People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1894-03-09
LORD ROSEBERY THE NEXT PREMIER
Summoned by the Queen to Take Up
the Reins of GOvernment-Glads
Declines the Offer OF Elevation
to the Peerage-Sixty-Four
Years Spent in the Service
Of His Country.

'A'iS anu LOIu hJScOeTy has Deen sum
moned to Windsor castle by Sir Henry
PonsOnby, Queen Victoria's private
secretary, to take up the reins of gov
eminent laid down by the great COM
mOner.
Mr.. Gladstone will spend his last
days as a commOner of England. He
refused as he has done several times
before, the offer of the queen of eleva-
ton to the peerage.
Official announcement of the retire
ment of the grand old man from ac-
tive public life has not yet been made,
but the fact that Lord Rosebery was
summoned by Sir Henry POnsonby at
o'clock this afternoon makes it posi-
tive that the venerable leader has laid
down his work forever. Official an
nouncement is not expected before
Monday.
1t is said that when Mr.. Gladstone
rendered his resignation formally to
the queen yesterday the Scene was
very pathetic. He explained his ply
steal incapacitv to continue his public
work longer and the queen replied in
feeling terms. She then urged the
venerable statesman to accept peer
age, but he firmly declined.
Mr.. Gladstone, who was the Queens
guest at Windsor, rose early this
morning and took long walk in the
grounds of the castle. The morning
air was fine, and accompanied by GEN
eral the Rt. Hon. Sir Henry Frederick
Ponsonby, private secretary to her
majesty, he enjoyed his walk greatly.
He looked in the best of health and
was certainly in the best of spirits.
At the queens dinner he was also in
the highest of spirits and conversed
with great animation.
After his morning walk Mr.. Glad.
stone visited his old friend, the dean
OF Windsor, the Very Rev. Philip
Frank Eliot, d. D., and later at
tended services in st. Georges chapel.
About o'clock all the cabinet min
listers except Lord Rosebery, who re-
manned in London, arrived at the
castle and the council meeting took
place.
Mr.. and Mrs. Gladstone left Wind
sor at 3 o'clock this afternoon. The
route from the castle to the railroad
station was thronged with people.
who heartily cheered the retiring
statesman.
After Mr.. and Mrs. Gladstone and
the cabinet ministers had left Wind
sor 1t became known that the queen
had sent her private secretary, the
Ri. Hon. Sir Henry Ponsonby, to Lon
don, summ?ning Lord Rosebery to
Windsor castle.
Numbers of telegraphic messages
reached Mr.. Gladstone during the
morning, some of them being from
Ireland, asking the premier to recon-
slider his determination to retire from
office and recording resolutions ex-
pressing sympathy with him and urg-
ing him to continue at the head of the
Liberal party. Among the towns
which sent such messages were Bel
fast, Londonderry, Cavan and Mona
CHAN.
During the morning Earl Spencer
and the Right Honorable Henry H.
Asquith, secretary of state for home
affairs, and other ministers called
upon Lord Rosebery at his house and
remained in consultation with him for
some time. His house, No. 80 Berkely
square, where he arrived yesterday
evening was surrounded all morning
by crowd of curious people anxious
to catch glimpse of the man who
now occupies such a share of public
attention. Messengers, bearing dis.
patch boxes, were to be seen constant.
ly coming in and going out of the
house.
The consultations at Lord Rose.
bery's residence ended towards noon.
when Earl Spencer left for Padding.
ton railroad station where Sir William
Vernon Harcourt, chancellor of the
exchequer, and the Earl of Kimberly
Joined him and they started on theii
way to Windsor.
Lord Rosebery and Mr.. Asquitt
then drove to Mr.. John Morley's where
another consultation was held previou.
to the departure of other members o.
the cabinet for Windsor.
There is considerable diversity o.
opinion as to who will be the mex
secretary of state for foreign affairs
The general idea seems to be that the
Earl of Kimberly, now lord president
of the council and secretary of state
for India, is the coming man for the
position.
sIXTY-F0UR YEARS OF PUBLIC LIFE.
History records few careers as re
markable in their many features al
that of William Ewart Gladstone
England's retiring premier. OF his 81
years sixty-four have been spent il
active service for his country. Ono,
down from the platform of activ,
work and leadership and handi
capped and preyed upon by physica
infrmities and old age the vigor O
"the grand old man" will probably no
long withstand assaults. Work, inces
SAINT work, has been the staff of hi
life. Bismarck has held his last stat,
conference. Gladstone has retired
Together these two great intellectual
giants of the old world will round GU
in peace and quiet their term of earth
ly existence and enter quietly thos,
inches of fame which they have beer
SO long and steadily building of imper
ishable material.
Gladstone's parliamentary caree
dates from December, 1892, when h
took his seat in the honse as a mem
Der from Newark, a nomination
borough belonging to the Duke o
/ Newcastle. He was then GRADUATE