The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1917-03-29
KAISER MAY QUIT
THE THRONE.
SEES ENEMIES AT HOME. CROWN
PRINCE, JUNKERS AND PEOPLE
SOURCES OF WORRY TO HIM.

A despatch from Paris says, the
abdication of the German Emperor
is forecast by the former German
magistrate who wrote the celebrat-
ed book, Il Accuse" In an inter-
viewspublished in Deuvre, he says:
The Kaiser is obsessed by the
thought that he is responsible for
the war. a thought which poisons
his whole existence. He feels he is
menaced by three enemies at home.
without counting those abroad:
First, is the Crown Prince, the
real author Of the war.
Second, is the Junker Pan-Ger-
manist-you cannot imagine the
smouldering hatred of the Emperor
for those whom he believes to be
maniacs who are driving him into
asabyss; -,
Socialis, party, but the peopfe Gs2
are starving and who he feels are
growing in number and rising little
by little against those who organized
the war.
AT the meeting of the Parlia-
mentary Presidents and the Minis
ters of the federal sovereigns, at
which the submarine war was de-
cided upon, the struggle between
the Kaiser's party and that of Won
Trpitz was most bitter. The ma
jority against the Emperor was so
great, however, that he was obliged
to submit and pretend that he was
convinced.
He was personally opposed to
break with President Wilson, but
was forced to consent"
Documents will be published one
day which will prove that secretly
he did everything not to bring Amer
lea down upon him and that he con-
siders that the rupture was an ir-
reparable mistake. The failure of
the submarine war will soon show
that he was right, but it will be too
late.
The people he fears most are the
anti. militarist, anti.Prussian, Liberia
Republicans. who want the Reich
stag to be based on universal suf-
frage. That is why Wilhelm is so
anxious to convince the nation that
he did not want war. He wants to
continue popular at any price. and
that is why he spoke the first word
of peace. The people were CRATE
full for it, but the submarine war
came and spoiled everything.
1t is hard to realize how this
Emperor. who enjoyed a popularity
unexsmpled in our epoch, suffers in
hisaside. He alone perhaps in Ger.
many knows the whole truth, since
he alone has in his possession the
elements for forming a judgment or
the situation as a whole. How car
he resist morally and physically un
der such a strain? Certainly he
hopes sometimes. but less and less
for the success of the unrestricted
submarine which he opposed. He
sees the isolation of Germany become
more and more complete.
"Once he tried to initiate peace
negotiations and failed. To try agair
would be to admit and proclaim tc
the whole world, but above all to the
German people, which he fears most,
Germany's real situation. If the Al.
lies solemnly declared. as they did
with Napoleon in 1915, that they
would refuse to treat for peace with
the Hohenzollerns, it woule be a
knock out blow. Our German people.
who still believe in him, would aban-
don him for peace at any price will
soon be the unanimous and hidden
thought of tortured Germany.
What resource is left to him but
dramatic abdication in order to re-
tain the sympathies of the German
people and save the political future
of Prussia?