New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-05-30
RACE RIOTING IN VIENNA.
. NOR STORMS AND OCCUPIES THE CITY
HALL.

1ONENTS HONbiisi i'fN.>''''
CHOICE OF BURGoMAsTER- THE
MUNICIPAL COUNCIL LIKELY
TO BE DISSOLVED.
Vienna. May 29-Dr Ldger. the Anti-semite
leader in the Reichsrath, and Vice-Burgomaster
Of Vienna. to-day refused to accept the office ~
pureomaster. TO which he was elected. because
the majority he received was the smallest tha'
was permitted by the law to elect.
ON learning of the refusal. excited mob made
an attack on the City Hail. which they stormed
and took possession Of. Fierce fighting cnsued
between the mob and the police.
The mob occupied the galleries OF the CITY Han
and Justify cheered Or. Luger and hooted his OPP
ponents. while the Council voted again. No one
received the requisite majority. and the Couhch
adjourned in confusion the mob hustling the
Liberal Councillors they left the nall
1t is believed to be likely that the Munlcipal
Council will be dissolved. in which case the Anti
Semites are confident that they will win many
seats.
The abiect misery in which the populace or the
Vienna faubourgs live. rather slowly starve 10
death since the decrease almost complete dsap-
pearance Of some industries Ike that OF mother
of-pear fabrication. for instance. Is snicioht 10
explain the present riot. for which Anti-Sei'sfi
was merely a pretext. DR.. Lueger has constantly
appeaei the extreme SpcAIlSlc ldSS'OH'' ~
order TO support his anti-Hebrew crusade just as
Prince Lichstensten has melted the Clerical fanati-
csm of the Austrian masses against the lsraelltes
in the hope OF compelling the Government 10 sur
render public offices TO the ultra Catholic faction
These two leaders Of Ant-Semitism VIII soon
understand that the masses intend to use that
doctrine as a cry not so much against the
Hebrews as against all possessors OF wealth. and
the followers OF any other religion than Roman
ism. To the Anti-Semitic pretext for the rot
covering Socialisc and scctarian aspirations. must
be added the discomfort OF the Austrian lower
classes at the delays OF the Government 10 grant
| the extension of the electoral franchise formally
| promised two years ago by the late Taaffe Min
istry. and which has not yet been realized by the
Windischgraetz Cabinet. At any rate. the Vienna
Socialists would have hesitated to join In the so
called Anti-Semitc riot. had they known that DR..
Lueger had intended In company with Prince
Alloys Lichstensten. TO pay a visit to the Papal
Nuncio. Monsignor Agliardi to congratulate him
on his protest against the Hungarian Eccesasti-
cal bills. But they abandoned that awkward mani
festation. the request Of the Nunco. who felt
that he had already gone too far In his anti
Liberal campaign in Hungary.
~ At the latest municipal elections. the party OF
pected success out Of 1874 city Aldermen 60 Anti
SeInlteS were e;ectei and the majority OF the
been sufficient If that majority could have been Kept
solid and compact and II It's leaders had not been
disheariened BY the sudden triumph o: their adyer-
saries. But the election Of I.ueger Nice-Burgo-
master caused Gruebl. the Conservative Burgo-
master to offer his resignation, He persisted not
outstanding the request Of the Premier Prince
Windschgraetz. and OF Ministers Pener and de
Basquehem and also despite the entreaties OF the
Liberal press. which went so far as to call that
resignation OF desertion. Or. Lueger was
therefore the most probable successor OF Gruebl.
and he has BEEN in fact. elected Burgomaster, but
! with such small majority that he feels that IL
| would be difficult for him TO govern the city. lie
| feared that his popularity would suffer, II he could
| not fulfil the promises be made TO his partisans.
| The latter do not understand things In that way.
| They are anxious to maintain at the head Of the
| municipality and even against his own wish the
unfortunate Lueger who has forgotten those words
| of a French political leader who dragged into
| risky enterprise by his partisans Il was their
| chief, and therefore compelled 10 follow them"