The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1876-08-06

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= offquick enough from Home Rule" tVeI
likely" answered the Catholic Home RI
J Iers "we are quito prepared to find
large percentage Of these men fall off, bl
enough of them will remain faithful an
true to make the movement success an
especially the Protestant youth of the cour
try beuceforth will be ours"
Tim AT all events ouch time as ba
since elapsed-has quite indicated thi
view.
Meantime the country WAS propoupcin
gradually bnt decisively on the movement,
Within the first six months the following
Corporations, Town Commissions, an,
Boards ofGuardians passed formal votes en-
dOrsing it's principles: Cork and Limericl
Municipal Councils Athlone, Ballinasloe
Clones, Dungarvan, Galway, Kingstown
| Lopgford, Nenagh, New Ross, Mullipgar
Queenstown and Tuam Town Commits
sions Dublin, Cork, Drogheda, Galway
Kilkenny, Kilmallock and Millstreet Boards
of Guardians. Limerick, Cork and Mallow
Farmers Clubs.
This was barely a few months work az
to the pronouncement of popularity elected
public bodies. A number of public meet
lngs IN various parts of the country, at
tended by tens of thousands of the people,
gave further stamp of approval and a
cheer of welcome to the movement.
The mode of electing the governing body
or council of the association was peculiar.
In place of the usual mode-proposing the
list at the annual public meeting, and
passing it there and then-the mem ers of
the council were elected by ballot papers I;
each member of the association, no m after
where resident receiving his paper and ex-
ercislng bis vote as we'll as if he lived on
the spot in Dublin. Much curiosity existed
to see the result of this secret ballot vote in
large body so mixed in religions class and
Tin a sense) political opinions. Two-thirde
or three-fourths of the voters would be
CathOlics-was it not grievous peril that
by any chance they might ballot in nearly
exclusively Catholic council, and thus SOW
mlsgiving and mistrust amongst the Protes-
tsntsf But never yet have the Catholics of
ireland, in private or in public, failed to
refute by noble tolerance the evil suspic-
ions of their foes. The very first council
thus elected (under circumstances, too, that
preciuded concert or arrangement as to
either general or particular resultl turned
out to be composed of thirty two Catholics
and twenty nine Professionals and two
Protestants headed the poll - The an
1ouncement had profound effect, not only
n cementing and solidfying the new union
If parties and creeds within the organize
ION, but also in spreading its principles |
'oroad' A good idea of the varied classes |
composing the governing body thus elected |
nay be gathered from the following analy- |
is OF the Home Rule Council for 1872
catholic clergy.5; Protestant clergy, a
the Iate) Lord Mayor, l Aldermen, z;
Deputy leutenants, 3 Doctors of medicine,
j knights, 3; Justices of the peace, 4; Lieu
enant- Colonel, Members of Parliament,
; Queens counsel, Solicitors, 2 Town
3
ooh. poohed the "Home Rule craze" at
9ngth began to take alarm for without the
rlsh vote that party could neither attain to
or retain office. They warned the Catho-
c hierarchy to discourage this mischievous
usiness. 1t was at best "inopportune :"
would arrest Mr.. Gladstone's beneficent
esign of settling the Catholic university
nusatlon question and would only "play
10 Tory game" Liberalism was not going
Ole easily. Things came to a crisis in g
1e Kerry election of 1872. On the death
lat year of Lord Kenmare, his SOD, Wis
'unt Castlerosse, then Catholic whig lib.
'al member for Kerry, attained to the earl c
ON, and thus created a vacancy in the !
Ariiamentary representation. By com
act between the great landlords of the c
,untry, Wing and Tory, thirty years pre- t
ously, it was agreed to "halye the Z
'unty between themselves one Protestant t
DRY member from the great house of Her. g
ert of Muckross, and one Catholic Whip G
ON the noble house of Kenmare-ap cal f
ance offensive and defensive against all t
lrd parties or popular intruders being
us established. On this occasion the new C
All OF henmaTe nominated as his successor b
the family seat his first cousin, Mr.. James p
Dease, an estimable Catholic gentleman o
to the people in every way but b
10 he was not Home Ruler. Although C
Q Catholic Bishop, Right Rev. DR.. Mo- "
Irity, joined the county landlords in L
minating Mr.. Dease, the bnlk of the Ca d
olic clergy, and the people almost unani- a
o1sly, revolted, and, amidst d shout of b
rision at such "a "hopeless attempt, Il
listed the flag of Home Rule. They, Ca p
ollcs almost to a man, chose ont as their 2
ndidate a young Protestant Kerryman Il
rely home from Oxford University-Ro- d
nd Blennerhassett, of Kells. He was a n
'me Ruler, and much loved even as bow ii
the Celtic peasantry of that wild Iveragh v
1t breaks the first roll of the Atlantic "
lows on the stormy Kerry coast. Ireland p
d England held breath and watched the b
uggle as tacitly admitted test combat. 81
who sDllls the foremost foeman's We Ii
His party oonquers in the strife NJ
Such an election struggle probably had "
stirred ireland since that of Glare in az
-. 1t resulted in an overwhelming vic re
y for Home Rule. Deserted by every eC