New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-04-08
A PRINCELY SOCIALIST as MAYOR.

Vienna is at the present moment In the throes
of municipal election which is expected to re-
suit in the victory of the anti-Semite party under
the leadership of Prince Alloys, nephew OF the
reigning Prince of Liechtenstein. His followers
having secured no less than fifteen seats IN the
general Parliamentary election last month, hive
of which are for metropolitan constituencies,
there appears to be little doubt as to the issue OF
the contest now IN progress, and the arrange
ments which they have already made for the
division of the spoiIs of office-can hardly be re-
eardcd as premature. The most notable feature
thereof will be the appearance of Prince Alloys
Liechtenstsln, the millionaire candidate of the
anti-Semite- cum Socialist Labor party, IN
the role of Mayor of Vienna.
Prince Alloys is one of the most extraordinary
figures in European politics, and possesses many
traits in common with Lord Randolph Churchill.
Like the latter he is the terror OF all steady
going statesmen and politicians. lie lnaugulated
his Parliamentary career some fifteen years ago
by getting himself turned out OF Rome, where
he had given serious offence to the Government
by his aggressive championship of the temporal
claims of the Pope. His expulsion had the in
tended effect of investing him with species of
MARTYR aureoIe which resulted in his election to
the leadership Of the Clerical and Feudal parties
in the Imperial Legislature. As such he DIS
tinguished himself by his hostility to every kind
of reform, and by his opposition to the SECULAR
cation and extension of public instruction.
About year ago he was forced to abandon his
craftsmanship of the Feudal party and to sever
his connection with his Utramontano friends by
his marriage with a divorced lady OF humble
birth. For time he Withdrew from politics.
But three months ago he suddenly reappeared in
the arena as an enthusiastic friend Of'SocialSm,
of labor, and above all of anti-SemitiSm.
grand seigneur, an aristocrat to the very Ups OF
his fingers and the possessOr of immense landed
estates, he distinguished himself by his bitter
lnvective of capital and by his animosity to the
Hebrew race During the course OF the recent
Parliamentary election, TO which he devoted
more than 5000, 600 of his fortune, he even
went SO far OH several occasions as to incite the
popuace to expel all the Jews from Vienna and
to plage their great banks and financial estab-
lishmentS.
His election to the Mayoralty and the tenure
of the principal municipal offices by his anti
Semitic friends will inevitably lead to an ex-
tensve withdrawal from Vienna Of Jewish
enterprise and capital as well as of population.
This cannot fail to prove prejudicial. to- the Inn
perial city. The decline of Spain's prosperity
and greatness dated from her expulsion of the
Jews, and under the chief magistracy OF Prince
Alloys Liechtenstein-princ of the blood though
he be-Vienna bids fair to descend from its pres
ent emincnce as the commercial and political
centre of the Empire to the level of mere
ffth-rate city. Moreover the laboring man in
Austria as well as elsewhere in Europe will do
well to keep watchful eye on Prince Alloys and
his other two new-found friends, who are fitted
neither by birth, rank nor fortune to become
the champions Of the worling class. They con-
stitute indeed queer kind of trinity-Lord Ran
doph Churchill, Emperor William of Germany
and the princely Mayor in posse of Vienna