The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-09-11
rAaNELL,s LATEST.

rARNELLsS LATEST.
ms RseeAs speech Advoeasine sepsratioa
Creates Diversity Of Feeling In tbs Rival
Political Camps-Eieetion Tactics In the
Emerald Isle-Carriages for Tories Hoofl
for :. RaAs."
LONDON, August 80.-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 q
nations cheers. Wild talk of armed
rebellion IL revived. The alarm has
flashed like wildare the length and
breadth of the land. The Liberal
press raise the cry, ''the union Is In
dangers" Liberal orators are trumpeting,
ssDown 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 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 Parnell alliance; they
NAV be hand In glove with
the traitors, aiders and abettors of scpa.
ration. So "dOwn with the Tories and
separation" and cup with the Liberals
and the Union" The Devonshire Club
orators have raised the cry on hundred
platforms. The National, City and Re.
form Clubs whose emissaries penetrate
to every town and hamlet in the King.
dom, have sent the shout echOinS all
along the line. Thank God, fervently,
CALCULATED the Liberal chiefs, for Mr..
Parnell and separation. Public opinion,
crystallizing fast In favor OF Irish home
rule, decided long ago that separation
means blood. The Nationalist campaign
has been one-sided, Parnell debating
ana Gladstone yielding. Nothing in
Parneli's demands touched England's
safety, but separation sounded the death
kneil Of England's power. 1t Is an enemy
on the threshold inside the gates. Insu-
lar security ceases with the snap of insu-
lar solidi,y. The Times at last says so.
1t is the unsaid creed of every statesman
of the country. Public opinion iuexora-
bly, DEGREES the maintenance of the union
and 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 it's own uprOar and loses
the echoes of the past in the confusion
of the present. Parneil assumes differ.
ence between himself and Ireland's
patriots gone before. He has advanced
Iurther, achieved more and come nearer
to political independence. The English
take different view. There Is q wide.
spread opinion that Ireland has been
gricvously misgoverned. 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 TO separation you bring up
against a stone wall Parnell will have
to batter down the stone wall. He Is I'LL.
ed with the idea that he can do 1t, 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 we'll. learn that q
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 rs II
does just after the expiration
of the crimes act, followed by
agrarian outrages in Kerry, boycotting
In other districts, and a general tendency
to renewed terrorism, has created some
excitement in administrative circles.
A careful survey of the registration of
the 2,00O, 900 newly enfIauchised 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 q
clause providing that no voter should be
compelled to walk more than three miles
to polling station. But singularly
enough nnprovision 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 possibly even seven miles across
no other means of locomOtiOn
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 carriage or wagon may
carry the ballot choppers. As nine out
OF ten of all the carriages and convey
ances of every description in the shires
belong to squires, the Liberals are likely
to have a melancholy time of it trampins
about country roads on election day,
hunting up faT-away rustic vot.
ers and urging them to
the distant ballot.boxes. The |
laborer who votes for the squirrels |
candidate may ride to the polls In |
seated in o silken and velvet |
upholstered carriage, behind pair of |
nays aud find a bit of roast |
beef aud mug of cool, foaming ale at |
The end Of his journey. He who votes
for Liberals must trudge in the dust for
miles, lose days work and come empty |
away. cheered with the reflection that he
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