GERMAN ELECTIONS.
SOCIAL DEMOCRATS’ TRIUMPH,
By Telegraph—Preß3 Association—Copyright Berlin, Juno 18. The chief issue of the German elections I i 3 the future Customs policy. Tho loaders of tho iron, olectric, cotton, 1 and wool industries, hoping to delay the realisation of Mr Chamborlain’s policy, aro striving to roturu non-protectionist candidates. There will ho 180 second ballots, compared with 98 in the elections of 1898. j Who Social Democratic section secured 6a seat 3 at tho first ballots, compared with 32 in 1898. This success is at tho oxpenso of the I Radicals, and is attributed to tariff issue and the Kaiser’s interference with political parties. The Freisinnigs or Radical party have been almost annihilated. Saxony voted solidly red, which is attributed to •She effects of tho Royal scandal. Tho Socialist vote at Essen numbered 22,000, compared with 44000 at last election ; at Drisburg 25,000, compared with 7800 ; at Bochum 40,000, compared with 22,000; at Berlin 100,000 above tho vote in 1898 ; and Saxony 100,000 above all other parties combined. Many thousand voters who were not Socialists supported tho Socialists as representing the Empire’s one effective party oi •opposition!
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Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 921, 20 June 1903, Page 3
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