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Show HINDENBURG NEW 1 GERM LEADER GENERAL WINS WITH PLURALITY PLURAL-ITY OF ABOUT ONE MILLION; WORKERS DESERT MARX Riots in Berlin and Karlsruh? Result in Three Dead and One Dying and More than One Hundred Reported Injured !i-ilin. Tin; official provisional "i-ures of tin; jifsnl;ii r ial election ,. Hindeiiburg 14,fi:!!U!9 I Marx :,.::,2Xi ; Thaelniann 1 I .;'.!' i i Votes declared Invalid 21,910 Total ir. r,io lierlln. Germany lias chosen for a j monarchy. In tin; first out-and-out rontest between Republican and im-lieriul im-lieriul idcaH the democracy has been defeated. Tim veteran field marshal. Von Jliiidcnburg, leader of (Jermany'8 defeated de-feated armies, was elected president .f Germany hy a small plurality. Tlio choice of flenenil Von HIn-clonburg HIn-clonburg has stummed I he republican I'h'ments, who consid(;r the old war chief ft chair-warmer for the Hohen-rollerns, Hohen-rollerns, a represenlatlve of the Imperialistic Im-perialistic ideals which ruled Germany before the world war. The election rioting continued throughout the. day as the rival groups met, though there were few Herious dashes. Crowds gathered in all center.-i of the city and when the election re-units re-units were proclaimed there were demonstrations, immediately growing into rows. These however, were hooii controlled hy the police. The defeat of Heir Marx, the candidate can-didate of the republican coalition, was admitted hy the left groups, when, with only 2.000.000 votes to be counted count-ed in the district where it was' certain cer-tain (leneral Von Ilindenburg would run strong, the field marshal had established es-tablished more than 1,000,000 lead. Ilerr Marx's defeat was attributed to I ho defection of the workers, especially es-pecially in the sections' where General Gen-eral Von Ilindenburg was given a big majority and the district of lower Silesia, south Hanover, Upper Ha- j aria, Magdeburg, Pomerunia. Mack-linliurg, Mack-linliurg, Hamburg, Middle Germany, I'.chloswig-IIolstein and the rural districts dis-tricts of Brandenburg. General Von 1 1 indenburg also carried the city of Munich. The lierlin vote is not yet complete, lint will show a lead for llevr Marx. Hanover city, General Von llindenhurg's home town gave Ilerr Marx 1H0.000 anil General Von IliiHienliurg 110.000. Three are dead, one dying and i love than 100 persons wounded in election riots which featured the polling. poll-ing. Two were killed and two seriously seri-ously wounded in Karisruhe .and one was killed and one dying in Berlin, when rival election gangs clashed. There is hardly any city in Germany Ger-many which was not the scene of election violence. Except in Berlin ami Karisruhe the scupo were able to keep the situation under control. With complete results from thirty-three thirty-three election districts out of thirty-five. thirty-five. General Von Hindenburg officially offi-cially is leading with 14.800,000 to 13,000,000 for Ilerr Marx. Herr Thael-snann, Thael-snann, the communist candidate, had polled 2.000.000. With these figures imnounced the left parties officially conceded the election, although the Voerwaerts declared Ilerr Marx still had a chance to make up the difference differ-ence in the two outlying districts. J |
