The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1900-04-27
LOSES MANY SUPPORTERS
LORD ROSEBERRY alternating
LIBERALS.
His Recent Speech in the eHouse Of
Lords Has Set the Party by the
Ears.

The position in politics which Lord
Roseberry has taken up at the present
time is causing many of his old friends
and associates much anxiety in Scot
land. There is no doubt about the fact
that few noblemen have enjoyed, in
Scotland, so great a run of popularity
as Lord Roseberry has experienced dur
ing the last quarter of a century. From
his first appearance as a youth in public
life success has attended him. He is
a many sided man; he is well read; he
is diligent student of Scottish history
and of Burns. He has ventured upon
the field of authorship with success. He
is a brilliant and convincing speaker,
and as a politician, he has, up to the
present time, made few mistakes. To
use a common expression, he has played
his cards we'll, and his hand has always
contained a large number of uumps.,
In CONJUNCTION with the editor IF the
Scotsman, he planned Mr. Gladstone's
famous Midlothian campaign of 1879.
He was the personal friend and devoted
follower of that distinguished states
man, and not only by his political al
lies, but by Scotsmen generally, he
was given a representative character
which few others enjoy. Conservatives
and radicals were equally proud of
him, and his career may be said to
have reached its zenith when he was
appointed prime minister On lllN usulIl
of his old chief. That appointment,
however, marked the beginning of his
troubles. Sir William Harcourt, the
old warhorse OF the radical party, felt
himself sighted He and his friends
made it hot for the youthful prime min
lister, and if the inner history of that
brief period of premiership could be
written, there is no doubt that it would
form reading of an interesting charac-
to wa he M
in the liberal ranks, and Lord Rqsebery
has never made any secret of the fact
that he laid down the high office with
n great deal more pleasure than he
took it up.
Since then the breach between the
parties in the liberal camp has been
widening. Lord Rosebery, while pro-
Tossing practically to be out of politics,
has on more than one occasion come
forward in the most patriotic fashion
and given his voice in support of the
Government of the day. This was not
able at the time of the Fashoda incl
dent, and he has again during the
present war crisis declared for country
rather than for party and has thereby
given great offense to those who were
once his political friends. Wishing to
have a free hand he recently resigned
the Craftsmanship of the National Lib
eral Club of England, of the Eighty
Club, of the Scottish Liberal Associa-
ton, and has contrived of late by his
Imperialism so to rouse the ire of the
extreme section of the radical party
that it is doubtful now whether he or
Mr.. Chamberlain is the more abused
man.
His recent speech in the House of
Lords, i'm which he played the most UNI
usual part of alarmist and lingo, has
set his friends further by the ears, and
today some of the more blatant are ad-
vocating firing out" Lord Rosebery
from the party altogether, as the only
method of promoting union. This, how
ever, as far as Scotland is concerned
will be easier said than done, and even
in England Lord Rosebery has suftic-
lent influence to make such a task an
exceedingly difficult one. Lord Rose
bery's best friends however regret eX-
tremely his recent speech and many
more such orations would inevitably
ALLEVIATE the sympathies of those who
have stuck to him through thick and
thin and would solve the problem as "a
whether or not he is destined to lead
the liberal party again. The country
cannot aoffrd to lose the brilliant brain
and magnificent patriotism Of Lord
Rosebery and his friends hope that II
was one of those speeches that even
able statesmen sometimes make With
out refection.-Chicago Record.