Show cc C CI h I I i PROBABLE SUCCESSOR TO 0 rUE 9 PREMIERSHIP OP OF ENGLAND 11 it iii Impending retirement of ot Iohl Salisbury Is la a n phrase familiar by hy this 11 time having been In use many 41 years whenever for Instance that grumpy old statesman lImn took look a notion to retire for Cor rest reel re t and reo rea to House which he ht 10 II so co well toll Slut this time the mm Im Impending pending retirement nl actually Impends Im a tor for though Salisbury carries hie hll labors 1 lIy being so with govern governmental governmental mental and international affairs that ho he liar has them all nil at nt his Fla linger fingers ends and always on rail mil ho he is III weary Venry of oC tho the work He lie has a students love lovo of ot privacy privacy rl vacy and the Investigators desire for tor scientific research but can cnn gratify nd nel ther thor to the tho full tull na oe matters stand with Win now If JC he lie ever contemplates contemplate retiring ing lag for tor the tho purpose o of spending his old olde age e amid the delights of oC his hl ancestral I acres surely be he must do it soon for old ohl Art age as 18 It In is I reckoned In the Stales Stat U II already upon him his hie seven I t birthday having been bren celebrate celebrated ed ad last February It having been IMn decided that lint Salisbury Is I to retire the tho next ques lion rela t to 10 his lda successor or There are scarcely two opinions over here In London at leant s to who ought to be his hi successor Hut But tongues tongue are wag wagging WR ging sin f ing over oer the tie qualification anti and aspirations n aspirations of oC two prominent men who may maybe IM be said paid to haw have trained 1 all th theIr lr lives I for this eventuality One of oC these thene Is le lee e a Compton Cavendish b eighth duke of oC Devonshire lord president of at atthe the council and leader of at the Literal Liberal Unionists and the other Is II Slight lion Arthur James Jamell first lord font orl of ot the lie treasury anti and leader of or the house boulle of Joe Chamberlain has hns also abo been Iwen mentioned but not of oC late lato for tor the lie lIple over OU here liar than die dis distrustful trustful of oC him However the outlook nt at present Is la I tint one of ot tb tM the two gen gea gentlemen Un named will step t p Into i nho Rho a when he lie vacates them thorn and the general opinion o Is I that either will III be beAble aWe Able to occupy It If not to nil fill them with lIh somewhat of ot acceptability Doth Both pos IJO set err certain oer qualifications tor for the tle pre premiership p I although I t In manners manner and op pea ranee the two are diametrically op olt opposed opPosed posed The fhe nuke fluke of Devonshire Is II as al heavy hM anti and at se n a 1 country squire and quite M H lethargic M IlS tin the tl present premier himself without his vast r reserve orv sen force torce and al ate grasp en on n affairs whenever tit its h valise It from irons hk W naps IL You may be beaW e aW aWe We to 9 nodding but you fC cant trip him btu up You might 8 trip D he Is fiG so o dense denie and unwieldy and besides bl he Is 15 almost ua as old as fiS Salisbury having celebrated his birthday last July It would seem that he cored cared not for the anyway having practically practical declined It twice Ice In hi the recent past Iut but people will persist t In declaring him In Inline line for the succession Ho lIe holds In fact more positions now than almost any In other man In British politics though most mn t of oC then them are merely hon honorary honorary honorary and Rn held hold on nn account of oC his hie hi great groat mime Ho its married the Dowager Duch Duchess ass ess of 1 Manchester only nine nino years yenni no ago and Is said nl l to incline to a life lite In hit lilt old oM ago rather than to tu politics 1011 tI ca which he Is le I In perforce from front a n cense n of duty One of o the wealthiest men melt In the kingdom ho owns own estates 1 acres anti eight m r re tee s on any anyone one of at which should satis satisfy satisfy fy ty the til heart of or an nil ordinary man Inan among arnon them thom being Holton Bolton Abbey and till the famous show shoe place Chatsworth orth with Its It al almost almost most InOtt peerless collections of statuary ry ands Hd painting The This title tille to 10 which he lie succeeded on the death of oC his father In 1391 USI Is la almost as ns old as nil that of lit tho the Ce Cecils dati back hack to tho the first t decade decode of oC time the seventeenth century 1857 1837 h he has ms had n a seat In parliament where when be he behM JIM hats through more speeches II and anti arrived late lato more it Is 18 Mild than then any other mun man alive Chamberlain once oneo alluded to him as ns my late lead leader leador er or r referring to his hla Invariable hie habit of oC arriving after aHer everything was wu well un und under d der r wn way As All to his li he cot cor has hn an excuse It All speeches are ant areas anta areas as a heavy hM ur uP his hla own He lie was WAI one once r re i by a lady he Iw was taking out outto outto outto to dinner droner with having yawn yawned d several times during the delivery deliver of ot one oae of oC his own speeches Ah Jib It my dear deAf madam he courteously o replied but Jut you hoar hoor my chr There could be no greater contrast between l any two m men n alive thin than that slut existing between and Ilal 1181 four Cour While there U I a general lion don that t the former orator might tasks make a Daft cafe