Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-02-03
they become sparkling essays. carrying
with them no suspicion of the platform.

they become sparkling essays. carrying
! WITH them no suspicion of the platform.
Idol of the People.
| Every speech has added to his popular
| ity until there is no telling what the com
mon people would do if they had a chance
/ to vote on the subject. If the conditions
here were like those in the United States
the chances are that Rosebery would be
| elected president of the English republic a
| the earliest opportunity. The common
| people have never forgotten his work as
| president of the London county council
/ and. better yet, his work chairman of
| the board which brought the great strike
of 100000 coal miners to an end in 1892.
In the meantime Lord Rosebery appears
| in London only rarely spending the most of
| his time at Mentmore his stately home in
| sucking hamshire, bequeathcd to him, along
with millions of money. by his wife. who
| died In lSH, at the cozier Epson home
called the Durdans, at the great grim
mansion at Dalmeney, that looks out on the
bridge across the Firth, or again at Battle
! Abbey, the historic home of his mother, the
Duchess of Cleveland. liveliest and most
| energetic of all English young ladies' of
| eighty.
| Perhaps his most intimate chum, next
to his son, Albert Edward Harry Meyer
archibald Primrose, Lord Dalmeney, who
celebrated his eighteenth birthday on the
sth of this month. is his rich and hand
some son-in-law. Lord Crewe, former lord
lieutenant of Ireland who married Lady
Peggy Primrose last April But Won
may be sure Lord Crewe knows as little
of the inner workings of this mysterious
mans mind as any one.
Is Lord Roscbery coming or going po-
l1tically? Although he has such eXtraor-
binary popularity with the people. the po-
| Htical leaders are not very fond of him. Tn
der solemn promise not to reveal names, /
have talked with members of parliament
of widely varying views concerning this
brilliant and lucky man. One of the most
prominent of them-and it is eXasperating
he for
newspaper reader in the United States
would recognize it-said:
British Views of Roxebery.
1T might almost be remarked that Lord
Rosebery's future or his immediate future.
| anyway. is in the hands Of Lord Roberts,
although perhaps that distinguished gem
| eral would be rather surprised if he realized
1t. The explanation Is this: although the
tide is beginning to set toward the liberal
party, there are two branches of that
party which are widely divergent. Rose
berry is an imperialist, almost lingo. The
opposing branch is anti-fmperialst. Now.
if the campaign Of Lord Roberts in South
Africa should be quickly and completely
effective, the impcrialistic idea might yet be
triumphant, despite the present strong cur
rent of popular feeling against the govern
ment. OF course. If the conservatives lose
and yet the imperislistic idea remains ropu-
lar, when the next appeal is made to the
ever he wants.
But the longer the war drass on the less
is the prestige of imperialism. and the
more will the British public count the cost
of expansion. SO the longer 1t takes Lord
Roberts to whip the Beers, the worse 1t is
for Lord Rosebery.
But you must understand" continued
this veteran commOner, that such fore
casts this must DE taken with an allow
ance for the unexpected. We can only say
such and such things will happen unless
hon,
Lord RoseDery says he is out of politics
and may not want to be premier again I'M
less he has an almost unanimous call from
the liberal party, hut at any rate, you may
be sure of one thing, and that is that he
enjoys political power quite as much any
one else, and. that if the rest of the country
spends an hour day on its knees in prayer
for Lord Roberts speedy success Lord
Rosebery spends two hours"
A Tory View
And here Is what tory of the tories says:
"Rosebery is char ming fellow. But, light,
sir, light as feather on the breeze! He
has impressions and no doubt he thinks
they are worthy Of the name of political
principles. But they are far from being
big. strong convictions. He is too graceful
for that. If he happens to be handy some
time when the liberal party comes into
power and wants an ornamental premier
no doubt he will be chosen but for a vigor-
Gus leader who can beat out a difficult path
for the rest to follow safely, different sort
OF man is wanted
And here the words of an avowed lit
tie Englander: Lord Rosebery Is a lazy
man. He does not care enough about any
thing to take much real trouble over 1t. l
was connected with him in one bit of pub
lie work of which he was the head He
went into il with much enthusiasm, but
| just at the time when the hardest work was
required he ran off after something else and
| left us to get on best We could. 1t wasn't
| that he wanted to shirk. 1t was simply
! that the thing bored him after awhile
| And then. again, here is Lord Kelvin
| who is not only one Of the greatest living
| scientists, but a close student of politics
| and a supporter of the present government
| He said al a big dinner the other night
that he believed political parties in the fu-
| ture would avail themselves of the services
| Of any man who showed great ability
| whatever his politics might be- For In
stance. why should not government take
| advantage Of the high principles and re-
| marka BILE talents of Lord Rosebery? The
question was greeted with prolonged
| cheers. MARSHALL LORD
MR.. DOOLAN'S DOG.