The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-04-06
BANNERMAN QUITS
EDWARD APPOINTS
ASQU!TH PREMIER
King Names to Highest Cabinet
Office Statesman He Doesn't
Favor.
NEW MINISTER'S WIFE
AND ROYALTY AT ODDS
Parliament Will Adjourn to Give
Asquith Time to Reconstruct
TOttering Government Forces.

LONDON, April 6.-Herbert Asquith,
Chancellor of the E~xchequer, has re-
ceived King Edwards mi to go
to Biarritz, France, to receive the ap-
pointment as Premier of England. Sir
Henry Campbell-Bannerman yester-
day submitted to the King his resig-
nation as Prime Minister.
The bulletin issued this morning re-
garding the heath of Sir Henry says
that the patient had a good night and
tina his condition remains unchanged.
Upon acceptance of the appointment
by Asquith tomorrow the ancient cere-
mony of kissing hands will be OBJ
served.
No other change in the existing gov
ernmen is expected at present, Mr..
Asquith's policy being to cause as little
disturbance as possible. For a time he
will perform the duties of both Prime
Minister and Chancellor of the Elk
ohequer, drawing salary for only one
office.
Mr.. Asquith's accession to the
premiership is regarded with some
misgiving by the Liberal party, be-
cause, though he is endowed with
superb intellectual gifts, a born poll
tician, strong, self-reliant, experienced
In administration and verSed in affairs,
he Is a man of unpleasant, unattrac-
tive personality.
Disliked by EdNar
It is we'll known hat King Edward
shares the general antipathy to MI.
Asquith personally and that neither he
nor Queen Alexandra a tolerate his
wife, the once much-talked-of Mar
got" Tenant.
1t has been said that whenever MIR.
Asquith fails to %antogonize anybody
his wife unfailingly does it for MIN.
She always says whatever comes up
permost in her mind, and that almost
invariably is something unpleasant.
Mr.. Asquith has three sons, all by
his first wife, who have gained the
very highest school and university dis
tinction and for whom brilliant careers
are predicted.
A confident, ~self-contained, Keen
eyed, cold -blooded, domineering man IS
Herbert Asquith. He smiles, but there
is no warmth in his expression. He
speaks and his voice has no human
sympathy in it; no emotion, no reso-
nance, no thrill. He is as coldly calcu-
lating as Thomas f. Ryan; he is as
alert and defiant as Edward IL. Harri-
man; he is as autocratic as j. Pierpont
Morgan.
Today had been fixed for Mr.. Asquith
to move in tho House of Commons the
second reading of the licensing bill, the
measure that is regarded as the most
dangerous of all the government bills
to the ministry's tenure of office. Under
the changed conditions, this debate
probably will be postponed until after
Easter, and an~adjournment of Parlia-
ment moved to enable the Chancellor
TO proceed to Biarritz.
Speculation on Charges.
1t is regarded now as practically GER
tain that David Lloyd-George presi-
lent of the Board of Trade, will sue
coed Mr.. Asquith as Chancellor and
that Sir Edward Grey will retain his
portfolio as Foreign Secretary.
Among the interesting predictions is
that Winston Spencer Churchill, Under
Secretary for the Colonies, will take
the place of the Earl of Elgen as Colo
NAL Secretary and that Lord Tweed
mouth. First Lord of the Admiralty,
will withdraw in order to accept some
other office
The extreme radical and labor men
are inclined to see in Asquith's impe-
REALISTIC views the end of some of their
aspirations for socialistic reforms.
Similar feelings are likely to prevail in
the Irish benches of the House of Com
mons. Among the general public, no
body doubts his consummate ability
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