New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-01-28

ZIG RELATION WITH MIR. "H-AD'
mo ,,s,r To Mr.. GLADSTONE AT
ro,,,s HIS INvECTIvE-
,opn RANDOLPH AND MIR. BAL
,,o,,p AND LORD SALISBURY
THE TRUE LEADERSHIP
nv THE CoNsERVA-
r1vt, PARTy-LoRD
RANDOLPH AS
DEMOCRAT
AND AMER
ICAN
,,,,. ord Randolph was member of the
-, PARTY it was Of his favorte
.,,o,s 10 draw" Mr.. Gladstone. Others
.,..ssed that power. Tho Fourth Party
<l,,r members in all The other three being
80. ,r,hur Balfour. Sir Henry Drummond
Viz and Sir John Gorst. Widely different
,,yc been their fates. Sir John Gorst has re-
,a,,ed something of the guerilla and though
no held office Financial Secretary to the
rreasury toward the end Of the Salisbury Min
,s,rv he has taken excursions into the misty
rasions Of Socialism. and at times played lone
hand Sir Henry Wolff is Ambassador al Mad
,d and out of politcs:--a great post honor
ob,v and brilliantly filled. Mr. Balfour Is what
,re al, know Leader of his party In the Com
oors in succession to his old comrade, and one
., the foremost figures in the public life of
rro,snd II was Lord Randolphs fate TO see
h,nself passed In the by his most init
.,a,a friend. perhaps as bitter a drop as any in
the cup
d., os was saying. it was Lord Randolph
r,o ont Of this select band had the gift, or
,,r,,,,,sve or both, OF bringing Mr. Gladstone
>bo aH
studied the old. He knew where to aim his
h.f,s So impusive was the Old Parliamentary
Hand that he had need Of ali his wariness in
debate once he was on his legs. The impulse
snent itself In rising. often he had better have
sat still. but the mistake. II there were one.
was never in what ne said. but in saying any
thing at all. The spirit Of mischief was in
ord Randolph judiciously kept in check by an
.xact sense Of what was profitable to the party.
ar IN that particular section Of II with which
bo was identified He had with him to certain
extont the sympathies Of the House, which was
ALWAYS grateful to anybody who would provide
1, with sport and most grateful OF all when
Mr. Gladstone could be entangled in controversy
The younger and elder men were alike masters
of debate. of repartee. and OF that dgn'hea
courtesy which makes retort most Damaging
Mr. C,,adstone's manner was his own. and none
other has ever edualled IT, kord Randolph, rude
d, sneecb though he might sometimes be. was
ever mindful of what due to himself ne
had the bearing OF the patrician ne was ne
was an aristocrat in the good sense. the mem
ory Of the many brief encounters between the
two will live long in the House. III Is a cher-
ished tradition.
owe 10 Lord Randolph himself an account OF
his one personal interview with Mr. Gladstone on
N un
of the Exchequer. Mr. Gladstone was theil "'
Do,,s Hill the Kilburn villa which LORD Aper-
deen mt at his disposal often and as long as ne
cared to use U--half an hours drive from 'oh-
nauyht Place where Lord Randolph then lived
Finance Is one of the two or three subjects wmch
have ALWAYS had a permanent interest TOT ne
great Liberal and he had asked the young 'oh-
servative Chancellor OF the Exchequer 10 co"e
out and talk with him on some points ,ne"
Issue with respect TO the public accounts nc
,..n, tho next afternoon, and received by
A. Gladstone under an apple tree In the garden.
you may he certain that on neither side was there
q thought OF the political antagonisn between
than, or az their contests In the House Such
contests in England seldom leave any bitterness
behind They met as two English gentlemen VINO
mad something to discuss. They had iohs ''N'
Mr. Gladstone stated his views with 'hdt ,'"-
unendous energy so characteristic Oh MINI f"t'"e
oil hi. force OF character as well all his force
Of intellect into his argument FOR the Nrs'
time in my life,o said Lord Randolph, Il felt my
self in the presence Of a superior being Ihd'
ALWAYS seemed to me a remarkable confession II
became more so when he went on to draw Klha
Of contrast between Mr.. Gladstone and Lord
Salisbury II have known Lord Salisbury all my
life. Intimately / was his friend and colleague
Ja lie a
leader with the mental range and the FORCE OF
character Won know II never occurred 10 me TO
be afraid Of him. or to think of myself with refer-
enca IN him as other than an equal A better
man than I. no doubt. and an older, bu' s'ii OF
the same clay Mr.. Gladstone Is a being apart
You know how the royalties regard themselves,
"a II they were Of another race. and the meanest
royalty far above the highest Of other than royal
blood That is the impression Gladstone maze on
me- He was not merely greater but dissimiiar.
had to discuss finance with him. l did the best
could with the discussion and argument as 40
in the House. where never hesitated to face him.
as you know. In private II Is another matter
could argue but before the man himself bent
Hard things, / see. are said about Lord Ran
dolph's hard hitting In his House OF commons
controversies with Mr.. Gladstone. He hifnseh
admitted. with the generous frankness which
was in him. that he had sometimes struck 100
heavily You commented the other day on MS
description OF his great opponent in 1886 as an
old man in hurry II was the one thing which
Lord Randolph himself most regretted But
said at was a perfectly true and picturesque
account OF the matter" He would not aomt
that the truth OF 1t atoned for the severity. vi
course It was true" he admitted III summer
up the situation Never would Gladstone nave
taken the line he did or dealt with Home Rule
In the way he did. or tyrannized over his party
as he did, had he been twenty years younger
But ought not TO have said it," Perhaps you
viii accept that as a kind Of atonement TOT the
phrase which 80 wounded the sensibiliues Oh
Mr.. Gladstones American idoaters AS Tor the