New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-05-15
London,

/ A1A0 AZ 1iou 10 take account of public
opinion, and he was very good nudge
OF IL. and in 1856 he taught his partv +o
take account of it. But what I mean is
that, while he admitted and asserted
the necessity of calculating forces as the
/ nrst business Of a statesman. he was
never subservient TO that majority which
ne sought TO make his own He was not
frightened by names and he did not
shrink from unpopularity He told
Prince Bismarck at Kissingen that no
! body in England cared rap what the
papers said, which meant that he Uord
/ Randolph) did not care a rap. Yet at
opportune moments he used the press
with skill OR. if I ought not to say
used, he awaited himself adroftIy of the
press TO serve his own purpose His
midnight journey TO The Times office
/ in Printing House Square in order to tell
Mr.. Buckle that he had resigned from
Lord Salisbury's Ministry, and that his
resignation had been accepted. is a case
4 in point. 1t is just conceivable that Mr.
Buckle took. or might have taken,
more lenient view of Lord Randolphs
coup de t6te from having the exclusive
news Of il. It is, at any rate. conceiv-
able that the resigning minister mag
/ ined or hoped a friendly opinion would
! be expressed.
I viii give d very different instance
which came TO my knowledge directly
I At the time of the great dock strike,
which disordered and threatened to de-
stroy all the waterside industries of the
/ port of London, Cardinal Manning sided
with the strikers. He was a prelate
who often mixed politics with his re-
/ ligion. or, TO put it more charitably. with
/ his ecclesiastical poIity. He went to the
strikers meeting, undeterred by the fact
that they were threatening violence, and
he wound up by giving % Cs125( to the
cause of these enemies Of public order.
All this came out in next mornings
papers. Toward noon I went to see
! Lord Randolph. He was full Of the sub
4 ject, and his sympathies with the men
were evident He had read Cardinal
Manning'g speech and. with certain res
/ ervations, approved of it.
DO you think he ought to have given
money To encourage disorder"
What do you mean by encouraging
disorder? The men are out Of work
They and their wives are starving. I
would give rs myself If had it
/ Nevertheless. suppose no act of Car
dinal Manning, nothing he did in his
extremely variegated career, brought
upon him more or better deserved cen
/ sure than the countenance he gave to
/ this very dangerous industrial rebellion.
/ Lord Randolph, I ought 10 add, mad
been, during q great part of his too
short political life, the friend and cham
pion Of the workingmen. He believed
them to be the necessary support Of the
Conservative party, without which, as
the event proved, that party could win
no great victory at the polls. He be-
| Iieved them to be, themselves. like the
majority Of the English people, ire
| spective Of party, essentially Conserva-
/ tive He was ready to do what he could
TO Tighten and brighten their sometimes
dreary lot. II was not only as politi-
| clan that he interested himself in their
| fortunes. He had a mans sympathy
with other men less fortunate than him
self.
| Less fortunate, but perhaps not al
ways much less. For what said above
about Lord Randolph's indifference TO
money was true during nearly all his
| life, and was shown in many ways to his
/ own hurt. He had the usual younger
sons portion, and in this country OF
magnificent estates the younger sons
portion is Of the most modest descrip-
ton. Not otherwise than by reserving
the great bulk of the family wealth to
eldest sons, one after the other, can
these magnificent estates be kept to-
gether and kept magnificent But Lord
Randolph's tastes and ambitions We're
nowise in proportion to the slenderness
of his income. The present Mr.. winston
Churchill, in his most admirable Life Of
his Father, has made some reference to
two occasions in which questions Of
money became critical. He has said SO
much that I think 1 may say a little
more.
The first was in anticipation of his
marriage. Mr.. Jerome had the ideas OF
the average American father about set
Elements. Lord Randolph's ideas on that
subject were English. There was q col
lision between the two The wooer had
already announced to his father, the
seventh Duke of Marlborough, his at
tachrnent to Miss Jerome, and the duke
had agreed, Professionally, to the engage
ment. M Jerome had agreed, but his
views about money threatened TO break
off the negotiations. At the end-they
had. lasted seven months-Lord Ran
doIph refused utterly TO agree TO any
settlement which contained even tech
nical provisions TO which he objected
He delivered TO Mr. Jerome what his
biographer rightly calls an ultimatum
He was ready TO earn living In Eng
land or out OF it, without Mr. Jerome
help. and in this the girl agreed with
him. Mr.. Jerome capitulated. Perhaps
The difference between them was more a
matter of form than anything. The
terms of the final agreement are not
stated in the Life. They have often been
stated in London, where everything on
every subject OF human interest is known,
and where 1t was always understood
that Mr.. Jerome agreed to settle &2,eOO
a year on his daughter and son-ia-Iaw,
with remainder to the children, duly Sc
cured by a mortgage on the University