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THE PASSING OF A NOTABLE PERSONALITY.
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If he had had the same powers of Par- hamentary as of municipal leadership, ha might well bave become the chief of a group, or have forced his admission to The Ministry. Again the defects. of his character stood in his path-chießy tain waywardness and a suggestion of playing for his own hand, which were always likely to deflect him from the In Sam Storeya he was universally straight path of party and of consistent kaowa-there has disappeared from action, and he remained more or less a Once, too, he fought public life, and especially from the pubdetached gure,
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NEW POLITICAL INCARNATION,
life of the North of England, a very fore-even with his Irish allies by denouncing ible and a very picturesque Egure. He the Plain of Campaign; and that formid was typically a Tyneside man in appear.able section looked on him with distrast ance as well as in character, He was ever afterwards, and were no longer eraphitically a noticeable man wherever available to him as a Parliamentary he was seen. The tall, alert frame, the group which might help on his fortunes.
There then came to Mr. Storey that, long beard, the fine head. the large eyes. slightly protuberant, beautiful in shape. disastrous state of a Parliamentary soul lustrous, lightish grey-blue, kindly, de which whispers the word failure and fiant, and searching, all made up a very makes the drudgery, rather than the striking personality. And the spirit was prizes, "of Parliamentary life conspicuous. It was. Storey allowed himself to inpse into like ita physical clothing ardent, even defant, audacious, restless, mood of despondency, and self-distrust followed on the despondency, so Mr.. ambitious, energetic.
Like Robers Cameron, that other great Storey went down the way which has Sunderland figure, which passed from a often been trodden by disappointed men division in a bath-chair to the coffin, Sam in the House before and since. He con- Storey began life as a schoolmaster. fined himself to fitful attendance; he There perhaps remained to his dying day hesitated to make any demand or the something of the pedagogie spirit in battention of the House; and be logged His speeches were, perhaps, more like for the unquestioned sway and the effer lectures than speeches, and were didactive activities of his northern heme, his tic and even dictatorial rather than perCity Council and his County Council. spasive, For this reason his strecess was 1806, after fourteen years of Parlia equal in the different phay of life mentary life, he left the House of Com through which he passed. In the House mons, and it looked as if the farewell. of Commons he never made anything was for ever.. like a read mark; now and then he fail
But more than a decade afterwards ed to the extent of provoking fuck a violent outburst of disent as to destroy there was a new political incarnation for bis effectiveness. When he was still a the sturdy and self-confident old Radical. vehement and Progressive Radicul heThe world of politics was almost, aghast aney spoke of "the sig faces of his when it became known that this tre Unisalst opponents on the opposite side concilable Radical, who had fought every of the House. The phrase was resented. Inionist with relentless vigour for more there was an outburst of pretest, and than a generation, had accepted the for a long time Storey was unable gospel of Tariff Reform, which Mr. get an attentive hearing. On the other Joseph Chamberlain had just begun to hand. when he occupied a position of preach. For a time Mr. Storey insisted authority in a gathering of men in that Tariff Reform was not a political other words, when he was once more the but an economie question, and declared master of school--he was a great and that be intended to retain his Radical potent figure As Mayor of Sunderland convictions and his place in the Radical se chairman of the Durham County ranks. To this view he retained con- Council he was in his true pince. He sistent, for in the inner councils of the got things done. Capable now and the Tariff Reformers, he continued to insist of persuasiveness. very subtle, and that the question should always be eon- master of the arts of induencing mensilered on its economic and not on its be pushed his policy quietly and easily political side. But, of course, it became but asually because he spoke out within public life an impossible position. and almost fierce earnestness, and because be Mr. Storey found himself denounced by added to the effectiveness of his language his old friends, and gradually excluded
from their ranks.
was fortunate by his impressive appearanOV,
enough to belong to the Devonshire Club witich founded by Mr. Chamber- He was in a Sezer what the French call is after a quarrel with the Reform 211 arriviste. The prosperity of his Club. continued to be hospitable in its life and the comparative failure of his membership, and kept within its walls- In carrer in the bigger arena of Parliament men of widely divergent opinions.
