Evening star., 1925-04-07
German Election Results Rated
Mainly Hopeful for Republic

Balloting in Germany's presidential
election, which failed to result in a
choice, is viewed by some American
newspapers as pointing the way to
triumph of republican principles in
the coming second election. Others
find in the returns indications that
the Conservatives have a prospect of
winning through coalitions.
Even If the Extremists, the Com
munists and Monarchists were to fuse
at the second election, such a fan
tastic alliance would fall short of VIC
tory" says the New York Herald
Tribune. which continues: 1T is plain
that the republic must live and carry
out its program of treaty fulfillme mt
or Germany will fall back into civil
war and financial ruin. Yet such are
the obstinacy. of junkerism and the
driving power of rancor and preju-
dice that more than 100000 voters
were willing to back a party whose
only rational policy is one of mon
archical restoration and either partial
or total annulment of the peace
treaties"
More strongly phrased is the dec
laratfon by the Baltimore Sun that
"the outstanding lesson of the pre-
liminary vote is to confirm the pre-
vfous evidence that the extremists OF
both camps-Hohenzoller monarch
lists and bolshevists alike-are for ali
practical purposes finished in Ger
many. The real fight now is between
the forces of conservatism and lib
eralism."
The lead of the Liberal Republican
parties over the Conservative and
Monarchlst 1orces, however, is only a
little more than 1,500, 900 votes. .'en-
tirely too few for safety" according
to the Richmond News-Leader which
believes that even If the Conservative
Nationalists were able in the second
election to ALLEVIATE the right WING
OF the Centrists and Democrats 7,
would not necessarily mean an early
return to the monarchy.
x X X X
What indications there are point
10 better chance for the security
agreement than there would he were
Jarres, choice Of the combined royal.
lists and industrialists, elected" oh
serves the Boston Transcript. "The
sentiment of the majority of the
German people seems to be liberal. -
is the comment of the Columbus
Ohio State Journal, which finds that
If that is established by the result
of the second balloting, lit will mean
that another step has been taken
toward the solution of the postwar
problems of Europe" The conclu-
sion that Germany "has been sold
the democratic form of government
for the next six years" is drawn by
the Reading Tribune from the re-
turns.
THE inconclusive ballot must be
construed to mean that Germany is
recovering her political and indus
trial health declares the Detroit
News. 1T should be particularly re-
assuring to France" The country
Is returning to normalcy, says the
Rochester Times Union, which be-
lieves that there can be no doubt
that the extreme parties in that
country are waning" The Grand
Rapids Herald sees no menace, so
far as fundamental stabilities go, in
the prospect. This paper adds eve
should say that those economist
and statesmen who feel that German
stabilities are essential to world re-
covery, must be entirely heartened
by Sundays performance beyond the
Rhine
A suggestion that the Conservatives
polled their highest number of votes
in the first election and that the Lib
erals will make a better showing in
the next contest is made by the
Schenectady Gazette, which predicts
that Marx Will lead the latter to an
easy victory. A different view is
held by the Grand Rapids Press
which believes that "the Nationalist
Who were ahead in Sundays election,