New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-04-26

mis- crisis Affects first OF ell the
~sonn. secondly the Army. thirdly
king. I leave wholly on, Of view
secondary and trivial the interests
o.rties and since we hear that in
,,sca the attack on the King has
.-.s a kind Of awed solicitude will
-, with that. though &c Is really by
,he least important OF the three
.oeets an individual rather than
!. throne. No ndividuoL whether he
king or Commoncr, has much
.o 10 attention Tor his own sake at
,orncnt SO volcanic as this, but e
~ clear the way Tor moro vital
angs
~ns-s is. however. a change since
..,s,isy. and it is the Prime Min
..,- who has brought it about He
~ pp a challenge. and nc dealt sum-
~.rly with condition Of feeling in
4, own party. The challenger was a
.,,sln Mr.. ward. a Labor member; a
an who brides himself on showing TO
=. House the rougher side az Labor
IA Laborers; fond OF using mere
'.,,s,once as kind Of rhetorical
~.soon. He said I'm the House on
Tuesday;
The question is whether the people
Ar,reh their representatives IN Par
r.ment are 90 make The law without
-.,-fercrce froIa King or Army"
by the next two minutes Mr. Ward
ass q hero: the leader OF his own party
ana Of the Radicals. There was n
,.,--, OF cheers. The Liberals. except
!, the Front Bench. the Labor men
ana the Irish Nationalist lifted up
heir voices together. \ Radical
e,snd who has haunted the House for
q wears told me there had never been
, scene like it; nor any such roar
s,srd. and heard even in the Lobby.
Vhvs Well. the plain truth is that
ne NlinisteriaMsts and the Coalition
generally believed the King had been
,ssirst Them in this business. both as
70 Ulster and the Army. and that
vas their way Of warning him. A
sasinr Cnionist paper called IL an 'in-
famous menace TO the King" Whether
-smous or not. menace IL was meant
% b. and was. And for those two
minutes the leadership Of the House
Rad uassed into the hands OF Mr..
Ward. because he had attacked the
Nrs. But next day the scene once
more changed. Mr.. Asquith IS Leader
when he chooses to he. In the first
sentences Of his speech on Wednesday
Il dsDosed Mr. Ward. He denounced
attempts by him and 10y others to bring
re Kings name into these discussions
ls most unfair ard inconsiderate.
Then .e brushed them away:
eI am entitled, as chief responsible
Minister Of the Crown, to say. and I
say il with the fullest conviction and
assurance. that from first TO last IN re-
ssr5 10 all these matters His Majesty
las Observed every rule that comports
with the dignity Of the position Of a
institutional Sovereign"
The cheers were general The Radica!
Back Benches returned to their ale
Eznce. or. II YOU like. we're reduced 10
oder. Mr.. Ward retired into his nat
ural obscurity. With a phrase, the
PINE Minister had swept into the
dust heap the mischievous inventions
which had been current for DAYS and
q which Nr. Ward had made himself
the mouthpiece. For my part, though
ny view OF Mr.. Asquith's proceedings
k sometimes a critical one, 1 should
think II a gain II he would assert over
bis often unruly followers. some col
hagues Of his included. the authority
which belongs 10 him. He is a great
Parlamentarian and a great party
lssder when he chooses to be; but he
does not always choose.
And yet, for all Mr.. Asquith's testi-
nony. there remains a band Of Red
Radicals 10 whom the King is an OBJ
.sct OF suspicion. I talked with one Of
hen yesterday. lie himself is almost
a Republican. or perhaps quite. he
does not undertake TO say there are
many Of ike faith with himself among
he Radical detractors Of the King, but
re does not believe their animosity has
been sbated by Mr.. Asquith's declara-
ton They still join, as Mr.. Ward did,
be King and the Army together as
enemies. or at least as opponents, Of
What is called Parliamentary govern
nent Rumors die hard. There was a
runor that the King had been in the
war Office and in the next room TO
nat where the interview took place
between the Secretary Of State for War
and Sir John French on one side, and
General Cough and his colonies on the
Cher. Il is now known. and even ad-
hltted, that he was not; but that he
hterfered is still the belief OF these
Aeds. One rumor dead, they forthwith
start another.
They even bark back to the late King
Loward. There was no Army crisis
70 his days like the present, but they
'1y ne was perpetually intermeddling
matters Of army administration, pro-
~''ions, regulations and a thousand
"her things. They might go much
.-f'her into earlier history. queen
'"loria had set her son the example,
= 0'her Kings md Queens had set the