The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-01-12
GREATLY TIf- PLEASED
ATLAW's BLUNDER,
BALFOUR LOOKS ON
Deposed Leader of Unionist
Party Sees Preoicament
of Successor
MR.. CHAMB 1RLAIN
is IN BACKGROUND
Staid Old England Laughs
at Sim II Rosenbaum Lead
ing Unionists in Irish
Debate
BY PHILLIP EVERETT.

ACNDpNs Jan. Ill wonder IL
there Is a man in England who has
greater reason to feel satisfied with
The political situation today than Mr..
Arthur J. Baifour. the deposed leader
of the once great uni0nist party. When
Mr.. Bon&r Law was elected to sue
ceed him as leader Of the Tories it
was confidently expected that the
party had an easy path TO victory.
The voter, who at times had found
1t hard to appreciate Balfour's clever
tactics and merciless logic, which
made him the adversary most dreaded
and respected by the government,
We're expected to grow enthusiastic
over Mr. Bonar Laws businesslillo
sledge hammer tactics Mr.. Asaufth
was undoubtedly right when he said
that the Tories had done the gov
eminent the greatest service imsgin-
able when they removed their only
brilliant man from the leadership Of
the party
Mr.. Bonar Law has been busy using
his sledge n INNER from the very day
he accepted the leadership, but his
blows have invarisbIy hlt his own
fellows No English statesman, il
statesman We may call him. has uver
committed such a series OF amazing
blunJers, and the latest enc of these,
committed in his famous speech at
Ashton, has succeeded In splitting the
unlonlst party az completely as the
y4gs
and not even the paFtys own press
makes any attempt 10 conceal the
split. That Bonar Law mas COM
mitted political harikari is beyond any
doubt.
Scapcgoat f. Found.
There viii be 10 looking about to
find the scapegoat the uuunists party
us, for no other scapeEoat is pos
slble than the hapiess Bonar s4azv.
II not immediately. chen IN very
short time. the cry will be raised
"Bonar Law must 20 and the pres
emf leader Will slide back into OBJ
livion, from where he came
Still it cannot be said that the
fallen leader is a victim solely OF his
own bluuders. stupendous thong h
they have been, for. ever since he
was elevated to the leadership. MIR
Austin chamberlain, who is now in
triEains for the pasition, has been
working for his downfall not openly
but by skillfHlly encouraging Bonar
Law in his hlunders. Those who are
able To look below The surface know
that it was Chamberlain who drove
Law 10 adopt tho Balfourian method.
which necessarily must be fatal IN
such clumsy hands
sly MIR. Chamberlain.
The result has so far been ex-
ceedingly satisfying to Mr.. Cham Der
lain. who IS now posing as the safe
middlemRn, and who for that very
reason carefully avoided getting mixed
mp I'm the orgy OF Ulster treason. I
dare al present not prophesy that
Austin Chamberlain will he the next
unionist leader. for he has great and
powerful enemies within his own
party. bur he win leave no stone un~
turned 70 get there, and II he cam
not have his own way he will at least
put plenty OF barbed wire entangle-
ments in the way Of others. He
has all the ohstinacy OF the IN
ina NATIVE commonplace individual
and he will not be Recommendations in
the r~f1S-rr-v- f7--S IRE Il
II Balfour consents 10 Z return,
Chamberlain would have 10 chance
NffaISNeEs OUT ia N0&iQ bt a iiB4i sAsAE
IL he did, ae he is undoubtedly sim
cere when he says with the late MT
Gladstone that ne prefers "a post Of
greater ease and less esponsihliity,"
simon Rosenhaurn. Trishman.
The uniunists have other reasons
10 feel as humble as Uriah Heep. II
takes considerable effort to n,4ke
yourself look ridiculous IN a country.
where's the sense of humor is as
poorly developed as in England. but
the unlonists who got an Irishmsn
with the peculiarly fatal name or
Timon Rosenbaum TO prepare their
sneeches, have succeeded in making
themselves the laughing stock Of the
country, and when an Fneiishman
makes the painful effort Of laughing
and does laugh he laughs Tong.
Simon Roseupaum will not be for
gotten in connection with the Irish
debate. as the man who held up to
ecorn the brilliant. unionist politicians
rs,slsy .wssys- a1at. <hrilstas.S enough = ta
pref1are rhttx ',9wh Speeches TINS
doubtedly simon Rosenbaum is the
most famous man in England today,
though he probably does not appre-
ciate the honor