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Show THE GERMAN ELECTIONS, The .Socialists in Germany started in on their campaign with the proposition that thev would elect a hundred members mem-bers to i he Reichstag. Thev may still do this, but they will have to do bet tor than thev did in the second .lav's election. There are, however, a good many elections to be held. Bight mem hers are to be elect c-.l tomorrow, and t.hirt v-fivo on Thursday, in constituencies constit-uencies where no one had the absolute meioritv that the law requires. It i itiito w.tnin the possibilities, of course, thai the Socialists may reach their hundred marl in these third and fourth days Of polling, but it. i- evident evi-dent that the chief parties have combined com-bined agBinst them, and are determined to hold the Socialists' representation down a& low as possible. In the balloting, SO far. how-eer, the Socialists "Low a. net gam of twenty- -ix. and all of the other panic? show losses. Ii is a vigorous upheaval in the old fatherland, and the Imperial Couri dismayed at the showing But, if it will tend to relievo the Germans of the L'reat trCHs of keeping up such a tremendous army and navy, and especially es-pecially if it will prevent the addition ot two corps to the standing army, the Socialists' gains will have effected B good purpose. |