Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1914-07-04
opinio was almost as great as Glad

CplnlO was almost as great as GlaQ- stones.
 After the general election of 1885 he became president fthe local government board, but by the spring oi 1886 his and Gladston's relations on the latter's Irish policy had be- come so strained that he broke with the great .remier, resigned his place in the cabinet and left the Liberal 1 party never to return to it.
 He, Lord Harrington Afterwards the Duke of 'Devonshire), G. J. Gosch- 1 en and others high in the Liberal party who saw in their former lead l CTS home rule proposals and prupa- ganda a menace to the integrity of the empire, formed a new party to resist them. They called themselves L!beral-Unionists and anti-home rule was, in the beginning, their main tent, Lord Harrington was the first leader, but when he was elevat- ed to the peerage through the death of his father, MT. Chamberlain was chosen the party's chief.
 Meanwhile MT. Chamberlain had visited the United States, November ICoa lO FCDI udI 1000, do CilC uCdU Ol the British representatives upon the American-British joint high commits sion which was to negotiate treaty fer the settlement of the long stand ing fisheries dispute.
 A treaty was signed, but the Unit el States senate refused to ,ratify it.
 Third Wife American.
 Late in 1888 Mir. Chamberlain re- turned to the United States, this tune to be married. Having been twice a widower, he took at hls third wife Miss Mary Endicott, daughter of William c. Endicott, President Cleve- lands secretary of war.
 The Birmingham man with the monocle and the long, aquiline nose (toth the delight of the English carci- fOrceful. tongue; the taultlesly fash iorable attire topped of invariably with white orchid in the coat lapel, was now a commanding figure at Westminster. On the formation of the collation. Conservative and Union- ist) ministry in 1895 he took office under Lord Salisbury as colonial secretary. In this position his re- markable powers were severely test ed by South Africa-the chain of streuonus events beginning with Jameson's bare-brained raid, ana ending when Lord Kitchner had wol down the stubborn Boer reslstenceI with the treaty of erceening--but hel stood the test. His enemies savage ly assailed him as being the adroit tool of the Rand gold Eline owners and his course toward the Afrikand- CTS was leading issue ia tine cam paign of 1900 and during 1901. But hs was the object of great popular demonstrations before his visit to South Africa late in 1902 on mis- sion of conciliation and observation ard also on his return early in 1905
 COurted National Sympathy.
 The war and elections over, he set himself the task of fostering the re- lations between the mother country and the colonies. The constitution for the Australian Commonwealth was one of his productions.
 Just before his siXtyseventh birth day Chamberlain launched his scheme of fiscal reform, which partly suc- ceeded il splitting the Unionist par ty. It was in May; and at Birming-| lam that he announced his new pol icy.s and finding in September that his party was not ready for so radi- cal change,s he resigned to devote himself to popularizing his doctrines. { He fought the cause with a genius,