New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-02-26
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THOMAS SEXTON.
rIIr ORATOR OF TIE IRISH HOME hOhT
PARTY

DuBlY. Feb II.
The pro,racted Illness OF THOMAS ooA'o,' ,|Ia,'
Nayor-elcct Of Dublin IS a sore DioW W '"o
Parliamentary party, and, as a matter oi GOV" ~
the entire Irish nation. LAKE, the maIol'S " .,
colleagues. he IS a young If his age Is consul
cred from a political point of view added 10 '1 W.
cpms,anco that with fair field and good opporVun'y
he Is likely e. greater ulumphS 'h"i ~ 40.
already won, 10 would be correct To say 'hd' " " "a
q YOUTH for no is only abont thirty hNo Se"1 we
Indeed all of Parncl's followers In tho i.helIs"
NJ Commons are so full of life ana you''iu Nieo
,ho, th,s serves as partial set of to the fasiaih6
wears e Gladstone. Sexton himself Is inc oiS "" "
ireland who IS unconscious, or wh" socis w w ~
scous of his brilliant powers lie IS inc Only ma"
moncst tbo Irish leaders who does not seem 10 lc'r
,lvaIr, he rather welcomes il, and would not con
slider how far behind the appearance OF succeSSlW
competitor might leave him in the popular cs'co'"'
On this account he Is popular with The young hcn IN
Ireland those who constitute the rising nope ho'
of tho unbcnding Tories, but of the unbendns paos'
Twenty wears ago hc might have grown up III IIc-
land without reaching beyond that stage where man
&c said TO attract notice. he certainly Woud never
have been known" He is an instance oi ""Vl0
conditions create men and not men cohnuoHS' '0
had no regular course OF training. lie was PhNsr
eay weak from the lie came into behg shoflS
after the Nineteenth Century Black Dcath-the terri
hIo famine Of 46 and '47-had made the whole lana
deSolate But the greatest of his disadv an'aecS was
that he was poor In this country tha' "o~un "0
considered much i'm man resolved TO become sV"''
tbing 1t is different in ireland There TO po Dof"
moor is TO remain poor. You viii hnd cAcep'oIs'
OF course but they exceptions that reaiE i"'s"
mo bone TO these who arc most in need OF improving
their condition. If, for example you ever gave eNF
dcuce for the Crown in two-penny-hs penny ua'>"'
lion YOU are "tahcn care Of" If you sWoic Inc po-
ucenan was right and the citizen wrong before the
village Dogberry you were certain To DC Ioohcu
.ners II Won sneaked UP TO the sergeant ana toid
him that Pafs Mulduons horse was grazing along
the side Of the road Tom' Gavln's dog was sour
ryIng about the streets without muzzic, you were
the broth of a boy" BE patient ana you might pc
a bauiG BE watchful, you might be policeman
Re able 10 read, write and cipher, and who KNOWS
hut some day YOU might be a county surveyor or tax
catherer But be what you are and were born 10 pe'
An Jrisman, ard there it ends or used to cnd' You
NAV be thankful If you are permitted 10 remain ~
unmoestcd But Irshmen are ihcorflgioe Soh'c-
times thcv are not thankful sometimes, wien 'heir
blood Is UP, they say they arc not thankful
These were the prospects in County waterford
when Sexton uas a little boy running about there
70 " 60 up TO Dublin is an important circumstance
even now I'm Ireland, but in those days II was mere
important So Sexton went up and obtained "oih
in the office of "The Dublin Naton,' which LORD
Navor sullivan now I'm Tullamorc JAIL owned ana
sim owns Mr Sunvans brother, A. NJ sullivan,
an able man and good speaker, besides Doing
leadn. meInUcr of the English Parliament wrote lor
the paper. So the young man was in good COMPANY
lie was good many years I'm Dublin engaged III inc
sing song work of writing for this weekly paper ITO
read and studied god deal during his leisure hou',
and when the Land League started so suddehy anu
with s,cb extraordinary force that it convulscd the
country, Sexton his opportunity Iaueht rom
time .inlmemorial of the hardshps which lnNsflaDS
oyeltake those who enter into political agitation OF
any for the restoration OF the rights Oh 'ha' III"
bannv country, many good men Stunned the new
movements Weren't they tried? Hadn't every
thing failed. Couldn't England do as she wilicd
Wouldn't it end all other movements seemed 10
end-in starvation persecution, imprisonment OK
patration deathf And yet these gloomy loreOou
ings we're SGT aside forgotten, as IS always inc
case where success IS deemed even possible not 10
saw probable, and thousands upon thousands rushed
In to swell the ranks of the new organization sexton
was one of these, and there were also Tim heaiy'
Daniel Gritty Thomas Sherlock, and able young lci-
lows of that class, who had moro or less connection
with " The Nation" some other newspaper, and all
Of whom members of Parliament. In COM
paris with Sexton though these arc men OF ordinary
TALENT with Of course, touch of that dash seen in
all OF their countrymen when assang the bloody
saxono And that same dash counts, TOO, although
you NAV not think so. 1t this which made d
prominent Tory member exclaim during great party
debate, in which the Irshmen did most OF the tax
ing: "Would to Cod we had some such stuff On this
eide of the House y
How did he come to be elected TO Parliament,
though The head Office Of the new organization
WAS in Upper OConnel ST., the chief thorouebfare In
The city, and here meetings were held each week ana
announcements made TO tho amount OF money
received from America-ever faithful Irish AmcTicans
who have sent over enough money TO buy out inc
fee simple Of half the country priest now and again
would sneak yes vertically sneak into the Office, he was
20 greatly afraid of being detected entering place
from which cmanated doctrines that struck at the
yery roots Of society,"" or better STILL slapped tho
foundations of social ORDER as 1t were. sexton
was In tho habit Of attending these meetings and Is
lening modestly TO what was said One day he was
asked t. make speech and he succeeded so well that
the experiment repeated at the following meet
Ing. During some months his addresses became
regular feature Of these gatherings 1t Is not to be
Inferred that this his first experience; he spoke
frequently at debating societies. but II was his first
experience public speaker surrounded by an audi
ence many of whom he did not know and all Of whom
we're older than he was. In 1880 he was nominated
and elected for County Sligo against Colonel T. X
King Hartman, the present Parliamentary Under
seeretarv for Ireland. There was general election
that wear and this victory was deemed the most sig
n6cant by far that the Nationalist had won II you
sxcept the defeat of Arthur hcMurrough Cavanagh, in
Carlow County, which for years had boon Tory
tastness.
But Sections triumph was more spoKen OF than
any Of the brilliant victories in that fateful year.
Think Of II for moment On inc ono hanu "A
with an annual rent roll Of 100000, With three
castles In three different counties, as gorgeous as
many a royal castle and more gorgeous than most,
the third largest landlord all the island, tho LORD
Lieutenant Of his own county and the head Of every
ming In that section, social, judicial and pohuca
'nA. was worth anything, or that the h'tio soin
system OF gentllty by which no was environed Saia
worth snything. On the other HAND, young
pet slightly known even to his most afuen'