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many candidates as there we're deputies
to be elected. Electors were permitt6
10 strike out name or names on a bal
lot, but could not insert others to replace
them.
The voting. under tho German scheme.
Is based on proportional representa-
tion, so that each party elects reprcsen-
tatives in proportion to the vote cast.
The first task of the national assem-
bly,. the German advices show, will be
to draw up a new Constitution. defining
the form of government and the method
of electing a president of the republic.
Another will be to ratify the treaty OF
peace.
Scheidemann Votes Thrown Out
The Majority Socialists, who received
tho largest vote. had their party name
printed at the bottom of the ballot and
in some polling stations in Berlin large
numbers of these ballots were declared
illegal and 1t is said that Philipp
Scheidemann lost 1000 votes in one
ward alone from this cause.
Incomplete returns last night showed
that the Democrats polled l.234,O4l
votes Majority Socialists. 2,6o3.422; IN
dependent Socialists. A01,ls Christian
Peoples party. 1.110.1S7; the German
Peoples party. 266.l and the National
PEOPLES party. 1885,.
Reports from Munich show that the
Majority Socialists poled 1926 votes
Christian Peoples party. 77,3o4 J.: German
Democrats, 59,S21; Independent Social
lists, 34195. The National Peoples
party polled the highest vote OF the day,
having 7145 ballots.
In Cassel, the Majority Socialists cast
51,71s votes; Democrats. 25,002: Chris
tian Peoples party. 4095; Nationals,
94s9: German Peoples party, 27lo, ana
the independent Socialists. 11oi
The German National Peoples party
has elected eight delegates In Baden in
Guiding Herr Dueringer. one-time min
ister The Christ an Peoples party
(once As Centrists) elected five dele
gat' one of whom is konstantine
Fenrenbach, President of the ReichstaG
Three delegates were elected ny the
German Dmocrats, one being Hert
Dieisch. Foreign Minister Of Baden. The
Social Democrats succeeded in electihe
five delegates, one of whom is herr
Rueckert Traffic Minister. l.udwie
Haas, Minister Of the Interior. was
successful as a candidate of the\Germai
Democratic party.
Berlin, Jan. 21.-(By a. P.)--Full elec'
ton returns from all parts of German!
are coming into Berlin slowly because
of the work in tabulating the vote oil inc
six leading parties.
Based on incomplete returns, the Ma.
jority Socialists had from i3 to 40 per
cent of the total vote. With the lnde'
pendent Socialists and the German Dem
ocrats. the Majority Socialists VIII con-
stitute the Left of the National Assem-
b ...l. q ant Of
The Democratic party has made ar
| excellent showing. and may outstrip the
Centrists in the final count. The lnde'
| pend Socialists made strong eleventh
hour rally in the capital. and probably
will get four out of the fourteen seats
from Greater Berlin. The Majority So
cialists will get Ave 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 tomorrow.
Eichhorn Faces Arrst
/ 1t is probable that Eichhorn. Sparta
! can, recently chief of police, and HuB
/ Haase, one time Secretary fer Foreign
| Affairs in the Ebert cabinet. have beer
! elected to the National Assembly. Re
| turns are coming very slowly. and ih'
| results, even in Berlin, are uncertain.
Berlin newspapers announce that
warrant for the arrest of Eichhoin has
been issued. It is said that various
charges have been made. proof of which
would make Eichhorn liable to punish
ment for fifteen years.
The combined bourgeois parties in the
kingdom of Wuerttemburg and the
province of Hohenzollern, Prussia
elected ten delegates to the National AS
sembly. The Majority Socialists seated
seven, and the Independent Socialists
none. The combined popular vote of thu
Socialists was 100000 and the bourgeois
parties $4,000.
In Mecklenburg and Lubbock the com
bined bourgeois parties elected thre
delegates and the Socialists three.
The Majority Socialists appear to hav
made big gains in East Prussia. II
Hanover and Bremen the Majority SO
cialists had a large majority over tn
Independent Socialists. In LEIPZIG, how
ever, the Independent Socialists polle'
195,00 votes against $4,000 for the Ma
jority Socialists.