| Show AN ELECTORAL CHARIV ARt Germany Enjoying the Discord of a Political Campaign A CENTREIST MANIFESTO Action of the Peasant Societies Causing Caus-ing a Panic Heretofore They Have Always Supported the Centrcist Candidates but Will Noir Only Support Those Devoted to Agricultural Interests BERLIN May 27The electoral outlook since the has considerably cleared up issue Dy Doctor Lieber of the manifesto of the Centre or Catholic party The labored phraseology of the manifesto and its longwinded long-winded sentences were not calculated to impress the public and have elicited ridicule ridi-cule from the press but the declaration did not fail to inform the government the price it must pay for the support of the party in the new reichstag Behind the verbiage about the intolerable military tary burdens imposed by the empire is advice to electors to take a decided position posi-tion against the army bill and Hueno amendment to that measure There lies the I principle We shall transfer says Doctor Lieber the Windthorst resolutions resolu-tions to the new parliament and use them as a guiding light in discussing all future military questions The Lieber faction of the Centre party is in short ready to negotiate with Caprivi on a basis of the repeal of the remaining religious disabilities and readmission to the Jesuits in return for its adhesion to the governments military tary demands Reactionary conservative I organs threaten that i the new Reichstag is intractable the government will restrict re-strict the franchise and thus get an obedient obe-dient parliament The manifesto replies to this that the highest law is the constitution con-stitution adding We hold fast to the character of the empire as a federal state The prerogatives of the people are based on universal equal direct and secret suffrage The factor that is causing a panic among Bavarian Centrists is the independent inde-pendent acton peasants societies which hitherto always supported the Centrist Cen-trist candidates These sscieties have now issued an electoral adress stating their representatives up to this time have been cooperating in legislation ruinous to the peasant proprietors and paying altogether alto-gether too much attention to religious affairs af-fairs In the coming elections the peasants societies will support only candidates who are devoted only to the agricultural interest of the country and who are reli able as citizens without regard to religious re-ligious belief or social position The social Democratic party will cause disruption dis-ruption of the Centrists to the best amount Amid this electoral charivari the Conservative Con-servative National Liberal and Freis seratve sinage parties are not much heard of The struggl lies between the Socialists Social-ists who form a compact welldirected party 7 and new political bodies composed of the old elements Yit hardly in condition condi-tion t know themselves S Kulturkmpf in Hungary according to Germaniat is tending toward a settlement The pope is offering to assent to a form of political marriage consisting of the presence of social registrar at church martial ceremony with subsequent registration regis-tration of marriage Advices from Hungary show the cabinet Is not willing t accept this compromise com-promise as a majority of the Hungarian diet want the full liberty of civil marriage mar-riage Throughout north Germany Austria Hungary and Bulgaria sufficient rains have fallen to insure good harvests I |
