St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-07-25
MARQUIS OF sAIIsRITRy.

to. the Marquis of Salisbury who seem:
most likely to be called by the Queen to be
her prime minister. He is no novice in
English politics, having since 1853 taker
part in many gallant oratorical fight with
his hereditary fees, the Liberals
The Right Hon. Robert Arthur Talbot
Gascoigne Cecil. X. G., Marquis of Sails.
bury, was born in Hatfield. market towr
in the parish OF Hatfield, few miles dis
tant from London. He was the first borr
OF the second Marquis of Salisbury anG
inherited i'll an eminent degree the aristo
cratic tastes and ideas of his great family
When mere boy he became noted in hi
native village for his strict Interpretation o.
caste ideas. Notwithstanding his arts
tocratic ideas and proclivites. it is said tina
| natural kindness of nature and gen
erous disposition often led him to disregard
many of the mandates of aristocracy. HI
mingled freely with the attaches of hi.
fathers great estates and took lively in
terest in their welfare.
On one occasion while galloping across
country with the gamekeeper's son, the
latter received a severe fall while clearing
stream and for some time his life wa:
| despaired of. The future marquis tenderly
placed him OH his horse and carried the
injured boy back to his fathers cottage and
for a number of days tended him carefully
and with great devotion. When urged by
his ariStocratic mother to leave the care OF
the sick lad to others. he replied:
'Mother, this poor. unfortunate boy is
my friend, and it would be unworthy a
member of our family to leave a friend to
the care of others when he is in distress. u
During his collegiate course he distin-
guished himself as a witty and caustic
writer on political and social subjects for
the Saturday Review. which led his father
to the decision that his son and heir should
be trained in the arts of craftsmanship, the
paths of literature being. to his mind. too
insignificant for Salisbury to follow
Shortly after the young mans graduation
from Oxford he was elected. at the age of
%, member of parliament from the Bor-
ough of Stamford in the Conservative in
terest. He was ready in debate, fecund in
measures for the preservation of ariSto-
cratic institutions in England, and soon
became recognized as representative man
i'll the Conservative party.
81 have no sympathy" he often re-
marked, with that foolish statecraft that
would tear down tine pillars of England's
greatness and leave the poor fools who be-
lieve in it to perish in the ruins. Eng
lands stability as nation rests upon the
pedestal of her noble families, not upon her
yeOmanry."
In 1868 his father died and he succeeded
to the Marquisate.
II shall bear the title as BELTS a Sails
bury" he remarked when his fathers body
was being placed in the Hatfield church Gem.
etery amid the dust of all his illustrious
ancestors.
Lord Marquis" said his mother, who
stood by his side and kissed his forehead.
''let that VOW be registered in heaven"
Dropping on his knees beside the coffin
the young Marquis made solemn compact
with his Maker that no act of his should
sully the Salisbury escutcheon.
The dowager marchiOness persisted in a
fire that destroyed part of the Salisbury
manor, and her sad death affected the
young marquis greatly. Faithful to the ira
ditions of his family. he had the ruined por-
ton restored in the exact style it had before
its destruction. The manor was and is in
the Elibabethan style of the seventeenth
century.
Good Queen Bess, while still the Princess
Elizabeth, occupied the grand old home
and here held many merry revels with her
retainers. By her command Shakespeare
often appeared in the manor and with his
witty fellow Thespians beguiled her ennui
with flashes of merriment in drawing-room
dramas, which served their purpose of a
happy hour and then dropped into the limbo
of obScurity.
While sitting as member of the house
of lords. the Marquis of Salisbury distin-
guished himself as the advocate of the
most ultra-conservatism in that ultra-con-
sentative body. He early became recog-
niZed as leader on all the great questions
of the day and had held many positions of
trust and power in rapid succession, dis
charging all their duties intellgentIy and
conscientionsly.
In1SS0. When Mr.. Gladstone was made
premier. the Marquis of Salisbury became
the leader of the opposition in the house of
lords. and he held that position until Mr.
Gladstone's overthrow, when he was called
to Balmoral by the Queen and made her
prime minister. The marquis assumed the
duties of his high office with the lofty in
tentiOn of advancing the interests of the
aristocracy to so impregnable a position in
public esteem that its inherited rights
would never again be asSailed.
He became the representative of the
most extreme sentiments in regard to the
relations between England and Russia con-
IL
Gladstone's wavering policy, and was def
ant and aggressive. The lingo idea: ''We
do not want to go to war, but. by lingo if
we do, we've got the men, we've got the
ships. and we've got the money, too, !"
found in him hearty supporter, and as
sured him great popularity with the
belligerent Britishers. Later on he was
confronted by the Irish land bill, and OPP
posed it heartily when it was submitted to
parliamentary vote. The marquis went
to the people on this question and lost, Mr..
Gladstone being reinstated. The wheel of
politics has now upset this great leader and
left the field free to his rival.
The marquis is man of strong domestic
nature and is never so happy as when at
his ancestral home in Hatfield. The Eliza
bethan manor is surrounded by broad, fer
tile fields stretching away in visit of
landscape loneliness and beauty. Mag
nificent forests beneath whose outrageous
shades his ancestors have chased the noble
game which inhabited them are still pre-
served in all their pristine glory. He re-
ligiously refuses to allow one tree or shrub
to be touched by the woodman's axe. and
woe betide the forester presumptious
enough to suggest the clearing away of any
portion of his beloved forests.
Surrounding the manor is a high stone
fence through which entrance to the
grounds is had by massive gates leading
direct to the manor. The marquis is very
hospitable his cellars being stocked with
the choicest wines. although 0he himself