The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1898-05-19
GREAT GLADSTONE DEAD
The Veteran E1-Premier Passed
..s., Away This Morning. 9ss~
UNIVERSAL SORROW IN ENGLAND

The Program in Parliament VIII Be
an Address to Her Majesty Praying
For a Funeral at the Public Expense
and Monument in Westminster.
London, May 19.-Every other topic
in Great Britain has dropped out Of
sight before the passing Of Mr.. Glad
stone, who died at o'clock this
morning. Hawarden focused the at
tention, which from the highest to the
lowest was respectful and sincere. In
two places, perhaps, was the tension
most keen and most heartfelt-the
house of commons and Hawarden.
Just before the house rose yester-
day telegram from Mr.. Herbert
Gladstone reached Lord Stanley, an
nouncing that his father was sinking.
Already before his death the hush and
grief seemed to fall over the scene of
his triumphs, and from the present
men turned to the past, recalling his
sayings and doings. A great lion lay
dying, his old colleagues-his one time
enemies and Understanding his
last long fight with his last and i'm
placable foe, as they watched in past
days his fights against foes whom he
could overcome 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 ego
when, his last speech spoken, he quit
ted the house without one word Of
spoken adieu.
Anticipating the inevitable, the
members of the government discussed
the appropriate procedure to be OBJ
served, and resolved that no effort on
their part should be wanting to mark
a suitable sense of their loss.
Disregarding recent presidents, 1t
was decided that the program in par
lament should be the same as that
adopted in the cases of the Earl OF
Chatham and of the younger Pitt,
namely an address to her majesty,
praying for funeral at the public
charge and monument erected in
Westminster Abbey.
Throughout the whole kingdom
every public gathering added its words
of deep grief to the volume of national
mourning clearly versed in the tele-
gram 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 do not suffer. Albert
Edward
At the banquet of the Home Coun-
ties Liberal Federation last evening
Sir William Vernon Harcourt, Liberal
leader in the house of commons, in
stead of delivering an important party
attack, only uttered few words of
grief and left the room. The Duke OF
Devonshire, lord president of the coun-
Gil of ministers, speaking before the
British Empire League, referred touch
ingly to the mournful scenes at Ha-
warden, where "the greatest of En-
glishmen was slowly passing away"
In other places Lord Mayor Horatio
Davies, Lord George Hamilton, Sir
Henry Campbell Zimmerman and many
others in London, as well as in Bir-
mingham, Cardiff. Liverpool, Swansea,
Edinburgh and elsewhere, at all sorts
of neutrality-suspicious., sdivines, re-
formers, agitators and women-joined
in the expression of national and in
dividual grief.
1t was the topic of the hour in Great
Britain, but abroad the evidences Of
sympathy were almost as universal.
M. Faure, president of the French re-
public, daily inquired and has regu-
larly received every bulletin. The
press of Belgium, France, Italy and
Greece, in a spontaneous outburst, re.
called how many oppressed peoples
during Mr.. Gladstone's life have Of
fered hymns of praise for his inter-
vention in their behalf, while in Mad
rid even the prospects of his death
caused "a hours suspension of war
animosity against England.
Though national funeral will prob
ably be accepted by the family, there is
little doubt that the remains of Mr..
Gladstone will be laid to rest in the
peaceful graveyard at Hawarden, adj
joining the church where he was mar
ried over half century ago.