The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-07-07

ana IN the CLUBS aud drawing r0Omh
they have been always eager to
smirch the name OF Che pure st lived
and noblest minded Statesman that
has risen in English politics since
Pym or Hampden. "He unites," they
say-and this is quite popular cpl
gram that has been going the rounds
OF Belgravia and Mayfair recently
"he unites the foibles Of David TO the
failing OF Ananiss." Never was there
a ialser or baser Islander. They talk,
too, Of the jealousy OF Mr.. Gladstone,
/ do not think history or fiction fur
Dishes a more perfect instance Of con.
jugsl felicity than we have in the case
| of Mr.. and Mrs. Gladstone. They
have seemed TO work all through their
long married life as one being, not as
two. With all
THE GREAT TRIUMPHs OF THE STATES.
MANS CAREER,
his wife has been associated in way
that we only read OF in fsily tales
about good kings and queens. She
goes with him everywhere and shares
with him the fstigues Of his most or
duous campaigns. She started with
him yesterday on bis momentous
journey to bis constituency, and at
every station where the people pre-
sented 40 grand old man with an adj
DIS, they presented a bouquet to his
wife, whose face 10 just as familiar TO
them as his own. Mrs. Gladstone ID
too sensible woman aud too loving a
helpmate not to rejoice at the refresh
ment her husband obtains from the
fountain Of unsullied youth. The
notion that she is jealous is not only
scsndalous, but prepos,erous. John
Pym, by the wsy, the hero OF the
Long Parliament, was in his day the
subject of the same kind of SANDERS,
and from the same kind Of causes. as
the present Prime Minittsr Of Eng
land, AMI Pym is, in my judgment,
the one statesman in history who
bears a strong resemblance 10 Mr..
Gladstone. Indeed, / think when
they are placed side by side, as cham.
pions OF populas rights, as leaders OF
the people, as masters OF Parliament,
and MS democrats who were at the
came time accomplished scholars and
polished men OF the world, and when
the respective periods in English
politics in which their work wss ac.
complished are compared the parallel
between the two men becomes posi-
lively striking. Pym, 1t will be re-
membered, was the pioneer OF plrlia-
mentary rights in the days OF Charles
/, the leader OF the common people in
the assertion of their liberties as en-
croached upon by despotic king,
GLADsToNR's FIFTY YEARS OF PARLIA-
MKNTARY LIFE
have been devoted to steady extern
sion of democratic principles, and he is
leading the people In a movement
which goes as directly against the
privileges Of the aristocracy as the
movement OF Pym went against the
privileges OF the Grown. Pym's great.
est work did not begin until he was
past middle life, so with Gladstone !;
and Pym's rides through England TO
"rouse the country" have their coun-
terpart today in G.adstone's famous
election campaigns. Then as TO the
petty scandals. Pym's was a nature
of as wide range OF sympathy and
action as Gladstone's; like the mod.
ern tribune his social temper was the
very opposite OF what is supposed to
be the orthodox temper OF q revolu-
ZIONIST. His manners were genial and
even courtly; he turned easily from
an invective against STAFFORD to chat
with Lady Carlisle, and precisely, as
in Gladstone's case, this grace and
gayety OF social tone, even when upon
the verge OF the grave and when under
tho weightiest Of his public cares, was
seized upon by the prurient royalists
as an occasion for their silly and nasty
gossip. But, as Greene says OF Pym,
and as may with equal truth be said
OF Gladstone, 1t was This striking com.
bination OF genial Versatility with a
massive force In his nature which
marked him out from the first moment
of power as a born ruler of men. He
proved himself at once the subtlest OF
diplomatists and the grandest OF dema,
gogues.
The old fashioned courliness, which
is such n winning mark of Mr.. Glad
stones manners, have not dwelled
upon. He is one OF the few remain
ing specimens to be met with in So
ciely of what is known as the cd
school, Indeed, he belongs, as far as
manners go, to a school which must
have been even sgeing in his own
youth. Upon every occasion
NEEnINQ A pow
whether in Parliament or in society,
he bows as deeply aud rs impress.
sively as Sir Char es Grandson him
ssli. The modern bow is a sort OF
pcrfur Glory bob of the head and
~ Guide IS, performed with an air as il
tho performer felt conscious that he
was engaging in silly proceeding.
Mr.. Gladstone's bow, whether ON be-
ing introduced to lady or on asking
MIR. Speakers leave TO bring in bill,
ia q serious and elaborate act OF cour-
tesy and grace-the bow Of q cou, Tier
bending 10 kiss his sovereign's hand.
Even when in conversation, especially
with ladies', he ia constantly making
gracious inclina,ions OF the head. Old
age has not taken from his limbs their
native grace, any more than It has
their strength, Indeed, there are few
Of the younger generation Of poliii-
clans of my acquaintance who dis.
play anything like the vigor
and suppleness OF limb shown
by Mr., Gladstone. A few Sundays
ago | met him walking in st. James
Park. As sprucely dressed as any
dude" in a closely buttoned black
froct coat, with o blooming Marshal
Mel roso in his buttonhole, ne strobe
along at pace ihst made the pair OF
young people by his side, his son and
daughter, pant with the exertion Of
keeping up with it. In speaking, the
vigor oil his gesticulation almost Dor.
ders on the extravagant. Sometimes,
in warm passages he bends his knees
and then springs his whole BODY up.
ward, and remains poised upon his
toes until, with an equally powerful
emphasis, he finishes the period by
bringing his hands, which have been
thrown above his head, suddenly
down, and standing ri9idly erect
Sometimes, too, he whirls round upon