The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-06-29

barrister in England belongs to the
middle class, and for years the future
premier was under the ban of his
father. His allowance was unbefitting
his birth, though the Salisbury fortune
Is enormous, and as children came the
impecunious pair were obliged to exc
out support by writing for the maya
zines and newspapers, means at that
time not regarded as dignihed for aris-
tocrats. They lived and dressed very
plainly. and when they had holiday
travelled second or third class with their
children, like the great mass from
whom they could hardly be distin-
guished
Beginning OF His Triumph.
Lord Robert Cecil, however, was
elected to parliament, for with all the
disfavor shown him he was the son of
a marquis ana this served to push him
to the front. He was not popular; his
temper was bad and he was accepted
as a cantankerous individual with con-
siderable ability, but hopelessly soured
by circumstances. In 1862 as he was
rising to make speech In the house Of
commons, he was suddenly summoned
to the door and informed that his elder
brother had just died This event made
him Viscount Cranborne and heir to
the title and estates of the Marquis of
Salisbury. His own fate and that OF
his family were changed in an instant
From obscurity and poverty they
stepped into ease and Importance,
while high fortune and positive grand
eur stood waiting for them in the i'm
mediate future. The old Lord Sails
bury was soon reconciled to his new
heir, and three years afterward he
died, leaving the literary hack and once
disinherited son owner of one of Eng
lands greatest houses and bearer OF
one of her greatest names.
AS soon as he became Lord Cranborne
the young politician was recognized
by the tory leaders, and in 1866 was in
vited to enter Lord Derby's cabinet.
In year. however, D!sraeli VINO
was in reality the leading spirit in that
cabinet, introduced measure for eX-
tended suffrage, which consistent tories
refused to support. Among the recus-
ants was Lord Cranborne, who, with
two of his allies, left the cabinet rather
than consent to the democratic innova-
ton. Therupture was personal as well
as political, and Lord Cranborne did
not speak to his former chief for years.
His wife was believed to have exercised
a great influence in determining MS
political course. She sympathized with
his views and encouraged him in his
opposition to the tergiversations of Dis
raeli. Many bitter things were report
ed in English society supposed to have
been said by the recent marquis and
marchioness of their former friend.
Family Fcud Begins.
About this time Lord Salisbury's
stepmother remarked. She had been
for twenty years the wife of his father.
and during the latter part of this time
the intimate friend of much younger
man, the present earl of Derby. ii
was universally supposed that she
would become Lady Derby as soon as
her year of widowhood was over but
it was not until the death of Lord Der
by's father and his own accession to the
peerage that the marriage took place.
1t was, of course, extremely distaste-
full to the Salisburys. but there was
no open opposition. for there were.
grown and growing children of the new
Lady Derby by the former Lord Sal
isbury, half brothers and sisters of the
present peer, and for their sake he was
silent.
During the Turco-Russian war divi
sion occurred in the tory government.
Disraeli had become Lord Beacons-
field and initiated a foreign policy
which excited great dissensions. Final
ly a tremendous explosion came and
Lord Derby left the government at the
crisis of the eastern war; and Lord Sal