Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1886-06-11
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Friday Morning. June II, 1886
Home Rule Temporarily Defeated.
Mr.. Gladst ones Irish Home Rule bill
was defeated in the English House O.
Commons on Monday night by small
majority, having failed to pass its second
reading by a vote of 81 to 81. Though
thus temporarily defeated, the full vote re-
corded upon the measure, the small ma.
iority by which it was defeated, and other
facts developed during its consideration
give the friends of local self government
in Ireland the highest hopes of the ulti-
mate triumph Of this great and humane
measure.
1t was clearly shown during the debate,
and especially in the speech of Mr., Par
nell near the close, that many of the Tory
members were pledged to support Of a
home rule bill in consideration of nation
alist votes by which they secured their
seats. The Tory leaders became very I'M
easy under these important disclosures
made by the Irish champion, but none of
them ventured denial except in shut
fling and evasive way. The conclusion,
therefore, necessarily follows that these
same members who secured their seats
by such pledges, in now voting against a
measure in which Mr. Gladstone offers the
least that Irish patriots can satisfactorily
accept, are actuated in thus violating
their pledges by partisan jealousy and not
by any hostility to principle which they
have already Enthusiastically conceded.
Had these members kept their pledges
and voted with the Liberals under the
lead of Mr.. Gladstone and the Nationalist
under Parn Ill, the Home Rule bill would
have passed by safe majority.
1t was scarcely expected by the most
sanguine friends of the Irish cause, when
Mr.. Gladstone surprised the world by the
liberality of his Home Rule measure for
the emancipation of Ireland, that it would
be successful at the first session of Paria-
ment to which it was presented. The
large vote it has received and the small
majority by which it was beaten, together
with the facts accompanying its defeat,
are very encouraging to the friends of
Irish liberty in Europe and America.
The encouraging vote upon the measure
evidences the fact that the idea that there
was no middle ground to be pursued in
dealing with the Irish question between
complete incorporation" and complete
separation,' which has so long been a
controlling principle in English sentiment
upon this question, is now repudiated by
most respectable and influential element
of English public sentiment and the char
actsristic sagacity of Dir. Gladstone is fully
indicated. The probabilities that the
Irish people will soon be emancipated
from the yoke of English oppression are
at this time, encouraging. New York
Sun, commenting on the question, has the
motion to read the Home Rule b
second time has been rejected by an a
verse majority of 80, the vote being 5
against 81. This means that almost eve
member of the House of Comm ons was
this momentous evening in his seat al
voted. 1t means that, in addition to the
Nationalist members. 225 representatives
the brain and conscience of Great Brita
have declared that justice required the r
storation of Dublin Parliament.
means that sixteen men had it in the
power to say whe' her a work of righteor
restitution should be quickenel or defe
red. 1t means that these sixteen and Il
other dissidents elected on the score
liberal professions will be soon called
an account for their violation of a tru
whose scope and purpose has during Il
late debate been plainly and emphatical
enforced by their constituents. 1t NEAR
that 1rlshmen whose votes returned mo,
than thirty of their present enemies to Pa
lament challenge them to meet them at II
polls,where what last light seemed draw
battle may be transformed into a victor