Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1874-03-20
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ra-Ef,s Disregard OF Aristocratic
LONDON, February 81.
The new Cabinet contains three
signally able men besides its chief, TO-
wit, Lord Salisbury, Lord Cairns and
Lord Derby. The rest are, by COM
parison, second and third-rate men,
and not more than two of them have
much reputation as departmental ad-
1ninistrators. Yet one great eomplalht
of the Gladstone administrator was
it's administrative weakness. Critics
said the ministry knew how to leglsrr
late, but not how to govern, ana OF
Mr.. Gladstone himself the same remark
has been made; not justly VI HIM as
finance minister, though perhaps lustiy
as prime minister. But Mr.. Dlsraell is
understood to have had his own way,
and placed his men pretty much as he
liked. His leadership OF the party,
whatever question may haVo been made
about il IL tho days Of its adversely,
there il none now to dispute III the
io7r when al the world sees and adj
nlits that its present SUCCESS IS due to
his sagac;ty ana guidance. Ii his MIN
istry lack strength i'll part the fault is
not his. There is
WANT OF STRONG MEN
in tho Tory party, Of men intellectu-
ally strong, that is, for of men strong
in character there never was a lack in
either party, nor viii there be so long
as Englishmen are Englishmen. The
Young brains go mostly into Liberal
ism and RadicalisHn, where they can
work with certain freedom. It is to
be noted that, except Mr.. Cross, no
Young man gets a first-class place in
the new government, and no other
new man enters the Cabinet at all.
Mr.. ScIater-Booth, Mr.. w. Fl. Smith,
and the rest of the aspiring youths.
mot over ffty) who have been talked
Of for Cabinet posts, are left outside.
They could hardly expect TO gain adj
mission or complain of their seclusiOn,
when veterans like Sir john Paking-
ton are left out, with three dukes Of
the last Tory Cabinet to keep him
company. There is. something posi-
lively awful il the neglect of the
dukes, and it gives one a new idea OF
Disraeli's audacity-a quality no one
ever thought him wanting in-to see
the cavilier way in which he dismisses
august pretensions. The only duke i'll
his Cabinet is the Duke of Richmond,
q heavy, careful, rather bigoted man,
who is understood to have wanted the
war Office and does not get it, but is
put oil with the dignifed nothingness
Of Lord President Of the Council. II
Efr. Disrae,i wanted to give the world
a convincing proof that he is
4 SUPREME MASTER II THE PAETY
: .Ct /. I, j,r- /, OF
Il contains and what it excludes. Its
architecture is Doric in soiidity and
severe simplicity. With almost one
exception. the mere ornamental mem
I,era are cut away. and the structure
uD0n the plain fitness OF those which
arr !8ft foc the work to be done. Even
the numbers are reduced, and instead
OF a-Cabinnt Of fifteen or even sixteen
and seventeen, ~ Mr. Gladstone at
oas time ha.!, Mr. Disrae,i admits but
twelve, himself incuicd 1t is one
advantage of English administrative
aud governmental forms that they are
elastic, and this elasticity may I've set
off aga INST the sometimes s3avish sub
mission 10 precedents which is a defect
not so much in the political as in the
mental constitution Of Engl:shmen.
Mr. D;sracli IS unusually free from this;
indeed, he has more than once shown
his contempt for such restrictions, and
if they fettered him, burst them. It
rec uires 10 ordinary firmness Of mind
TO resist the cIamor for Cabinet office
FROM al men who think themselves en-
titled to it. Nor is Il merely clamor.
Influences are brought to bear OF 81
kind Unknown in American politics,
and claims pressed by means which
e., n new country do not and cannot