The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1874-04-05

party ID SoBO iuteiy torn INTO contenotng fac-
tions. There is not word Of truth in all they
Say. The fact is that their correspondents in
Dublin are the editors of the Various anti
Irish journals, and these writer's simply repeat
in their letters to London the lies they them
selves forge and publish from day to day in
their own journals. Thus the Dublin CORES
pondent of the ISnsAs is the editor of the
Orange Daily Express, which never lets . day
slip without telling one or more lies about the
Home Rule movement; the Dublin correspon-
dent of the Pail Mall Gazette is the editor Of
the Aaiz, another snti-Irish Journal; and 90
| on. The talk of the patriotic" Irishmaa il
| to the effect that the Rome Rule members have
| not laid down q defined policy, have not told
how they are going to win Home Rule, have
| adopted . string of vague resolutions that
| mean nothing. Mr.. Butt answered this criti-
| oism at q meeting of the Home Rule League
| to-day, and very easily; pointing ont that
well defined policy has been agreed on and that
| to ask the members to tell how they were going
| to act on every emergency in Parliament would
be as absurd as to ask Sir Garnet wolseley to
tell King Koffu how he was going to take Coo
massie. In fact, Mr.. Butt claims as the great
merit of his policy that no British party knows
or will know how the Home Rule party will
act in any given emergency. But, indeed,
there was scarcely necessity to answer the
Irishnan, whose con duct on this occasion is
due simply to o faction ness of the lowest
type and feeling that it cannot in the re-
hottest degree direct the Home Rule move
ment. s
| am happy to say that the people do not
seem to have given the so by to the Home
Rule movement now that the elections are
over. On the contrary, the steam seems to be
only now getting up in earnest. The Home
Rule League holds great meeting every
week, and whole series of ward meetings.
are in course of being held in this city; the
| object being to get the national roll signed and
to get those entitled to vote put on the regis
try. The people, in fact, seem thoroughly
determined to keep their representatives up to
their work by creating sstrong public opinion
in favor Of the national movement.
Three elections are just now pending in Ire
land. Mr.. Callan being elected for both Louth
and Dandalk must choose one seat or the other
1 this week. believe he will select Dundalk
and that tenant farmer. of Louth, Mr.. George
| Harley Kirke will in that case be put forward
as the national candidate for the county
Should this be the case Mr.. Kirke will proba
| bly, be elected without contest. In Galway
| Lord st. Lawrence was selected with Mr.. Nor
ris on the Home Rule ticket at the general
election. But he had no sooner been chosen
| than his father died and he became a peer
losing his seat. For the vacancy one real
Home Ruler and two sham ones are in the field
| Under ordinary circumstances would expect
| that one of the sham Home Rulers would be
the winner in consequence of his being able
and willing to bribe /; but as the real Home
| Ruler on this occasion has the unanimous sup
port of the clergy and is the popular favorite,
| he has an excellent chance. His name ID Mr..
F. Fl. o'Donnell, young Catholic engaged on
the Lo ndon press, who has made d creditable
reputation for himself by his exposure of that
gross imposture-the infidel Queens Univer-
sity. The third contest is going on in this
county of Du'>.in; The senior member for
which, Col. Taylor, has vacated his seat in
| consequence of his acceptance of post in the
| present government and seeks reelection. For
a quarter of a century the Tories have held
possession Of the constituency, and it's repre-
! sentatives have been Tories of the most bigo-
| ted and backward type. Under the open sys-
tenn of voting hardly anything else could be
| expected; for the tenant farmers dared not
vote against their landlords who are all
Orange Professionals. But now that there is
| vote by ballot, there 10 every chance that the
Tories win be ousted. chance at any rate
will be afforded the electors Of demonstrating
| their patriotism. Mr.. Charles Stewart Par
nell has come forward on Home Rule princi-
pies and he has been adopted by the Home
Rule League and the Dublin Tenants Defence
Association. Mr.. -Parnell is member Of the
Home Rule League and is the present High
Sheriff of Wicklow county. His patriotic
principles are hereditary. His grandfather
was Sir John Parnell, Chancellor of the ex-
chequer in the old Irish Parliament, who re-
fused peerage and voted steadily against the
Union and afterwards in the London Parlia
ment voted for Catho1ip emancipation. am
told that in the ancestral castle in Wicklow
the family carefully preserve the banner of the
Irish Volunteer Regiment of which Sir John
Parnell was commander in 1852. With a
man of this kind, good fight ought to be
made, and already arrangements are in prepa-
ration for holding in his support whole series