Szőcs Sebestyén: Budapest székesfőváros részvétele az 1905-1906. évi nemzeti ellenállásban - Várostörténeti tanulmányok 1. (Budapest, 1977)

6. Befejezés

the same time he called upon the Lord Mayor to deliver the unsolicited taxes without and delay. The mayor would not fulfil the Minister's second ordinance either, thus-according to the provisions-an extraordinary assembly was convened on the 14th of November. In the meantime important alterations occured in the national politics: the negotiations carried on between the king and the coalition were cut again and for a good while at the close of September; the Fejérváry cabinet which had resigned in September was re-appointed by the monarch in the middle of October, and the monarch approved of the idea that the government would incorporated in his program the plan of the codification of universal secret suffrage. With this, however, the government became wholly isolated from politically; the Liberal Party giving up its neutral standpoint, turned against the cabinet. The government's venture to establish an independent party of its own failed and the try to enter into relations with the Social Democratic Party and the radical intellectuals struggling for the universal secret suffrage barely changed its isolated position. The isolation was increased by that due to the growing resistance by the municipalities, the government was compelled more and more frequently to go beyond the legal possibilities and to take sanctions of absolutistic character against the refractory municipalities. Great expectations preceded the session of the municipal assembly held on November 14th. It was commonly known that Lord Mayor József Márkus disapproved the joining to the resistance and that the resolution passed on June 28th, was not voted by a great number of the municipal committee members who otherwise led the majority of the assembly as well. Trifling in numbers but well organized the opposition was afraid that the assembly would withdraw the resolution passed on June 28th, and did everything possible to impede the turn. With skillful obstructive tactics it managed to achieve the aim: the assembly did not pass any resolution in the merits. A new assembly was convened by the 28th of November in order to discuss the question of the resistance. The next fortnight was the period of excited discussions and negotiations. At last above the formation of the general political situation a further event also turned the scale in the opposition's favour: the Pest county municipal committee members who protested against the Lord Lieutenant's inaguration appointed ad interim by the government were removed by police and gendarmery force from the building of the county hall on November 24th. The action was led by Béla Rudnay, commissioner of municipal police. In the assembly held on November 28th, sharp and strong discussions took place between the majority and the opposition, but by that time the result of these discussions was doubtless: the assembly took a stand for maintaining the resolution passed on June 28th. Subsequent to the assembly held on November 28th, there happened events leading to deep antagonism between the two wings of the opposition, namely between the conservatives led by Géza Polónyi and the liberals led by Vilmos Vázsonyi. These antagonisms in some months determined fundamentally the turn in the political life of the capital. Between the 4th and the 6th of December big strikes and demonstrations took place in the capital. Through these strikes and demonstrations the organized workers expressed their dissatisfaction with the policy of the coalition and particularly with the negative point of view assumed by the coalition in the 187