The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-07

families in Europe, with their own people
in power, find themselves with younger
sons unprovided for, while common Radi-
Gals, with only a veneer of Toryism, are
reveling in fat things. No wonder that,
according to some of the newspapers,
Lord Salisbury wrote letters of apol-
ogy, stained with tears, to several
noble friends whom cruel fate had COM
PEELED him to overlook. He evidently
loathes himself for his subsefyience to the
Liberal Unienist dictates, but what was he
to do? He could not dispense with Mr..
Chamberlain's assistance and he had no
option but to pay for it. Sir John Gorst,
the trusted friend of the late Lord Ran
dolph Churchill, was to be left out alto
gether. but he would not be ignored and
threatened, not obscurely, to form group
of overlooked place-hunters, so an under
secretaryship was tardily given to him.
Sir Ellis Ashmead Bartlett got up me-
MORALS to the Premier and then tried
threats and finally weakened and got moth
ing Sir George Baden Powell, who dab
bled in the seal fishery negotiations and
has visited Washington ami other semi
civilized parts of the world, utilized the
influence of all his friends and himself
and worked with great fervor with the
object of getting the secretaryship of the
colonies, which he and his family considered
should naturally fall to his share. When the
secretaryship was given to Mr.. Chamber
lain, there was great indignation in the
Powell family, but patriotism conquered
selhshness, and Lord Salisbury was given
to understand that Sir George, In the in
terest of his party and country, would
consent to cramp his great intellect within
the narrow limits of the under-secretary-
ship of the colonies, but alas, he has got
nothing. Forwood, who was regarded as
a heaven-sent naval administrator, claimed
promotion and has not got even his former
minor post. Sir Albert Rolli, shining
light in the Primrose League, claimed to
represent the commercial class and
thought he ought to get in the Cabinet or
at least be Postmaster-General,b but he has
been left out in the cold and declares his
intention to follow an Independent course
in the new Parliament
There is talk to-day of a big batch of
peerages with few colonial governorships
thrown in to solace the sighted ones, but
for the moment they refuse to find
consolation and threats of cabals grow.
Lord Salisbury treats them with fine con-
tempt, feeling secure of large majority as
the result of the general election, but if
his majority should be small the malcon-
tents may possibly give him good deal
Of trouble. The number of near relations
in the new administration is interesting.
They include father and son, Mr.. Cham
berlain and Austin Chamberlain; father
in-law and son-in-law, Lord Salisbury and
Lord Selbourn; two brothers, Arthur and
Gerard Balfour; an uncle and two
nephews, Lord Salisbury and the Messrs.
Balfour. and two brother-in-laws, Lord
George Hamilton and Lord Lansdowne.
Parliament was prorogued to-day, and
henceforth, until the conclusion of the
electoral struggle, the peers of the realm |
are debarred from speaking or writing on
political affairs, but, as has been already |
explained, this does not apply to their |
women folks, and any number of countess.s |
and baronesses will take an active part in |
the fight in the next fortnight. In Lon
don these aristocratic stumpcrs are devot-
ing their energies pluckily to the artisan
hitherto represented by Lib |
eral members, and their successful propa-
ganda is causing considerable uneasiness.
Chief among them are the Countess of |
Westbury and the Prime Minister'S daugh-
ter, Lady Gwendolin Cecil, each of whom
addresses two or three public meetings
every day.
If it should happen that the Tories get
a working majority sufficient to be inde-
pendent of their Liberal Unionist allies
there will probably be a radical revision of
the present Cabinet, and Mr. Chamberlain
by no means secure dominating influence.
In the political turmoil of the approach
ing general election the serious state of
affairs in Turkey is not receiving the atten-
ton here which it merits, although most
people are able to realize the gravity of the
situation caused by the Bulgarian agitation
in Macedonia. Doubtless it will be found
sooner or later that Prince Ferdinand has
not acted in this matter on his own initia-
tive nor without powerful backing; but for
the moment the whole business is mysteri-
ous and confusing. One thing is clear, and
that is that the Sultan is in q most mad
1ening position, wherein great danger lies.
The European pressure anent Armenia is
less real and urgent than that which is
daily, almost hourly brought to bear upon
him from his own people. Europe, as far
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