The Liberal leaders are carrying on their campaign in the constituencies. Mr. Morley has made a further succession of spec-ches, and Mr. Asquith has followed him but up the present none of the Conservative leaders—except Sir Edward Clarke, who since his refusal of the Solicitor-Generalship has become something of a free Iance—has taken the lists against them, and the English Radicals on their part are beginning to grumble at the neglect of the "predominant partner" by their leaders. But if English Radical strongholds reject these leaders and compel them to seek refuge in Welsh border counties or in Scotlind, what are the leaders to do? Even patty leaders must nurse their constituencies, and after ull the English Radicals are not losing much. There has been nothing very inspiring in the speeches of Mr. Morley and Mr. Asquith. The fact is that the party is in a miserable condition for want of a Teader, and no one can at present see where the leader is to come from. Sir William Harcourt is no doubt the best man they have got, but justly or unjustly he has never had the entire confidence of the party, and since the rebuff which he
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