The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-10

~ UDAPEST. August 9.-(Special)
cromwell" Tisza has again
~ been appointed Hungary's pre-
mier: and all adventurous Magyars are
sharpening their tongues, their knuck-
les and their swords. With CROMWELL
Tisza ruling, trouble, they know, is
nigh. The one unruffled Magyar is
Tisza himself. When fuming fellowmen
rage and shoot off their guns and
swear words, Tiszas JOY Is endless.
His coal eyes glitter complacently; his
velasquez- Boss Croker face grows
green. Combat delights him. He is
never happier than when quarreling,
standing as target for lawmakers ink
pots: pinlxing rivals with rapiers in the
ribs, or hurting out of the Diet the ma
tion's chosen champions.
Cromwell" (by baptism Count Ste
phen) Tisza is the Diet speaker who
crushed the unconquered obstruction
lists; who drove through a session laws
which experts said would need dec
ade who had the highest magnates,
Arpad's proud posterity, dragged from
the hall by their collars--when not by
fought three duels in week, and won
them all; the man who sat imperturba-
BILE and proposed to continue business
while brace of bullets, aimed at his
heart, still stuck in the woodwork of
his desk. In Europe's drab govern
ance, where mere Marconi scandals
rank as sensations, Tisza Is a find, and
now that dull Premier Lulxacs is in re-
tirement and Tisza sits in the seat of
the mighty. Europe's eyes turn expec-
family to pest"
"Cromwell' Tisza is 50, and eldest
son of Koloman Tisza, who made Hun
gary's Slavs and Roumanians smart
with Magyarisaton laws. Koloman
sent firm-chinned stephan to study at
Berlin and Heidelberg. and Stephan
learned everything and fought seven
''Mensur" duels without getting SCARED.
His opponents got the scars Tisza is
the best swordsman Hungary has; and
in fact the best all round man. Were
he not in politics men would worship
him. He is master of arts he is ex-
pert at bridge. at shooting. at riding;
he is equally clever at making high
jumps, making hay and making love.
When lively Stephan touched 25 he
came to Pest" as vizakna's represent
ative. He calls himself member of the
liberal party. which meant that he was
a liberal, but Magyar nationalist,
agrarian. and duelist who championed
the maintenance of the 1867 'Ausgle-
ich'' regulating Austro- Hungarian af-
fairs People made remarks about
young Tszas warlilxe mien. When
other mobiles wore the picturesque mag
nate costume, good looking Stephan
turned up as hussar. To prove his
harmlessness he had to write books
.on agragrian policy and the influence
of the gold standard on the price of
grain
Tisza earned praise as a precise and
concise speaker; and he earned fear by
his browbeating scowl He was rude
to foes and he showed skill in making
them obnoxious. Later he had an eye
operation. The eye operation left Tisza
unable to see to right or left, but only
straight ahead Today people say that
is characteristic of CROMWELL Tisza
He can only think, speak and act ahead
And in fact Tisza derides all compro-
misses, maneuvers and, pacts. His way
Is to make up his rough tough mind
about a thing, and then to do what he
wants by argument If possible, then by
violence, law-breaking or fraud
Naturally Tisza was born to success.
But his first raid into high policy
failed. He began by demanding ruth
less suppression of Diet obstruction.