The Irish standard., 1910-06-04
KING OF ENGLAND
IS NOT A TORY
So Says 7. P. O'Connor, M. P, in a
Special Cable to the Chi
cago Tribune.
The Warfare on the Lords is Halted
on Account of Edwards
Demice.
New King Does Not Want to Begin
Reign With Sort of a
Civil War.

The new king has passed as Tory
| largely because he spoke so frequently
of drawing the colonies and the moth
er country together; and our protec-
| tionists proclaim protection as the
only means of accomplishing that pur-
| pose. He also lacks a good deal Of
the popular fiber which made the
late king so typical an Englishman
and therefore so. popular with all
classes, says T. P. O'Connor, M. P, in
the Chicago Tribune Of May 29.
The late king had a tremendous con-
stitution, could go. through fatigues
! that would kill half dozen ordinary
men, and had almost to the last mo-
ment an infectious joie de vivre which
made him take his share in all the
amusements as we'll as the business of
his position. He also had a powerful
will and an almost overscrupulous
sense Of his obligations.
1
The public ceremonies which one
would have thought would have be-
come to him boresome to the last de-
gree he enjoyed. He had an innate
love of the grandiose, with the result
that wherever he went he always was
given q program too full almost for
Theodore Roosevelt Reviews Of
troops, visits to public places, with
addresses and bands and cavalcades-
all that he liked and went through
with positive enjoyment unless he was
ill. ...,
And even illness could not keep him
back. Last year, when it was thought
necessary in order to mitigate the bad
feeling which was growing up abe-
tween England and Germany, the
king went to Berlin, although it was
bleak winter. He was not we'll and he
almost choked to death at one of the
solemn and prolonged banquets in
which Berlin rejoices.
The record of the last few days OF
his life in the same way shows him
receiving ambassadors, starting gov
ernors to distant colonies, and all tha,
kind of thing when he ought to have
been in bed. I hear that he insisted
on dispatch boxes being brought te
his bedside even on Friday before he
sank into unconsciousness and that he
signed his name to a number of doc.
uments
u The new king has none Of this i'm
mense physical energy. He looks al.
most as delicate as the Gear of Rus.
sia, whom he resembles a good dea
in appearance. He also can do none
Of those Gargantuan meals which hi.
father could face. 1 am told that hi:
digestion is not strong and that he has
to take what is known as the cdr,
mear-That is to say, the meal which
is not interrupted, at any stage til
it's end by liquid in any form. He i.
not great lover of manly sports, bu
he is an excellent shot, one of tn,
best in England.
He also has lived a domesticatet
; life. Though not long married, he al
ready has a large family, and h,
spends most Of his evenings with hi
! wife. She, as you know, is the daugh
%I,a 1oko
ular woman in her day, like her cou
r sin, the late king, inexhaustible in he
: readiness to open fairs, to help al
kinds of charities to inaugurate build
, ings. She is a typical Englishwoman
fond of her children and Of her home
, of stout proportions, simple, strict
!, full Of common sense, and is said t,
r have immense influence over her hus
3 band.
e 1 don't believe much in the storie
Of the new kings Toryism. He ha,
( an excellent political education. Hi
. better than his fathers. Queen Vic
3 toria belonged to the old generation
4 in English life, which did not permi
t any great intimacy between parent
and children, and have heard tha
e the king, almost up to the time h
] came to the throne. was excluded from
all inner knowledge of what was go