No incriminating documents of any kind were found, but among the private papers was the correspondence between the leaders in the party of the Centre dealing with questions of party organisation and political tactics.

The Government used these private papers for political purposes, and published one of them.

The constant use of the police in political warfare belonged, of course, to the system he had inherited, but none the less it was to have been hoped that he would have been strong enough to put it aside.

The Government was now firmly established; it could afford to be generous.

Had he definitely cut himself off from these bad traditions he would have conferred on his country a blessing scarcely less than all the others.
The opposition of the parties in the Reichstag to his policy and person did not represent the feelings of the country.