Show GREAT BRITISH STATESMAN DEAD Sir William Vernon Harcourt Answers Sudden n Summons 4 LAST OF THE OLD lIBER LIBERALS S 0 GRIEF R BY MEN OP Si ALL P PARTIES TIES Leaden Oct Il ourt the finest P ideal ot of his age ae died iery suddenly tO today lay at par n near 1 Oxford ord the seat which le kt er from hIt hie nephew Only his 1118 wife ift a of Gt the Itte te John Lathrop Matley the a and d American to Greet t Britain was as with him When Sir Wil went to bed last at be seem d wen well though he be hap been suffer sulfer lug a slight chili This morning wb b he be was caned called he replied cheerily In a short time Later Lter a servant en t red the room and found Sir lying dead de on lets bed His sou Lewis Vernon Harcourt member of meat ment for tor the division of Lancashire was hastily summoned from Londo J Universal Sorrow Among aU all classes in the United I dom regardless ot or party part the un newt ca caused a nd and regret The somewhat paU pathetIc et le Ic announcement in ID March last of oC his retirement l bad ad prepared the for Sir eYe even d appearance from the active arena of political strife but there had bad been no noI I that his con constitution been radically hup Jred b by nearly f fOrty years ears of fierce Acree p strife Praise From Opponents The evening edition or of the Standard one ODe of tl the e opponents and generously says Mys With the late liberal leader there bas ba passed a way away one of the last or of orI I tb those Titanic figures bound up with Ute the t I most moat brilliant traditions of the ho hoI house I of commons There are ale but a few left I of those eminent statesmen men who re their politIcal training framing at the hands of GlAdstone ae and Disraeli The I coincidence or of his death with the In Int intended a t tended withdrawal of the statesman into well earned repose after I a career or of hard bard w work rk and gives added pathos to th thI the I event Iu In a similar vein the PalL Mall G Ga Gamette mette Olt and o out t conservative in its vies pays a tribute to one of the most ost striking Stires of the l I arena alEDa while he liberal newspapers deplore the loss sustained I by their party I II S |