Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-09-29
Rival Partisans in England Indulge in
Personalities.
DENUNclA9lON OF CHAMBERLAIN
Winston Churchill Also Comes in
for Sharp Criticism.
LONDON NEWS AND GOSSIP

LONDON. september 9.-The election
campaign is developing unexpected heat
chiefly due to the vigorous efforts of the
liberals to show a united front PERSONAL
ties are figuring more than usual in the con-
tests. Mr.. Joseph Chamberlain, the secre-
tary of state for the colonies. by reason of
the aggressive tone of all his speeches. is
the object Of many bitter personal attacks.
Some of his enemies have declared him to
be politically dishonest, and even go fur
ther than that.
Winston Churchill in Oldham, has been
so vigorously attacked that Gen. Sir Evelyn
Wood. the adjutsnt general. had to come
to his assistance with letter declaring
there was nothing dishonorable connected
with his resignation from the army, and
vouching for the correctness of Church
MS recent dual role of officer and oorre-
spondent. Some of the liberals of Oldham
apparently make more serious insinuatons
against the young candidate, hut like his
father, Churchill seems TO reve, in fight
and is said to stand d good chance of being
elected.
Another war character. Captain Lambton
OF the British cruiser Powerful has been
assisted in his fight against the government
by getting letter from Lord Rosebery. He
is also backed by all the arstocratic inter
sets of the Durham family.
The Church Involved
Church associations are figuring activ ely
in the campaign. The Imperial Protestant
Federation has received promises from
thirty-two candidates to oppose to the ut
most any movement tending to bring Eng
land and the Vatican I'm closer touch or
towards RomaniZing" the established
church. On the other hand, the leading
roman catholic papers almost unanimously
support the conservatives, believing that If
rot a1 yxrfY1 N1fJ ntnri
they will achieve the project of giving Ire
land Catholic university and in other
ways see that the educational interests of
Catholics in England do not suffer.
The annual church congress, in progress
at Newcastle, was attended by the arch
bishop Of Canterbury and nearly all the
other Episcopal and lay dignitaries, in
Guiding several American and Canadian
clergymen. Though held in the midst of
the election excitement, politics were care
fully avoided, apd the proceedings were
marked by unexpected harmony The spec
tac1e of Mr.. John Kenst, the anti-ritualist
agitator, speaking good-humoredly before
ritualists upon the effect of the reforma-
ton. suggested to writer the lion lying
down with the lamb.
Talmage Returns to London.
DIR. T. De Witt Talmage has returned
to London, after an extended trip through
Europe, from which he has benefited con-
siderably. He breaches in Wesley's old
chapel, London, September 30 and then
goes to Ireland There he will address
meetings at Belfast and Dublin whence he
returns to the United States.
The queen now has a long list of names
submitted to her those of persons
worthy of honcrs for service i'm South At
RIGA. The identity of those who figure in
this list is already causing keen specula-
ton In certain circles. The shower Of c.
BIS Companion of the Bath, c. NJ G.'s
Companion of st. Michael and ST George
&c, Will be unprecedented. 1t is rumored
that Lord Wolseley will be made an earl
and be appointed viceroy of Ireland, to
succeed Earl Cadogan, whose resignation
seems impending. What Lord Roberts will
get still remains secret, but Lord Kitch-
ener it is said, If he remains in South At
RIGA, will be given the local rank of full
general, so that he can be second in COM
mand to Gen Butler, after Lord Roberts
leaves. Lord Wolseley. by the way. is
quoted in an interview as saying that
China, through love of nature and art
must one day develop into great nation -
The end of all things, in Lord Wolseley's
opinion, will be China fighting the United
States for the supremacy of the world.
Two New Periodicals.
Two new weeklies are about to APPEAR
The first is Clement Seott's Free Lance
which will be published next week with
an article by Marie Corelli as the chief at
traction The second is a new society
paper which Mrs. Williamson is about to
bring out. Mrs. Williamson is a young
woman Of unexceptional social position, the
wife of colonel in the, British army, and
has many influential friends here and in
America interested in her venture She
brought out the celebrated Book of Beauty
four years ago and has lately been editing
the society column of the Daily Mail and
writing for 1t under the signature of "The
Onlooker." which will be the name of her
paper. Mrs. Williamson says the paper
will be run entirely on the idea Of the
great value Of Anglo-American co-opera-