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AN AMERICAN WIFE.
Tho New Factor in an English
Political Canvass.
Mutual Attraction at a Partisan Dinner
Provides Lord Randolph Churchill
Good Wife, IA Good Fortune and an
Admirable Political IIelpmect.

ST. LOUIS, Mo-, July 5.-The RepubH-
can of this morning contains the follow
ing special correspondence, which is
pertinent to the time in view of events
now transporting in England;
A few years ago Miss Jennie Jerome,
the second daughter Of Leonard Jerome,
attended a swell dnner-party in Paris.
Among the distinguished guests was
Lord Randolph Churchill. His attention
was attracted to her by her beauty and
the fuency and brilliancy with which she
carried on conversation in French. He
addressed her, and soon the lord con-
fined his conversation to her. Those
who sat near them stopped talking, and
listened to them with undisguised adj
miratlon. Miss Jerome was noted for
her conversational powers, but they had
never seemed to her friends as brilliant
as on this occasion. Lord Randolph
proved match for her. Her satire
was met with sparkling repartee; her wit
and humor for once found fair exchange.
When the ladies had withdrawn, Lord
Randolph turned to friend and said,
enthusiastically: CHATS the brightest
woman | ever met" and added, with the
seriousness of fatalist: 81 mean to
marry her." SinguIarly enough, while
he was saying this, Miss jerome was
making almost the identical remark con-
corning him to her sister. Perhaps that
evening she played her favorite Chopin
nocturne more tenderly and wooingly
than ever. At all events, Lord Randolph
was not slow in discovering that he had
made as deep an impression upon her as
she had on him. Within a fortnight
of their first meeting they were en-
gagged and very soon alterward mar
ried. BY his union with Miss Jerome
Lord Randolph secured a wife whose
fiery and ambitious temperament has
spurred him on in his political career,
and whose income is sufficient to form a
welcome addition to his small annuity,
for being a younger son, he is not roll
| ing in wealth, nor Is his elder brother,
the Duke of Marlborough, generously in
clined toward him. Indeed it Is well
! known that the two brothers hate each
other cordially, and it is to this hatred
rather than to any enthusiasm in behalf
OF the Liberal cause that the Dukes sup
port of a Liberal candidate in opposition
TO Lord Randolph is credited. That the
Dukes opposition has inspired Lady
Randolph to take part in
HER HUSBANDS CANVASS
of Woodstock for Parliament, to the eX-
tent of making speeches to its constitu
ents at open-air meetings, has not sur
prised her host of friends here, who
know her to be as daShing and intrepid
as she is accomplished. While they re-
member that she can play Chopin divine
ly, they also remember that when she
follows the hounds she is in at the death
Indeed it has long been maintained here
that large share of Lord Randolph's
political success should be credited tc
her; that his rise into prominence
dates from the time when she be-
gan to coach him, and that his brilliant
guerilla tactics are the inspiration
of her fiery and fearless temper. 1t is
possible that her friends exaggerate, and
that Lord Randolph's unpopularity here
leads her American friends to underesti-
mate his ability. During the visit of the
Churchils here, some winters ago, the
noble Lord was rather snobbish. He
stalked through New York society, witt
his hands casped behind his back, look
ing down upon his surroundings with {
supercilious air of superiority. But
however that may be, he no doubt owes
much of his success to his wife
For, though he is nominally O
Conservative, he is in some respects
more democratic in his ideas thar
the average Liberal. His views on thu
Irish question show strong traces o
American influence, and his politica
methods often have an element of Ameri
can dash to them. His wife is very popu
lar in Ireland, she having won the heart
of the nish people during her sojourl
there with her husband at the time hi
father resided among the Irish. He /
essentially progressve-another Ameri
can Characteristic. He hates to have oil
fogies around, and he literally "kicke
old Sir Stafford Northcote upstairs
into the House OF Lords. In these opiu
ions and methods the strong influence @
his wife may be felt. She is in fact hi
political mentor.
SHE WILL RULE ENGLAND.
Should Lord Randolph ever bccom
Premier, rot an unlikely event, think @
it, Brtons! an American woman, wit
the blood of freedom coursing in he
veins, may guide the course Of affairs c
your nation! 1t is almost certain tina
she will one day be Duchess OF Mar
borough, for the present Dukes only sor
the Marquis of Blandiord, is a yer
sickly little boy, and there is little douh
that the Dukes titles and possession
will fall to Lord Randolph.
Lady Randolph Churchill is the secon
of Leonard Jerome's three daughters
The eldest, Clara, is the wife of Moreto
Frewen, an Englishman who owns
large cattle ranch, which he visits abou
twice a year, Mrs. Frewen coming owe
with him and remaining in New YorE
The Youngest daughter also married a
Englishnan, Sir John Leslie. Lady Ran
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