Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1914-07-03

In less than four years he was a cab
met minister, entering Gladstones Cow
eminent in 1880 as president of the
board of trade. and in less than a dec
ade his hold on popular opinion was
almost as great as Giadstones.
After the general election Of 1885 he
became president Of the local govern
ment board, but by the spring OF 1885
his and Gladstone's relations on the
latter's Irish policy had become 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 1t.
Formed New Party.
He, Lord Harrington afterwards the
Duke of Devonshire), G., j. Goschen and
others high in the Liberal party who
saw in their former leaders home rule
proposals and propaganda menace to
the integrity of the empire. 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
flrst leader but when he was elevated
| to the peerage through the death of his
fathr, Mr.. Chamberlain was chosen the
party's chief.
Meanwhile Mr.. Chamberlain had Wis
tied the United States. November 1887
to February. 1888, as the head of the
British representatives upon the Amer
lean British joint high Commission
which was to negotiate a treaty for the
settlement Of the long standing fish
cries dispute.
A treaty was signed but the United
States refused to ratify it,
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.
Bndicott, President Cleveland's sec-e-
! tary of war
clashed With Gladstone.
During the campaign of 1892 Mr..
Chamberlain worked with great effect,
and subsequently in the commons he
was to the forefront in all the as
saults on the Irish government bill, and
clashed frequently with Mr.. Gladstone.
The home rulers considered him a
renegade and this ranking he aggra-
waited by his rasping tactics. During
debate on the bill, one night in July
1893, Mr.. Gladstone tartly compared
him with 1.-THE DEVILS advocate" The
next night. in debate, Mr.. Chamber
lain retorted so cauetically that T. P.
| O'Connor yelled at him "Judasl Judasl +"
followed presently by a free fight on
the floor between several minister's
rare outbreak in probably the most
staid legislative body in the world-ac-
companied- by vigorous kissing by the
galleries.
The Birmingham man with the mono
Gle and long aouiline nose Cboth the
delight Of the English caricaturists) i;
the keen head and the forceful tongue;
the faultlessly fashionable attire
topped off invariably with a white or
child in the coat lapel was now a COM
handing figure at Westminster On
the formation of the coalition (Con-
SENTATIVE and Unionist) ministry in
1895 he took office under Lord Sails
bury as colonial secretary. In this
position his remarkable powers were
severely tested by South -Africa-the
chain of strenuous events beginning
with Jameson's hare-brained raid, and
ending when Lord Kitchener had worn
|
with the treaty Of Vereeniging-but he
stood the test. His enemies, too, saw
agely assailed him as being the adroit
tool Of the Rand gold mine owners and
his course toward the Afrikanders was
leading issue in the campaign of
1900 and during 1901. But he was the
subject Of great popular demonstra-
tons before his visit to South Africa
late in 1902 on mission of concilia-
ton and observation and also on his
return early in 1903.
The war and the elections over he
set himself the task of fostering the
relations between the mother country
and the colonies. The constitution for
the Australian commonwealth was one
Of his productions.
Just before his sixty seventh birth
day Chamberlain launched his scheme
of fiscal reform, which partly sue
ceeded in splitting the Unionist party.
II was in May and at Birmingham
that he announced his new policy. and
finding in September that his party
was not ready for 80 radical change,
he resigned to devote himself to pop
ularizing his doctrines. He fought the
cause with a genius, eloquence, energy
and organization, never equalled in
any previous moment in his career, but
his party wavered and went down to
defeat In the election of 1905. The one
bright spot for the Unionist party,
during those dark days. was Birming-
ham and vicinity, where Chamberlain
i carried his candidates 70 victory