The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-01-05
CALL FOR ROSEBERY
LIBERALS WANT HIM TO RESUME
LEADERSHIP OF HIS
PARTY
THEIR APPEAL DIsREGARDET
Public Not Likely to Swap Horses
Until Some Streams In south
Africa Have Been
Crossed.
special correspondence of Globe.

| Special Correspondence OF UtObe.
LIVERPOOL, Dec 17.-No political
event of recent years has been looked for
ward to in Great Britain with keener
anticipation than the reapp6arance OF
Lord Rosebery on the political platform.
Throughout his career he has been for
tunes darling. Almost everything that
heart could wish or mind conceive has
been thrown in prolific abundance into his
lap but it only affords one more Illus
tration that it is not along this road, but
rather on the more rugged one of suffer
ing and often of disaster and apparent
defeat, that great achievement is finally
attained Lord Rosebery has been the
chosen and trusted leader of the historic
Liberal party and since he resigned the
leadership a section of it has never ceas-
| ed urging him to resume it. Finally the
| great majority of the party afforded
him an opportunity Of doing so, and he
has rewarded them all with contumely.
| Lord Rosebery is thus his own grave
! digger, and most men working with the
energy he has displayed would long ere
| this have buried themselves beyond hope
| of excavation. It is more by good luck
! than good management that he has al
! ways been able to unearth himself again,
| for national gratitude is essentially
! tickle, and will break the windows to-
! morrow of its savior of yesterday. But
| the British people are pining for man,
| a man that is to lead them and in whom
! for a time they are ready to repose i'm
| plieit confidence There are plenty will
| ing to fill the post, but the nation is coy
and will have none Of them, always cast
ing sidelong glances at Lord Rosebery
| and suggesting to him that he has only
to WOO and win. Indeed, it is lust a
| question whether it has not adopted the
| unmaidenly expedient of throwing itself
| into his arms unbidden. But the nation
after all consists of individuals. and ind-
Vlduals range themselves into parties,
| and Lord Rosebery wants to accent Fbe
one while rejecting the other. but to sUc
ceed ne will need to create a new ma
ZION ana not mrely resurrect an old party.
Like most anticipated events. this one
mas proved severe disappointment AT
| the very commencement Of his speech
| indeed, Lord Rosebery himself fore
| Swallowed it. II think there has been
some misunderstanding, he said ',rhe~e
mas been great fuss. We have been
| leo to expect that this meeting was to
erect all sorts of wonderful things Well
| am not responsible for that fuss But
that is exactly what he was. He slim
uiated the hopes of his friends ana
reused the dread of his opponents TIA,
/ ne was going to unfold a statesman!ike
policy that would bring the war to an
honorable conclusion, effect settlement
III South Africa acceptable to all men
| " hlOuSIdLe opinions ana calculated TO
! captiyate some holding extreme ones. He
was asked for bread and gave a stone
| and a very hard one, too He had moth
ing better to offer than the stern eff
Gent, vigorous prosecution Of the war
dlsavoWed absolutely any idea of MAX
ing overtures of peace, though ready to
listen to those from the other side pro-
yided they were on the basis of absolute
surrender, disappreved of any Interior
| ence with the jurisdiction Of Lord Mil
ner and objected to the dispatch OF a
special commission to reopen and con-
duct negotiations. All this is just what
the present administration is contending
1 for, and the man who supports the one
| ought to stand by the other People may
! believe their country wrong and say SO
openly without being unpatriotic, but it
is surely distinct want of patriotism
| to believe it right and criticise it in
| the face of its enemies morning. noon
and night And for practical purposes,
| as well as in the eyes of the world
nation and the administration controlune
! its affairs are synonymous; the people
! who believe otherwise must turn it out
and take its place if they can. But to
| do so with no other purpose than to car
Try out exactly the same policy, even II
| In slightly different way, splacKs OF