The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-19
ENGLAND IN MOURNING.
Sorrow Everywhere for the End of n
Grent and Useful Life.


Great and Useful Life.
LONDON, May 19-Every other topic in
Great Britain yesterday dropped out of sight
before the passing of Mr.. Gladstone. Ha-
warden focused the attention, which from
the highest to the man in the street was
respectful, sincere and profoundly moved.
In two places, perhaps, was the tension
most keen and most heartfelt-the House
of Commons and Hawarden. Just before
the House rose yesterday telegram from
Mr.. Herbert Gladstone reached Lord STAN
ley, announcing that his father was sinking.
Already before his death the hush of grief
seemed to fall over the scene of his
triumphs; and from the present men turned
to the past, recalling sayings and doings.
A great lion lay dying, his old colleagues,
his one-time enemies and followers watch
ing his last long fight with his last and
implacable foe as they watched in past days
his fights against foes whom he could over
come. True to himself, he was yielding
slowly. INCH by inch. 1t was generally felt
at st. Stephens that his dying was but the
sequel to that great scene witnessed four
years ago when, his last speech spoken, he
quilted the House without one word of
spoken adieu.
Anticipating the inevitable, the members
of the government discussed the appropriate
procedure to be observed and resolved that
no effort on their part should be wanting to
mark a suitable sense of their loss. Disre-
garding recent precedence, it was decided
that the programme in Parliament should be
the same as that adopted in the cases of the
Earl or chatham and of the younger Pitt,
namely, an address to her Majesty praying
for funeral at the public charge and a
monument erected in Westminster Abbey.
NJ 4AT1 h
lie gathering added it's words of deep grief
to the volume of national mourning clearly
versed in the telegram from the Prince of
Wales to Mr.. Henry Gladstone:
My thoughts are with you, your mother
and your family at this trying time you are
experiencing. God grant that your father
does not suffer. ALBERT EDWARD"
AT the banquet of Home Counties Liberal
Federation, last evening, Sir William YER
non Harcourt, Liberal leader in the House
of Commons, instead of delivering an i'm
portant party attack, only uttered a few
words of grief and left the room. The Duke
of Devonshire, lord president of the Council
Empire League, referred touchingly to the
mournful scenes at Hawarden where 1.-THE
greatest of Englishmen was slowly passing
away ~-%
In other places Lord Mayor Horatio Da-
vies, Lord George Hamilton, secretary of
state for India, Sir Henry Campbell Ban
herman and many others in London, as we'll
as in Birmingham, Swansea, Cardiff, Liver
pool, Edinburgh and elsewhere. at all sorts
ers, agtators and women-joined in the ex-
preston of national and individual grief,
while the press, without exception, pub
lished columns of detail and columns of edi-
torial comments.
1t was the topic of the hour in Great
Britain. but abroad the evidences of SYM
pathy were almost as universal. NJ. Faure,
President of the French republic, daily in
quiSed and has regularly received every
bulletin. The press of Belgium, France,
Italy and Greece in a spontaneous outburst
oppressed peoples
Mr.. Gladstone's life have offered hymns Of
praise for his Intervention in their behalf,
while in Madrid even the prospect of his
death has caused a twenty-four hours sus-
pension of war animosity against England.
Not the least point in this tribute to Mr..
Gladstone was it's profound unanimity.