[22] Protokoll, 1890, pp. 96-7.
[23] There are eight secretaries elected. They are distributed, by custom, among the parties, according to their voting strength. The Social Democrats had always refrained from taking part in any of the elections; now they enter the lists, abstaining from voting for any candidate except their own—who, in turn, received no other votes.
[24] Bebel was not present in the Reichstag at the time this vote was taken, but he told the convention that, had he been present, he should have supported the Tax Bill. Protokoll, 1908, p. 364.
[25] Protokoll, 1892, p. 173.
[26] Protokoll, 1910, p. 469.
[27] Protokoll, 1910, p. 95.
[28] Reichstag Debates, December 2, 1908.
[29] In the election of January, 1912, the Social Democrats carried every district in Berlin excepting the one in which the Kaiser's palace is situated. Here a spirited contest took place. A second ballot was made necessary between the Radicals and Social Democrats, and the Conservatives, throwing all their forces on to the Radical side, succeeded in keeping this last stronghold from their enemies. But Herr Kaempf's majority was only 6 votes.
[30] Protokoll, 1898, p. 89.
[31] Supra cit., p. 90.