The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1886-07-12
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wnErLING, W, VA, UNA ~, 1880


Mr., Randolph UuuIchlli' ny aCV'ueNVN
birth called Lord Randolph Churchill has
been making a spectacle oil himself II his
speeches in the present campaign in Great
Britain. He was 80 violent and intemper'
atein his use OF lsnguRge. in reference TO
Gladstone the other day that the London
Spcctator, q paper entirely opposed to the
Premier aud the Irish tcaeme Of Home
Rule felt itself called upon to condemn
his brutal and coarse buloonery, 1t says
"Thus does this fOul'mouthed, lnslgaii'
icant young nobIemsn dance himself
into conyulsious upon Nhat he treats az
the corpae Of MIR, Gladstone's political
reputation, hoping that by go doing he rs
emulating Mr.. Disraeli's inytctiVe against
Sir Robert Peel, He Ia doing nothing oil
the sort. We feel no kind Of admiration
for Mr.. Dlsraelrs brilliant i%nsolsnce, ex'
cept 80 far as it showed, asit sometimes
did, both wit and humOri but Mr. Dis
raei's iusolent speeches were o series oil
intellectual triumphs compared with
Lord Randolph ChurchiI's artificial
writings oislmulated contempt Eventhe
ELECTORS will remember how gratefully the
same man spoke OF Mr.. Gladstone's mag
nsmity when that magnanimity was
shown In rendering Lord Randolph
Churchill's administration Of the India
Office easier to him, and will not fail to
note the difference between tho attitude
Of the Secretary OF State, eager for moral
support, and the attitude Of the candidate
for office, eager to destroy the statesman
for whose popularity he is at least shrewd
enough to recognize. lnsolenCe may be
rhetorlcally effective, but in such acoun-
try as ours insult is a folly which harms
only the politician who attempts it. We
are earnestly and steadiastly opposed to
Mr.. Gladstone's new policy, but If we had
to choose between the leadership Of a
great man like Mr.. Gladstone and the
leadership Of Lord Randolph Churchill
we should indeed have an easy choice"
The brutality OF Mr.. (N Randolph
Churchill's alleged oratory speaks for it
self and needs no comment. The follow
ing extracts from his speech bear their
own great condemnation:
"Mr. Gladstone has reEerved for his
closing days a conspiracy against the
honor Of Britain and the welfare oil Ire.
land more startlingly base and nefarious
than any of those other numerous designs
and plots which, during the last quarter
Of a century, have occupied his imagina-
ton.
The united and concentrated genius Of
Bedlam and Colney Hatch would strivein
vain to produce a more striking tissue OF
adsurdltieS.
Trade and commercial enterprise, now
suffering sadly from prouacted bad times,
and which political stability can alone
relnvigo rate, arc TO be further haratsed
and handicapped; all useful aud desired
repairs TO be indefinitely postponed; the
British Constitution is to be torn up; the
Liberal party shivered into fragments.
And whyR For this reason, and no other:
To crafty lie ambition Of an old man in a
hurry.
What irightful and irreparGble imperial
catastrophe Is necessary to tear the Brit.
ish people from the Influence Of this idol,
this superstition, which has brought upon
them and upon tho Irish uunumbered
woes"
Mr.. Gladstono can lay tho dattering
JUNCTION to his soul that the memory Of
Mr.. Churchill will soon be forgotten or be
cursed while his will be blessed as the
champion OF a righteous and virtuous
Gauss.