oil on of ot his hla Indo lads knee linee and slowness which count for tor much In it Is la admitted that h be e lacks lACk tact act and ull sagacity This ran can cannot not J to said of ot Arthur James J who MIO U is tactful and aDd courteous every evIl Inch of him and although In his hla youn younger yo tin ger days h he affected a speck species of oC l on the benches of ot the tb tIN commons with his h tons long legs I stretched out and ami a K nral air alt of ot ll listlessness a about him h he was wu In reality always III alert and wide awake ank M as his hll found When hIli they the began to badger him Tit The Duke Dut of at D r l may be s seen u I I r L rf tur Jl al our i In the house hou of lords almost Invariably UMP asleep or with his hili hat hili pull pulled ed Id over Or Ida his h eyes e his hla arms folded and hits his hi huge hup test feet in way war lie He Hel lieI lieis l I is really what he IM a sleepy and sluggish a lump of oC clay elay that excessive pricking and prod prodding prodding tOd ding to become ne scoured aroused arou I think there U II little doubt when the matter comes tu to b be seriously consider ed eel that will be lo the choke as aser aser 1 er f mm seems to be bo In his hll favor finor in inthe Inthe Inthe the first likes plara u Iw he U It a Cell being the theton tb ton son on of or sister lster and that counts O for tor much In the second he hI re ro received his hilt diplomat training under his hili uncle having baring been bean b n Ida his hi secretary so 0 long niro R as 1 the Berlin Dulin of 1671 Intimate even cn then with tn the great mas mae masters masten ten tars of oC diplomacy J anti and No So o timers tI re Is I no doubt ax as t h hla Isis suc ul Salisbury ever retire s for tor through him would the traditions tr b be perpetuated hated and Dd the same ml polk p lies ear itt wt sot Dal till four tour lm has be the Jo SHIM same pride ride o of t rare ra and nd nails tt that has bee and al ai ali through i courteous to a degree has lints been accused many times of being supercilious ious loun He III treats his opponents with fairness 8 with wilt a 11 coolness bordering on contempt ni never ver getting In a heat hent nev never never er forgetting himself or what hat Is due his enemy This characteristic stood him In good Rood stead when wilen he was teas chief secretary for tor Ireland during the fierce fIrce onslaughts upon him by the Par when It II was fAil predicted that he his would bo be either cither driven from hla hia post position lot tion or into an all insane asylum lint Hut he ha withstood all attacks with dogged doged per pertinacity pertinacity never neer yielding an Inch never retorting and In tho the end ho he triumphed winning twinning a n greater grenter vIe vic victory Ic tory tery than many man a 1 general g has hOR gained In the field Of OC course ho he was vas well hated hat lint hated lintell ed ell by br the Irish yet et he has always pro professed eased to tu like even to love them anti and latterly latter has hall shown hown his good will But this Ibis tale tole Is III told of oC those strenuous times limes when he ht had hall nil all Ireland by lIy the tho cars ears He lIe said to a 11 priest whom he had met After all oil I fancy falley that the news 1118 newspapers newspapers papers make molo more noise nol e than hart the mass mUI masses es Do you ou think now noli that the people really dislike me meAh 1 Ah Ali h Mr Balfour replied l the tho priest If it tho the Irish only hated haled tho the devil halt half 1 r r e y fir 1 F q tYl j t 1 rte It 4 w I l Voice Duke of oj Devonshire J as much as aR they hoy tho late hate you jou OU my lion would be bo gone It tins lIa predicted of oC Mr Balfour near nearly ly Iy ten years ago AlrO when there was also alu J toll tall of oC Impending retire retirement m ment nt tho the time cannot be far distant lI tAnt when Mr ns as prImo r will have In his hands the shaping f many ears cars of ot tho the political de n of 1 his hl Pinny and of the lie British h empire He lIt has boa some seine qualifications for th the work Whether ho has the supreme gift which would be tho the touchstone ol of the r rest st remains to 10 be seen As s a 0 speaker he lie Is persuasive hardly elo eloquent II do quent in society he shines with a Cl luu lue Iu Iut lueter ter t r all his own but he Is not and m i t twill will bo ho In touch with tho the common pet peo people PI plo plc any more titan than Is his noble unde s sRobert Robert Cecil Lord Salisbury who c a tactless speeches 81 against t tho the Irish on occasions have been brutal In the ex extreme tone is II yet ot young for far n a statesman with a career Clutter behind him and u a 1 brilliant future futura doubtless ah ahead ahad ad being only fifty three He lie Is rich a bachelor nn on athlete and a clubman a student stull nt and ami somewhat of ot an nil Above all 1111 he ho Is a n diplomat born orn and anil trained ant and that Is la the kind of oC man Inan the Tortes Tories desire to stand at ot Urn thin helm und and steer their ship of ot state for or there an Ble at surely troublous peas rena ahead for tor or th the stanch ship slip Britannia and a helmsman will be 00 required who can be he both f Il j in III a and suave sun who vho ho can apply tho ho Iron hand 1 s sIn In the velvet glove which same sarno Arthur James Jamea Balfour can con do It Is admitted il ilby by all nil better than any nn other man mon now within the tho range of oC the gov go governmental eye ec JAMES J IES WILLIAM WALTER i London England t s |