THE NEW FOURTH PARTY.

Otago Witness, Issue 2565, 13 May 1903, Page 65

THE NEW FOURTH PARTY.

RANDOLPH AND WINSTON. The events of the House of Commons — to which, of course, I will allude in their personal aspect only — during the first week of ths session suggest the question whether we are going to see the son of Lord Randolp Churchill perform — or attempt — the same achievement as the father; in other words, whether we are going to see the rise of another Fourth Party. As to the ambition, impetuosity, and daring of the eon being equal to those of his father, there can be no doubt. The fault, indeed, which people find with young Winston Churchill is that he is too self-absorbed ; that his own strong self-confidence and daring ambitions prevent him from taking more than a superficial interest in the concerns of any other human being. This, of course, is a- very human fault in one so young and so clever ; and in politics, coo, it has its uses. A curtain splendid egotism always gives a man advantages over his rivals ; they are ready to give way to him, and to j-ield him the first place, though it may not belong to him so much by mere intellectual superiority as by strong personal self-assertion.