Show UNPOPULAR STATESMEN the one statesman of england ahu la Is hated bated more cordially by native irishmen and locked upon with less leas favor by home rulers rulen than any other la is the former home secretary for ireland A J balfour this feeling has been at times so intense that his appearance pe arance in any place where there were considerable numbers of malesia Mile a was enough to precipitate a riot 21 he a has a method of taking up and dispatching business that is so severely systematic system atio and characterized by so much of sang froid and smiling persistence si that his bis opponents must often be well nigh exasperated and it in ia no wonder that he was charged with having corrupted the voters who elected him to parliament recently but the charge seems says the boston herald to have been an exceedingly attenuated one it chiefly rested on the evidence of a barber who swore that he hid had been entrusted with a large number of tickets for drink to be given away to mr balfourd Bal fours supporters ile he affirmed that he had a large batch ot of unused tickets in A hu house and undertook to place them at the disposal of the petitioner iper for the purpose of action unfortunately on the eve of the performance of this promise burglars broke into the barber shop carried off the box and the damning proofs disappeared the story loons looks like whit what we call a campaign lie in this country mr balfour is looked upon by his political and personal enemies in england very much as Henry Cabot lodge or thomas thomaa B reed read was by the democrats democrate of this country a year or so ago strong men in any country and on any question are likely to arouse strong antagonism sometimes they live it down and sometimes pome timea they do not it all depends on tha their own nerve pertinacity ty and the degree of innate right or wrong by which they were influenced when they created the opposition which made them so BO unpopular |