New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-02-04


Parliamentary Secretary for the War Office
is devoted by Germany military purposes
should have met with the most humiliating
verses the very first occasion that it was
called upon to encounter white men instead Of
either Asiatics or Africans.
Not only has he succeeded in doing this to
such an extent that popular confidence has been
restored in the defeated troops and vanquished
and outmanoeuvred generals, but he has like
wise by his eloquence called forth such a burst
OF patriotism to silence to a great extent
all party differences, and to lead men of every
political shade to resolve to support the Govern
ment in its efforts to carry the to a
cessful issue In word, his speech has
marked him out for Cabinet office In the next
administrative shuttle.
George Wyndham, whose personality has thus
come conspicuously to the fore during the
last few days. is Of all the politicians the
Tory and Unionist side of the House of Com
the who commands the greatest
amount of personal good will and sympathy of
the Irish Nationalist party. They cannot forget
that he is through his mother the great grandson
OF that Lord Edward Fitzgerald who was the
leader OF the Irish Rebellion in 1896, and who
died Of wounds sustained in that struggle In
deed, the Irish members of the House have often
congratulated him his extraordinary resem-
blance to his famous Irish ancestor. : This has
doubtless gone far toward securing their in
diligence for the many hard knocks which he
administered to their party while private sec
Rotary and chief lieutenant to Arthur Balfour
during the latter's tenure of the Irish Secretary
chip.
PERSONAL CHARM
Tall, with we'll knit, graceful figure, regular
features, with black hair and mustache his ex-
preston conveys an impression of mingled vi
sacity, intellectual brilliancy and loftiness Of
view that renders him one of the handsomest
men in England. His voice is both rich and
eonorous, without either harshness or monotony.
Altogether, he looks what he is, namely a thor
oughhred Englishman with a refining touch of
French and Irish Married to the widowed
Countess Grosvenor, he is to-day the stepfather
of the young Duke of Westminster who as the
greatest ground landlord in the United Kingdom.
commands immense amount of territorial in
fuence-an influence which naturally, in view
OF his youth, is calculated still further to in
crease the Importance of his close friend, mentor
and stepfather, George wyndharn
Only OF the Hon. Percy Wyndham and
grandson, therefore, of the first Lord Leconfield
1.-THE present Lord Leconfeld is married to Lord
Roseberys sister, George Wyndham passed
from Elton 10 Sandhurst, and thence into the
Coldstream Guards with which regiment he took
part IN the suakim campaign against the Der
wishes, receiving both the English medal and
the Khediviai star for his services He left the
friend, Arthur Balfour, when the latter was in
charge Of the Irish department and attracted
pu9nc a'tentlon by the controversial letters
which ne published in the various papers in de-
2ence Of his chief and of the latters noIicv The
inAsIery or fact winch they showed was so great
the hitting so hard and neatly placed that
the public at first imagined that they can,e In
realty from the pen of Mr. Balfour himself.
nor was u until the Tory leaders nominated him
as the Conservative candidate for Dover and
he entered the House of Commons as fhe roe-n-
Der for that constituency that the puhc reai
lied that he was fully capable of having v,rit
= ten the public letters in question himself
INTERESTED IN SOUTH AFRICA
de soon made mark for himself at West
minister and ere long was appointed to the
financial seeretaryship of the War Department
The period that the Conservatives were ont Of
ONCE namely, from 1892 TO 1895. he devoted to
travel in South Africa, and after thoroughly
mastering the problem connected with that part
OF the world. attached himself to the fortunes
OF Cecil Rhodes. acting as the semi-offlcial rep-
resentatlve of the latter in the House of Com
mons He likewise championed the cause of the
Colossus on the South African Parliamentary
committee appointed TO investigate the Jameson
raid, and the affairs of the Chartered COMPANY
II was Whlle thus representing Mr. Rhodes that
ne rounded The Outlook of the brightest
OF the London weekly papers which is popu-
larry supposed TO be maintained at the expense
OF Air Khooes, while its policy is directed and
controlled by Mr. Wyndham. year ago. when
Lord Curzon was promoted from the rank of
Under Secretary Of Foreign Affairs to the Vice
Sd was
selected TO take his place. as assistant 70 ord
salisbury George Wyndham was appointed TO
the Under Secretaryship of State for War until
then occupied by Mr.. Brodrick AS such he rep
resents the War Department in the House OF
Commons his chief, Lord Lansdowne occupying
a seat in the House Of Lords
II may be added that Mr.. Wyndham was for
many years Of the leading members OF that
species of association OF intellectual peopIe
known as THE Souls" of which Arthur Balfollr
Mrs. Asquith and Lady CRANKY were shining
lights. He has distinguished himself I'm utera-
ture by his so-called Tudor translation OF fPlu-
tarcn," and by his edition Of Shakespea RES
poems his dissertation which has excited the
admiration Of men who have spent more wears
IN the STUDY or the works Of the bard than Mr.
Wyndham has spent in the world altogether
Not that he is bookwornz. for nobody Is more
passionately devoted 10 fox hunting or rides
ytraighter 10 hounds than that rising statesman
and universally popular aristocrat George
Wyndhana EX-ATTACHE
y THE BOERS AND FOREIGN AID