LORD R. CHURCHILL.

Bruce Herald, Volume XVII, Issue 1751, 21 May 1886, Page 5

LORD R. CHURCHILL.

The Daily News Bays: — One great quality (of success which Lord R. Churchill has in common with Lord Beaconsfield is audacious force of character. That is the peculiarity which made him interesting from the first. He came to the front when the Conservative party was sunk in listlessness and languor. He could not be kept back or kept down. Only within the last few months have the general public been coming to the recognition of the possibility that Lord Randolph Churchill may have anything in him really serious ; any convictions ; any Bustained purpose — even any steady ambition. Every one, however, has been interested in the sheer audacity with „ which he has pushed himself to the front, elbowing his elders out of the way —to this side and to that. A man so convinced of his own capacity soon begins to convince others of it. Parliament and the public were tired of the dull, old-fashioned Conservatives and conservatism. This is an age when men above all things ask to be amused. Lord Randolph Churchill never tailed to amuse and to give people something to talk about, and the world was grateful to him. We do not mean to say that even in the present condition of the Conservative party a man could rise to its front rank merely by virtue of a capacity for amusing the political world, but Lord R. Churchill certainly would not so soon have been in the position he holds now if he had not made it his business to rouse curiosity rather than to convince intelligence.