Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1886-04-09
THE GRAND OLD MAN.
GLADSTONE PRESENTS HIS IRISH
is...sv dzk<,hHE KULE PLAN.
Psrneii Comes to His Assistance-Ex
citing Scenes-Seif-0Overn
in Irish Affairs,

citing scenes-seif-Oovernm
in Irish Affairs,
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LONDON, April NO matter how
full a description you may receive II |
will be impossible for You to realize the
nature of the scenes In and about the |
House of Commons on this most mem
orabie day.
Precedents were all tossed to the |
winds before the day was fairly begun. 4
When the FIRST Orange member, Major
K. j. Sanderson Of Armagh, arrived at
10 O'Clock and asked q policeman IL the
Idoor was open, he found that 100 men
bad already break tasted In the Houee
The Irish mustered their fall number
90 70 Captain O'Shea. They grabbed
the Tory seats, 30 that the latter had to
Icrowd into the galleries and stand up,
lacking all sense of the cohesion which
Ia compact body Of men should feel.
The scramble for seats was terrific
among the outsiders. Ladies began 10
Icome at 10 o'clock, and at noon one
couid BEE duchesses on the stairs eating
'lpenny buns while waiting for the doors
leo open. Later on curious sight was
presented In the Commons lobby, when
> the peers formed queue at the door OF
| their gallery, waiting for 1t to open,
! aud were ordered about by isckeys like
Icommon mortals. The Irish and the
Radicals derived great enjoyment from
observing the scene. When the door
Twas opened the peers made grand
! trush like q crowd in the gallery Of q
. theatre, even the dignified Lord Spencer
Q ia m ping over the seats like . hoodlum
j, L TO gain the front row.
= The reception of Gladstone outside Of
"a 1.-The House of Commons was inspiringly
impressive. Dense crowds stood for
thours In pouring rain waiting for him
Ito come. 1t has been many years since
1.-THE Queen herself has heard such cheers
as Numbered ell the way from Down
ling Street to the House. As he rode
beside his wife bareheaded, bowiDg bis
Thanks from an open carriage and hold
ling an umbrells, the crowd became &C
enthusiastio that 1t forced It's way pasl
the police and filled the palace yard
D after him, cheering fervently.
III GLADsToNE's SPEECH.
l The Philadelphia Press, referring 4
Ill For three and half hours yester
1r ldsy an overhowing House of Common
rt listened to its greatest statesman ant
It. most eloquent orator explain the mea
si. surepfor the relief of Irish wrongs, upol
which he had expended all the stored
Iup wisdom of longer experience II
he public affairs than that Of any hvini
lfigure of eminence in the Legislature
he of the world. The occasion was on
Il whose sixnificance 1t would be impet
nd tsible to exaRgerate. IL not only cor
ct Icerned the destinies OF ireland, but
was o formal introduction of measur
I'M wbose fate will decide the extremel
D. Interesting question whether the Eng
,er lish people believe in self.governmen
as q political principle, or whether the
believe 1t IL only for themselves.
was In this sense that Mr.. Gladstor
himself conceived the occasion. O
this ground he ultimately based h
,s- speech, and his speech was Hon
Vel Rule speech.
No the speech will rank with the histol
bur efforts Of political oratory as Ine Si
matte and picturesque scene In whl
Ii was set is unQuestionably TO be rar
ed may, perhaps, be doubted. The Q
ment of adroitness entered too large
81 Into the necessities OF the orators po
~ tion to permit the free swing OF
nd most exalted eloquence. He was,
'I.a fact. between two fires. Direct as
'no principle his advocacy of his measu
,,r was. both in reality and In superfic
kRS Iappearance, this had to be treated az
compromise which should attract {
Irish on the one hand without offendi
English prejudices on the other.
lie first separated the land questi
oca and the question of Irish governmel
quo and declared the intention OF the ~
M Il W ernment to deal only with the latter
o that occasion, and then sketched
ao uo,. Home Rule plan very much as II .
"a already been summarized In advan
30, with the variation OF certain details
'oA which discussion would at this VIII
be premature. Around every propo
tiou he skilltully wove what Mr.. nj
thew Arnold would call its sweet r.
@ IN souableness," aud fused It's whole IL
aqse grand organism which he seductiv
nest labeled fiscal unity and legislative
reat yersity. Self government in Irish,
70 o, In Imperial affairs was the end he ain
ano at and the end he expected the bill
,sIN secure. He argued for Ihis principle
the lesser of two evils, but his perso
conyiction he declared to be that 1t
"a positiye good. 1t was time, he
u lar tended, that England should prac
but what she preached and recognize
But. truth that good faws were value
on unless passed by the proper perse
ester namely, the persons whom they
pods, hoa.na6 In fine. as a Dlea on gent
and grounds for even a completer recog
Zion of Home Rule than the bill Q
oedes. the speech was a masterpi'
It's great triumph is to have anchore
sign niece of compromise legislation IN
form roadstead OF universal principles.
his p.rYs Yxro LINE.
oned rN@'
II re. After Mr.. TrevelyAn had close
srket speech against the bill, Mr. Par
O 70. arose aud was received with cheers
n his the Irish members.
He congratulated Mr.. Trevelyan
having, like the French general
had unsuocessfully defended Paris
In. Iown plan-a plan, however, which
,rtars not seem to awaken much enthusi
, s0Iin the House. Mr.. Trevelyan, he
fully had statea why ne nao aois jug uos =,
By ment, out not why no nau TSs
the Irish benches. Mr.. Parnell
went on to justify his past uttera
land action, which had been iinpuI
largo by Mr.. Trevelyan.
cost, cpoas,ng =. Sson came
also nAuon nseh"ya -, LA .hat mn,
u. a. America Mt. 1aIno' ns e,.hsr SOY Ams,
Ipor Irish literature. "If Mr.. II
lyan," he continued, were 10
the the literature OF America ~
1niro moment he would find that SYM
nne for the Just settlement OF tne grievs
vell as of Ireland by the concession OF
mestic legislature Is snowa &c., ~