The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-07-15

indicated by the overthrow OF Dir WILL
IAN VERNON HARCoURT from Derby.
Derby has two seats in Parliament and
both will be now filled by Conservatives,
while the vote secured by the ex-chan-
cellor of the exchequer was only few
hundred more than was given his col
league, and was more than 1000 less than
the successful Conservative who contested
the seat with the mighty Liberal, HAIR
COURT, who has represented the Derby
district since 1883. He is a veteran in
politics, popular man, notable leader
who would be thought able to hold his
constituency by the power OF personal
prestige and the factor OF local pride so
often supreme over partisanship lie has
been the Liberal leader in the House, and
IL was expected that he would succeed
RosEBERY as leader of the whole party.
But the Conservative Unionist tidal wave
seems to have overthrown and submerged
him beyond the hope OF rescue. Nothing
demonstrates better the total collapse of
the Liberal party.
The campaign in Ireland results just
about as we expected it would when we
referred the other day to the matter of
subscriptions in America to aid the Irish
cause. Asa political factor the Irish party
is evidently hopeless wreck, and it has
not gone down with honor. The cam
paign illustrates its thorough demoraliza-
tion, and it, today, presents only la
mentable spectacle to friends OF the Home
Rule cause To quote from the we'll
informed correspondent OF The Provi-
dence Sunday Journal:
II would be pleasanter not TO have to
mention Ireland at all. There matters
have gone from bad To worse with wild
swiftness which no one could have be-
lieved possible. Imagine the grotesque,
poverty-stricken parody of election times
under GLEASON in Long Island spread out
over 90 constituencies with bosses sent
down from Dublin TO preside over bogus
men, headed by their priests, bolting
fraudulent nominations, yet powerless to
help themselves lest seats be given TO the
common enemy; with all rules made TO
govern political procedure contemptuously
set aside by the very men who made
them; with EDWARD BLAKE, trained in
the rottenest school of Canadian politics,
directing the whole thing, and you have
some faint approximation of the reality.
The next delegation from Ireland will not
differ materially in personnel or character
so far as two-thirds of its membership
goes, from the delegation usually sent up
from New York and Kings TO the Legis-
lature at Albany. This gross and cruel
falling off from the standard OF 10 years
ago may mark the worst that Ireland can
do. There may be reaction, afterward,
and new start upward again taken to-
ward cleanly and honorable goal. But
that can only be hoped for II no money is
given to this present gang. 1t is the
lavish sums America and Australia have
been heaping up in the hands of Irish
leaders which has debauched the politics
OF Ireland. These superb donations were
creditable to the donors, but they have
made rotten the Home Rule party, and
indefinitely postponed Home Rule.
The picture is pathetic enough without
seeking to make it basis for discussion
as to whether or not Ireland is yet fitted
fer Home Rule, Tor Home Rule was never
a more remote possibility than 1t seems
to be today. The only satisfaction the
situation seems to offer to our patriotic
Irish friends is that the political leaders,
who have managed Irish affairs so badly,
are likely to be the chief immediate suf-
ferers from their incompetence.