New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-01-14

took the plunge down the political abyss AT inc
bottom of which lay Home Rule for lreiahu: me
Dean like most OF the cooler and more Juuic'ou'
Liberals declined to follow him; ana mus ee"''
saws goodby 10 his old leader
T, 10 all very dreary and unhappy just now
The G. O. NJ persistng In his her0ic 'e h ~
The teeth Of everything and every pouy' SUR nc
ha Ia right, and apparently sure that ne KNOWS
hest the conditions OF success. cahhot conS.Ns
bow Il will all end But. whether ne IS figh' VI
hot. 'i Wv, S,s solitude And II he goes am
sure shall not like the conjunction OF lIoru iiar,
inqton and Chamberlain better. Perhaps ne IS
rich, and the via salutis many open our OF we
.hint Of disaster But I can't see IT; and for the
sncond dime in my life I have to try as well as
can 10 unite undated admiration with the l'hpos-
sih,,tv of moral or intellectual agreement
The conjunction Of the Deans two adjectives IS
striking His dissent from Mr. Gladstone IS oo'h
moral and intellectual. In other words. he con-
dennis Home Rule and the champion OF home
Rule on moral as we'll as political grounds. IL
was a political act. Where does the question oi
ethics come In unless the Dean means that the
political decision was taken for reasons WHICH
as applied to public policy. seem to him immoral!
But let US get away from politics, ana opsoie.e
politics at that and have one more look at dlad-
stone the man; a glimpse that may give the
distant reader some faint notion OF a personality
at once the most tremendous and most inspiring
of his time The Dean writes 10 Lord Biackioru
In April. 1881:
dined with Gladstone yesterday. ana am
hound 10 contradict the suggestion that OUT,
wardly he shows the smallest sign OF l'lii 49,
strength He had been taking on Monu"! 49,"
tho budget had sat up that night TIL or :. hau
been busy all day and in the House al quesu1h
time and til it counted out; out theie nv
was at dinner as full of talk on every suoJc',
trade agricultural depression, down 10 manu-,
writing and the comparison Of quls and steer
mems with all the old eagerness and v'Sor. lHeIe
were Duke of Argyle, Bright. Evelyn Asn As,
Andrew Clark-just scratch parry PuNv it'll, ~
in the House but of course. these were lvey
gentlemen and Gladstone was the nVeHest re
is not going 10 drop yet whatever else ne
may do.
Tbore Won have the ever-youthful immortal. or
II not him complete etching Of one side OF
him--or a flash of sunlight on his face, VIVID pu'
gone In moment and leaving an indehoie heh-
ory. I will quote also Of Mr. Gladstones
rare deliverances on journalism, or rather on one
particular journal:
7 forgot TO tell you Of G,adstone's enthusiastic
euogy Of The Guardian to Bright Eve ssa n ash,
lev. and Agnew the picture dealer. VINO had onIy
family heard of II. 1t was. ne said. far tne pest
weekly account of news to be found. In seiecuo'
and arrangement. 1t w's TINS poiht Will t nr
dwelt upon a person reading II could. except lor
immediate use quite dispense with the daIiy
naners The news department was quite al
mira BILE.
This remarkable eulogy was true then ana Is
true now, and is the more remarkable because
"The Guardian is primarily Church OF Eng
land paper. I had marked many other passages
for quotation but leave them to the readers OF
the book They will bring away with theih
from this well-ordered biography just impress
sion of a gentle lofty. often authoritative ana
always beautiful character. u W. .