Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-01-04
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Copyright 1919, by Nev York Times Co.
Berlin, Jan. 2. via Copenhagen, Jan.
4'-The election campaign for the ma.
tional convention Is In full swing and
the methods used to capture votes are
very much like those in the United
states. Street demonstrations. which
were unheard Of in the elections for
the old Reichstag are now very com.
dimensions. II is estimated, for IN
stance. that 400, 900 men and women
turned out last Sunday to demonstrate
for the regular social democracy and
for Theodore VOLTS German Demo.
cratic party.
Yesterday the Christlische Nolks.
partei christian Peoples party, which
is really the old Centrist party, turned
out $4,000. who paraded the city.
crowded the Circus Busch and held
overflow meetings in the Lustgarten.
at which some members and measures
or the new Government were severely
criticized. especially Adolph Hoffman,.
the Prussian Minister for Educational
and Church Affairs.
After the meetings 10000 persons
marched down Cnter den Linden and
demonstrated in front of the Kultur-
ministerium. where Hoffmann's offices
are. A former member OF the Reichs.
tag. Doctor Pfeiffer, pointed at the
ministerial palace. with its balcony
decorated In red. and said
This is the abode Of paganism. pre-.
sided over by Adolph Hoffman,, whose
maliciousness is only surpassed by his
stupidity"
The multitude shouted for Hoffman,
to appear on his red balcony, but
nobody answered: whereupon the dem.
onstrators turned into the Wilhelm.
strasse and stopped in front OF the
Chancellor's palace.
Wants Change in Government
Here Pfeiffer again made a speech.
protesting against purely social dem.
ocratic government for the republic,
! and demanded Il government resting
| on q large democratic base.
Pastor Hecker made a neat little
speech, wishing the Government a
happy New Year. and expressing the
hope that Papa Ebert" would not
have to be arrested himself again.
The Deutsche Rationale Nolkspar'
| tel, under which unaristocratic name
the old reactionary factions are hiding,
| 100, Tdu IL ldTBt IIltttlns at ltt ulGI
school Misque, at which Count villa.
mowitz Mollendorf was the principal
speaker. Here members of the Gov
ernment were characterized as men
who never learned to obey. men who
never learned anything at all. but
have the audacity to- try teaching
others"
Ecclesiastical Chief Commissioner
| Conrad spoke "of the glorious past of
| Kaiserdom. the memory Of which can
never be eXtermlnated," and Professor
Hostzsch expanded on the party's
program. the essence OF which was
that nobody excepting the Junkers can
govern Germany
There was no outdoor demonstra.
tion for n reason which was not men,
toned by the chairman, namely. that
Deutsche Rationale Volkspartei Is
afraid Of the people.
The newspapers are full OF campaign
matter. There IL hardly day without
some paper of the extreme right or left
surprising the public with revelations OF
some serious crime or treachery which
the Government is supposed to have
committed This morning Die Rote
Fahne publishes the correspondence OF
a certain lawyer Nolk with German
officers and Baltic barons. seeking TO
prove thereby that volk. like the old
Hessian Princes was selling German Of
ficers and soldiers to the Baltic barons
with the connivance Of the Government.
This correspondence covers nearly two
pages in Die Rote Fahne and was. OF
course. stolen from Lawyer Nolk's Of
| fees.
Now. while the letters leave no doubt
that Nolk and his Baltic friends. by
pretending TO aid the German Govern
ryat tar NJ hai
hands" there is not the slightest proof
that the German Government had any
other intention than keeping of the
Bolshevists when they permitted Volli
to enlist German soldiers for the so,
called Iron Division and for civil guards
in the Baltic region.