Evening star., 1924-12-07
GERMANS TO PASS
ON DAWES PLAN IN
T0DAY'S ELECTION
Liberals Expected to Defeat
MonarchistS in Fight to
Vindicate Republic.
BY the Associated Press.

ny tIe AssOCldteu freSS
BERLIN, December 6.-Tomorrow' s
general election Will be fought out
around the banner of the old mon
archy and the republican colors of
new Germany. The closing hours of
the campaign have been replete with
editorial vituperation and personal
calumny of a severity unknown even
to the traditional acerbities of Ger
man politics. This development, the
liberals aver, is due to the desperate
efforts of the reactionary die -hards"
to make the issue one of monarchy
against republic.
The three liberal parties-Social-
lists, Clericals and Democrats-have
accepted the challenge and are sub
merging their partisan disparities in
a common appeal to the voters to vim
dicate the republic. Led by Chancel-
lor Marx, whose unequivocal support
of the republican colors and the con-
stitution has been the outstanding
feature of his campaign utter
ances, the Democrats and Socialists
have joined the chancellor's party in
a triple election alliance which has
made the defense of democracy the
cardinal issue of the campaign.
NationaIists Divided.
Opposing them are the German Ma
tionalists, led by Admiral Won Tir-
pitz and Count Won Westarp; Luden-
dorff's Fascist party and Strese-
mann's German Peoples party. The
Nationalists entered the campaign
heavily handicapped because of their
division over the Dawes plan and the
consequent disintegration in their
own ranks.
Ludendorff's party. which held "a
seats in the last Reichstag, has ap-
parently cut little figure in the pres
ent campaign, because, according to
it's opponents, it is without an issue
or funds. Political prognosticators
assert that this party is due to lose
at least half its seats.
The German Peoples party in its
campaign has made concessions to the
followers of the old monarchy in re-
spect to the restoration of the old col
ors. and also has bid for votes from
that portion of the electorate which
believes in supporting the present
governments program of carrying out
the Dawes reparations plan.
Communists May Lose.
The Communists who captured G2
mandates last May, stand to lose at
least half this number, according to
Socialist campaigners, who have
found the German Reds" less mill
tant in the industrial sections owing
to the general Improvement of social
conditions.
Augmenting their appeal for the
defense of the republic all three of
the liberal parties have made their
chief campaign on plea for support
of Germany's present program Of for
eign policies as exemplified by her
acceptance of the Dawes report as
embodied in the agreement at Lon
don.
Pointing to the instantaneous ef-
fects of the governments reparations
program on German economies and in
sisting that its present course shall
not be interfered with the liberal
spellbinders have tried to impress
upon the voters that the ascending
curve of the German recovery must
not be placed in jeopardy through the
election of a Reichstag which would
fail to yield coalition government
deprived of a safe majority.
Concurring reports from campaign
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