The Irish standard., 1886-06-26

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tha call pass unheeded If the National
isss have itin their power to respond.
MI. Broadhurst, the representative of
the aboring classsin Gladstone's gov
eminent, states tonight that the great
labor organizations and the working
:classes of the country generally have
now mastered the details of the Home
Rule question, and are with scarcely
ali exception, resolved to side with
Gladstone. Nine tenths of these men
hadn't the slightest idea six months
back what Home Rule really meant.
The average idea was that the
s HOME RULERS WERE REBELS ..
who would some day or other be found
in arms against the union. The masses
are now pretty well convinced that
Home Rule means contented, pros
porous Ireland and strength to the
empire. AS the fight approaches more
closely, the passions Of partisans be-
come tiercer. ALL the principals are in
tlesfeyer Of work, and the constituent
cies are catching the contagion, which
is spreading like wild-fre all along the
line. England and Scotland will be in
a blaze of excitement from one end to
other within a week. The election
that ushered in the land act was not to
be compared to the one now en-
gagged in. The work Of choosing candi-
dates still goes on with provoking slow
ness. Scores Of crotchety associations
are responsible for maddening delays.
tits astonishing how ignorant leading
men in their own local spheres are on
the subject of Home Rule. Vast num-
.bers are still pervaded with the fear
that Gladstone's policy is reckless
leap i'll the dark over a precipice, and
that the country is going under his
leadership .headlong to ruin. tits hard
work convincing them of their error.
Some are not convinced and go back to
their people shaking their heads and
half resolved to join the Loyalists.
Others offer all sorts of obstacles.
There are the temperance men, the
women sutfragists, the church and
state, the anti-church- and-state groups,
all fighting for the nomination of their
own particular champions. But the
work neyerthe goes steadily on, and
matters are gradually getting into
shape. 1t is now almost certain that
Justin Mccarthy will score victory
for Derry city. Irish returns show
that the Nationalist majorities in Ire
land are perfectly secure.
~ AID FOR PARNELL. u
Funds are being forwarded daily to
aid sParne]l. Yesterday (June 24) he
received the following cablegraln from
Detroit: .
Parnell, House OF Commons, London: The
Irish National League of America transmits
you this day by cable 2l2,0O0, and bids you
Fare to the onset.' By executive order.
CHARLES O'RE1LLY National Treasurer,
A recent issue of the Philadelphia
Ledger sI eaks thus:-'sDuring the last
fortnight number Of our contempor-
aries have been good enough to print
very kind and handsome things OF the
proprietor of the Public Ledger, and
have connected them and his name
with the highest executive Office
in the country. OF course such
expressions are very gratifying to
Mr.. Childs as exhibiting strength Of
personal regard for which he is at a
loss to make adequate acknowledge
ment. That is the one light in which
he prizes them, and he prizes them very
highly. But in so far as they suggest
that he should be nominated for Presi-
dent of the United States, that is an
ether sort of matter-still gratifying as
token of warm goodwill, but at the
same time looking to an impossibility.
Mr.. Childs is quite well aware that the
estimable journals that have made fav-
orable mention of the suggestion, and
the numerous influential friends who
have written him on the subject, do
not pretend to be invested with the
authorities and powers Of National
Conventions and he is therefore not de-
clining an offer which is not made, and
that it is not likely to be made, by the
Convention Of any party organization;
still in his view of what he regards as
necessary in this particular instance, he
thinks that not even his silence should
be permitted to give announcement or
to look like giving encourage to a
proposal to make him nominee for
President. Indeed, if his very partial
friends in the newspaper press and
other vocations who have taken favor
able notice of the proposal were actual
ly invested with full Convention
powers, or could influence and control
sufficient number Of the voters of the
United States to make his election alb
solutely certain and under those cir
cumstances would make the offer--he
would then only have the stronger
reason to say, and would d'say with more
emphasis, if that were possible: This
manifestation of your goodwill and
great favor is very welc come to me, but
Won nronOse to do what should not be