The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-01-22
BOURGEOIS PARTIES
TO HAVE MAJORITY
Together Win More Seats in
German Assembly Than
Majority Socialists.
LATTER LEAD IN COUNT
Ebert Likely to Retain Chan
cellOrship-First Meeting
to Be in Wcimar.

AMSTERDAM. Jan. 2I.--The final re-
suits In the German election will not
be known until tomorrow. but the indl-
cations arc that the Majority Socialists
will be the strongest party and Will
occupy most of the Cabinet seats. Fried
rich Ebert is presumed to stand the best
chance OF obtaining the CHARACTERISTIC.
The count is proceeding slowly The
Majority Socialists party name Is
printed at the bottom OF the ballot. In
some polling stations in Berlin large
numbers Of ballots were declared illegal,
and it Is said that Philip Scheidemann
lost II 900 votes in one ward alone from
this cause.
The new German National Assembly
will meet in Weimar. capital or the
Grand Duchy OF Saxe-Weimar-Ei senach,
according to the Berlin Lokdldnsei0er.
This was decided upon In conference
between the German Government rep
resentatives and the Prussian Ministry
after they had agreed that the session
ought to be held IN Il non-Prussian town.
Incomplete returns showed last night
that the Democrats polled 12S4.O4l
votes Majority Socialists, 2603.422 In
dependent Socialists, 40l.lS7: Christian
Peoples party. 1,110,l37; the German
Peoples party 266,lo', ana the Con-
servatives, 467.36I.
While the Majority Socialists VIII have
the ascendancy over any other single
party the results indicate the bourgeois
party together will have a majority In
the National Assembly.
In the third Berlin district the Ma
jority Socialists secured nve seats Phil
lipp Sche!demann, Herr Fischer. Herr
Pfannkuch, Herr Tschmidt and Herr
Hermann the Independents four Heri
Eichhorn. Hugo Iiaasc, Herr Leukcf
and Luse Zdetz: the Democrats TWO
seats, Herr Naumann and Herr Hart
mann the National!sts. the Centrist anu
| the Peoples party one seat each.
Reports from Munich show that the
Majority Socialists polled 1925 votes
| Christian Peoples party. 77.3o4 German
| Democrats, 59s2l. and minority social.
lists. 34.lq5. The National Liberals cas'
the l!ghtest vote Of the day, haV'fS
| 7145 ballots
In Cassel the Majority Socialists cast
5l,7lS: Democrats. 25,0o2: the tnr's
tan Peoples party. 4.os5 Nat,ona
| Liberals. 9.4Sa; Conservatives S''lo
ana the Minority Socialists. 1894.
| Al Frankfort on-the- oder the German
| Democrats. the Centrists and the Ma
! ,ority Socialists won two seats each
| In the Palatinate the Majority Social
lists and the Centrists were close To-
eether with $3.50 and 5ts71 votes re
| spectively, the German Peoples Parry
got @6.5e2 votes. the German Democrats
1881 and the Independent Socialists
53l. .-,.,,.,
In Nuremhurg the Majority Socialist
got 2974S the Independent SOCIALISTS
| ZOE: the German Democrats. 800
the Hawaiian People Party, 177S3 arc
the Hawaiian Middle Glass Party, b,6sa
| IN Hamburg. which was considered
a stronghold OF the SpartaCans and In
| dependent Socialists. the Majority 30
cialists got seven seats out OF eleven
| according 20 a Central News despatch
from Amsterdam. The German Demo
| Gratis won three seats and the lnue
| pendent Socialists one.
| Full returns from the Republic o
! Saxonv show this result: Majority So
C,alists. seventeen seats; German Demo
crats. six German National Party four
| German Peoples party. TWO, ard IN
dependcnt Socialists. three,
The German National Peoples part,
| has elected eight Delegates in Baden
| Including Herr Dueringer. former MIN
lister. The Christian Peoples party tth
former Centrlsts) elected five Delegates
|
Reichstag, Konstantin Fehrenbach. Thre'
Delegates were elected ~ the German
Democrats. one being Herr pielsch, For
e,gr Minister OF Baden. The Socla
| Democrats succeeded in elecung nv
| Delegates. one OF whom Is Herr RueckeTt
Traffic Minister Ludwig Haas, Ministe
| or the Interior was successful as can
didate of the German Democratic part!
In the Independent stronghold OF Nel
Koln the Independents polied onl,
4S.75O votes. against 12.165 for the Ma
| forty Socialists.
At Erfurt the Independents police
c4.6OO 70 1880 for the Majority Social
lists. The Independents, on the othe
hand. were badly beaten in Dresden
Chemnitz. Hamburg. Magdeburg. Nu
remburg and Munich.
In Stettin the Majority Socialists go
so.794: the Independents Socialists
s.495: the German Den ocrats, S0.722
the German Peoples Party. 1883; III
German National Party, ?,oSf. and IN
Centrists. ?s2.
At Ludwtgshafen the Majority Sc
ciallsts got ?4.44i; the Independent Sc
cialists. ESQ the Ceutrists. 7,732; tn
German Democrats, 1860 the Peasant
League. $500.
In Franconla the Majority Socialist
polled lO4,653 votes; the Independent
Socialists. POSSE the German People
Party, l04i4: the Bavarian People
Party. 1855: the National Liberal
2s.36j.
In Upper Bavaria and Swabla n
Majority Socialists got 24O.S62 n
: Peasants League. 7l,773: the Nation;
) Liberals 9.463: the Bavaran People
) Party. 2l3,937: the German People
Party. 81, 105 the Independent Socialist
, seos9; the Bavarian Middle Cha.
Party. S9l
In Lower Bavaria the Majority s;
cialists polled 43.600 votes; the Ind
pendent Socialists. AL: the Bavaria
! Peoples Party 66.4S9 the Germa
!; Peopre's Party, SS7 the Peasant
League, 3l.3GS.