The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1895-07-06

| than these But there never had been q
! time with which Eng lishmen were incom.
|petent to deal. n
Lorin Lathrop, the United States CON
sui at Bristol, having made some refer
ence to Sir MichaePs speech, the latter
1 again rose. saying jocularly that he re-
lgretted that a representative OF the Uni
| ted States was unable to appreciate his
position upon the subject OF bimetallism
| but he gathered from the observation Of
that gentleman that his country would
like to sell some of its surplus silver. That
being so,Ait would be wise on his (Sir MI
chael's) own part, as a representative OF q
country which might be the buyer, to de-
cline to engage in any further discussion.
! (Hear, hear) s.s3 II # TIL. .ys
| In note recently received by the cor
respondent from Henry Chaplin, through
| his secretary, the new president OF the
local government board says:
| "Mr. Chaplin is unwilling to make any
statement on the free silver question in
the United States now. He has not con-
sidered it sufficiently. But he IS rather
inclined to favor separate action on the
part of the United States"
The dissolution of parliament Is now
| fixed for July 8. The elections will be
! held within three weeks ther eafter, and
| the new parliament will commence in
August.
There Is really extraordinary doubt as
to the result. While find the liberal
leaders In private conversation generally
disposed to admit defeat, even the most
sanguine Of the unionists are not claiming
more than forty majority in a house OF
go members AS an outside, but, think,
a careful observer, / see no undoubted
evidence that the liberals will be defeated
at all, but quite the contrary. Though
the liberal party is made up Of q dozen or
| more factions, with sometimes quite di-
verse interests; though their great leader
has absolutely retired from active politf:
cal life and was succeeded by member
of the very body for the practical aboli-
tion of which the liberal party is pledged,
and who, moreover, is on terms of hardly
concealed hostility with the leader OF, the
house of commons, though the Irish con-
tingent has lost its chief incentive to sup
port in the at least temporary shelving Of
the home rule bill, and though there We're
numberless personal and political disap-
pointments and grievances of other MEM
bers, in spite OF all these things the lib
erals have only lost an aggregate of five
y
There is beyond this no obvious proof
whatever that the liberal party has lost
the confidence of the country.
If Redmond's Irish band, for apparently
purely selfish reasons had not deserted to
the tories, the liberal government would
very likely have remained in power until
it had passed through the house every one
of the great measures it introduced, and
would, moreover, have made such a case
against the house Of lords that the country
would have adopted the proposed measure
for abolishing it's veto, thus making home
rule fer Ireland a possibility. The Irish
leaders seem now absolutely confident Of
winning FIVE seats from the Redmondites,
including Waterford City and East Clare,
for which the Redmond brothers them
selves sit The Redmondites, on the
other hand, are certain to win West Wick
low, if they can, as happened in Cork City,
secure the .unionist vote, while they have
a chance Of winning Kilkenny City, both
| at present McCarthyite seats. In Ulster
the McCarthyites calculate certainly on
winning three seats from the unionists,
while they have a good chance Of captur-
ing two more. Assuming these expecta-
tions to be realized, they would return
eighty strong. while the Redmondites
could have only six instead Of nine mem
| bers as now.
The statement is circulated here that
Thomas Sexton intends to retire from
public life at the general election. : As he
is virtually the leader of the McCarthyite
party, and unsurpassed in the house of
| commons IN parliamentary aptitude.
knowledge and ability, his retirement
would admittedly be great calamity for
the Irish cause. The correspondent saw
Mr.. Sexton today and inquired as to the
truth Of the report. MIR. Sexton was very
reticent. He had evidently been sub
jected to strong pressure from his COL
leagues to reconsider his resolution 10 re-
tire. He seems to have been disgusted
by the squabblirg in the Irish party and
by the determined efforts of the Healyites
within the party to thwart every attempt
to advance the cause OF unity. ..ts
Mr.. Sexton has not taken a partisan
line in these feuds, though he has found
himself driven to oppose all the disinte-
grating efforts by his interest in the well
fare Of home rule. He has practically
borne the whole brunt Of the parliament
tary work OF the party, representing it on
every important committee and treating
in its behalf with the late liberal ministry
on Irish questions Never robust in
health, this incessant work has told Sc
verely upon him and he does not see why
he should wear out his life working at a
thankless task. However. though he
would not directly admit it, the corre-
spondent believes that his determination
to retire has been much weakened by the
powerful protest evoked throughout Ire
land by the mention Of it.
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