Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 July 1895 — THE NEW PRIME MINISTER. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

THE NEW PRIME MINISTER.

Lord Salisbury Proposed the Behring Sea Arbitration. It was Lord Salisbury who first proposed to submit the Behring Sea sealing dispute to arbitration, and it was he who arranged with Secretary Blaine the modus vivendi. When the dispute threatened to become acute five years ago, the Marquis, at a meeting of Conservative members of Parliament in the Carlton Club, expressed the hope that the difficulty with the United States over the Behring Sea question would be settled soon . “But,” he added, “with such a susceptible nation as America Great Britain cannot negotiate at the top of her voice.” This will be Lord Salisbury’s third term as Prime Minister of England. His first ministry, formed in 1885, lasted only a few months, but he was recalled to the head of the Government in 1886 and remained in office six years. Mr. Gladstone and Lord Salisbury seesawed in the Premiership for nearly fifteen years. The marquis is of medium height, very stout, weighs nearly 800 pounds,

and growing stouter; has a heavy beard, and hair liberally silvered (he is 65 years old), and a face that lacks expression! in repose, but lights up wonderfully when he talks. His gestures are few, and he never attempts oratorical flourish, yet he oftentimes is eloquent, is invariably forcible and clear and never is at loss for a word. Of course lie is opposed to Irish separation. That goes without saying. In regard to the House of Lords question he made this declaration last autumn; the question of handing the government of the country over entirely to a single chamber should come before the country, which I do not believe it will do, we would have to confront the greatest danger that the community has had to face in many centuries.” Lord Salisbury, being a younger son, had to face poverty in his early He fell in love with a Mis*

Alderson. His father forbid the nnion because the yoang woman waa only the daughter of a judge—not orlstociatic or rich enough. Lord Robert stood manfully to his affection, married his choice, and it has been said by a biographer that “this misfortune,” as many theu regarded it, probably was the making of him. He obtained a wife whose devotion, ability and compatibility have made his domestic life one of the happiest and purest among the public men of his time; it forced him into the employing and maturing of talents which otherwise might have lain follow and undiscovered.