The evening times., 1895-09-14
SfAILEY'S STRANGE CAREER
How Hs Has Gone Fran V.rthsuse d
Parliament.
charactSisties Of the Man Who Has
Won Fame In Many Fields and
aName Everywhere.
Atlanta Constitution.

Henry n. Stanley has at last won seat
in the English House of Commons. In all
the Parliament their will be no man with
career 60 picturesque and So checkered
In all the world to-day there is not Stan.
ley's counterpart as an adventurer. Born
, in Wales, brought up in a w--khouse, emf
grating to America while in his teens, q
cabin hoy ON the Mississippi, private in
the Confederate army, an ensign in the
Federal navy, reporter in Omaha, the
finder OF Livingstone, the rescuer of Emin
Pasha. a bridegroom in Westminster
Abbey, honored by the greatest of Great
Britain's institutions, nnbbed In the city
whose freedom" had been impressively
presented to him, he fiji ally lands in the
House of Commons, with greater range of
experiences than ever fell to the lot of
any other man of the age.
| Before being permitted to stand as can
didate, he had to become a naturalized SUBJ
| ject of the Queen, for 1t was held that he
had lost his citizenship in his native country
| by serving in the American civil war. As
he served on both sides in the war between
the States, it lie Eot certain whether it was
| as Confederate or Federal he became
| for time an American.
Stanley's election to Parliament Is the
realization 0f his ambition of the period of
cakes and ale. He represents North Lam
beth. A clever writer says that he has had
his eye on Parliament ever since his
marriage with Miss Dorothy Tenant. That
| carried him into the most powerful ''set''
in England-the brilliant, cynical. but
most practical group, of which Ralfour
is the exemplar.
His ster-in-law, the heroine of the
'.Dodo' brok. is the wife of Herbert Asquith,
the retiring Liberal home secretary; so the
Tenant family Is represen. ed among victors
as well as among vanquished. For, of
course, Stanley is a Conservative.
That is one advantage OF consistent Amer
lean training. that it inspires the true
partiot with a most profound respect for
the old families of England. We have
contributed ere this To the Conservative
side of the House uf Commons. Louis Jen-
nings, after long career as editor Of the
New York Times, drifted to England and
suffered the inevitable change. The most
determined. furious, talkative Tory-mure
Tory than the Howards or the hePagets-inth P the
House Of Commons is that product of
Brooklyn civilization, Sir Ellis Ashmead-
Bartlett, brother of the young man whom
Lady Burdett-Coutts took to her venerable
bosom-nut, however, after the generous
manner of the lady in Gil Bias.
His voice-Sir Ellis Brooklyn voice-is
for colonial aggression. for the extension OF
the imperial government, for war with Rus
sia AT Cabul with France on the Congo with
anybody anywhere who disputes or intends
to dispute the sentiment that Briton ever
never, never is slave. James O'kelly is the
exception in the roster of expatriated Amer
leans in English politics. O'KeIiy, like
Stanley, was newspaper writer, explorer,
daredevil adventurer In Africa. He is not
Tory. But then he has to spend part of
the year in Ireland.
Stanley goes in as Tory of the Tories to
uphold those traditions which Englishmen
twho profit by them) hold dear. He was
beaten at North Lambeth In 1892; beaten
badly, too, with ballots-and eggs. But his
mind was made up that he should sitin Par
lament. His eye was fixed on Westminster,
and ii is not an eye to be denicd-light
gray, bold, fierce, piercing Stanley
would have made good baseball player II
he could agree with the umpire. The cause
ofhis unpOpularity is not hard to guess Eng
lish principles of fair play still survive
They manifested themselves in the treatment
of the Cornell crew at Henley. Stanley's
publications against Mai. Bartteiot and his
white companions on the excursion into
Darkest Africa" excited storm of hatred
for the adventurer among the people of Eng
land
What il a cannbaI feast had been or
dered as contribution to the photograph
album of an English country house? What
if lust and murder, pillage and rapinc at
tended the course of this pioneer of Eng
lish civilization? De mortus Angl,rum
nil nisi bonum, aud Stanley was put in
the pillory. not for his own sins-though
he had enough of tbcta-but for the sins of
his enemies.
But ii must be admitted that his un-
popularity is not restricted by geographical
lines. His enemies are everywhere. Emin
Pasha, good man, who shared none of
Stanley's lust for glory, but was phiian-
thropist rather than explorer, hated, dis
trusted and even feared him.
He is not admitted to the camp fires of
the veteran correspondents. Of the com
pany whom he led on his last expedition
into TIE horrors of Africa not over two
were his friends after six months of the
sort OF adventure that binds the hearts nf
men in wedlock. 1t may be some dark
quality In the mans nature which raises
against him the hand of every man with
whom he comes in touch; or it may be
that fierce. overbearing. obstinate-to-the-
point-of-bloodshed persistence that shows
in every line OF the bulky frame, coarse,
.iravy neck, square jaw, and blunt hands,
- again in the singular. daring
of the eyes.
...tc. for whatever cause, Stanley
is widely disliked That he has no reason
to be courteous to a world that has given
him no more than he has wrung from IL,
is apparent. He was a waif, pauper's
child, bred in poorhOuse. He was chris
tened John Rowiands, tst after coming TO
America as cabin-bcy at fifteen. he took
the name OF the merchant who adopted him.
When he was bareiy twenty he enlisted
as private In the Confederate army He
was a simple adventuurer even that early.
He cared nothing under which flag he
fought. His sword was like Dugald Dal.
getty's. When taken prisoner he became
a Union man, and enlisted in the navy,
where he rose to the rank of ensign.
of the Beunetts, attracted many ardent souls
just after the war. and Stanley became a
newspaper writer-or rather q newspaper
Even to this day he is not quite able to