ABSTRACT
At the end of the first decade of the 20th century, the national movement initiated by the Romanians in Transylvania and Hungary was fundamentally shaken to its core by a resounding conflict, that caused a clash between the so-called ”steeled youth” movement and the then leadership of the Romanian National Party, the main political representative of the Romanian interests in the Dual Monarchy. The manner in which our historiography presented, and to a great extent, continues to present the outbreak of the conflict is usually resumed to the acknowledgement of some differences of irreconcilable opinions in what regards the ways in which the Romanians if the Austro-Hungarian Empire asserted and developed; these means became more acute and degenerated in the year 1910, following the party candidates’ failure to win the elections, thus causing a fracture of great magnitude in what concerns the plan for a national fight. The new generation of politicians and people of culture yearned for the promotion of Romanian interests through the rejection of the federalist formula (hotly debated at that time), of the myth of the good emperor, and, at the same time, of the ineffective Romanian-Hungarian political dialogue, that had not yielded important benefits for the Romanians. Representatives of this new generation, such as Goga, Ioan Lupaș, Ilarie Chendi, Octavian Tăslăuanu, Silviu Dragomir and others began an open debate with the leadership of the Romanian National Party, a debate that they got to publicly oppose.