“Randy” Churchill.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume III, Issue 393, 19 December 1889, Page 2

“Randy” Churchill.

A very good description of Lord R mdolph ChurohilT is the following from an English publication:—"Hal 'tis well I I am observed, ” said Punch the other day of Lord Randolph. From this point of view things have gone very well with him of Ute, in spite of appearances to the contrary. His sudden resignation at Christmas, 1886, of the post of Chancellor of Exchequer and Loader of the House of Commons was for many months the main topic of poUtioal interest, and even now you can find people still ready to discuss whether it was really those coaling stations that caused his resignation, and not differences of opinion with Lord Salisbury on Bulgaria and other affdrs. Lord Randolph's recent visit to Russia, which for s .m> weeks divided with the Crown Prince's illness “The European Intelligence " of a dozen capitals, has generally been accepted as making for the later interpretation. Lord Randolph (Henry Spencer) Cturohili has another advantage over other prominent men in the House of Commons besides the curiosity he excites ; he is the youngest of them all, being only 40. The secret of his rapid success is very simple; he has always known exactly what time of day it is. He was born politically under Mr Disraeli's star, and learned at once wfiat tfi.q era of democracy means, A* for the public at large there are, he saw, only two sure Ways of bringing down the House; one is to appeal to the higher moral aentiments, the other to use a great many “ big, big D’s.” Lord Rindolpb went in for the big D’s, and his platform performances arc dictated by a constant desire to meet a demand to “ give it 'em hot, Rand!" It |« quite a mistake, however, to rappMe tfiat there |e nothing else in himHe does not exactly scorn fiellgljts, but he is quite as capable as other public men of liyipg laborious days. Besides his innate quickness to seize paints of oontroversy and appreciate the significance of fasts, fiq has acquired strong habits of industry, and has none of that incapacity for detail which was the weakness of h|s great exemplar, Lord Beacodsfield. paring the seven months he was at the India Office in 1885 86 he left behind him a distinct im ■ pressjon for the industry, decision, and grasp wfiidh gO to fiAHe a successful admlnlstrator, flit exposure (if thq wfiite and muddle prevalent S. the WkT Qffi c P) the Admiralty, and the Board of Works, showed much ability in detective work. But Lord Randolph has by no means kicked down the ladder by which he rose to notoriety, and his election address of 1886 oven surpassed all earlier attempts for extravagance and bru’allty. The habit of blasphemy soon becomes a second nature. Lord Randolph Churchill is the Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde ot modern politics. At Oxford he was as boisterous in academic as he is now in political circles. Lady Randolph Is a daughter of Mr Jerom’, of New York,'and la a'* 1 dame of high degree" in Primrose League and other political societies.