Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1914-01-29
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chief craving is for solitude and 81
ieace. I
/ am not sure that if ~~e we're othe,
tha2 such good. friends he Ta1ld hare
preferred at that moment ms room t
ny company. Afterwards / Observed
that there were l5ing Oh. his bed 8
number Of the morning papers, which
ne had not yet read ana from which
was keeping him. To MIR Lloyd
George to stand between him and q
newspaper is like standing between
a drink and a thirsty soul.
However. we had orr little chat
and went away, rather conscience
smitten after, that / had broken In
on the idle morning of an utterly
tired and Overworked man.
His Favorite Companion.
AS | went away, a singular thought
came to me. l believe that little Me,
gan, that little daughter of his, had
been expelled from the room before
entered, for she is the fayorite com.
panion of her father when his fatigue
makes mos. other society unwelcOme.
The father and daughter have a
close resemblance to each ether. not
merely In appearance but in mind.
The child has the bright, twinkling
eyes of-the father that reveat bound.
less sense of humor, and, like him,
Megan is a singular combination Of
great shyDess and great self.posses.
sion.
The curious thought thats came to
me, as l recalled the expression OF
Mr.. Lloyd George ifssaas he lay7 therd71
tired and perhaps 70 little depressed
was not how like Megan was to hims'
but how like he was to Megan. {.
This thought brought upYxm fact,
that, amid all his vast and dazzling
changes of fortune. in spite OF Ills be-
ing the center Of so many storms and
the target for a much envenomed at
tack, in spite of his suppleness and
a%drOitness, for he is a politician to
his finger tips and not in the beast a
plaster of paris saint-in spite .of all
these things. Mr.. Lloyd-George re-
tains a great deal of the: perennial
childhood Of the typical Celt, sespe-
cially the Celt who has his ideals and
Visions. Ing
One More Speech.
A singular proof of this .u1change.
able of the best in the man came to
my notice a few days afterwards.
was complaining of the exaeting de-
mands Of his friends upon O., politi.
time and strength and WAS lay
ing down the law that there was only
one human being who ever had any
regard for the health and leisure Of
politician THAT was himseltl, that
to all other people he was at, once a
pawn in the great game Of politics,
and likewise a steam engine in
breeches, without nerves, OF, diges.
ton, or anything else suffering flesn
and blood.
MI. Lloyd.George interrupted me
the humorous complaipt that
even the wife OF ones bosom was pre-.
pared on occasion to join elmighty
army that closed in the .%unfoFtunate
spokesman of a politician, for. his
wife thought Carnaryon so much the
most important portion Of the
that she had also joined in the de-.
mand that her husband should! add
one more speech and one meeting
more on the land question to: the long
list OF such speeches and meetings.
behind him. AZ
Z SO I looked forward with some Gu.
to the speech whichDhe had
deliver under this pressure from
Mrs. Lloyd.G George. ,.ir
Makes Brilliant Address.
Tired though the poor man was,
MIR. .Lloyd.Ge0rge delivered zone Of
the most brilliant of the series of re.
markable speeches OF his memorable
campaign ut this same meeting in
ss Il H.,
1t was partly doubtless because he
received Q welcome from these ever
couptrymen of, his. over
whose opinions he has. reigped su-
preme for almost a quarter Ola cen.
fury, and there was another and per-
haps more powerful reasnn.~s4
He was in the midst Of the sur
of his childhood, aud every
spot around him brought back, not
the memory Of the. golden
hours of childhood, but of the, dreams
passions, and the purposes which
filled his childish mind and were. now
at last visibly taxing body and, shape
Knew Problem Eariy.rts
Mr.. Lloyd.George has a humorous
scorn for most of the attacks made
upon him, but he did show fierce, re-.