Lord Randolph Churchill at Birmingham on Wednesday pro- nounced his
blessing on the Standard for exposing the Minis- terial proposals, whatever means the managers of the paper may have taken for that end, on the principle that as espion- age must be used to detect crime, there is no reason for not using it to detect the tricks of "the light-fingered politicians of the Liberal Party. Lord Randolph Churchill is striving to the utmost of his power to bring the relations between the two parties into the condition in which they would be if "set a thief to catch a thief" were the maxim by which their mutual relations were to be governed. If this flippant and. unscrupulous young man were ever to become, say, Home Secretary to a Conservative Government, how would he like to reflect, when the Bills drawn in the Office were made public: without his leave, that he had been the first to defend the practice of so disgraceful a breach of trust?
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