The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-06-23
Sketches of the New Ministers.

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am confident that my successor will DO just
right"
Sketches of the New Ministers.
| The Journal recently presented sketch of
Lord Salisbury. Below will be found brief
sketches of majority of the new Cabinet:
! Sir Stafford Northcote is member for North
| Devon, which pleasant county he resides in, and
leaves with regret to perform his parliamentary
duties. Is the mildest hammered man that ever
scutted Radical ship, or cut the throat of Liber-
| al Ministry. Was once secretary to Mr.. Glad
| stone, from whom he learned finance, and to
whom he still looks up with respect to the
| chagrin of the more turbulent of the
Gladstone haters, who call Sir Stafford
| leader Has several times played second
| fiddle to Lord Randolph Churchill, led all the
| organized attacks on Mr.. Bradaugh and rem
| dered some assistance to the government in its
conflict with Irish obstruction. Is relied on on
budget nights to pick holes in the proposals of
| the ministerial financier Fair compexioned
| rather heavily bearded and benevolent looking
| Like his late lanented chief, has eve which
is "out of drawing as the artists say. Recites
gentle poems at penny readings better than he
! speaks in the House, but in spite of his some
| what harsh voice, has, in manner and matter,
| occasionally risen above mediocrity as a debater.
| Lord Randolph Churchill is the second of
| the Duke of Marlborough. He was born in l94a
| slight, active man, his upper lip covered with
| a long mustache he has habit of twisting
thoughtfully, he might be mistaken in the street
| for of the usual fashionable dlers among the
club men of the day but for an air of preoccu-
patton and thoughtfulness, which tell one
| that he has more Serious purpose
| in life. He founded the 'fourth party" as
| an annex to the Conservative party. Its mem
| bers not inaptly represent the leading person
| ages of dramatic company There is the
| jeune premier, a role, by common consent
| accorded to Lord Randolph Churchill who
appears in every new political piece as the
prominent character upon the boards. Sir
Drummond Wolff, grave, sedate and spectacled
| falls naturally into the part of heavy father"
Mr.. Gorst, glass in eye, is the clever and sue
cessful lawyer; while Mr. Balfour fills not inap-
propriately, the part of the ''rch uncle
from America" But Lord Randolph, with
Irish blood in his veins on the maternal side,
with an intimate acquaintance with recent Irish
troubles, gathered during the Irish vIceroyalty
of his father, and in his capacity as one Of the
most active4nemberso of the Duchess of Mar-
borough's committee he has acquired an accurate
knowledge Of a number Of facts which he has
an unpleasant knack of producing at the most
inconvenient moment for his opponents, and
with an air of ingenious candor This is one
| secret of his success in the House.
Sir Michael, Hicks Beach was Secretary of
| State for the Colonial Department. and sits for
| East Gloucestershre. This cold, naughty,
decorous and frigidly- handsome parsonage has
always been looked upon sort Of ''dark
horse" by the Conservative party-as possible
leader. He owes this kind of regard to his hav.
ing done little or nothing in opposition to help
or hinder his chance For long time ne has
eifaced himself. Was Chief Secretary for Ire
| land, which experience preceded that in his last
office, where he very thoroughly mismanaged
the Transvaal and prepared for the mother coun-
try and the Cape Colony the mess from which
they have only just escaped.
Sir Richard Assheton Cross represents South
west Lancashire ard was Lord Beaconsfeld's
Home Secretary. AT the time of his elevation to
office it was said that the appointment was one
of Lord Beacons6eld's jokes. A satrist described
him thus:
Ideal Chairman of Quarter Sessions,
Petty prggish, pragmatc and pert;
Fancies of course, that of all professions
The statemans that in which he's expert.
A banker and barrister as we'll as chairman
of Quarter Sessions, rubicund Sir Richard did
not make bad Home Secretary, If his speeches
on every conceivable subject were rather trying.
He wears spectacles, and while giving utterance
to his platitudes has bland way of beaming on
his hearers which would be exasperatng il it
were not funny. He is forever at Quarter Ses
sons, demolishing antagonists, admonishing de-
linquents or sentencing offenders to condgn
punishment One of Mr. Bradiaugh's most de-
termined adversaries.
Edward Gibson is the Conservative represen-
ative of the Dublin University. His abilities
are more snowy than solid, and there are better
men in the Tory crowd. Has handsome
young face, and is prematurely gray. Rich.
Not only active and pushing, but b slashing
debater, and a ready hand at o telling partisan
bound to score heavily He has distanced
Punket--a much nobler man---in their common
profession by sheer diligence recent stump
ing expedition across the border showed him in
favorable light as q platform orator His
skill in swaying juries stood him in great stead
there. He Is by no means the most rancorous
Of the opponents Of Irish home rule.
Mr.. w. I'll. Smith represents Westminster in
succession TO the late John Stuart Mill was Lord
Beaconsfelds First Lord of the Admiralty; has
the monopoly Of the railway book selling and
news vending trades the principal lines in
Great Britain. A commonplace man of kindly
nature and business habits who did not make a
failure at the admiralty, because business habits
of any description tell there. Is said to be
an accidental Conservative Years ago he
sought election at the Reform Club and was
| turned away. A subsequent application at the
| Carlton met with success. His speeches are
scraps of fireside conversation, wherein it is
| demonstrated in q manner that deies contra.
| diction, that two and two make exactly four Is
| a substantial pillar Of the Established Church,
| rules his work people twho esteem him) with pa
| ternal despotism farms few hundred acres OF
| land and keeps yacht Altogether a highly
respectable person. He is burlesqued in pima
| fore"
Henry Howard Molyneux Herbert, fourth
| Earl of Carnarvon, was born in 1881. He never
sat in the House of Commons. Lord Derby took
him in hand after hearing his maiden speech in
the Upper House. At twenty seven he was
made Under Secretary for the Colonies. He
| seeded from the DisrRl Cabinet in 1866 on the
| question of the extension of the suffrage. In
/ 1878 he did the same thing on tho Eastern
! question. He is able, but impracticable Poll
tics apart Lord Carnaryon is model English
| gentleman, taking interest in prison discipline,
gnostic heresies and all sorts Of other respectable
| questions. lie is great, too, as Freemason.
| Viscount Cranbrook (Mr, Claiborne Hardy
| was born In 1874 In 1856 he was elected 10
Parliament, and two years later he was made