Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1903-08-27
lord SALISBURY
PASSES AWAY.
Peacefully and Without Evil
dence OF Pain He Sinks
Into Eternal Sleep.
HIS w 0NDERF.UL POWER
Entered Parliament at Age of 20 and
Became Leader at Once---HeId Po-
sition of Prime Minister Longer
Than Amy Other Man,

London, August 24.-Lord Sails
bury, one of tie last of the great
statesmen of the past generation, is
dead under the burden of his advan.
ced age. He died at S:15 Saturday
evening.
Lord Salisbury had been Ill since
early last winter, but his condition
was not regarded as serious until
early in the present month. Accord
ing to the medical journals he suf-
fered from intestinal paresis, which
developed from the illness following
the death of his wife in 1899 Not
outstanding his illness, he had per-
sisted in working until he was forced
to take his bed. AS recently as Aug
ust 7 it was reported that the mar
quis was engaged on an important
work on chemical electrical science,
his favori,e hobby.
The village of Hatfield which still
retains many features of the feudal
period, was filled with anxious resi-
dents awaiting the news of his lord
ships demise. The great Hatfield
lOuSS, Dtuluu Tie SCIetu VI
pine trees, was lighted at every win
! dow, and gave no sign of the ap-
preaching fatality. Groups of watch
ers clustered on the Elizabethan
arcehs' food gates, anxiously ques-
tioning each other.
4nally the news came when a hat
less servant dashed down the gravel
ed roadway, saying as he passed,
He has gone," and then disappeared
in the church. Soon thereafter the
slowly and the villagers at the street
corners uncovered in acknowledge
ment OF the passing of their neighbor
and friend, England's great states
man.
Viscount Cranborne, who now as
sumes the title of Marquis of Sails
bury, Immediately notified King
Edward and Queen Alexandra, the
| Prince and Princess of Wales and
others, including Lord Edward Cecil,
Tie soldier son of Lord Salisbury,
who is now in Egypt, and who was
| the only child of the marquis absent
| from his deathbed. Soon messages
of coincidence began coming in, and
the little telegraph Office at Hatfield
was swamped with unprecedented
business.
The death of Lord Salisbury
occurred on the fiftieth anniversary
of his entry into public life as a mem
| Der of the house of commons for
| Stamford.
The elevation of Lord Cranborne to
| the house of lords creates vacancy
| in the Rochester district, and prob
| Oh will rot hn Of a
new under secretary Of foreign
affairs.
In the death of Lord Salisbury
| passes the greatest Englishman of
the day. Ten years ago half of the
nauon only would have asserted so
much; today there is no dissentient
voice. To the last day of his prem
| iership Lord Salisbury remained ex'
elusive and aristocratic in life and
| thoughts yet the whole nation learn
| ed to trust his guidance and his over
| whelming sense of public duty. That
| sense of public duty never left him :;
having once thrown off the reins of
office, he made none of those sudden
excursions into politics so often
brught dismay to Mr.. Gladstones ex.
colleagues.
In 1860 he was appointed secretary
| in Lord DeIby's second administra-
ton His progress from that time on
may be judged from the following
| table:
Secretary of state for India, 1874
1878.
Sc ,retary of state for foreign
affairs, 1S7S-1SS0.
Special ambassador at conference
on eastern affairs at Constantinople,
1S76-1S77.
Second plenipotentiary for Great
Britain at congress of Berlin, 1878.
Prime minister and secretary of
state for foreign affairs, 1S85-18S6.
Prime minister and first, lord Of
| treasury, 1SS6-1SS7.
Prime minister and secretary OF
state of foreign affairs. 1SS7-1S92.
Prime minister and lord privy seal
and secretary of state for foreign
affairs. 1S95-1900.
Prime minister and lard privy seal,
19Oo-1902