The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-11-13
WILLIAM REDMoND'S SPEECH
SENSATION AT A MEETING IN
DUBLIN.
Member of Parliament Calls for
Cheers for Marchand, the Leader
of the Nile Expe-
dition.
BY j. j. CLANCY, NJ. p.
Special Correspondence of The Call.

DUBLIN, Oct 2s-"WiIne Red
mond"-as William Redmond. NJ. P. for
East Clare, and brother of John E.
Redmond, NJ. p, the leader OF the
Independent Parliamentary party, is
Familiarity called-has fluttered the
Unionist dovecots in Ireland and all
the political dovecots in England, by a
characteristic declaration on the sub
ject of the Anglo French crisis. At
great public meeting in Dublin he has
called for cheers for Major Marchand
and declared that the sympathies of
Ireland are with France as against
England in the dispute over FaShoda.
Irish UniOnists are hOrror-struck at
this incident, and some of the English
newspapers are saying that, if Mr.. Red
mOnd had spoken as he has done some
years ago, he would have been tried for
treason. Perhaps so; but one thing is
certain, namely, that in speaking as he
did Willie Redmond spoke the feelings
of nine-tenths or nineteen-twentieths
of the population of Ireland, and accOr-
dinghy he is applauded just now for his
speech by almost every 1rtshman you
meet in country or in town. have said
that his declaration on the Anglo
French crisis was a characteristic one,
the meaning of which is that Willie
redmond has always been a most I'M
lnVeterate habit of making the fact
known to all men at what some persons
who are not really Nationalist but
merely profess to be so consider incon-
Venlent times. Thus, many years ago.
when he first entered Parliament he
expressed the hope that the Russians
would some time or another stable their
horses in Westminster Hail. The say
ing has stuck in the minds of English
men ever since; yet, Notwithstanding
all this, Willie Redmond is rather a
IaVorte than otherwise at Westmin-
ster. He is a hearty, genial, frank gen
ue1nanly fellow, and in the House OF
commons such person is always liked
l may add that he rather smiles at the
notion of being denounced by the ELg-
fish papers for his pro- French speech
ana actually reJOices at the receipt of
threatening letters he has received
from Englishmen whose feelings ap-
pear TO have been outraged
An election is taking place this week
for the north district of the county of
FeTmanagh. The vacancy has been
created by the appointment of Rich
ard Dane, the former representative Of
the constituency, to the post of County
Court Judge for Mayo. Mr. Dane is
another genial fellow who is liked uni
VeFSaIly, notwithstanding his politics
He has been recently described as a
person who is sane on every day but
one in the year-the 18th of July, or
"Orangeman's day"-but knowing him.
as do. l do not think he is so extreme
q politician on one side as Willie Red
mOnd-Who, by the way, was his pre-
GecessOr in the representation of North
FeTmanagh-is on the other. However
this may be, he has recently got his re-
ward for winning the seat for North
FeTmanagh for the Unionist party, and
his reward has taken the shape of a
County Court Judgeship, worth about
81200, or about $4,000, a year His ac-
ceptance of a paid office under the
crown renders him incapable Of sitting
In Parliament, and hence the election
now proceeding. The candidates for
the vacant seat are two Unionists, a To-
cal doctor named Thompson and a local
landlord named ArchdaH The differ
ence between the two is that Thompson
is not an extreme politician, and ap-
pears inclined to court the Catholic and
Nationalist vote in the constituency
while Archdal stands aloof from ali
compromise with rebels or papists'
My own opinion is that the latter will
win. There are some liberal-minded
Unionists and Protestants in North
Fermanagh, who would be numerous
enough If they stood together to turn
the scale; but when the Orange drum
is sounded they all troop into the Or
ange camp. But il really matters very
little. The Orangemen in Ulster con-
troll a few seats in the House of Com
mons, it is true; but nevertheless they
count for nothing in Parliament and
the best proof Of this fact is to be
found in the profound Indifference with
which their protests and their other
doings are regarded by every English
Minister without exception.
A few evenings since in London a
somewhat notable dinner took place
that In honor of Sir Anthony MacDon-
nell, Lieutenant Governor Of the North
west province Of India 1t was essen
TALLY an Irish gathering. Lord Rus
sell Of Killowen, the Irish Catholic
Chief Justice of England, was one Of
the principal speakers, and he was sur
rounded by quite a crowd of men edu-
Gated in the Queens College, Galway,
where Sir Anthony MacDonnell was a
student A curious thing is that that
institution situated in remote and
backward part of Ireland, has been the
foster mother of an unusually large
number Of men who have in the last
twenty years come to the front in one
way or another in public life. At or
about the time / was myself a student
Of the college there were there Anthony
mcdonnell, T. p. O'Connor, the well
known journalist Of London and M P;
William Thompson, now Sir William
Thompson who was last year president
OF the Royal College of Surgeons of Ire
land, and half dozen others who have
since similarly distinguished them
serves IN politics, literature OF the pro-
LESSONS. In addition to them and but
a little before their time there were in
Galway Justice Monroe of the Irish jul
dicial bench, the greatest niSi priuS ad-
vocate probably since O'Connell, and
the present Attorney General for Ire
land. John Atkinson, the best mentally
equipped man at the present day at the
English or the Irish bar. Sir Anthony
MacDonnell himself is the son of
man in the class between the farmers
and the big landlords, who inmigrated
to Galway from Rescomrlon with his
family to give his sons the benefit of a
university training. The result of his
wise forethought so far as his oldest
son was concerned, would be far be-
yond his utmost expectations, for that
son has now occupied In succession all
the highest places in the Indian civil
service. and, as he himself remarked in
his speech at the dinner to which have
referred, India, during great part Of
the time he has been there, has been
governed mainly by Irishnen. The
thought that occurs to most Irishmen
is that If Irishmen only got chance
they might do as well at home.