The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-01-21
MAJORITY REDS
POLL LARGEST
NUMBER VOTES
in ELECTIONS
Bourgeois Parties to Have Big
Representation in Assem-
bly,. Incomplete Returns
Show-Haase Elected.
RADICAL VOTE IS LARGE
tBy Associated Press,


BERLIN, Jan. 21-It Is probbale
that former chief of police Eichhorn
and Hugo Haase, former secretary for
foreign affairs in the Ebert cabinet.
have been elected to the national as
sembly. Returns are coming very
slowly and the results, even in Berlin
are as yet uncertain.
Berlin newspapers announce that
warrant for the arrest of Eichhorn
has been issued. 1t is said that vari-
Gus charges, proof of which would lay
Eichhorn liable to punishment for Is
years have been issued.
Bourgeois Get Ten.
The combined bourgeois parties In
the kingdom of Wuerttemburg and
the province of Hohenzollern. Prus-
sia, elected ten delegates to the nat
ional assembly. The majority social
lists seated seven and the independ-
ent socialists none. The combine pop
ular vote of the socialists was 506,000
and the bourgeois parties $4,000.
In Mecklenburg and Lubbock the
combined bourgeois parties elected
three delegates and the socialists
three.
Partial results in Berlin continue to
| show an Unexpectedly large independ-
ent socialist vote.
Count 10 Slow.
Paris, Jan. 21.-Full results from
the German elections are not expected
to be known before Friday. The
count is proceeding slowly, the major
ity socialists, who received the largest
vote having their party name printed
at the bottom of the ballot In some
polling stations in Berlin large num-
bers of ballots were declared illegal,
and it is said that Philipp Scheide-
| mann lost 1000 votes in one ward
alone, from this cause.
Reports from Munich show that the
majority socialists polled 1926
votes; Christian peoples party, IT,
! 304: German Democrats. 59,S21, and
minority socialists, 34.195. The Ma
? tiofal liberals cast the 1ightest vote
CT the day, havinE 7.145 ballots.
| In Cassel the fmajority socialists
cast 51,71S;. democrats, 25.002; the
Christian peoples party, 4,095; Ma
tional liberals, 9,4S9: conservatives.
2,710; and the minority socialists, L.
1874
Bourgeois Vote Heavy.
COPENHAGEN, Jan. 21AIncom-
plete returns from the German elec-
tons showed last night that the dem
ocrats polled 1,234,041 votes; major
ity socialists. 2,603.422; Independent
socialists, 401 ,1S7: Christian peoples
party. 1,11O,137; the German peoples
party, 266.157; and the conservatives,
ACT 1867, according to advices received
by the Berlingske Tjdende.
While the majority socialists will
have the asceIdency over any other
single party, the results indicate. the
Bourgeois parties, together. will have
a majority in the national assembly.
The German national Peoples Party
has elected eight delegates in Baden,
including Herr Dueringer, a former
minister The Christian Peoples par
ty (the former centristsD elected five
delegates, one Of whom is the former
president of the Reichstag, Konstan-
tine Fehrenbach, three delegates were
elected by the German democrats, one
being Herr Dielsch. foreign minister
| of Baden. The social democrats sue
| ceeded in electing five delegates, one
of whom is Herr Rueckert, traffic min
| lister. Ludwig Haas, minister of the
| interior, was successful as a candidate
of the German democratic party.
| The draft of the proposed new con-
stitution for Germany recently pre-
pared. provides that all Germans
shall have the same rights before the
law and that all privileges and advan-
tages of birth, social condition or
| creed shall be abolished. The free
exercise of religious practice is guar
| anteed. In its main feature the pro-
posed constitution, which has been
drafted under government auspices.
| provides for reichstag composed OF
two chambers, one to be a popular
chamber and the other chosen by the
state.