New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-12-19
IRISH NOVELTIES.
PROPOSED TORY ALLIANCE-ATTACKS On
FREE SPEECH.

alliance has existed during the last two OF tlree
months. and given more than one PROOF OF It's
Wit hty But hitherto the agreements entered iht"
between these strange political bedleiOWs ha'o
been for limi ed term only. They had reference "
n single event, particular election Inc ''"''0H'
such as it was, was not an enduring rclatioh' ~
was 10 last, SO to speak, only for NIGHT. NoOouS
ever dreamed OF aging that il was based on COM
munity of political ideas. 1t sprung from the desiro
Of beating the Liberals in particular Constituency
But now comes Mr.. O'Donnell with two separate
and distinct statements; one OF them at least OF ~
surprising kind. lie begins n long letter to ~"
Times by remarllng that he is Instructed 10
proceed to County Derry to ask the supporters OF
Mr. Parnels policy if circumstances shouid so au-
yse unite their votes in favor of the Conservative
candidate, Sir Samuel Wilson. This is only what
was done in North Durham, in Lincolnshire ana
more recently in Stafford. with signal success Inc
IRISH and Tories Joined hands and defeated the
Liberals. In Tyrone, on the other hand, where MI
Parnell ran third candidate IN hopes
to draw off votes enough from the Llbcrais
to elect a Tory, failure occurred The success
which resulted from an open coalition, and the de-
feat following Mr. Parnel's more intricate scheme
would be quite enough to account for the present
Home Rnle tactics in Derry But MIR. ODonneh
has laid before the public q reason of much larger
&
he. upon which we have resolved is that the Con-
scrvative policy in relation to agrarian reform IN
Ireland is now practically identical with the plat
form Of Mr. Davitt and Mr.. Parnen'
If Mr.. ODonnell wanted to create a sensation, ne
has succeeded on n certain scale. If he were a
moro important person, the sensation would be
greater Heretofore hc has been in partial disgrace
with his own clique. The Land League refused TO
elect him a member. That did moi prevent him
from putting forth to the utmost his considerable
powers of Notwithstanding in Parliament There
have been hints that Mr.. ODonnell has now be-
come so necessary that his former offences, whatever
they may have been, had been coudoued. lie ccr-
tainly does profess in this letter 10 be acting in
concert with the Plmcllitcs. We shall soon know.
Meantime, what his letter means is this; that Mr.
O'Dounc hopes for a permanent cornbiua-
ton between Tories and Home Rulers on the
basis of compromising the landlords The Torres
had begun TO make that cry heard from a good many
platforms. They urged compensation as an act of
Justice to pluudcrcd Landlords; not without some
plausible force. Mr.. ODouucll advocates il q,
means Of buying OF landlord opposition o. the Land
Act and staying cyctons. lie paints CHASTITY pic
ture Of the Immediate future in ireland: landlords
using their power 10 cyic under the existing law;
,trangling in advance the bcuchccnt operation OF
the Land Act: ctlrctinr, with absolute impunlty #
ihey act together for SIX months the most trcmcu-
dous clearance since Oliver Cromwell. And Mr.
ODonue whose rhetoric is Of the most irothr
kind shuddcrs at the bare thought OF What the
noxt six months have in store"
Irmust he said OF Mr. ODonuclrs letter that in
cynical impulcncc in disregard Of facts, m the
.hamelc- proHiracy Of the political BARGAIN 10 pro-
poecs, IL has seldom been surpassed II viii only
deserve 10 be- treated seriously in case the Torres
u. l.. LII. q
a party which accepts Lord Salisbury % lea Icr and
in which Mr. James Lowther is an oracle on Irish
troubles. The Tories have already shown them
selves capable Of dcnouncing to-day the legis-
laion which they heartily supported yc terdIv and
OF conlcmuiug Jn the platform q measure Of corr-
ciou les. severe than that for which they camorrd
in Parliament. But an open alliance 90
n common basis Of policy between Lord Sails
bury and Mr. Parncn Sir Stafford Northcoir and
Michael Dayitt--uo, that is thing 10 be believed IA
only when IL has been accomplished. II The land
lords If ireland want 10 destroy in advance every
chance Of getting compensation, they have only 10
accept The championship and patronage which, with
Characteristic compla.oncc, Mr Frank Hugh u.Dou-
nell offer, them.
The natural arniabity Of the IRISH Home Ruler
broke ont the other day az Newcastle. where Mr.
Ashton Dixie the Junior member OF that borough,
mc.tiugo Of 1000 people. An Irish minority Of
about one-ffth of the whole audience hoH'~i down
Mr. Dixie One of them announced amid TIE up-
roar chat no Liberal should have q 'llr hearing boz
Newcastle tin tho Kimaiuham prisoners had
had fair trial in Ireland. A. The IRISH
formed com act mass near the platform
they were easily able 10 prevent the hearing
of a SINGLE sentence. and after some twenty minutes
Of dumb show SIR. Dixie and his friends quilted the
hall This is III 1ir. Joseph Governs parish aud Mr..
Joseph Cowen is perhaps entitled 10 divide with the
Irish themselves the credit OF this attack ou free
speech.
This is not a solitary instance. The Irish, says
one Of their advocates will not allow Mr. Burt, who
has always voted against coercion, to appear a
platform in his native town. On the night .ollow-
inr the Newcastle demonstration, some scores Of
them did their best 10 silence Mr.. John Morley, Ed
itor Of The PaH MaH Gasctc, the most
extreme ant-coercion paper IN England, and
they ended by voting against a resolution
in favor of an alteration OF the Land Laws in Eng
land and Of household suffrage. There no par
tcular occasion to be surprised at these yiyacies
The measure of Irish gratitude has been taken in
the cases of Mr. Gladstone and Mr. Bright the two
men who have done moro for Ireland than all the
Irishmcn living, and who are hated ACCORDINGLY.
Mr. John Morley is man who has made sa"ri-
fees of no common kind 10 the Irish caisc In obedi
euce 10 sincere convictions. be has pnt his paper on
p atlorm where it stands alone in its uucompIo-
missing hostility to coercion in every form and under
any circumstances IIc his, argued tho
Irish case with an intellcc ual vlgOr which
no Irshman has given signs Of pos s5irg Beyond al
doubt he has injured his paper by doing IL and I'M
paired his own influence by the stiffness Of hi, adj
herence TO generous crochet and given iuss offence
10 the Liberal party BY his antagonisn to measures
which the immense majority Of thar party thought
necessary for the maintenance o. social order in Ire
land. The PdH UdH gazette Is paper with n pc
culiar constituency. 1t published in the evening
at high price admirably edited. prominent for its
power of political thinking, every page stamped
with cnlfnre and denls largelK with tnuirs Mhch