Show LEADING AUSTRIAN socialist SOCIA bIST engelbert aggressive leader ol 01 the austrian radical party Is the eon 0 pool parents his father dying when the boy vas tour yeara old he was brought up amid and poverty by dint of hard work and greal self denial he managed to obtain a good aduca tion even going through the vienna university lie managed to get into the anu his oratorical abilities did good service for his party one speech he made has become historical mainly on account ot what followed it during a debate in the house in 1888 took the opportunity of telling two stories parliamentary utterances even in austria are privileged and matters can be debated openly in the which can scarcely be whispered outside these stories touched two archdukes arch dukes the nearest heirs to the throne the first was told of the archduke franz ferdinand the emperor s nephew and heir presumptive it was t a nice or creditable tale relating as it die how this young archduke riding one day in a country district had compelled a funeral groces lon to halt and remain standing while he jumped his horse backwards and forwards over the coffin containing the body of a poor peasant woman and s next story of the archduke otto franz ferdinand a brother and next heir to the crown was infinitely more discreditable araldi intense excitement the socialist leader told of an incident in the archduke s life when he was stationed in the garrison at and had been married only tour months the archduke gave a supper party when everybody got drunk and then in this hilarious condition otto offered to show his brother officers his wife the archduchess maria josepha in bed remarking that be supposed they had never seen a princess in her night dregs before the archduke s aid de camp less drunk than the rest of the party interposed in a vigorous manner and drawing his sword stood before the door leading to the archduchess apartments and defied the archduke or any of the others to enter and they dian didn t attempt it these two stories were the one topic of conversation in the country and as they were uttered in parliament the prees could publish them without interference and they were circulated everywhere |