Show SALISBURY TO RETIRE Aged Premier Anxious to o Retire Is Said to be Growing Absentminded London Londen July 5 At the earliest pos poe sible moment Lord Salisbury plates retiring from public life But I that t t severance from the affairs of the empire which he has so long admin is not likely to come until after the coronation and it may possibly be still further delayed dt by now unforeseen reasons of state or politics During the last few months the pre prem pr m mier er has more and more detached him self leI from the cares of office With In Increasing Increasing creasing age his dislike of publicity and dread read of ot details which high office holding Involves have been strength strengthened strengthened ened Into an antipathy so strong as to render even een the conservative leaders less importunate in their demands that be he remain premier V Those who have recently been brought into contact with the aged d statesman privately comment on his absentmindedness which is only over Oer overcome overcome come ome by b great effort when it is ab absolutely sOi tely necessary for him to deliver a public utterance on a question of I importance Peace in South Africa having haYing been procured Lord Salisbury is said to consider the crowning of ot the king kingas as s the moment when his services to the nation may ma most fitly be ended One of those Intimately associated w with ith the premier pr pi throughout his political career more so perhaps than any an other per person son sw said to the Associated Press to today tod today day d y SUpping Away Aay From Prom Public Life L e er I r suppose that no one can have failed to notice that Lord Salisbury lately latel has seemed to be slipping more and more away way a from public life lite The Th reports of his failing mentally are largely exaggerated but for a long time it has bas been an open secret that he is extremely anxious to retire I r Ido rdo Ido do not know any reason for believing that he be h will wUl announce his determination llna tion in the immediate I future but I fear it Is only a matter of a short time perhaps after the coronation The curiously yelled veiled intimation in Jn the Times this morning referring to the appointment of oC Schomberg McConnell principal private secretary of Lord Salisbury SaJi bur to succeed Lord Esther as I secretary of his office of works that paper said it thought it I doubtful if It Lord Salisbury will wUl try to I find a new secretary secreta adding that the appointment of McConnell cannot fail fan fanto I to revive the rumor of ot the premiers resignation I after the coronation is ix the I only notification here that the ortre P baseless rumor is now flOW on the I verge of becoming a fact I j The Westminster Gazette Liberal I while not professing to know the truth tr th or otherwise of the Times rumor TUmor sadly dIy admits that if Lord Salisbury j retires it will not bring the Liberals into injo power and prophesies 1 that the tie Unionist party if jf Salisbury goes will probably move along the line of least e Ut resistance make Mr Ir Balfour premier leave leae Mr Chamberlain at the colonial office and exchange some old lamps for r new neW by b o the process which is called reconstruction Hw long the reconstructed govern government ment meat might last and whether Mr Hal Bal lour and Mr Chamberlain might m not riot change bange places before beCore the end of or the parliament are questions questIon which are at present too speculative to answer a ser |