New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-07-06

.,oorotar With Mr. Chamberlain last spring Pos
sby he has not forgiven his antagonist ior uesci'o
ing him as a statesmen two hundred years oon'.1
his time. Certainly he had cause OF complaint 4"
Mr.. ChamberIain's sngularly injudiclcns re-
marx about the owners of landed property who toi
not nether do they SPIN AS certainly, Lord Sails
hurv believes Mr. Chamberlain dangerous man I;
believes him, perhaps as much before his time as
he himself Is behind it. But. in this case, MT.
Chamberlain's offence consisted in announcing
programme for the Liberal party which Is not az
present. the programme OF its leaders, ana 'ho
Tory leader wanted to know from Lord 0ian
vile whether Mr.. Chamberlain's policy ~ III lac.
the policy of Her Majestys Government Mannoou
suffrage equal electoral districts, payment OF mem,
bers of Parliament-that is what we wani, uec,aiou
the Radical leader. and what Lord o"nsou''
wanted was that this programme should be either
ayowed or disavowed by the Government. LORD
Granville had no difficulty in saying that MI
Chamberlain. az was evident enough from the con-
test. was speaking for himself and not for the
Cabinet of which he is the most advanced member.
When the Foreign Secretary added that the CABINET
was in favor of putting the franchise In counties OH
the same level as in boroughs and that ibis "non
done. must be accompanied by redlstriDuuoh vi
seats he only repeated what everybody has long
known.
But so plain an answer as this did not suit Lord
Sahsbury's book II was to deal oiow AZ mi.
Chamberlain that he rosa SO he went on 10 ura" q
distinction bet ween Mr. Chamberlain at Blrming-
ham and Mr. Chamberlain in Downing street. AS q
popular tribune in the Midland metropolis MT.
Chamberlain advocates what. as Lord Granville s
colleague in Whitehall, he disowns. NOT without
humor, the grim Tory chieftain compared DIS ioe
to the Lord Chancellor IF he ever existed VINO was
disposed to commit himself for contempt VI
court because he allowed himself to make love 10
ward in chancery without obtaining MS own con
sent But Lord Salisbury can seldom be content
with good natured retort. He proceeded 10 de-
scribe Mr. Chamberlain as hedging "he Is SAFE
AGAINST either event. he is in the position of man
| betting against his own horse" Nothing could Do
more offensive for even IN Turf morals man bet
| ting against his own horse is held to be oiacK
sheep And Lord Salisbury, so often he has done
before spolt his case by violence OF which MS own
| friends disapprove.
| Mr. Chamberlain 1t is limited has something 10
| do with the secession of Lord Ampthiil, Mr.
| Goscben Lord Arthur Russell and some Others from
| the Golden Club. The explanation first given OF
their resignation left Mr.. Chamberlain on one side'
| Ii was the invitation to NJ. Clemenceau, we are
! told Winch had caused these gentlemen 10 retlre.
: They look upon N. Clemenceau as Socialist, ana
| they would not remain members of a society on
which rested the stain of commnnstic associations
But it now appears that these distinguished Wings
were present at the committee meeting last febru-
ary when NJ. Cemenceau was elected. lhey
offered no objection to him at the time, and they
were aware that he was to be asked to attend the
banquet Is 1T to be inferred that they resign be-
| cause Mr. Chamberlain is to preside over the ban
| Quet which NJ. Clemenceau is not to attendt Ihe
| question is one which they only can answer. AS
for NJ C6lmenceau Radical as he is. 1t seems to M
great nonsense to call HIM Socialist IN the oien-
sive or communistic sense of the word lie 49, IN
any case leader of powerful party in France anu
likely enough TO be some day head OF the Govern
ment. Nobody who knows him would thnk OF de-
scrlbing him as an enemy of ORDER or OF property
| OF of the existing social system. and If he Is not
| these he is not Communist. g. W. 5.