The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-07-03
CHAMBERLAIN DIES.

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his loyal wife. a daughter of W. c.
President Cleveland's Secretary of War,
beside him. His chief consultations
were the growing political prominence
of his son, Austen Chamberlain, and
the loyalty of his constituents. Birm-
ingham would not depose her leader.
although he was no longer able to rep
resent her upon the floor of the House
Of Commons. In each election he was
returned to his old seat. and appeared
afterward in the house but once, whers
amid respectful silence, he made his
way to the speakers desk on the arm
OF his son and took the oath Of office.
January S, 1913, Mr.. Chamberlain wrote
to his constituents. resigning his sat,
and saying:
Il cannot hope again to dc, my work
In Parliament. and feel that our city
and the constituency need the services
oe younger man."
While his greatest claim t. fame was
his determined and brilliant advocacy
ftI years Of a protective policy for
Great Britain. the citadel of free trade.
he will also be remembered as the bit
terest and most 70 'cefu1 opponent Of
Gladstone in that statesman's efforts fer
H''Te Rule FOR Ireland; as one of tile
founders Of the Liberal-Unionist party;
anu DIS tuo minister whose policy IN
South Africa involved his country in
the greatest war it had experienced
since the Crimean conflict, but blotted
out the two Boer republics and made
South Africa '.all red
He Was q RefOrmer.
From the day he left University
college. London. to enter his fathers
screw factory at Birmingham, Joseph
Chamberlain devoted his best energies
to the principle of constructive re-
form" 1t was In 1868. just 80 years
after his birth in London, that he re-
ceived his baptism of public life, as
town councillor Of Birmingham, later
serving as mayor for successive terms.
He gave his whole time to the cause
of municipal reform, and what had
been previously one of the worst gov
erned cities in England. became a
model for municipal reformers.
In 1875 he entered parliament, be-
ing elected without opposition as a
Liberal from Birmingham. In his
cary years in the Commons he sat
! among the Home Rule Liberals with
whose aspirations he was supposed to
sympathize, but a few years later he
emphatically dfsabused his associates
in the house of any notion they may
have had of his belief in separate gov
eminent for Ireland.
In less than four years he was a
cabinet minister entering Gladstone's
government in 1880 as president of the
decade his hold on popular opinion
was almost as great as Gladstone's.
After the general election OF 1885
he became president of the local gov
eminent board, but by the spring of
1886 his and Gladstone's relations on
the latter's Irish policy had became SO
strained that he broke with the great
premier, resigned his place in the cab
met and left the Liberal party never
to return to it.
He, Lord Harrington afterwards
the Duke of DevOnShtre), G. j. Gosch-
en- and others high in the Liberal par
ty who saw in their former leaders
home rule proposals and propaganda
a menace to the integrity of the en-
pire, formed a new party to resist
them. They called themselves Liberal
Unionists and anti-home rule was, In
the beginning their main tenet. Lord
Harrington was the first leader but
when he was elevated to the peerage
through the death Of his father. Mr..
Chamberlain was chosen the party's
chief.
Visit to the United States.
Meanwhile Mr.. Chamberlain had
visited the United States, November
1887 to February 1888, as the head OF
the British representative upon the
American British joint high commits
sion which was to negotiate a treaty
for the settlement of the long stand
ing fisheries dispute.
A treaty was signed out the unlteo
States senate refused to ratify 1t:
Late in 1888 Mr.. Chamberlain re-
turned to the United States, this time
to be married. Having been twice a
widower he took as his third wife Miss
Mary Endicott, daughter of William c.
Endicott, President Cleveland's secre-
tary Of war.
During the campaign OF 1892, Mr..
Chamberlain worked with great effect
and subsequently in the commons he
was to the forefront in all the assaults
on the irish government bill. and
clashed frequently with Mr.. Gladstone.
The home ruler4 considered him a
renegade and this. ranking he aggra-
waited by his rasp1ng tactics During
debate on the bilE one night In July.
1898, Mr.. Gladstone tartly compared
him with the DEVILS advocate" The
next night in debate Mr.. Chamberlain
O'Connor yelled at him Judas
Judas!'' followed presently by a free
fight on thes floor between several
members-a rare outbreak In probably
the most said legislative body in the
world-accompanied by vigorous hiss
ing by the galleries. -e.ss ss..i
Delight OF Caricaturists.
The Birmingham man; with the
monocle and long sauiline nose Cboth
ists) the keen head and the forceful
tongue; the faultIessly fashionable at
tire topped off invariably with q white
orchid In the coat lapel was now q
commanding figure at Westminster.
On the formation of the coalition.
conservative and Unionist) ministry
in 1895 he took office under Lord
position his remarkable powers were
severely tested by South Africa-the