The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-10-04
APPOINTMENT
OF MAMMALIAN
IS CONFIRMED
New Chancellor Selects So,
cialist as One Of His
Advisors

Amsterdam, Oct. 4.-Prince Maxi
milan Of Baden has been appointed
German chancellor, says an official
announcement received from Berlin,
Deputies GroebeI, Centrist; and
Scheidemann, majority Social Demo-
crat, have been appointed secretaries
Of state without portfolios.
The official statement adds that
Prince Macmillan also has been
named Prussian foreign secretary,
He will announce his program at a
full meeting of the reichstag, Oct. 8.
Official announcement of the ap-
pointment Of Prince Macmillan Of
Baden as imperial chancellor con-
firms newspaper reports to the same
effect emanating from Germany in
the last few days. The prince is heir
to the throne of Baden and a cousin
OF the present ruler. He has been
known as a moderate in German pol
itics and opposed to the extremist
policies Of the PAN Germans. His
wife is related to the British royal
family.
The official title of the chancellor
is president of the Prussian council
of ministers, Prussian minister OF
state, Prussian minister of foreign
affairs and imperial chancellor. The
prince succeeds Count Won Hertling
who was appointed chancellor last
November 3 in succession to DR..
George Michaelis.
Deputies Groeber and Scheidemann
probably have been appointed secre-
taries in the imperial cabinet. Adolf
Groeber is one Of the leaders Of the
Centrist party in the reichstag. Re
Gently before the main committee Of
the reichstag he criticised the gov
eminent and attacked Count Won
Hertlin, the leader of Centrists. In
the reichstag in March, 1918, he de-
Tended Germany's methods of making
peace with Russia at Brest- Litovsk.
Philip Scheidemann is vice presi-
dent Of the reichstag and a, leader Of
the majority Social Democrats. He
has been a consistent supporter OF
German foreign policies and has en-
deavored through his position as a
Socialist to bring about a SOCIALIST
peace. Scheidemann was one OF the
reichstag leaders who succeeded in
pushing through the reichstag in
July, 1917, the famous no-annexations
and o-indemnities resolution. He
has been called a tool of the pan
Germans. IT..
The office of Prussian minister Of
foreign affairs is distinct from that
of imperial secretary Of foreign at
fairs, which has been held by Ad-
niral Won Hintze, who resigned last
week with Count Won Hertling.
German Camoufiage.
washington, Oct A desperate
effort by the Kaiser and his adj
visers to hoodwink the allies and the
German people into a belief in the
Il 4 20 &c
by observers here in the appointment
Of Prince Macmillan as imperial
chancellor and Scheidemann, the So
cialist, and Goeber, Centrist, as
members of the cabinet without
portfolio.
1t is suspected that Germany is
about to make a new peace proposal
disguised under a, most attractive
democratic program. With these new
names on the roster Of the rulers of
Germany, the Kaiser might point to
them as a realization of his recently
announced policy Of popular rule.
1t is noted, however, nothing is said
of the REIMBURSEMENT of power by
the military party. or OF making the
members of the cabinet answerable
for their conduct of affairs to the
reichstag. The new officials, whose
names make the program so attrac-
tive, therefore. apparently viii be
entirely without power as well as
without portfolio and the actual con-
troll Of affairs may be left entirely
in the hands of the junkers, con-
dition that led up to the precipita-
ton Of the present war.
1T lis realized there is a POSSIBLE
ity that the Kaiser reads the hand
writing on the wall. and. realizing
his country is doomed to defeat. NAV
plan actually to turn over share of
the government to representatives Of
popular rule and permit them to try
to save the country.