| Show GERMANYS POLIliGS Emperor William Discovers that tJat Prince Bismarck KNOWS MORE ABOUT THY Than ho Does Socialist Gains Farther Details De-tails oldie Outrages at the Political Prison at Kara rson BERLIN Feb 22Copyrighted 1SDO by the New York Associated PressLast night an independent and entirely reliable authority gave figures showing that the Socialists baa actually twenty members and had good prospects to capture thirty more seats on the second ballot The opposition op-position in the reichstag will involve almost revolutionary modifications The mosl sanguine Cartellers do not expect tht second ballots will make such a change ir the result as seriously to modify their do feat The supreme question is How fa wi the Socialist successes ultimately go Thursday their total record of vote reached nearly a million and a half agains 774000 in 1SS2 No combinatIon of their opponents seems likely to head them off on the secom ballot and there is a prospect of seeinj thirtyfive to forty Socialists seated in thy next reichstag against eleven in the last reichstag Another result suggestive of the growth of the popular movement ia th reappearance of the Volks parter or Democrats Demo-crats so called In the reichstag in 13M this party held eleven seats Taking the whole result together as it stands in actual results and as it is likely to stand after thfc decision of the second ballot the pre pect is that the opposition will have 224 in the house against 173 for government groups This opposition will be made up as follows Centrists or Ultra montanes 10 German Liberals or Liberals Lib-erals properly speaking 45 Socialists 37 j Volks parter Democrats 7 Poles 11 Alsatian 12 Polesters and Guelphs 12 This is a very hcterpgenus opposition held together by no devotion to a common purpose pur-pose but by the negative tie of objection Yet it is bound to give the government some lively times One of the incidents of the contest is the defeat of Prof Virchow the famous and popular man of science and distinguished Liberal by Jani szewski a poor journeyman bookbinder book-binder and Pole Herr Woestam Bis marcks friend the great Hamburg ship owner and candidate of the National LiD orals was defeated by Dietz Socialist This astonished the Socialists themselves Hamburg now entirely in their hands The opposition press comments freely upon the fact thai after twelve years operation of the law for the suppression of the Socialists the great populace centres of the country have become hotbeds o 1 Socialism It is argued that since thlaw expires in September next the government must abandon the attempt to represstki movement by legislation or dissolve the reichstag and appeal to the nation on this special issue The press generally in so fur as it might give any reflection of the official feeling refrains from all attempt but the Progressionist papers recur to their predictions thatBisinarck will immediately imme-diately resign the presidency of the Prussian Prus-sian ministey and bo succeeded by Boet ticher Official opinion on this subject favors fa-vors the view that Bismarcks position posi-tion has been strenghtened by the result of the election The Emperoi was confident the rescript would check the successful progress of the Socialists So-cialists and is consequently enraged at the discovery that this was all illusion The officials quote Bismarcks saying the re scripts would assist the Socialist candidates candi-dates and could not weaken them It ix thought likely therefore that the Emperor will return to the guidance of Bismarck Otto of Bavaria is bedridden and in the last stages of general paralysis At 943 tonight there are some additional particulars known of the election The German Liberals are claiming that their returns show that they have to contest in supplementary elections sixtytwo seats As fortytwo of these are againt the Car tellers and fourteen against the Socialists they are confident that their party will have in the reichtsag sixtyfive to seventy votes |
