Omaha daily bee., 1905-09-03
CURZON IN POLITICS
British Politicians Watch with Interest
Return of the Former ViosrOy.
MAY BECOME LEADER OF THE LIBERALS
While Conservative Official Less Of Power
Nay Force Change.
CHANCE TO ENFORCE INDIAN POLICY
Nay Be Able to Compel Kitchener to
Adopt His Method.
AMERICAN WIFE has HIGH AMBITION
Lady CurEOn said to Desire Her Hus-
band TO Return to London and
Leave Impress Upon
While a Conservative Official Less Of Power
Nay Force Change.
CHANCE TO ENFORCE INDIAN POLICY
May Be Able to Compel Kitchener t
Adopt His Method
AMERICAN WIFE has HIGH AMBITION

LONDON, Sept. 2.-(special Cablegram TO /
The Bee 1T is possible that the two great |
parties of Great Britain, the conservatives |
and the liberals, are about to see the |
entering wedge of the line of cleavage and |
the greatest split in party policies wit |
messed since Joseph Chamberlain startled !
the world with his reputation of free trade /
and his commencement OF a campaign in
favor of protection.
1t is beginning TO be believed here that
the resignation of Lord Curzon of Kedleston
as viceroy OF India foretells trouble for the
con servatives. Baron Curzon Is con-
servative but this fact makes him all
the more powerful in case he chooses to
lead the fight in England against the con-
servatives and the home government. In
all probability party ties in Great Britain
set more lightly on mems shoulders than
they do in the United States or the colonies,
From the days of the agitation in favor
of the abolition of the corn laws, from the
times of the great Pitt, English history is
full of Instances in which great leaders
of men have turned and walked into the
camp OF the opposition without the cry
OF traitor" really seriously inJuring them.
No one believes here that Lord Curzon is
! the kind of a man to surrender fight for
| a great principle without making a contest
which shall be truly historic The corre-
| spondence shows a decidedly bitter feeling
between Lord Curzon and Lord Kitchener,
I the commander-in-Chief of the forces in
! India, over the new scheme of army ad-
! mnlstration in India. Lord Curzon's dis
! satisfaction came to a head with the re-
! fusal of the cabinet to appoint Major Gen
eral Sir Edmund Barrow on Lord Curzons
recommendation to be military supply
member of the council.
CurEon Might Make Trouble.
! II Lord Curzon should return to England
at the present time and join forces with
the liberals It would undoubtedly cause a
political unheaval which must result in
the downfall of the present conservative
administration 1t will be remembered that
! just prior to the adjournment of Parlia-
ment the government suffered a severe
defeat at the Iands of the liberals. Though
Mr. BalfourV refused to recognize the fact
! that the situation called for resignat tion
| of the cabinet and an appeal to the country,
1 il was everywhere admitted that the ad-
verse vote meant a general election within
one year. The conservative leaders were
a unit i'm acknowledging this: the chief
objection urged was the fact that an appeal
to the country during the hot summer
months was not desirable. Even the liberals
agreed with the conservatives that the
summer time was not propitious for a
campaign. Roughly speaking, it would ap-
pear that the chief difference between the
liberals and the conservatives in the matter
| of the time of holding the election Is that
the liberals want It next fall the con-
servatives hoping TO be able to put
OF the crisis until next spring. And IL
the weakness OF the government is any
criterion, a liberal cabinet with q liberal
| fa moi ha
In case Lord Curzon should play his
cards right it is not impossible that he
may find himself in the lead of of the lib
eral party. Mr.. Campbell -Bannerman is not
regarded as really strong man-the type
OF a man to command and demand attention
at the hands of the voters OF Great Britain
Then II would undoubtedly be sweet re-
venge for Lord Curzon TO succeed Mr..
Broderick. secretary of state for India, for
1t was the fact that Mr.. Broderick sided
with Lord Kitchener instead of Lord Cur
zon which brought about the destruction
of the influence of the Indian viceroy with
the home government.
May Rank Kitchener.
or Lord Curzon might choose the post
OF war minister in the United Kingdom.
thereby making himself Lord Kitchener's
superior and forcing his idea upon India
through the War office from London and
through Lord Kitchener himself The whirl-
igig of time has brought stranger revenges
than that. One thing is certain that Lord
Curzon has much to hope for at the hands
of the liberals-he has little or nothing tn
hope for at the hands of the conservatives
He has already been honored by a con-
servative administration in being made
| viceroy Of India and being given the H.
| rection of the political affairs of a Rreater
} number of human beings than owe alleR-
lance to any monarch living except the
emperor OF China. II Is question: HE
I whether In the eyes OF millions ana mil
5 lions of people the position OF premier Is
3 any greater than that Of vceroy OF India
The gap between the two posts is certainly
, not so great as might appear at first blush.
3 Lord CurZon knows the game and he is
ambitious. HIS American wife Is sIso
a ambitious 10 have him return 10 London
and leave his imprint on public arrairs
70 there, and his American father-in-Iaw
II Mr. Letter. is on record as saying that thu
youthful Lord CurEon is one OF the ablest
men OF the times. Beginning public life
as assistant secretary to the late LORD
Salisbury he has risen with such rapiditv
{ that In 1883 when only 50 he was appointed
TO the post which he has just laid down II
is impossible 20 think that a man with the
| trainings ana the anlpltions or Lord Cur
zon Will be able 10 retire while in the prime
o Of life from public life, especially II the
n returns to England at a tine when Great
+ Britain has become a hOtbed OF imperial
- politics.
= Political Wiseacres may be disposed to
e discredit the idea OF Lord Curzon asso-
d ciating himself with the liberals for he Is
h an ardent imperialist. and his was the
h policy which carried the British to Lhassa,
and Lord Rosebery has been constantly
h and continually booming Lord Kitchener
j. for minister OF war.
e II great soldiers like Kitchener may be
j. said TO have any politics then the man OF
& iron who went to Khartoum and who wa,
& Lord Roberts chief OF stan in South
e Africa may be said TO be a liberal but
h with his present opponent In India a power
i In liberal circles IN London IL would prob