Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 October 1891 — ARTHUR JAMES BALFOUR. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

ARTHUR JAMES BALFOUR.

The Man Recently Fleeted to the Leadership In the House of Commons. Mr. Arthur James Balfour has passed in five short years from a posi-

tion of comparative obscurity to the foremost place in English public life —the leadership of the House of Com-

mons, for which he has been selected, with the reversion of the post of Premier when his uncle, Lord Salis.bury, retires. Young, rich, accomplished, Mr. Balfour has reached a post and point rarely gained in English

life until a man is twenty years older. He has been in Parliament since he was 26, entering in 1874. He reached office before he was 40, serving six years ago as President Local Government Board, and as Scottish Secretary before becoming Irish Secretary. Im 1878 he went to Berlin as his uncle’s secretary, and acted for two years at that time in this capacity. At 43, therefore, Mr. Balfour has been seventeen years in the House of Commons. He has been twice in office; he has attended a great European Congress, and been behind the scenes there in home affairs.

ARTHUR JAMES BELFOUR.