The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-08-23
MARQUIS OF SALISBURY DEAD.
THREE TINES PRIME MINISTER
or ENGLAND.
Had Been I'LL Long Time With kidney
Disease Public Career Began In RS53
Not Always Friendly Toward This
Country, but Avoided Complications.
Special Gable Despatch to THE SUN.

at 9l5 O'Clock tonight after long illness
with kidney disease.
1t was not until Friday morning that a
special messenger arrived at Hatfield House
from London with an apparatus for the
administration Of oxygen, which was
promptly applied This gave Some relief
and caused transitory rally. but the
family did not deceive themselves into
believing that there would be any perma
nent benefit.
On Saturday afternoon the grief Of the
stricken family was accumulated by the
burial in the quiet Hatfield churchyard OF
the Countess of Galloway, the half sister
Of the former Premier. Her death had an
appreciate effect on Lord Salisbury's
condition, and turing her ohsequies the
nearest relatives were compelled TO remain
within call al his bedside. fearing that the
end would arrive.
Prime Minister Balfour and some other
members Of the family ate nded the funeral,
and it was noticed that the Premier was
deeply affected and did not attempt to con-
ceal his emotion.
After this Lord Salisbury gradually but
perceptibly sank. He had been uncon-
nounced weakness, which increased until
he passed away peacefully, surrounded
by his family
His end came on exactly the ffteth an
niversary of his entrance into public lie.
His disappearance from the scene leaves
vacancy which men of the newer genera
ton will find hard to fill He was the
greatest figure left on Britain's political
stage, on which he had remained until the
limit OF his endurance was reached.
When half a century ago young Lord
Robert Cecil had just returned from visit
10 the Aust ralian gold fields nc became
member OF the House Of Commons for
Stamford, which was practically pocket
borough of the Marquis OF Exeter, himself
Il Cecil.
He told the electors that it was his desire
to uphold he Conservative prinCipl, OF his
predeCess Though, he addC of c, urs,
not obieCting to such cant iuus changes
AZ the lapse Of time or the imp!ovenH Its Of
science, or the dispensations Of Providence
may render neCe Ssary.'
Since then Lord Salisbury's political
career is part Of ldcrn history. In private
life, as in pClitics. ne was always the gre at
ari,,0crat, His party never dared to at
tempt to dictate 10 him His people" on
his estates in seven countits also II garced
him as their chief, in a fashion whith is
quite rare nowadays. This was part iClI-
fie Id, whose villagers thrc ugh"u. The past
anxious days have shown hat silent CCur-
tesy which only springs from sincere
respect.
The villagers Of HIATT field are for the mcst
part retaners whose lives have been linked
for general ions with the fortunes Of the
Cecils. To them Lord Salisbury has been
something more than a great statesman
or the most striking figure in public life.
He has hoen the nearest realization that
modern conditions permit Of an English
noble who took an active interest in the
welfare of his people.
Lord Salisbury had long been a great
sufferer from equity complaints. On the
advice Of Sir William Broadbent, in August,
1893, after the strain Of guiding affairs
during the Spanish American War. he de-
cided 10 try course OF the waters of Con-
trexeviie, At the eud OF the Usual three
weeks treatment he returned to town free
Of all symptoms OF his trouble.
Then il was that he became the ardent
tricvClist which made him so easily dist in
guished figure IN HYDE Park in The early
mornings. 1t was there that he del eloped
on these morning JOURNEYS during which
he became prey to snapshot pE0tOg
raphers, like other sensitive eminent men,
an inveterate objection TO The process
If walking he would flourish his stick at an
enterprsing camera man, and on one oCCa-
sion he suddenly turned his back on one
Eflo' pRI'pitl, SilE 10 IhtHtlit iIIS race
TO another who thus secured a good piCi ure.
Lord Salisbury's death and the c0nse-
Quent elevation of VisCount Cranhorne to
the marquisate will inevitably lead to alter
atlons in the personnel Of the Ministry,
as the new Marquis cannot retain his Under
Secretaryship in the House Of Lords, where
the Marquis Of LansdowEe represents the
Foreign Office. Viscount CrGnhorne's de-
parture from the House of Commons and
consequent elevation to the House of Lords
will cause bye-clection in the Rochester
division.
The death of the Marquis Of Salisbury
creates vacancy in the wardenship Of
at the disposal of the King 1t is expected
that the funeral Of the Marquis will take
place from Hatfield House.
Lord Salisbury, three times the Prime
Minister, of England and for fifty years
in British politics, began his public career
in 1853, when he was elected 10 Parliament
from the pocket borough of Stamford
He retired permanently a year ago, when
he resigned the Premiership Of King Ed
wards first Cabinet and was succeeded
IA Prime Minister by his nephew, the Rt.
Hon Arthur James Balfour
Lord Salisbury, Robert Arthur Talbot
Gasoogne-Cecil, the third Marquis and
ninth Earl Of Salisbury, Viscount Gram
borne, Baron Cecil, was born on Feb. 3,
in 1858.
Lord Salisbury was always a Tory TO
he backbone, but free lance within his
own party, In his three terms as Prime
Minister he held that post, all told, for |
thirteen and half years, a longer term |
than that of any Prime Minister since the |
Earl of Liverpool, in the beginning of the |
nineteenth century He was member of !
every Conservative Cahine, from the time |
of the Earl of Derby's third adminsra- |
tion, in 1866. Under Lord Beaconsfed he |
was Minister of Foreign Affairs, and held |
that post in connection with his own Pre- !
miership throughout his first two admin |
istrations. When Prime Minister for ID !
ward VII, Lord Salisbury resigned the |
Ministry Of Foreign Affairs to Lord Lans-
downe.
Lord Salisbury, as Foreign Minister,
showed dislike and dislrLst OF thc Tilted |
States, but he always managed to avoid |
complications The Vcue2uelan affair
was, of course, the most conspicuous In
ci.ont Of his success in knowing when to |
stop in an UnfTicndiy course toward this
country. One of the surprising things
in his career was speech in 1900, in which |
he practically adnittcd that he was sorry |
for tho stand that FL. GIJnd under his guild
and in which he said that he accepted the
Monroe Doctrine az an article of policy
and that England had never meant to
attack the MONROE Doctrine.
In 1867 Lord Salisbury married Georgiana
Caroline Anderson the daughter of u bar
ristcr, The maria re was distasteful to
his family, and tor Il few years Lord Sails
buryS income was cut or aud he was obliged
to support himself Ev writing for the re-