Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-05-19

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WILLIAM EWART GLADSTONE.
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.
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
suitable sense of their loss.
Disregarding recent presidents, it
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 a monument erected in
Westminster Abbey.
Throughout the whole kingdom
every public gathering added it's 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"
Though a 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 a century ago.
MIR. GLADsToNE's CAREER.
Sfxty-six Years In Politics and Four
Times Premier.
Gladstone is a name of power in all
the English speaking world. Not only
has the United Kingdom felt the inn
press of his genius in every part of her
government, but Canada and Australia,
ing dependencies have nodded their
new institutions largely according to
his ideas, while in the United States he
has had as many devoted admirers as
in his native island Grand Old Man
is his title here as well as in English
lands, and it has been even more freely
accorded.
And yet the man presents a paradox.
No other politician of modern times,
none probably of any time. has changed
positions so often or so radically, and
it is scarcely possible to find any de-
fined principle lately advocated by him
that he had not at some time in the
past assailed with vituperative elo-
quence. Yet there is certain consist
ency even in his changes. Contrary to
an almost universal rule among stu
dents of society and government he
steadily grew more radical as he grew
older, less cautious as he grew physi-
cally weaker, and less tolerant of crit
icism as his course raised greater
armies of critics.
Mr.. Gladstone entered parliament as
a Tory of the Eighteenth century sort,
grew into a mild conservative, held Of
flee as an advanced Wing, and then
led the opposition as Liberal so very
radical that many English Radicals
abandoned him and even Irish Radicals
had to restrain him.
His father John Gladstone, was a
prominent merchant and his mother
vas of Scotch royal descent. William
Ewart Gladstone was born in Liverpool
Dec. 20, 1909. He was educated at Elton
and at Christ's church, Oxford. In
1881 be was graduated, and the next
year was elected to parliament from
Newark.
He continued to represent that bor-
ough till 1S46. In 1884 Gladstone first
took office" as under secretary for the
colonies, Sir Robert Peel being premier.
Being thrown OUT by the defeat of
Peel in 1885, he employed his leisure
in literary work and published the once
celebrated "Church and State"
In 1888 he married Miss Margaret
Glynne, of a Welsh family, and in 1870
| put forth another peculiar work on
! church affairs. In 1S41 he again took
| place in the cabinet and soon became
| eminent as a financier. In 1S45 he re-
| signed because the government favored
| the Catholic college in Ireland, but soon
came in again. In 1S47 he was chosen
| to represent Oxford and then, for the
| first time, began to advocate liberal
| measures, the first being the bill for
| removing the disabilities of the Jews,
| which he had opposed in 1841. In 1851
| 50 he became leader of the Liberals
| and entered on that long contest with
| Disraeii which continued without truce
| till 1876 when Disraeli became Lord
Beaconsfie1d and entered the house of
lords.
| In 1868 Mr. Disraeli succeeded Lord
| Derby as prime minister, but before the
year had run out Disraeli's cabinet was
dissolved and Gladstone was called to
| the premiership. In 1874, owing to the
| defeat of his Irish university bill, Glad
stone rendered his resignation as pre-
| mier. but on Disraeli refusing to form
| a cabinet Gladstone consented to re-
main in office. Early in the following
year parliament was dissolved, and the
| Liberals were overwhelmingly defeated
in the elections. This caused Glad
stones retirement, but he returned to
the premiership in 1880. In 1885 he
again resigned, being succeeded by
Lord Salisbury. In 1886 he was restored
to power for the third time, but held
the premiership for only five months,
being again succeeded by Salisbury
In 1892 he became premier for the
fourth time, but in the following year,
owing to the defeat of his Irish home
rule bill in the house of lords, Mr..
Gladstone again retired. and Salisbury
once more became premier.
Gladstone was never a favorite with
Victoria. Indeed, the queen has said
more than once with emphasis that she
detested him. and said it in a way to
imply that she also feared him. Their
personal discussions more than ones
terminated in angry words, but the pre-
mier never fiinched from facing royalty
You must take this action" he once
said to her.
Must! Did you say must?" she
angrily retorted. And do you know
| sir who / amp
! Madame answered Gladstone cool
", you are the queen of England; but
do YOU know who | amp am the pee-
| pie of England. and in this emergency
/ the people say .must.' :,
/ 1t is scarcely necessary to add that
the people" prevailed.
According to the registrar generals
latest blue book, Scotland still contains
saany more women than men.