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Show Even- trough Mr.GL ads tone should recover and be able to give the weight of his experience in the councils of the Liberals, he is not expected to really-lead really-lead his party again. The more one thinks of-Mr. Gladstone's illness, the more convinced one must be that, coming com-ing as it does now and withdrawing him from the chief place in the ranks, it is a particularly disastrous and heavy blow to the Liberals. Naturally everybody every-body is looking for the man who will succeed him, and it is scarcely too much to say that a similar void will be created in her opposition as happened to the Tory party when Benjamin Disraeli, I Earl of Beaeonsfield, died. |