Show rt iCHARD xio never alie and W lot lo popular with them it kichard be tried by the only proper standard that ct his own time 1 e will be found to be not more but less cruel and bloody than cither his predecessors or those who came after him the act which has especially blackened hia memory ia the leni oval or murder of tho princes et clifford backed by margaret of anjou hid kill ed in cold blood richard B brother the earl of ruthland a boy of 10 while henry VII imprisoned aud executed the feeble minda 1 earl of W the son of clarence in mere of ese entices excluding of course on both bides those who were in oam re bellion killiard Kic liard has much less to ait awer for than queen margaret or henry VII and far less than henry VIII who put to death anybody who to be distasteful to him on political per bonal or religious grounds there was no public opinion m that day against putting to death any one w ho 1 ad played and lost in the great struggle of politics Execution a were a recognized of tie business the rime went against a statesman in shohe dy s as mr speaker reed once abid 1 e di 1 not cross tl e aisle and take his alico as he leader of his majesty s opposition ho was sent to the tower and ha 1 his head cut off antrea temps ino purs at every turn of the w eel in abo ions between the and the the victorious party al w ays executed every of tl e er side upon whom tl ey could lay 1 ands such were the rules of the society an 1 such the politics in which richard WT brought up and ho played according to those rules an 1 without g alie final forfeit himself ni daunted courage nothing is farther from the truth than the notion that richard was popular with the ma the he had neier an I 1 they did not care auw many nobles or ho put to death lion henry cabot lodge in s |