The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-04-03
Single Ballot Decided the Fu-
ture of County Government
of London.
M0MENT0US QUESTIONS
DEPENDED ON ONE VOTE
Perhaps No Case on Record
Where So Much Depended
Upon Individual Ballot.
BY PAUL LAMBETH.
a bic to The Tribune.


LONDON, April 2.-The future OF the
government OF the county of London for
the next few years was decided actually
by one vote in the recent election of the
London county council Perhaps there Is
no other case on record where the re-
suit of a single ballot had such momen-
tous result. The council consists of 137
members of whom lis are elected by
popular vote. and twenty-one are alder
men, elected by the council
When the votes were counted IT WAS
found the Municipal Reformers had elect
ed ffty-nine members the ProgresslVes
fifty eight, while the Central Flnsburg
division was tied. A recount gave The
Reforners a majority of one In this d.
vision and a majority OF two in the
council. This will give them the power
TO fill the ten aldermanic vacancies thus
giving them safe working majority
in the complete council. Had one less
Reformer and one more Progressive voted
at F'insburg. the whole complexion OF the.
council would have been changed. Two
women were returned as members OF the
Miss Fl. Alder, daughter of the chief
rabbi In Hackney Central. and Miss
Susan Lawrence. in West Marylebone.
Jew Factor in Politics.
The Jew is becoming more and more
a factor in British politics. Fifty years
ago. when the Jew OF England, after a
bitter and prolonged struggle. had only
just won the privilege of sitting In the
house OF commons, the prospect of
member OF the ancient faith becoming
one OF his majesty's ministers must have
seemed insufTiciently remote, What, one
wonders, would Baron Lionel de Roths-
child and his contemporaries nave SAID
could they have foreseen that, half q
century after the coping stone had been
placed upon their labors no fewer than
three of their co-religionists would be sit
ting in parliament as members oil the
government. and one as cabinet min
isterp II has become the usual thing
TO say when an English Jew has at
tanned to high political honor, that such
success is but the logical result OF the
emancipation victory. But II REQUIRES
in this Instance why the Jewish popula-
ton. who proportionately TO the rest
of the inhabitants OF the United hlnS-
dom figure but as 1 IN 200. should be
taking so large and important share
in the government Of the country: III Is
an Illogical rather than logical phenom-
enon But then, Jewish history always
has been full of surprises and paradoxeS;;
and perhaps the greatest paradox OF al
is that while I'm Russia and Ronmania
Jews are groaning helpiessly under Weil-
nigh unexampled restriction and oppres-
sion. hero In England they should he en-
loving Il position OF unprecedented IN
nuence and honor.
Known as King Maker.
London is now entertaining another
ono of its long line of king makers IN
the person OF Kaid Bolton, the intrepid
Ignglishman who placed Mulai Hand on
the throne OF Morocco. kaid Belton has
been nick named "the king aker. ana,
as a soldier OF fortune, his achleN9iheH1Iks ';.1.k
those OF General Gordon valentine
Baker. Hobart Pasha: Colonel Sherring-
ton and other distinguished BRUSH aG,
yenturers When only 10 years old kaid
BeIton then a trooper in the yeomanry.
received n commission In the regulars
for distinguished gallantry on the held.
and he received his captaincy some uhle
later, under similar circumstances, css IN
the Somaliland campaign. In, April. lssE,
being then home on leave, he resigned
his commission, went TO Morocco ahu
ices to Mulai Hafd. the "Pretender. and
in n few months he was appointed
'Ilaid," or commander chief. WIN an
army of 10000 men: when ne nau Eo,
F,l Ariz, and shortly afterwards Muial
Hafd was proclaimed sultan OF morocco.
Since then Kaid Bolton has undertaken
several campaigns asains,t as, e"e r'e''1'
and the turbulent native tribes
Well Known Figure Retires.
IN. of thc best-known figures in Brit
Isb nuhlic life, Mr. Henniker llealon,
NJ p world d-recognized authority on pos
tai matters. is about TO relre. IN
letter to his constituents just issued MI
Heaton says: -,
s.Twenty-f Ave years OF strenuous public
life have told upon me. and the DAY can
not be far distant when shall ne COM
PEELED TO seek repose and leave my WoIf s
10 Younger and ablcr men. when tnlt
day arrives l shall have the consoia,,
ton OF knowing that in the field OF postal
and telegraph Teiortn niuCn l.rnater .t things
arc ON the eve OF realization, Whlle i
have the power | Will continue D! !put
favor, what is TO me LABOR or ioye, ouC
,ius, m n
Won that the necessity for rest is oe-
coming more and more imperative. anu
mat with the dissolution OF the presen'
parliament whether soon or late' my Po,
iJtiral career must definitely terminate
To Visit South Africa.
Tho Prince and Princess OF Wales will
travel to South Africa on the OCCASION
OF the forthcoming royal VISIT oE the
west coest route in the new Union CastuS,
mail boat Balmoral Castle, which WIN
ho accompa MED by an escort of war,
Sims, The departure from England Will
he towards the end OF August and me
port Of embarkation VIII be DurDans the
capitals OF the four provinces ana tns
Capifal OF Rhodesia will be visited, ana
nrobablv there will he a visit TO the VIC,
torin Falls The first Union psrlamen'
uI,i br nDened at the end OF the TOUR
In,mediately before the departure ol tne
Prince and Princess for Enelano. s ne
Ralmoral Castle which Was launchc9
only last November, IL the larecst anu
most powerful ship in the Cape service
and one OF the most luxurious vessels on
,Lo bJrh seas. The entrance hall on The
inner deck is finished in polished teak
The irst-class dining saloon, Win ,,a 'rs Us
I.ouis XIV decorations and larsc square
,,'Sodous Is equal In magnlncence 10 any
Nest Vest End restaurant. on the promenade e
SccI Is the lounge, 30 feet long by ~
feet wide. its teak wa1Pane's safE sati1 and
Si1TS ,mlinwoSd Sd' decorate the library In the
Sheraton style, and mahogany bookcases
settees and writing tables combine al. ar
tistically with the pale green ""'o' cal