The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-06-16
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 It was also intended to prove that confronted by the demons which had taken possession of the sub lime great man." the Kaiser, who de- sired, above all things, that his pol icy should be open ana clear as day light to his subjects" had long strug- gled in vain for the welfare of his country; that when he begged to be allowed to share more fully the busi- ness of government in Germany he was moved solely by the desire of taking from the seriously i'll and nervously strained statesman a part of his work and cares; that he had wrestled many nights with God in prayer that he might be spared the terrible end'' of letting his servant leave him: and that only when he realized that the question was whether the Emperor or the Chan celIor was to be on top old "Hohen- zollern pride" had risen, and he had brought himself to the point of showing the old pighead'' that they must part; and. finally, that. when the dark hour of separation came, 1t was "like a dagger to his heart" and he "broIle down"-he was ashamed to say it-in 8 "convulsion of tears,' But what are the facts of the last days of BismarcN's official life as his tory records them?
 Holding no kind or sort of brief for Bismarck, and emitting the wild erness of minor affairs which have long since disappeared in the dust and ashes of dead politics, [ have com piled and condensed from Bismarck's s autobiography, from Charles LoW'e's admirable monography published twenty-odd years ago, and from the Kaiser's letter, the following state ment:
 On the morning of Saturday, March 15, 1890 (eighteen days before the letter to Franz Josef) the Emperor, in state of considerable excitement, drove to Bismarck g palace to ask why the Chancellor had received and en- tered into negotiations with a certain party leader without his permission. Bismarck refused to explain, saying that he could not subject his inter course with deputies to any con- straint, or allow any one to control the entrance to his ouse.
 Not even I. your Sovereign" ask ed the Emperor.
 ''The commands of my Sovereign '' said Bismarck, and at my wifes drawing-room door,
 T sec" replied the Emperor, you can receive anyone you like. but I mustn't receive my own Ministers without your permission" referring to a Cabinet order made ten years be- fore, whereby Ministers of the Crown were primarily accountable to the Chancellor not the Kaiser
 On the following Monday, March IT, the Emperor sent his military sec retary to the Chancellor to say that he expected to receive him for this purpose at the Imperial Palace at two o'clock that day.
 Bismarck did not go
 Having liberated his soul" to the secretary on the Emperor's ingrati- tude and his own duty to the nation he summoned a meeting of the Cab inet to explain the situation
 The Emperor was not to be put off He now sent his private secretary to demand the ChanceIlor's resignation by a stated hour, offering at the same time a dukedom and a gift of money to maintain it. Bismarck re- piled that he required time to consider the request for leave to resign; that he could have become a duke long ago if he had been so minded, and that as for the money which the Elm peror had offered him, he was mot a 1etter-carrier who went around begging for gratuities on Boxing Day"
 Next day, the 18th, Bismarck. bow ing to the Emperor's right to dismiss him. prepared an elaborate document