WILL CHURCHILL TURN OUT A STATESMAN OR CHARLATAN?
The Pall Mall Gazette, discussing the political situation recently, applied some smart and caustic criticism to Lord Randolph Churchill. The noble lord, our contemporary remarked, "is at present .only half-baked, and nobody knows whether he will turn out a statesman or a charlatan." Similarly, the author of a book on London society, which is now being much read, says that his lordship, having shown that he can bowl, has now to prove that he can bat. Members of Lord Randolpd's own party will probably not be indisposed to accept these definitions of his character and standing. But though the member for Woodstock is only half-baked now he has before him the most brilliant prospects of any public man of our day. What he may do with his chance — whether he will make a magnificent name for himself or become merely a synonym for impudence and intractibility — is as interesting a matter of speculation as current politics can supply.
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Grey River Argus, Volume XXXI, Issue 5334, 31 October 1885, Page 4
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WILL CHURCHILL TURN OUT A STATESMAN OR CHARLATAN?
Grey River Argus, Volume XXXI, Issue 5334, 31 October 1885, Page 4
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