The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-10-19
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tinue the coalition with the liberals"
he is quoted as having said. 81 say
| absolutely Independent and you will
/ defeat the labor menace in the end,
otherwise you will split in your party
just as the liberals are split"
Election to Follow.
The life of the new conservative
ministry will probably be brief. ac-
| cording to present forecasts, and
| general election is expected swiftly to
| follow its formation.
| The party lines upon which the
elections will be fought present pro-
found puzzle. One suggestion is that
| Mr.. Lloyd George may form center
| party in which he could count upon
| Austen Chamberlain and Lord Birken-
head, and perhaps Lord Balfour, the
| three cabinet members whose adher-
ence to him has been repudiated by
today's conference.
| This new party, it is suggested,
would probably command the support
of goodly proportion of the con-
servatives who stood by the coalition,
and also of the coalition liberals. This
formation might put the labor party
in the position of the chief opposition
party.
The possibility that Mr.. Lloyd
George will try to return to the lead
ership of the liberals is not to be over
looked either.
! Bonar Law in Poor Health.
Mr.. Bonar Laws friends question
whether his health will permit him to
| take office even for a short time.
Lord Derby seems the most prob
able alternative selection for prime
minister, altho it is suggested that
Lord Curzon, who gained greatly in
prestige by his work in the recent
Near East negotiations, and is believed
to have been a lukewarm coalit1onist,
might be summoned to form a gov
eminent.
The vote of the conservatives at
the Carlton club was taken on a mo-
ton by Colonel Pretyman, Unionist
member for the Chelmsford division
of Essex, which reads as follows:
Resolved: That this meeting of
| conservative members of the house of
commons declares its opinion that the
conservative party while willing to CO.
operate with the coalition liberals,
should fight the election inde-
pendent party with its own leaders
and its own program"
Todays vote, it is forecast, will be
| proclaimed as a great victory by the
II die hardS,' group of conservatives
in parliament who for several months
past have been advocating the with
drawal of the party from the coalition
and it's resumption of its normal party
| organization.
4 Lloyd George outlasted all the
statesmen who guided the great ma
tons thru the world war. In the tur-
mol of readJustment that followed
that conflict, he kept his seat at the
steering wheel when all around him
| were losing theirs.
| The men with whom he aat at Paris
at the ''bie; four of the pace cyGfer-
ence long age were topplei over. IRE
I lrIs Of toll ft~r@
go. His cabinet resigned in June,
| 1919. The following January Glenn EN-
ceau was cast aside. Two months
later the senate of the United States
peace. treaty Woodrow Wilson had
brought home, and not long afterward
his party was defeated at the polls.
Worlds Biggest Figure.
After all of the other three men
had been put aside, in. their countries
Lloyd George became probably the
most outstanding figure among all the
men of the world who were engaged
in public affairs. His position con-
stantly in danger, from a possible
dropping away of one of the groups
forming the coalition on which his
government rested, was strengthened,
so far as history is concerned, after
all the other war statesmen had gone.
because it was he who acted as Great
Britain's spokesman in the parleys
last winter with the reDell1OuS irish
Ieaders-parleys which led to the Gre
, alton of the free state, and peace after
700 years of strife between England
and Erin.
: The rise of Lloyd George was an
adventure in politics filled with as
! much romance as the lives of famous
Americans who came up from log
cabins to the White House.
Was Adopted Child.
He was born in Manchester, Eng,
January IT. 1868. His father, a Uni
tartan school master, died when David
was an infant, and the child was
adopted by an uncle, Richard Lloyd,
Welsh shoemaker and lay preacher
With only a limited education, David
went into a law office in the little
town in North Wales, where he lived
with his uncle. Then he married and
soon dived into politics.
For eighteen years he was a liberal
member of parliament, representing
ICarnarvon. Then came a rapid rise
to fame. His ascent to a place among
the mighty began in 1908, when AS
quith became prime minister. The
little Welshman with the sparkling
eyes entered the cabinet as chancellor
of the exchequer. The next year in
the great budget battle he routed the
once powerful house of lords. His
achievement in this fight was called
; ''the first victory against the privi-
legged citadel of wealth in the modern
world
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