New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-09-07

suilehoering just so much OF their independence
as should take them into the right lobby at
the right moment. Nor could the recalcitrants
De dealt WITH in many cases. as groups. they had
TO be dealt with as individuals. The Whip mus,
Know his man and know what influences could
De brought TO bear him. He must have as
much tact as firmness and much hrmness as
tact; must know when to cajoe and when 10
compel as well how to cajole without relaxing
his just authority and how to avoid offence when
compulsion had to be applied
You will begin to have a clearer idea OF his
responsibilities If you consider that he is sheep
dog to flock OF $50 Parliamentary sheep. whom
he has TO collect into the sheepfold. called the
lobby not once merely. but often many times OF
a single night. He must know where every man
is likely 10 be found. not his address merely, but
in what club or other corner Of this huge city
a message or a messenger will reach him at
particular hour He must see that at that par
ticular hour that particular man. unless he be
paired. is in the House or the precincts Of the
House. ready to vote He must know the course
of business and at what hour a division is likely
to occur. II will do to bring his up
before he is wanted. The man resents that.
When he has once got hin. inside the House he
must keep him. He puts a guard him.
One of the Junior Whips is always on duty at the
without explaining where he is going, and why.
and how soon he will pledge himself to return.
When division is imminent the man will not be
allowed out at all. Yet there is no real COM
pusion except moral compulsion
Conceive the combination Of personal quail
ties required to enforce discipline in such cir
cumstances over such a body Of men. No Won
der that success is rare and that pre-eminent
success brings a great renown. To overestimate
the value of Mr.. Marjoribanks's services to the
party is impossible. His predecessor, Mr.
Arnold Morley. was rewarded with the Post
master Generalshp and seat in the Cabinet
Mr. Marjor,banks, on his accession to the Peer
age was made Lord Privy Seal. which Is
highly ornamental and dignifed post and sine
cure which permits the holder to devote his
whole time TO the general interests of the party
and the Government-the precise duty for which
Lord Tweedmouth is best fitted.
To how many public in century is IT
given to unite this profound knowledge OF pract-
cal politics and political methods with the deli
cate appreciation of human nature and of in
dividual idiosyncrasies without which the manip-
ulaton of men is impossible, and politics cease
to be practical or practicable? There have been
within the memory Of living men two. or per-
haps three good Whips. of whom Mr.. Marjori-
banks was the supremey good one. He never
was absent from a division He never once
failed to bring up a majority He never allowed
snap vote to be taken; was never outwitted
never misled in short. II may be said OF MIN ana
Of him alone that he never made mistake 50
| extraordinary was his success that among those
who knew the House best, the session of lS9S
| the Home Rule session with which, publicly. MI
GIadstone's namo was always associated was
known as "Marjoribanks's session Ana When
| Lord Rosebery became Prime Minister the one
advantage which was thought in measure TO
| compensate for his not being himself in the
House of Commons was the fact that Mr..
| Marioribanss was Whip. and that Mr.. Marjori-
| hanks and Icrd Rosebery were close personal
| friends.
Fate ordered otherwise The late Lord Tweed
| mouth died suddenly within a few days OF Lord
Roseberv's accession and his son became per
| force Lord Tweedmouth in his father stead anu
| the House Of Commons was to know him no
| more 1t was justly reckoned a disaster i'r the
new Prime Minister. They who prophesied eVi'
| had no, long 20 wait for the Government by one
| os those calculated and commonly rather treach-
| erous accidents which are called snap DIVISIONS
| found itself in a minority Of two on an amend
| ment 10 the address touching the House vi
Lords: and Mr.. Labouchere grinning ana c"d'-
| tering at them in mischevous gee 1T wouin
| never have happened If Marjoribanks had peefi
| here" said everybody. 1t was the final tribute
| to his glory as Whip. or perhaps took higher
| form still In the remark that IF Mar)orioahAs
| had STAYED Labby would never have tried Il on
| For "Iabby'' had tried it on with Mar)ori-
| hanks" often before and never succeeded.
Such is the man. the widely experienced poll
| ,ician whom the English Democracy mas swept
| along in its new passion for the complete pre-
&c ma
enough that Mr. Marjorbanks. a member Of the
House of Commons for fourteen years shouu
conceive a high rotlon of its prerogatives and
| ,ho-,,,, and Mace in the constitutional sys-
Ton, NJ this country. SO Tuch may be conceded
, him Pint the doctrine Of complete predon'
,,arce &c nevertheless a revolutionary doctrine
- -, country does it prevail. In hardly any
ourtrv is il seriously put forward, England
.,ore excepted II The word serious can De sefI-
ouslv applied to the reckless suggesuonS Vi a.
irrational and irresponsible Radicars"' IL
America we all agree it would not De hS'eneu "
for a moment II is in truth IKE ihoS' i"'''
doctrines. only a perversion ana parody oi ON
-, +, ,,,a The true doctrine Is the complete
nredomnance not Of one on announcer o'" "
tho LEGISLATURE but Of the people. me WIN "
tho naonle must in the lone run prevail the Gun
oid.red will Of a majority when mas had '
IN deliberate which acts from co'N'o"o' 90"
M, from impulse; from its sober secoho '"o"s"
and not from a caprice of the moment OF d s"'
Of passion. It is the attempt TO Hlahe '"e ','u 80
~ Commons and not the people the '''''' ~
in the affairs Of the Nation which N''i"'e9 ''''s
ush Radcalism. The ar Is iui " ~
soph!stry ana this is the most sop"-' n,a,nh
o.. % this Lord Tweedmouth lends the "eis"
. ,,s i,,st authority and Of an experience "
- ,,.,an Witch IN one respect may be called un
Poii'ics "NN " c. w. S.
rivalled.