Omaha daily bee., 1896-02-05
WARM WELCOME FOR RHODES
Great Crowd Greets the South African Die
tator on His Arrival at London.
HE HAS THE QUEENS EARNEST SUPPORT
Her Gracious Majesty Advocates Ele-
walton of Both Rhodes ana Jnme-
son to the Pecrnge Despite
CbamberIain's Intention.

Copyright 1896. by Press Publishing Company)
LONDON, Feb Anew York World Ca
blegram-Special Telegram.)-Cecll Rhodes
who was premier OF Cape Colony at the time
Of Jameson's raid into the Transvaal, Is in
London. At his arrival today there was as
much of a popular ovation at Paddington
station as the conservative, or perhaps fright
ened, managers of the Chartered South Af-
rica company would permit. large crowd
had gathered but the whilom dictator was
hurried into a prosalc four-wheeler and
whirled away. Perhaps an interesting fact
for your fair readers is that well dressed
ladies' predominated in the crowd IN the
station platform awaiting the arrival CT Mr..
Rhodes train Arthur Balfour, bachelor,
Ike Rhodes, by the way, arrived by a train
few minutes earlier and was mistaken for
the latter and loudly cheered.
l hear excellent authority that the
queen, in common with the vast majority of
the ladies of the kingdom, as well as proba-
bly, their husbands, is an earnest advocate of
the bestowal of peerages upon Rhodes and
jameson. Lady Warwick, indeed. has pub
lished letter in the Times, defending him
through thick and thin. Her majesty's
earnest advocacy, according to official gos
sip, explains much that is otherwise mys-
terious in the action of the cabinet. Lord
Salisbury, her loyal and devoted friend
echoed by his organ, the Times, has not a
word to say against but everything by in
ference i'm favor of jameson.
The colonial secretary, Chamberlain in
dependent, able, aggressive, knowing that he
has been from the first unwelcome in the
cabinet, Is pursuing his chosen course, ap-
parently undaunted. If he persists in ar
ranging and securing an impartial trial of
the invaders, he may be forced out of the
cabinet, but what a record for him that
would be in history
/ may add that there is also very hos
tile feeling in the conservative mercantile
| and investment classes in England against
| the South African sudden millonaires and
their methods. For the last year or 50 no
new or 6 per cent enterprise has had any
chance in the London market, while the
dazzling prospect of 800 or 400 per cent in
South African mining schemes was attract
ing capital. Chamberlain would have that
element behind him, to say nothing Of
reasonable Englishmen, who recognize that
Jameson and his band were really and only
filibusters and that their example, unless re-
buked and punished, might almost any day
and any where in the foreign colonial
world, be followed with war as the probable
result.
The newspapers here and the press agen-
cies are cabling to America the statement
that Dunraven went to Sandrlngham yester-
day to consult the prince Of Wales in re-
| gard to the best action for him to take in
| view of tie inquiry committees report. This
| is absurd, since the prince has been since
| Tuesday morning at the Isle of Wight to
| receive the body of his brother-in-law
| Prince Henry of Battenburg The false re-
| by the World exclusively last Saturday
that Lord Dunraven was at sandrinsham
when the report of the committee was re-
ceived in London. BALLARD SMITH,