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Show OILKK. Sir Charles Dii.ke's efforts to rehabilitate re-habilitate himself in the good opinion of Englishmen meets with little encouragement. en-couragement. He has chosen tho wrong time, when the public mind is still tilled with tho Parnei.l scandal, to urge himself upon tho attention of the people. Mr. Gladstone, who has denounced de-nounced the Irish leader for his moral shortcomings, cannot afford to forget or forgive those of Sir Ciiari.es aud countenance coun-tenance his election to parliament. Nor w ill it avail the gentleman much to pose at. this late day as the long-suffering victim of the conspiracy of a vindictive vin-dictive woman. His friends have tried this before and failed. The liberal majority iu tha Forest of Dean 3s so strong as to encourage Dii.ke in his ambition but he has probably not calculafed upon tho elements of opposition op-position which his caudidacy would arouse. Editor Stead issued a pamphlet pamph-let vehemently denouncing.SirCiiAHLES Dii.ke, recalling his promise not Co return re-turn to public life until his character was cleared, and invoking a combination combina-tion of the liberals to prevent the reelection re-election of Sir Chaui.es lest the disgrace fall upon the cause of liberalism. The , friends of Sir Chakles urgo that their i position be kept doubtful, because they j cannot reopen the case by a direct ap- j peal to law. His liberal opponents now challenge. him to take the only courso open for legal vindication to prose-cuto prose-cuto tho persons charged with conspiracy con-spiracy and perjury, Thus the way to public life is still strewn with thorns for Sir Charles, and yet his case contains ono gratifying feature as serving in evidence that a pure private life is becoming an ever greater pre-rerjuisite to political preferment prefer-ment in England no Jess than in the United states. ' |