SOCIAL DEOMOCRATIC VOTE.

Colonist, Volume LIV, Issue 13316, 17 January 1912, Page 3

SOCIAL DEOMOCRATIC VOTE.

fPnEB» Association—Copyhkhht.) Berlin, Jan 15. The Social Democrats claim to have polled 4,225,000 votes at the first ballots, an increase, of 965,000 over the last election. Tho party offers help m the second ballots to any candidate against the Hight and Centre on condition that ho resists auy alteration in tho Reichstag franchise ami iresn taxation on articles of general consumption. No pledgo is required as to expenditure on the army and navy.