Beginning Mr. Storey attempted to return to are explained by that fact.
NEWSPAPER PROPRIETOR.
He
an Independent Libéral Tari Reformer,
ing in Sunderland to be again elected.
in the modest occupation of schoolmaste the House of Commons. He stood as he soon mounted rapidly, be became the proprietor of several prosperous and he retained enough of his old follow- papers, he was interested in many great and lucrative enterprises, he was able to have his country retreat in beautiful sur roundings and he is believed to hag a considerable fortune..
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When he got back to the House of Cook on found it even less to histaste than it had been in his earlier days. He was in the difcult position of His rise in journalism is associated or who was not wholly in sympathy with one of the curious though now for with either of the great parties, and for gott, chapters in "British newspaper good or evil the House of Commons has life. Andrew Carnegie went through an no place for men who are not definitely epoch when he had the ambition to in and whole-heartedly with one or other Buence profoundly the polities of Great of the great parties. By this time Mr. Britain as well those of America; Storey, after a strenuous life, had also friends approached himmainly become less keen than he had been in Mr. Storey and made the suggestion his parliamentary youth: he found him- that he should take an interest in a mumell a more forlorn figure than ever, wan- ber of newsps pers. These newspapers dered with somewhat ghostlike and ceric were scattered up and down the country, and languid step around the well-known The plan was to pool thrip both as to orders, estranged from old friends, and capital and as to news, and in this way hot quite in sympathy with the new. One it was hoped that there would be 2- powerful chain of organs of opinion, car was quite sufficient for such an ex perience, and when the second General speaking with the same voice to very Election followed. in December of the different and widely scattered audiences, same year, Mr. Storey did not stand and thus exercising powerful effect upon again. He hail finally wiped the dust of public opinion throughout the country. Westminster from his feet. The scheine seemed un practicable as it
He was, however, something of a philo, was grandiose, but it broke down in thei mutual jealousies of the members of the sopher, and he had many pursuits which syndicate. and Mr. Carnegie was glad to appealed to him. He was especially fond to his of fishing, and near his country house he withdraw, leaving, however, former associates their shares in the found abundant opportunities for indulg different enterprises, and Storey retainence in his favourite amusement.
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ed a considerable interest in the North mure, as time went on, he grew fond. ern papers, and also in one at Parts of the peace and isolation of his country mouth. In time he sold the Portsmouth home. He was not often seen in Sunder- paper and concentrated on his papers in lunch and still less frequently in London. In short, he found tranquillity after much Sunderland
tempest, and quietude after much dis Always somewhat independent in, his turbance, in the earlier activities and con- views, be differed from Mr. Gladstone Hiets of his life. And now, with such a during the ferocious struggle between the soft sunset after a blazing morn, he has great Liberal leaders and the young slipped almost unnoticed out Parnellite party when the Land League areas in which he was once a tumultu- and the Government came into collision, ous and conspicuous figure.--The Daily and Storey went the length even of pre Telegraph. siding over meetings at which Irish leaders denounced the Coercion measures. which Mr. Gladstone's Ministry had, felt themselves forced to introduce. In 1881 Mr.Storey was returned to Parliament for the first time, and he immediately proceeded to entry out the same inde penilent policy in the House on the Irish question that he had already proclaimed on the platforms of Sunderland. He joined Parnell all the motions and prolonged and obstructive debates- through which the Coercion Bill had in" plough its way, At one of the last stages, when, under the new Rules of the House, the Speaker was entitled to ask the small minority who opposed a bill to rise in their places, and thereby to lemon. strate that there was no necessity for the loss of time involved by a division- always a lengthy operation-Mr. Stores was one of the seven Radicals who stood up: the late Joseph Cowen, also a stern. Tyneside Radical, was a second; another was Mr. Thompson, an eccentric, wealthy, and scholastic Radical from Durham City: and, curiously enough, in view of his future developments, Mr. Jesse Coll- ings was a fourth of this small band.
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