Evening star., 1924-05-02
SEVEN PARTIES FIGHT
TO COvERk! GERMANY
0utcome of Sunday Elections
:: Likely to Mean Coalition Rule
in Reichstag.
RADICALS EXPECTING GAINS
Experts Reports Have Effect of
= e Reducing FerYor of Soma.
ny EDGAR ANsEL aowRER.

ny Cable to The star sad Chicago Daily News
Copyright. 1o24.
BERLIN, May 2.-The principal
parties in Sundays Reichstag elec-
tions are seven. On the extreme right
are the German racial freedom party
a strange combination of 100 per cent
Germans.
Originally an ofrshoot OF the nation
alist party. they have rallied super
patriots of most diverse tendencies
Sorae. like the famous Ehrhardt
boys" are favorable to any violence
reactionary militarIsts, hopeful OF
IIohenzollern restoration. Still 9TH
ers are "Bonapartists," dreaming of
a pan-German war OF liberation on
a democratic scale, coupled with a
paternaIistic and enlightened dicta-
torship, Others look TO the Fascist
for their example. Some are patriotic
Communists, who only differ through
nationaliSm from those OF the left
wing, and demand a socialist state
as different as possible from that
foreseen by Lddendorff
May Increase Me1xSeru.
All are united In dislike Of the Jews
resenting foreign oppression, in hat
ing forms of democratic tGnets, in
Guiding traditional Christianity. and
In loving violence; Represented in
the last Reichstag by shree members,
II is expected they may. have thirty
five after the elections.
The German national Peoples party
are old-line monarchical c6nserva-
tives, recruited chiefly from large
landowners and so-called junkers
~ Ne
Zollerns and class government. and
especially seek to gain their former
domination of Prussia. Originally
hostile to all fulfilment policies. they
are somewhat disconnected by the ex-
perts' report. which they are hghting
half-hearfediy. They are spending
freely in the campaign. 1t Is expected
that their present representation OF
sixty-seven will be increased TO
Third comes the German Peoples
party. or big business of the Shines
Stresemann group. Most Of them are
tepidly monRrchist. They possess un-
limited funds and are seeking by pub
lie avowal OF nationalism. which they
aften privately disavow, to keep their
strength. It Is expected their Reich
stag representation may be reduced
from sixty-fve to forty.
Center Party Holds Own.
The Nationalist party is allied on
one side With Conservative radicals
and on the other side with the Con-
Servative Peoples party. The Cath
Ollie Center party Is expected to main
tain its present strength of about
eighty-f1ve Like all confessional
parties. its members represent all
shades of political opinion. They are
hated by the 100 per centers. but ow-
ing 10 their admirable discipline. they
usually WELD the balance OF power.
They have. become increasingly
conservative, but not hesitating. ow-
ing to Nationalist attacks on the
church.
The Democrats. who are the liberal
capitalist republican party. are popu-
larry supposed to be the Jewish par
ty." They represent that sort of en-
lightened capitalism which just now
is unpopular in Germany. They are
indivtdualist, which Germans perhaps
are incapable of understanding. 1t
IS believed that their present thirty
nine deputies will be reduced to
twenty.
Social Democrats May Lose.
The Social Democrats are republi-
cans, peace loving and mildly social
ist. Despite the fact that dissatisfac-
tion with their turncoat tactics has
awakened everybody. 1t is probable
their number which Is now 173, will
not be reduced below 100, as they
control the large labor organizations.