Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-01-21
GERMAN ELECTIONS
BACK EBERT PARTY
Majority Socialists With In.
dependents and Democrats
win Control Assembly.
MAKES OUTLOOK BRIGHT

BERLIN. Monday. January 20 (hy
the Associated Press).-Full election
returns from all sections of Germany
are coming into Berlin slowly be-
cause of the work in tabulating the
vote of the six leading parties.
Based on incomplete returns avail
able at s o'clock tonight. the major
ity socialists (the Ebert party now
in controD had from 40 to As per cent
emit socialists and the German demo-
Gratis, the majority socialists will con-
stitute the left of the national assem-
bly,. with IS per cent of the seats.
The democratic party has made an
excellent showing and may outstrip the
centrists in the final count The in
dependent socialists made a strong
eleventh-hour rally in Berlin, and prob
ably will get four out OF the fourteen
seats from Greater Berlin The ma
Jority socialists will get five seats from
Greater Berlin. the democrats two and
the three parties Of the right one each.
The official final count Of the national
vote probably will not be available be-
fore Wednesday. Numerous votes in
Berlin are being contested by the in
dependent socialists, who charge the
majority socialists with having used an
illegal caption on their party ballot.
Forecasts Stable Government.
PARIS. January q (by the Asso-
ctated Press Early returns from the
German elections are interpreted here
to signify a promising prospect for
the establishment Of fairly stable Ger
man administration at an early date
The majority socialists and the Ger
man democrats. who are the success
ors of the old radical party, apparent
ly will go into constituent assembly
with big lead over the independent
socialists. Friedrich Won Payer. former
vice chancellor and leader of the DEM
ocrats. and the socialist leaders, Ebert
and Scheidemann. demonstrated their
ability to work together in the old
re1chstag. They also can count on
Konstantin Fehrenbach. the centrist
leader, as an ally in their efforts to
institute a government with a basis Of
popular support
Armistice Commission Remains.
This contamination is regarded in
all allied circles here as an indispensa-
BILE preliminary to any peace negotia-
ton. The coming into power OF these
groups will mean the continuation Of
the probable appointment of Scheide-
mann, Won Payer and Fehrenbach or
Erzberger rs the leading members Of
the German peace delegation.
Had the elections brought in two
fairly even balanced socialist groups
with an Insignificant representation
from the moderate and non-socialist
elements. as was feared at first, the
and bitterness between
the majority and Independent social
lists would undoubtedly have converted
the constituent assembly into a disor-
derby assemblage. from which little could
have been expected.
The voting. under the German
scheme. 10 based on proportional rep
representatives in proportion to the
vote cast.
How Votes Are Divided.
COPENHAGEN. january 81 {by the
Associated Press).-Incomplete re-
turns from the German elections
showed last night that the democrats
poiled 1,234,o41 votes; majority social
lists. 2.603. 40; Independent socialists,
401.1S7: Christian peoples party. L.
ll0.137; the German peoples party.
t.
367, according to advices received by
the Berlingske Tidende.
BERLIN, Monday, January 20 (by
the Associated Press).--It IL probable
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. Berlin newspapers announce
that a warrant for the arrest of Eich.
horn has been issued. 1t is said that
various charges proof OF which would
lay Eichhorn liable to punishment for
fifteen years have been issued.
Among the well known Germans
Fehrenbach. former president Of the
refchstag. and Herren Dietrich, Haase
ana With, members Of the reichstaR.
In Wurttemberg Matthias Erzberger.
Friedrich Won Payer, former vice
e aas, s Adolph Groeber and Herr
The former national liberal leader.
Gustav Stresemann. was elected to the
national assembly in the Osnabruck-
Hilhelmshaven district: Philip Scheide-
mann, the majority socialist leader, has
big majority in the municipal district
Of Cassel. where he headed the majority
socialist ticket.
Disturbances Are Few.
LONDON, January 20 Thy the Asso-
ctated Press).-'The course of the cleo
lions throughout the German state"
says a German government wireless
dispatch received here tonight, has
clearly proved that the development
OF republican form OF government
interests the whole German nation.
Only from the Rhineland, the min
ing district of Hamborn. Cassel and a
few small places have there been dis
turbances due to the violence of
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