The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-09-10
FARNELL'S LATEST.

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for =. RAIDS"
LONDON, August 30.-Ireland is again
to the front. Mr. Parnelps speech re-
mains the sensation of the day. Stor-
les of outrages are renewed with t.ood-
curdling frequency. The banner of
separation is lifted aloft, saluted by a
nations cheers. Wild talk of armed
rebellion is revived. The alarm has
flashed like wildfre the length and
breadth of the land. The Liberal
press raise the cry, ''the union is in
dangers" Liberal orators are trumpeting,
''Down with separation" and Liberal
stock is booming. Gladstone is back to
lead the Liberal hosts, Parnell furnish
ing the battleshout. The declaration OF
separation gives a new color to the inn
pending party struggle in England. 1t is
a send God to the grand old man in
the hour of direSt extremity. The
Tories say the outs are tainted
with the Parneh alliance; they
NAV be hand in glove with
the traitors, aiders and abettors of sepa-
ration. So "down with the Tories and
separation and sup with the Liberals
and the Union" The DevonShire Club
orators have raised the cry on hundred
platforms. The National, City aud Re-
form Clubs whose emissaries penetrate
to every town and hamlet in the KIM
dom, have sent the shout echoing all
along the line. Thank God, fervently,
calculated the Liberal chiefs, for Mr..
Parnell and separation. Public opinion,
~ ~ nj 81 hsv
rule, decided long ago that separation
means blood. The Nationalist campaign
has been one-sided, ParnelI debating
ana Gladstone yielding. Nothing in
Parnell's demands touched England's
safety, but separation sounded the death
knen of EngIand's power. 1t is an enemy
on the threshold inside the gates. Insu-
lar security ceases with the snap of insu-
lar solidity The Times at last says SO.
1t is the unsaid creed of every statesman
OF the country. Public opinion inexora-
bly, DEGREES the maintenance of the union
aud is fixed and unalterable. Other men
before Parnell have started out with great
glory for separation. They have usually
ended in small reforms of local abuses.
But the present generation Nationalists is
stunned with its own uproar and loses
of the present. Parnell assumes differ
ence between himself and Ireland's
patriots gone before. He has advanced
further, achieved more and come nearer
TO political independence. The English
take a different view. There is wide
spread opinion that Ireland has been
grevously misgoyerned. She is the pet
of the family. To Parnell belongs the
credit of bringing all this about English
opinion recognizes this, and is ripening
for home rule. not only in Ireland, but
in England and Scotland, too. But when
you come 10 separation you bring up
against 4 stone wall. Parnell will have
to batter down the stone wall. He is fill
ed with the idea that he can do it, and
the Liberals are calling up their legions
to man the rampartS. The preservation
of the Union will be the campaign cry of
the Liberal party. 1t would be drOll if it
were to become the campaign cry OF the
Conservatives as well. l learn that a
sworn report of the alleged reasonable
speech of Mr.. John O'Connor, NJ. P, has
been procured by the Dublin Castle Off
Gals TO submit TO the Crown lawyers. In
this speech Mr.. O'Connor, as reported,
declared that rifles and bayonetS would,
if necessary, be appealed to in the fight
to free Ireland from British rule. The
words are construed to be reasonable,
and 1.-THE speech, coming as II
does just after the expiration
of the crimes act, followed by
a"rarian ourages in Kerry, boycotting
i'll other districts, and general tend ncy
to renewed terrorism, has created some
excitement in administrative circles.
A careful survey of the registration of
the 1000, 900 newly enfTanchised rural
voters yields extraordinary results. The
Conservatives have completely outgener-
aled the Liberals all over the field. In
many districts where the Liberals expect
ed to poll large vote. it was found that
the labOrers would have to walk several
miles TO deposit their ballots. They,
therefore, procured the insertion of a
clause providing that no voter should be
compelled 10 walk more than three miles
10 a polling station. But singularly
enough NJ provision was made for polling
places to render this clause workable. The
question of accommodation was left en-
tirely to local officials. An eXamina- /
ton of the polling places selected by
the Sheriff reveals the fact that voters /.
generally will have to walk from five,
six and poss blv even seven miles across
country, no other m ans of locOmot!on |
being procurable. The Joke of the
thing is that the walkers on their
weary journey will have to pass poll
ing places belonging to other districts
treated. The manner in which
the whole business has been muddled by /
the Liberal managers and contrived by |
the Conservatives is exasperating the /
Liberal chiefs and causing unlimited re-
joicing at the Carlton.
The Tories have dished the Grads"
and Wings in another point not less i'm
portant. 1t is unlawful to hire carriages |
for conveying voters to the polls, but |
any owner of a carriage or wagon may .
carry the ballot troopers. As nine out .
OF ten of all the carriages and convey
ances of every description in the shires
belong 10 squires, the Liberals are likely
10 have a melancholy time of it trampine
about country roads on election day,
hunting up faT-away rustic vot.
ers and urging them &c
the distant ballot boxes. The
laborer who votes for the squirrels
candidate may ride to the polls in
seated in a silken and velvet
upholstered carriage, behind pair of
housekeeping naas and find bit of roast
beef and Il mug OF cool, foaming ale at
the end of his journey. He who votes
for Liberals must trudge in the dust for
miles, lose davis work and come empty
away. cheered with the reflection that he
Is down on the blacklist of the squire
and the squire's friends and every farm
er in the parish.
4 New Northwestern Railway Projected.
DENVER, Col, August 31.-A party Of