New-York tribune., 1908-03-08
Asnuith About to Succeed
Campbell-Bannerman.
Saws Ex-Attache.

rCopvrisht 1908 by the Brentwood Company
AS many eyes not only In all parts u '
,-oe+ british Empire but also in numerous IoF-
.ien countries are turned Just at present upon
ue-her, Aso,Iith who since the beginning oA
Sir Henry Campbell Bannermans serious iii"e
has been taking his place as leaoeF oi 'iie g.
ernrnent and is now about TO succeed hi'ii III 'o
Premiership, IL may be well 10 oiiei W ~
readers Of these letters few brief notes ueS
tined TO enable them to understand a s'N
NON concerning whom misapprehenson pre-
walls Leaving others TO deai Win lie p
,,,,caI experiences and aspirations, 1 viii en-
aaavor SO far as is possible to present the PER
sonal element Of the man whom s'r oi"' sS
nuke essr,redly no mean Judge in such ihat-
,e-. professes to regard as the greatest par
,tanentartan in the United Kingdom
No man in English public life has coioef
manner or a kinder heart. He is whouy iachiiis
IN cordianty nor has he any trace OF tiat pei
xonai magnetism which some cohs'oef' anu
wrongly so, indispensao1e 10 P"
leader But he impresses one py his e4lfaofoi-
nary lucidity OF utterance and OF inteiiect' nis
at..,oe of bumor is more than counter balanced
by his convincing cieverness. ana ne pessesees
an an altogether pre-emnent degree mat one
- o+ oil others which the English speaking
,a,pe So highly in their public nen-that
is to say safeness.
,rbere ,s no danger Of his ever being carried
quay nv emotion of his deferring to mere senti-
rneut or OF speaking on the Impulse OF Ihe iho
mon. In fact no one credits him with any such
thing as impulse in the sense OF It's suporoiiia
tiou TO cold logic and reason ano Ile hotoa aiiu
ax,ectations which were formed by his frienos
snd acnuatntances concerning him when he took
n golf that IL would inevitably result IN MS
learning to swear, have not been realized
HIS SECOND MARRIAGE.
p-ohahIv il was lust because Of these peculiar
o,.,.c+eristics that he was able to win the
t..-, and the hand of one of the most brilliant
vou7.n In London society, who is his antithesis
IN every respect who is brimful OF wit anu OF
bumor. possessed of such magnetism as to rem
der men such Arthur Balfour. LORD iehhy
son and William E Gladstone her most oeVoteo
admirers and subject to ner sway, ana "ho'
Lnown from one end of Europe TO the other
nrio- 10 her marriage as Miss Margot remnant
;s familiar TO many people In America throueh
~ nortraval as Dodo in the popular novel
of that name, which first made the iltefaiy
-s,uta,iou of its author. Edward Frederick Ben
- ,,o,,,uer son Of the late Archbishop of Can
terbury.
,.,ss -Iack" Tennant is understood 10 have
r.,ec,ed innumerabe offers OF marriage before
.x,onishtne not only her friends and acquaint-
.,ces but likewise the public through oecon1-
ing the second wife Of Herbert Asouith' sen
-. man in every sense of the word. without
any special comeiness, birth or fortune ana
,,,oraover handicapped in q matrimonial sense
nv +. family OF six children issue OF his former
..,.us T, is dificult TO say whether II was
the m rlsring contradiction between their 'empera-
--o,,.l characteristics that first attracted Mar
-, r,.,nsnt TO Herbert Asauith. or whether II
.,-as that with her clever. feminine intuition
she penetrated the qualities OF heart that were
concealed under the cold academic exterior Oh
the present Chancellor OF the Ehoneauef' ana
foresaw already fourteen years ago '""' -. a'
i'i ', -, ~ these days TO become Prime
Minister of the British Empire
urhs,sver the cause of her attraction II can