Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 61, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 March 1910 — DUKE OF CONNAUGHT’S FUTURE. [ARTICLE]

DUKE OF CONNAUGHT’S FUTURE.

Brother of Kins Edward Hu Been Mentioned to Succeed Earl Grey. What to do with the duke of Connaught, brother of King Edward VII., is one of Great Britain’s ever-recur-rent problems. The latest of the rumors affecting h'm, which is said to have ho very good foundation, however, connects his name with the gov-ernor-generalship of Canada. The reported intention of Earl Grey to retire has given occasion for conjectural selections for his place. None, it is said, w r ould meet with more general approval throughout the empiro than the designation of the duke. For one thing, by reason of Connaught’s relationship to the king, it would consolidate that ‘imperial partnership’ which it is felt would make for the closer -union of Great Britain with her dominions over sea. Canadians, it is thought, would welcome the choice. The fact that he would have far higher rank than any former incumbent of the vice-regal post would presumably in itself be not unpleasing to the people of the dominion. Only last February the duke's appointment to the lord lieutenancy of Ireland was talked of, the New York Evening Sun says. His peculiar fitness for the office was urged on the ground of his acquaintance with Ireland and Irish affairs, acquired while he was commander In chief there. His popularity and that of his daughter, Patricia, current discussion had it, would have assured him a warm welcome from the Irish landlords and their families, with undoubted benefit to Irish trade. The consideration of his name in that connection was said at the time to have grown out of his known dislike of the honorary post at Malta, where he bore the title of field marshal commander in chief of the Mediterranean forces and high commissioner of the Mediterranean. To this post, following a resignation which Is said greatly to have displeased the king, Lord Kitchener succeeded him. .