Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-09-24
FIGHT BORROWER
ENGLISH PEERS HUSTLE LIKE
BoWERY POLITICIANS.
SPECULATE ON THE WINNERS.
Who Will Get the Most Important
Officas-Many Changes IN
Prospect.

New York, Sept. PA dispatch to the
Tribune from London says: Lord Sails
bury's manifesto is remarkable for the
manifestation Of style and argumenta-
tive force. 1t contrasts strongly with
Mr.. Chamberlain's Birmingham speech,
which is open to criticisms for faults OF
taste. MIR. Chamberlain evidently aimed.
however. at drawing the fire OF the radl-
Gals and setting them to talking about
South Africa. and in this way hoped to
swell the unionist majorities.
The air is heavy in the political clubs
with rumors of abine changes. Mr..
Goschen's retirement from the admiralty
is now regarded as a foregone conclusion
since his health is broken and he is
weary of official responsibilities, and can
not be induced to remain at the post.
Lord Salisbury, who considers old age
a poor excuse for retirement, is reported
to be greatly annoyed by Mr.. GoSchen's
determination to abandon office, but will
be forced to find a successor for the adj
miralty.
Lord Lansdowne's tenure of the war
office will also be short, but he will not
leave the cabinet. Lord S~alisbury's re-
lations with Lord Lansdowne are most
intimate and he is not convinced that any
change in the war Office is required.
Well informed men h know what is
going on behind the scenes, assert that
Lord Salisbury. when forced to admit
that the logic o. the situation requires
a new head for the war office since mill
tary reorganization is heralded as the
flrst work of the new parliament. Will
transfer Lord Lansdowne to the foreign
office. This result has been predicted BY
leading members Of the diplomatic ser
vice, who have reason from the intimacy
OF the two statesmen. that Lord Sails
bury will be likely to choose Lord Lans-
doWne as his successor in the foreign
ONCE. This transfer would leave Mr..
Balfour leader of the where
the old tories are not ready to take
orders from Mr.. Chamberlain.
me succession to the war office is zen
orally conceded to Mr.. Chamberlain on
the ground that he is the only minister
with sufficient force of character and ad-
minlstratiye ability for CARRYING ont
thorough and far-reaching reforms in
the military system. The reformers are
over Jealous when they assume that the
required the services of Mr.,
Chamberlaln at the war office. Lord
ROBERTS. as commander-in-chief, and
Lord kitchener. as a%djutant general of
the British army. must be in a bad way
II the concentration of SO much talent is
Indispensable.
One of the freshest rumors in the air
points to another field Of activity for Mr.
Chamberlain. This is the report that Sir
Michael Hicks-Beach. as We'll as Mr.,
IoS'iieH. IS weary OF OIlCc and bent QpOn
retiring from the cabinet. If his rumor
be we'll founded, Mr.. Chamberlain may
become chancellor of the excheGuer and
leave Sir Alfred Miner to work out the
settlement Of South Africa.
This solution would delight military
men, who. know that Mr.. Chamberlain
cannot be controlled from Aldershot, and
possibly it would tend to promote a
reconciliation of the whole race in South
Africa, where the Dutch are bitterly
prejudiced against him.
If Mr.. Chamberlain does not AXE the
war office, George Wyndhanl may sue
coed Lord Lansiowne. He has earned
promotion by his debating skill, and is
the most promising among the younger
men on the conservative side.
The retirement of Viscount Cross, the
duke Of DcvGnshira. and Lord James. is
also strongly limited at from many
sources of information. Lord Salisbury.
unless all signs fail, will be forced to re-
construct his cabinet after the elections.
His ~superannuated colleagues have not
learned the secret of perennial youth,
nor has he himself found it in his chem
lcal laboratory at Hatfield. He is de-
scrlhed by one who knows him we'll as
harassed and wearied with public life
and as hard to part from his colleagues,
or do anything but brood in silence about
perplexities and Chinese COMPLICATION.
There is, however. 10 lack OF either
power or skill in his appeal to the con-
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