Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 May 1881 — Lord Beaconsfield, [ARTICLE]

Lord Beaconsfield,

The death of Lord Beaconsfield ropjfrotechnfc gfeiHrnaa It has known during tbfo chmtugy. Among all his Eiiropeah contemporaries, there was not one enjoyed what might be termed the pageantry of politics more than* he, nor one who was hie equal in making this contribute to his personal aggrandizement. At times the glitter of his statesmanship so daszled his countrymen that his personal popularity was unbounded, and the subtle flattery of which he was a master endeared him to the heart of the Queen. His career has been long and eventful, and latterly a most important one. Since the death of the late Earl Derby—the father of the present Earl—he has been head of the conservative party, of the Kingdom, and there has not been a chief in recent years who was a more absolute master of his party than he. At one time he led it, merely as a stroke of policy, into the enactment of a law greatly liberalising the franchise, when the real sentiment of those who constituted the back-bone of the party was strongly against such a law. The salient feature of his administration was a “strong” foreign policy; yet the results to the country were a large expenditure of money with little compensating advantage. His “peace with honor!” which he brought from Vienna was, io the opinion of his friends, the crowning, as it was the latest notable, achievement of his life. Yet when he dissolved parliament for the general elections, it did not serve to keep him in possession of power. Full of energy and resouices he surmounted in his career the most formidable of obstacles, and from a comparatively* humble position raised himself to one of the proudest in Eng land. He was a most remakable man, and has been a conspicuous figure on. the world’s stage for nearly a score of years.— Detroit Free Frees.