 As leader of the newly founded Cultural League for the Unity of All Romanians, he campaigned in the international press, resulting in some 500 newspaper articles on the "Memorandum" trial.These actions made partisans of Austria-Hungary regard him as an agent of dissent.In 1894, he was engaged in a heated polemic over these issues with the Hungarian officer István Türr, who had published articles condemning the "Memorandum" participants and their Bucharest-based partisans.