The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1913-08-09

I &$QQ3p9SIys aug. fS.s~-~--s 5SEu3AtWSll llSAS1
ahs again been appointed Hungary's
baemier; and all adventurous Magyars
are sharpening their tongues their
knuckles, and their swords. With
HCromwell Tisza ruling, trouble. they
know, liz nigh. The one unruffled Mag
yer ia Tisza himself. When tuning
gelioWmen rage and shoot off guns and
swear words, TisZa's joy is endless.
EIis coal eyes glitter cornplacently;
his Valasuuez- boss Croker face grows
green. Combat delights him. He Is
never happier than when quarreling;
standing as target for lawmakers ink
the ribs, or hurline out of the diet the
nation's chosen champions.
Cromwell (by baptism Count Ste
phan) Tisza is the diet speaker who
crushed the unconquered obstruction
lists: who drove through a session laws
which experts said would need a de-
cade: who silenced critics with gums
before the diet house; who had the
1 highest magnates, Arpad's proud pos
terity, dragged from the hall by their
collars---when not by their boards. He
Is the man who fought three duels in
a week. and won them all, the man
who sat imperturbable and proposed
TO continue business while brace Of
bullets, aimed at his heart, still stuck
K N.
ODe's drab governance. where mere
Marconi scandals rank as sensations,
Tisza Is a find, and now that dull Pre-
mier Lukacs Is in retirement and
Tisza sits in the seat Of the mighty,
Europe's eyes turn expectant1y to Pest.
Cromwell Tisza Is 52, and eldest
SON OF Kolomarl Tiszam who made
Hungary's slavs and Roumains smart
with Magyarisation laws. Koloman
sent firm -chinned Stephan to study at
Berlin and Heidelberg, and Stephan
learnt everything and fought seven
"Mensur' duels without getting scar
red. His opponents got the scars.
Ttsza Is the best swordsman Hungary
has; and Is in fact the best all-round
man. Were he not in politics men
would worship him. He is a master Of
arts; he is expert at bridge at shoot
ing, at riding; he is equally clever at
making high jumps, making hay, and
making love.
When lively Stephan touched rs he
came to Pest as Vizaknas representa-
tive. He called himself member of
the liberal party, which meant that he
was not a liberal but q Magyar ma
tionalist, agrarian and duahst, who
chanlpioned the maintenance Of the
1875 "ausgleich'' regulating Austro-
Hungarian affairs. People made re-
marks about TisZa's warlike mien.
When other mobiles wore the pictur-
esque magnate costume, good looking
Stephen turned UP as a hussar. To
prove his harmlessness he had to write
books on .agrarian policy, and the in
fiuence Of the gold standard on the
price Of grain.
Tisza earned praise as 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 oper-
alton left Tisza unable to see right
or left, but only straight ahead. To-
day people say that it Is characteristic
Of t'CromwelP' Tisza. He can only
think, speak and act straight ahead.
And in fact Tisza derides all COM
promises, nnanoeuvres 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 pos
Glib le; and IL impossible, then by vio-
lence. law-breaking or fraud. -.
Naturally TisZa was born to sue
cess, But his first raid into high
policy failed. He began by demand
Ing ruthless supRression of I diet OBJ
sttuction. the only method which Hun
Fary's progressives and independence
men apply when they want to air their
grievances. That was in 1893. The
opposition refused to pass the 1budger
Of Baron Banffy, and Stephan, working
.ogther with his father, Koloman,
pushed through the LEX Tisza, "
which was to break the opposition's s
bank Tisza's repute as boss obstruc-
tibn-ffghter, and stick -at-nothing-n man
grew; and when PremieEe Koloman
saell resigned, Franz Josef invited
TBza to take his place. That was ten
years ago. Tisza said yes, but failed.
HIS ruthless ways frightened all mod
ehtes and weaklings and politicians
rfused to serve in his cabinet. In
September, 1908, a second cabinet
raking try succeeded, Tfsza's pro-
@afrme was: Break ohstructionsi
few laws must be made even if old
llws were to be broken in making
them. Tisza unlawfully suspended the
dAt statutes; and drove through the
lex Daniels" his second measure
aAinst obstruction. This Cronrwellion
alt frightened supporters; some seced-
a and the whole opposition united.
Vhen the diet reopened Tisza had the
'tuard'' in the sessions hall. The op-
psition put the guards to fight. and
bmolished Tisza's chair. 81 shall dis
blve!' said Tisza. You won't" said
he opposition. THE constitution for
ids you to dissolve before the budget
passed" Tisza sent the .constitn-
lon to purgatory+ He unlawfully dis
olved; was defeated at the election
~ y q ~ 1L- 49, Ttaa ID