The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-12-20
HOME RULE
In IRELAND.
Plan Of Campaign in the Coming
Elections.
DaYitt and Dillon Discuss the Situation.
Agitation In WaleS-ReSult Of the
Commercial Treaties.
Special 20 THE MORNING CALL

New YORK. Dec. 19.-Smalley's special
cablegram to the Tribune from London
says: The contest at Waterford for the
late Richard Powers seat in Parliament is
likely enough to prove damaging to home
rule and awkward for the GIadstonan
party, whichever way 1t ends Redmond
was expected to win until Davitt, who went
there to speak for Keane, was hit over the
head with stick, and therefore an
nounced that he would be candidate him.
self. and Keane was left ont in the cold. II
Redmond is elected, Parnellism gets new
lease of political life in Ireland. Dillon
declared ct Waterford on Thursday that if
Waterford returned Parnellite and fair
number of other constituencies did like
wise. he should feel bound to tell his coun-
trymen that there WIS no longer hope In
constitutional agitation, and he should re-
tire to private life.
THE WATERFORD CANVASS.
The Waterford canvass, if it proceeds as
1t has begun, may throw light on the ques-
ton; not, perhaps, v hat Gladstone but what
the Irish mean by home rule. Davitt de-
clares in one breath that the honor and
character of Ireland are pledged through
their leaders to accept Gladstone's home
rule measure OF 1868. If that be so, how
comes it that in another breath he says:
The British democracy and the Liberal
party are pledged to give Ireland more
democratic and fuller measure of home rule
than the bill of 1866. l am not going"
added Davitt. ito let the British democracy
believe that the Irish people and their lead
ers can say one thing to-day and another
tomorrow? But that is precisely what. ON
his own showing, they have done and what
be supports them In doing. Dillon has
spoken twice or thrice during the last
few weeks with still greater plainness.
He said at Waterford Wednesday:
Il Will accept no home rule which will not
satisfy the aspirations of Ireland" We all
Know what the aspirations of Ireland are.
Dayitt expressed them when he avowed
that he ''yearned for independence" 1t is
game oil cross purposes or of cross Qucs-s
tlons and answers. No English hcme-ruler
dares to own that he Is ready to grant indie
pendenc' to Ireland. No Irish home-ruler
dares to ayow his Willingness to accept less.
Comment ON this policy comes from Dayitt
himself, who said Wednesday: Take
from country or people struggling for
liberty their character for consistency, hon.
esy and integrity in their relations with
other peoples and do they not justly earn
the contempt of every civilized nation
throughout the world?'' 1t is Davitt who
asks the question. l will leave him to an
swer it.
HOME RULE IN WALES.
Gladstone's scheme for taking the empire
to pieces and putting it together proceeds
less rapidly than he could wish, but it pro-
ceeds. Home rule has, like the Influenza
appeared IN Wales, not for the first time.
There was held at Cardiff on Wednesday. a
national conference on Welsh home rule,
sundry members Of Parliament, Irish and
others. attending. T. D. Sullivan was one.
He promised to support the movement in
the House of Commons, where presently
there may be competition between Ireland,
ceed first. Alfred Thomas, NJ. p, has
drafted Welch National Institution Bill,
and of this he explained there are revisions
10 ofollow the conference at Cardiff. Price. NJ.
T., and that eminent busybody, Sir Edward
Reed, NJ. p, moved and seconded the reso-
luton for Welsh Secretary of State.
There is no great harm in that, but the crea-
ton of a National Council for Wales, which
the conference voted unanimously, is
another matter. 1t means Welsh Parlia-
ment. The whole of Thomas National In
stitution Bill was adopted, and committee
was appointed to secure the passage of the
bill in the present Parliament. When the
present Parliament passes it, IL will not fail
to mention the fact. The Scotch too. least
wise some of them. have got a bill in EN-
Is really delightful TO see how the near ap-
proach of the election stimulates the regard
for virtue, and the frankness with which
this motive Is avowed is positively touching.
dixie DENOUNCED.
Sir Charles Dixie went last week to Aber-
deem by invitation of the Trades Council to
open the Industrial Exhibition. He was
heralied in the usual way by statement in
the local papers explaining to the people of
Aberdeen how cruelty this pure patriot had
been maligned by luries, judges and public
opinion. In short, he was vindicated again.
But the Aberdeenians are a hard headed
race. They talked the matter over and fin
ally concluded that they preferred the opin-
ion OF the iurles and judges to the opinion of
an anonymous contributor to the local
paper. The Magistrates of Aberdeen de-
clined to attend. Then meeting of the
leading citizens was held and they unani-
mouSly supported the Magistrates The
leading journal of Aberdeen denounced his
coming as an outrage on the moral sense of
the community. Sir Charles, nevertheless,
appeared. with this rather striking result.
that of all the prominent citizens invited to
attend the ceremony not one was present
He still stands pledged not to re enter public
life till lie has vindtcsted himself in court.
He carefully abstains from taking any step
which might lead him again into court, but
there is no back door into public life through
which he does not try 10 enter.
AFFAIRS ON THE CONTINENT.
Bismarck thinks America will gain by
Germany's commercial treaties with Aus
tria, Italy and Belgium We come in under
the most favored nation clause in the treaty
of 1885.
The Russian craze in France has broken
out in a fresh and worse form, this time
at the Foreign Office. Heretofore it has not
gone much beyond libations of champagne.
The articles in the Paris papers are more
frothy still, and there is frequent singing on
French soil of the Russian hymn. Ribot's
action in the Chadouine case, everywhere
except In France, is regarded as an act of
seryility to Russia