Sir Robert Reid, speaking yesterday week at Rugby on the
Radical leadership, said that Lord Rosebery was forced to accept the leadership by the refusal of many of the Liberal Ministers to serve under Sir William Harcourt,—a refusal of which he could never understand the reasons. Under these cir- cumstances Lord Rosebery was entitled to a much more loyal support than he had actually received. Sir Robert Reid thought that the choice of a good leader was a matter of great im- portance, and one in which the rank-and-file ought to have more considerable voice, and he wished to see this choice
;made as noon as possible, and not decided upon by the leaders only, or in a secret fashion. He clearly does not approve of the choice of a Liberal leader being indefinitely post- poned. So. we conclude that he thinks that there is some eligible candidate for the post. But he appears to have given no indication of his own preference,—which is not, we imagine, Mr. Morley. Is it, perhaps, Sir H. Campbell- Bannerman ?
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