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Show LLOYD GEORGE ILLNESS RUSE Editor Believes Welshman Went to Bed to Think Out Strategy. Bj V . (. VKI.IM R Britain's Greatest Liberal Editor. (Copyright, 1 922. by The Standardly Standard-ly xa miner) LONDON. Nov. 4. Lloyd George Went to bed with a cold. This ln Itself Is a small fact, but most slg-1 Inlflcant of th amazing comedy and confusion that now prevails. Whatever What-ever hl3 Indisposition was In realllv. there Is little doubt that It Is one' "of convenience" The fortunes of' tho former premier had reached a ' desperate pass He did not know 1 which way to turn and for the mo-ment mo-ment silence was the only oxped-' ient. The entire parliamentary battle, and the result of the election on j November 15, centers around his , personality and for once his gbniua for political maneuvering is com-' pletely ' overshadowed. The younger ebb f, orcanlzer of the Conservative party his main foe. 1 j has outwitted him step by step, and having brought about the overthrow Of Uf coalition has now resoled to tumblo Lloyd Georgo once and lor all ln the mud STILL IS POWERFUL I The country, watching the drama. I Is bewildered and torn between con-flictlng con-flictlng emotions. Lloyd Qeorge Is 'still a name to conjure with for the 1 man in the street. Once the darl- ling of the Liberals, then of the 'Tories, he Is now rejected bv both but still retains a great popular following fol-lowing His weakness is that he has no organization l.eiiin.i Vii With plenty of monev nml plenty of I prestige he has no political machine .HiS plan of campaign seems visibly vis-ibly fa ling. The keynote of, his method Is to secure the election of a euffloltnt personal following which would allow Mm to dominate the uZ Par,,urn?nt He has calculated that Bonar Lav no? hfl mn lCo!lK7Z",l"os to command a tms m Vh ,,0"so of commons. This would force him to reek hll with lTovdh Ur! rf''toro rie urmn With Lloyd George ft gulf) In power not as Premier, it G true, but as mayor of the palace. It was for h,s reason that he hesitated to t-rn sonar Law his countered by run-tlSSf" run-tlSSf" ovenrwhere against thnn 4 5 Gnnr supporters ind lforc!nK i final rupture Th(! Lloyd George is caught In a cleft E&VSLJ?" too" l?ngCleiu one side and In aUa k'ng t'j ervativee on the othe s l" Con-1 THREATEN RETAMATTOJf. lie threatens now to roViiiJ u flooding an Conseratite cSSitrtueK e''" oandldate, or hlJ Swn Hi dwSi ,0 Sae L50 Prospective' candidates can-didates ready to bo launched In such a campaign of revsnec Put k renSw tacaicueia lyass r?oTlY- n ;r-Rowing ;OJ -or hould ,h "J '''or'-Hnt how- But thai probabllllSii'SS;? . fned with the halo of 1 W".ak matlonp. Tin. r LI .rc,rllB-ments .rc,rllB-ments of u oiVl , ,Z tho fr'-ng fr'-ng the projects of ,'h 'S chan- ymptome It a LlbSTi tLon' Thc hnmtetakabg and jSSt iiTeVIVal are Hng ground In ,S L 3 , rePOV-ner rePOV-ner because of the Pnnf f"tlttl . ma"-"'h-r camps Bu 'n tho Blbility of a Uberkl Jil 'f no 0- I is a bare po.ssilVl ,tv t? J?uf- Thfre 1 . -he LaSo?SiietLrhmbra,S I a majority f n Daet ha mny hax'M B tw. . a th m Pur ;;' ,nrr:ingod be. H fighting , , h 0 i, r V th' y are H ! r,t )rnini-.ef , ' H nr'- H trr;!:!"! I H t nn.i Labor ISO " ,(1 1 -- WKl-ll I y?utnr, I M'n will have S eat B dirt Me;,nwl,lle Lloyd George ! I minting how he can dodge a Wit. I -rloo He is not helped hv the ,L tinued revelations of the sale of the honors by the late government and the open allegation that the profits of these sales have gone into his own War (he...' Ills outlook Is mo-e cloudy than It ever has been and the is largely des-rung him. But thil is not Napoleon's "Waterloo, "Water-loo, it Is the crjmpalsn of 1S14. oo |