The morning call., 1893-06-11
PLACED IN PERIL.
Adding to Mr.. Gladstone's
Burden.
SEXTON SUDDENLY RESIGNS
II Is a Great Blow, but Perhaps 1t
Should Not Be Taken
Seriously.
Special to THE MORNING CALI.


New YORK, June 10.-Harold Frederic
cables the Times from London: Un-
happily. there has been large number of
occa casions during the past dozen years
when the people who have the Irish cause
at heart have been entitled to groan with
disgust and despair at the wav in which
that cause is mismanaged and jeopardized.
Without doubt this is one of them. There
is no need to take Sections resign alton as
such too seriously. The atmosphere of
Parliament is literally the breath of his
nostrls.
He hibernates In semicomatose condi-
tioD whenever the House is not in session.
As it is, he could never sustain the intoler-
a BILE privation of not being a member Of it
when it was in session. This is so essen
TALLY part of his character that nobody
regards his resignation as other than
bluff-e more adult variation of the sulky
child'S threat to take her tin dishes and
90 home. Just what will follow is not at
| all clear, but it may at least be taken for
granted that Sexton will con tinue to sit in
| Parliament.
The state of affairs which led up to this
display of bravado is none the less gravely
| threatening, and Americans who have
| been following the home-rnle campaign
with such sustained sympathy and paying
,he bills for it with such unparalleled gen.
| erosity are entitled to know what the real
| facts are.
| 1t is no news to readers of these dis
matches that ever since John Dillon and
| William OBrien came out of jail they
have been devoting their energies 10 un-
doing the work of national rescue from
chaos which was performed during their
! confinement. They are not bad men, but
| they are ingrained egotists. wholly unable
| to conceive of anything helpful being done
in Ireland or in Irish politics which does
| not recognize their heaven-born leader
| ship.
The party at large has long been sick OF
! this, but its members have gone on pa
| tly cond0ning one piece of ruinous
| folly after another in the interest of haT-
mony, accepting the crushing responsible
ity for the absurd plan OF campaign blum
der without outward COMPLAINT, and even
lending The party organization TO take the
| Freeman's journal away from the men
who had fought the fight for It and owned
it. and TO turn it over to these intriguing
malcontents to keep themQuiet.
Yesterday the tension on this loDg-suf-
feTing patience grew too severe and alb
ruptly snapped. 1t would take too long to
| tell the whole story. but the substance is
this: Dillon and O'Brien, some months
ago, captured Sextan by playi assidu
ously on his vanity, and made him chair
man of the Freeman Company. Tney then
| laid siege to Archbishop Walsh, got him
as well, and by his aid kicked up such
a row that Tim Healy. against whom the
whole campaign has been directed, con-
sented to retire from tae Freeman board
| and allow them TO put PaInellite in his
place.
| Not satisfied with this, the combination
OF marplots had the cheek yesterday to
demand at party meeting that Alderman
| Mooney, who is one of the two remaining
men on the Freeman's board who had any
right 10 be there at all, should also be or
dered to retire. This proved to be too
much. and the party not only voted this
proposal down, but gave its promoters an
extremely frank description of themselves
as the wearied, disgusted party sees them.
They were much surprised aud chagrined
al this, and as last resort put forward
| Sections resignation TO frighten the party
INV itCOuoiucIiuS hS dCllUu duQ SuDIllIl-
ting to their demands.
There will be meeting of the party
Monday TO decide whether it has fright
ened them or not. There would be no
doubt of issue on its merits The party
stands. roughly, forty TO thirty against the
pretensions of the faction known as the
Bounders and the majority has two-thirds
of the Irish national electorate at its
back, if not four-6fths. There is this
complication, however, that the majority
is made up of men who are not seif-seek-
ers but sincerely devoted to the cause and
dread an injury to it. At this critical time
this is a powerful consideration with them
| and may affect their action on Monday.
Poor old Gladstone departed for Brighton
rest from his great burden, all uncOn-
sciOus OF this wantonly vexatious addition
to IL being piled up In the committee-rOom
of fifteen. No kilograms apprsing him
were sent down last night. but to-day two
Ministers have gone down privately to dis
cuss the situation in fear that this new
revelation may effect his nerve and de-
press his spirits. The most disturbing
| feature of the whole wretched affair is the
circulation If various versions of his re-
| ported remark that he does not expect TO
| live through the summer. These are now
widely circulated through Parliament and
| the Liberals are glo0mier than at any time
since the election year ago.
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