Promišljanja o političkoj aktivnosti Matka Laginje, u povodu pokretanja lista Omnibus i održavanja općinskih izbora u Puli 1905.
SOME REFLECTIONS CONCERNING THE POLITICAL ACTIVITY OF MATKO LAGINJA AS REGARDS THE FOUNDING OF THE NEWSPAPER OMNIBUS AND THE HOLDING OF MUNICIPAL ELEC

Summary/Abstract: Matko Laginja was raised and educated in the legal framework of Austria- Hungary; he was a defender of parliamentarianism and dialogue. He believed that persistent and protracted systematic effort, based on legitimacy, the legal system of the time, could achieve results. In his social and political work, Matko Laginja paid a great deal of attention to existing power relations, taking into consideration various factors which could have an influence on the achievement of the social and political goals of the Croatian national movement in Istria. This letter from Matko Laginja to Vjekoslav Spinèiæ from the beginning of December 1904, as well as the founding of the newspaper Omnibus, reflects the time when the Istrian "narodnjaci" in Pula were led by Matko Laginja. The Istrian "narodnjaci" weighed the factor of the Imperial-royal navy in their considerations, with which they intended to counter the influence of urban Italian liberals in the municipality of Pula, and through newly formed electoral lists and corrected electoral lists, expected in the upcoming regional or national elections to strengthen their positions. In addition, Matko Laginja believed that the naval administrators and clerks, in so far as they were not ranking officers, strengthened the position of the Navy in the I. electoral body, and thus they could get the influential and ruling Italian urban liberals "to show some respect" for the Croats or the Slavs in general. The formation of the political concepts of Istrian "narodnjaci" at this historical moment, had to operate within the wider framework of political relations between Austria-Hungary and Italy, especially in the context of renewed irredentism, but also with regard to certain conditions which appeared first and foremost in conjunction with the organization of the national movement of Croat and Slovenes in Istria, the formation of political organizations of the national movement in 1902, and the founding of economic organizations in 1903.

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