There was an old link between two public men _whose
deaths have been lately recorded, Lewd. Fitzmanrice and LordDalziel, who died on Tuesday. In 1892 a vacancy occurred at ,Kirkcaldy and Lord Edmond ,Fitzmaurice was about to be adopted by the local Liberals., But Dalziel, who was beginning his journalistic career in the Press Gallery of the House of Commons, went straight. to the Liberal Chief •Whip and got his ,blessing, ,posted up to Kirkcaldy and then agreed to . accept an..,arbitrater7s ruling between him and his rival—having, as he :liked to observe to his friends in later years, first. ascertained how the ruling would. go. , He had a strange flair for the atmosphere of the House and if he had, chosen, .could have gone much further in politics than he did. In journalism he will be chiefly remembered for his acquisition of the Daily Chronicle from the Lloyd family in Mr, Lloyd George's interest. •* *
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