Show GLADSTONE DIS KAELl gladstone is to be buried saturday and his tabernacle of clay will forever moro thereafter be bid from the ayea of men hie was a wonderful career and many are the words of praise of hia great genius mccarthy comparine gladstone and says in every important debate the one man answered the other disraeli followed gladstone or gladstone followed Dis ranH it was not unlike the rivalry between fox and Pitt for it was a rivalry of temperament aad character aa well aa of public position and of political principle gladstone and disraeli seemed formed by nature to bo antagonists in character in temper in tastes and in style of speaking they were utterly unlike each other one of defects waa bia tendency to take everything too seriously one of defects was his tendency to take nothing seriously disraeli was strongest in reply when the reply had to consist only in sarcasm he bad a marvelous gift of phrase makina he could impale a whole policy with an epithet ha could dazzle the house of 1 with a paradox lie could throw ridicule on a political party by to or three happy and reckless ad disraeli was never happy in statement when he bad to explain a policy financial er otherwise he really be regarded as a very dull speaker gladstone was especially brilliant in statement he could an exposition of a the fascination of a romance or a poem gladstone never could under any possible conditions be a dull speaker ho was no equal of disraeli in the eidt of sarcasm and what disraeli himself called flouts and jeers hut in a reply he swept his antagonist before him with his ons eloquence compounded of reason and passion the two mens voices were curiously unlike disraeli had a deep low powerful voice beard everywhere out the house but having little variety or music in it Glad voice was burneil to a higher note waa penetrative ratie resonant liquid and full of an exquisite modulation and music which gave new shades of meaning to every emphasized word the of the men were in almost every respect variously cariou sly unlike gladstone was always a for conversa rion he loved to talk to anybody about anything any thinK disraeli even among his intimate friends riven to frequent fits gloomy silence j parliamentary days t became almost entirely indifferent to dress always turned out in abo newest fashion and down to bis latest years went in the beet up of byoune man about town not less were tho characters and temperaments of the two men gladstone changed bis political pinions many times duriac his lone parliamentary career but he his opinions only in deference to the force of a conviction and to the recognition of fact and conditions which he could no longar conscientiously dispute nobody probably ever knew what mr real opinions were upon any political question or whether he had any real opinions at all gladstone began a tory and became changed into radical disraeli began as an extreme radical under the of daniel odonnell OU onnell and chanced into tory hut everybody knew that gladstone was at first a sincere tory and at last a cincere kadlcak nobody knew or indeed cared whether disraeli ever was ottber a sincere radical or sincere tory |