
opposite camp are aggrieved at the
lister of Justice, Count Loebell, Prus-
sian minister of the interior,
and Barton Won Schorlerher'
Prussian minister of agriculture,
and other standpatters on Prus-
sian franchise reform. The Tages
Zeitung shows it's dissatisfaction in
short, cool, non-committal para graph
of greeting to the new administration
and by giving far more space TO
sketches of the departing statesmen
than biographies of the new APP
pointees.
Herr zimmerman, ex-foreign sec
rotary, in an article in the Lokal An
zeiger, scolds Doctor Michaelis for
jettisoning those tried and trusty off1-
Gals in favor of political noviees OF
untried worth. The Vossische lei
tung severely criticises the appoint
nents OF Doctor FIelfferich and Doctor
Won Kuehlmann on the ground that
both favor the rapprochement OF
England and not Of Russia as a basis
of post bellum policy. 1t says Doctor
Helfferich was Doctor Won Bethmann-
Hollweg's evil genius in foreign af-
fairs who first delayed unrestricted
summarizing by getting out statistics
and then discredited it by impossible
predictions. Theodor Wolff, editor of
the Tageblatt. SCOTS at all the ap-
pointments except that of Doctor Won
KuehlmaRn, whom he advises to use
his elbows vigorously to gain room to
run his own department and prevent
intrusion by Doctor Helfferich.
Urges Military Peace.
The Lokal Anzeiger also advised a
firm policy and-holds out as an entice-
ment the, glittering opportunity of
leading the premier military power of
the world to that just and permanent
peace which will be as great a victory
for Germany on the diplomatic field
as that OF Hindenburg on the field of
war. The Anzeiger's adoption of the
phrase peace by understanding" does
not imply any change of heart in the
paper, which is committed absolutely
to powerful pan-German peace.