New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-01-25

.Iuavs wilful. and perhaps prone 10
-, courses He believed hiihse'i "'''spen
80 That was matter Of cacu'a'o'' "o' Vi
.,,n.rament merely. He was yer! 'ap"o'e VI
,ou,a,ion and OF estimating Poh'o ~ az
o,rately. He had surveyed tne '''0 "e'e
uas not in the CONSERVATIVE
,nsn able 10 replace him IN uo' "'
,ld He looked upon MT W. - %
,ore Smith and Cross were "a' ''A" anu az
a firm Of oxford Street orapefS-anu 'he
on,v thing. said the young ai's'ooi" ' IA mo 0''','s
,,o, which had ever puzzieu nun was ~ ue-
-. which was Marshall ana "hich was
cna,srove II was possible onii'" i"isn' pe
,,ode Leader. though he "ouiu De iees'Neu WIN
derision. but who wouiu oe O''"0e''' Va VIC
ExcheGuer? .,.,o,o 4, t,,s calculation
ln.ie w" ,,,sI Lord Randolph forgot to look
Out :. 49, ranks of his own party. He forgot
o"''- non then n Liberal Cnionist; one Of the
vi. 80, whom Mr. Gladstone had driven out
-tv in order to take up Home RUE.
,,,,g Mr. Goschen and despsing Mr.. Smith,
eorn,ed on the refusal Of his suggestion Of
.,o,a,,on on remaining in the Cabinet, on
.trs his own way about Naval Estimates and
~ ,bings on becoming the real dictator Of the
cabinet while leaving Lord Salisbury as Prime
Minister Mr.. Goschen's acceptance OF office
hroueht this well-thought-out scheme to grief
.,a utter wreck. Lord Randolph went into
-,u,,cal exile and In political exile he remained
an his death Among his friends and with the
,,h,,c the question Of his return TO office was
tan mooted. Lord Salisbury was !nflexible.
IT, rnuor OF the day imputed to him savage
mark when one of his late colleagues friends
ns,sd negotiations for his recall. III have
NOD wen cut out of my arm do you think
.r+ II TO grow again. We may be permitted
% hone that he never said this. He was COM
monty believed TO have said 1t; and the more
,ead,,v believed because IT happened that he did
4, fact submit 10 such an operation about that
time. in the literal and physical, not meta
phor.cal. sense
,ord Randolphs friends always talked OF his
resignation as one of those impulsive indis-
orstons which he might have avoided and but
,o- which he would surely have reached the
h.Isht Of his ambition. fear not 1t was a
lesson he had TO learn. and the learning OF 1t
cost him his political life. and perhaps in the
end his life in this world He was not born to go
yell in harness The conflict with Lord Sails
hrrv had 10 come If it had not come then, II
would have come later. 1t was. politically speak
ing a life and death struggle. The older man
uos The stronger and the more sagacious. and
had mora Of the confidence Of the party and of
tho country Between two such men in such
circumstances the result which actually befen In
December Sc would have been inevitable had
the duel been postponed. Lord Salisbury Is often
called rash. In some respects he Is ana there
are forces which he undertakes and tendencies
of which he fails to take account; prejudices
also. and convictions. against which he sets
himself wantonly. But the country knows. and
his opponents know. that he Is serious poll
tlcian; a statesman in the high sense
They were never quite sure whether Lord RAN
6oIph was They gave him but guarded con-
fdence. They thought him brilliant but errauc'
very able but sometimes irnpulsive. ana were
never quite sure whether the convictions winch
he held. and which he expressed with uahsceh-
dent force. were permanent perhaps only
transtory He did not know how TO win tha'
trust which is given to men Of far less ability;
trust which comes from the belief in staoilty
OF character and Of principle. Some Of the COL
Lea ues on whom he poured out his contempt
were more trusted than he was. Some or the
men least like him in history were trusted lie
was not OF the stamp OF Lord Althorp. OF the
nresent Duke of DevonShire. man wholly oeVoio
Of Lord Randoph's sparkling traits. though MS
equal and perhaps superior In SOHO capacity !"
whom the country does believe PROFOUNDLY 'housh
10 read his speeches Is not commonly thousht an
celebrating pastime. The Dukes speeches are
read for instruction not for epigram or ior 'heir
imaginative splendor.
Lord Randolph deserved, l think. more conn.,
dence than was given him. He was his own
worst enemy In some things. His course through
the political heavens was meteoric. not planetary.
He puzzled not only tine political astronomers
but the ordinary gazer who looks at things as
they are The ordinary person could not feel
quite sure where this luminary would next ap-
pear Such are some of the reasons which ex-
plain the political eclipse of man VINO mad heid
and adorned so,no Of the greatest posts In pubic
N,e who had won the admiration OF the best
judges who had capacities and qualities pos
sessed by few Of his contemporaries. who had, In
truth, a very high order Of political genius VINO
was almost equally admirable in the House and
on the platform who was long the idol Of great
public, the champion Of a party. the leader OF
great Legislature, and cnce the probable Prime
Minister OF England o. W. D
New-York. January 90