Show BISMARCK AND WILLIAM I 1 prince chance bismarck and the zol lern is the I 1 title under which the breslauer katung has given to the world a new and astonishing version of some events in ia recent german Gorman history at first the articles under this head were regarded as a trifle too sensational to be worthy of e credence re dence corroborative proof of the truth of them has however come colne from various sources in the mot last two or three weeks and all the german dalies have been forced to discuss the relations of the ex chan baor and william I 1 in the new light at no time says the breslauer did the legendary relations of unruffled serenity exist between emperor anti and chancellor with every new success the chancellors Chanc ellory desire to rule increased beyond measure success r and ambition raised his position to such an unusual he height i that it lien b egan P to overshadow the throne king william saw this in 1867 and looked about for a remedy at ai that time he sa said id t the crown prince this man mail has grown too great for us we must get a substitute and I 1 ask your help in my efforts to find one the crown prince turned at once to 10 herr von gru gruner der assi assistant t secretary of the interior in the old liberal ministry for an unknown reason the plan to elevate von gruner to bismarck his marcks s position fell through we know however that ever since this affair prince bismarck has sheri cherished shed the deepest resentment against von gruner and when the honored old man on his seventieth birthday was elevated to the rank of P weal real F privy rivy councilor prince bismarck did the unprecedented act of preventing the publication of the event in the thus confining the excellency of herr von gru gruner der to the limits of the court we also know that after this episode the chancellor felt uncertain in his hie office and regarded with jealousy every gifted and favored minister who might in any way be considered a rival and with some justification for the feeling that possessed the king in 1867 grew stronger with the next fifteen years the position of the chancellor became even more despotic his irritability even greater his presence in berlin even more infrequent his requests for release from his official duties were more persistent wb why y did not dot the king grant these requests simply on account of the extreme difficulty of finding a man equal to assuming Bis marcks heritage the age of the king was also of moment in 1867 king wiliam might have felt able to carry on the government with the aid of the ne new 1 minister ten years later after his eightieth birthday and with a constitution ution shaken by the No beling attempt at assassination such an effort was out of the question thereto were to be added we marvelous success of the chancellor and his ingenuity in birding a way out of the most desperate straits so the emperor resigned himself to hie bis painful position as the less of the two evils from such considerations came the famous levei if it was ever spoken when bismarck handed in next to his last request from him tor for relief from duty the last request was refused so coolly by the emperor that bismarck never made a move toward making another one among the many journals that have published circumstantial evidence of the correctness of this new view of an old subject is the frankfurter which says As the relations between bismarck and emperor william I 1 have become the subject of general dis culion it may be interesting to know how fully conscious the chancellor was of the sensitiveness of his imperial lord as to the common report of the ministers mini aters preponderance inthe in the government bismarck frequently related to his most intimate friends this story during the french war bismarck and the king sat one afternoon in the same compartment of a train that halted at a way station for water german peasants auts were discussing the war on the station platform and one of them shouted I 1 yes yes the bis marck ians are coming P the king asked atone at one what did that man say bismarck answered that he be had not understood there was a long silence then the king said the people should understand that the troops are mine not yours since then added the chancellor my wife has often reminded me of this little conversation and whenever I 1 have been in danger of hurting the pride of my old bic lord has warned me remember the Bismarck lans 1 the memories of privy court councilor schneider recently published cannain numerous incidents illustrative of the ill feeling with which william I 1 regarded the tendency of his people to ascribe all good and great german things to his chancellor new york sun |