New-York tribune., 1901-11-24
A NEW ENGLISH HAND.
MR.. WINSTON SPENCER CHURCHILL'S
AUDACITY HAS POLITICAL IN
STINCT BEHIND IT.
Leicester NnYemher Is.

Leicester. November 10
Mr.. Winston Spencer Churchill is coming
on hand over hand. His speech before the
Unionsts at Temperance Hall recently. which
L was enabled to hear by taking a train
from Manchester hour after Mr. John
Morley'S address at the unveiling of the
Gladstone statue, was a revelation of youth
full audacity tempered with instructive kuowl-
edge of the trend of public opinion These were
his fathers qualities and heredity vindicated
itself. l had not considered Mr.. Churchill
good speaker on earlier occasions in London;
but there a marked improvement of style
In Leicester. He still lisped, 1t true, as his
father had done before him; his voice was tnln
and at times shrill and unpeasantly nasal; and
he had not overcome fault in brea athinS Wnch
has disturbed his colleagues in Parliament The
gestures awkward and the delivery
monotonous With all these defects his fuency
was unchecked by hesitation reconstruction
of sentences; he spoke for nearly two hours with
only a few aids to memory; he had command
of his audience from beginning to end. although
he sharply attacking the War Office and
condemning the Ministry for allowing the war to
drag along interIninaby: and there fine
play of drollery and wit, which kept the gall
leries in sCod humor Mr. Churchill may not
have mastered what is known at Westminster
the Parliamentary style; but he knows how
to address English political audience He is
bright, humorous. resourcefu and audacious,
and he has the unerring instinct of free lance
who is in touch with all the elements of public
discomfort
The assurance of this spoilt child of Unionist
politics fairly takes ones breath away. Mr.
Churchill undertakes to criticlse in detail the
management Of the War Office and the conduct
of Lord Kitchener. when his own reputation as
a military expert is based upon his adventures
as a war correspondent in escaping from Boer
prison. He is a Churchill. and has been taken
up by the Duke Of Marlborough as a man OF
destiny, with the promise Of the potency of
Prime Minister: yet he amuses the shoemakers
and stocking weavers Of Leicester by jocular
ridicue of the titled classes and by making a
Roman holiday at the expense of the dukes
He has been in Parliament during single ses-
sion and bis political achievements are as slight
as his military experience; but so seriously does
he take himself that he does not hesitate to
call upon the three four of real strength
in the government to intervene in South Africa
and TO enable Lcrd Kitchener TO finish the war
The down is on his cheeks and the sparkle OF
youth Is in his eyes he explains TO Mr.. Cham
berlain and Mr. Balrour what they ought to say
in their next speeches. instructs Mr.. Brodrlck
In the routine Of the War Office, chafs the dukes
as the prize strawberries Of the political garden
coaches Lord Kitchener details OF military
nlZatOn, ana, as d Booo pdi ~ man 'i'41 q
candid friend tells Lord Salisbury what ought
70 he done: but he carries # off so bravely, ana
is in such rollickng good humor, that every
body laughs and recognizes in him his fathers
son Lord Randolph Churchill had the same
happy-go-Iucky way of meddling in the affairs
of his superiors and OF taking the country into
his confidence respecting the ignorance and in
capacity Of those who were in the strongholds
Of power; and he was the idol OF the Tory De-
rnocracy with instinct for politics unTivalled
In his party.
The speech which heard IN Temperance Hall
was delivered before q large and enthusiastic
audience Of Liberal Unonists and Tories
few Liberals and Radicals may have found their
way into the galleries, but the house was mainly
occupied by supporters of the government, ad-
rnitted by tickets issued by the local party or