The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1900-03-10
JUSTIN M'CARTHY'S LATEST

three times, and If, after that, I don't un-
derstand the bill, why then; my lords, all
/ have to say is that 1 must be a damned
stupid fellow" Then the duke resumed
his seat, and that was the only speech
Mccarthy ever heard him deliver.
The lads first experience of the house of
commons-a peculiar one-came some days
later, From friend he succeeded in get
ting an order for the strangers gallery
He entered reathless with emotion, in a
very agony of expectation. Which of the
great orators was 1T likely he would hear
-Palrnerston, Gladstone, >Disraeli,
T-ohden OF Bright? For while the beat
ing of his own heart was the only sound
listen, he could distinguish tones. BY de-
grees it began TO dawn upon him that
these tones were strangely familiar His
eyes corToborated the awful suspicion Of
his ears The speaker occupying the floor
OF the house was representative from
the South of Ireland, from !McCarthy's.
own county, a dull and prosy gentleman.
with whose powers of boredom the youth
had been irateay familiar for years. This
gentleman talked on and on for an hour,
until Mccarthy, angry as well as disap-
pointed, left the gallery in his wrath and
thereby forfeited his place.
1t was not long before the young man
succeeded in obtaining "a position as par
liamentary reporter for "a Liverpool pa
per. He now had an excellent chance to
familiarize himself with the manner and
methods of TALL the political idols rof the
time. Familiarity in hts case never led
to the proverbial result. Mr.. Mccarthy
and it is a kindly and even a noble trait
| never lost his capacity for hero worship
For John Bright Mccarthy always felt
a great admiration. He even thought
| that as an orator Bright was more cap
! tivating than Gladstone. But when he
| expressed this opinion ito Bright himself
| the latter flew mo a rage. He bluntiy
told Mccarthy that he didn't know what
he was talking about. Then the first
! burst of anger 'being over he went Oh to
| argue the question as dispassionately as
If the two men had been discussing the
| respective merits of .Demosthenes and
| Cicero. He explained that whereas he,
Bright, could make al effective speech
now and then, Gladstone was always
| ready for the battle--had nothing to do
| at any moment but 10 mount his war
! horse and lead "a charge. There was not
| the slightest affection about this, il, in
| deed. any one could possibly think Of
Fright being affected about anytnine: j.
was simply 1.-The sincere conviction of
man who knew that he mad a coInrade
| more capable of continuous action tnan
himself and was honestly anxious that
! al the world sshou1d know the fact as
well.
! When Br:ght,'was not inclined to argue
a question he had sometimes a rough,
| EOO0-hunOfeO way OF SeCt1nS out u 1Et
| debate with humorous turn of phrase
which inteldicteHs controversy. : During
| the height of the Am erican Civil war MIR.
| Mccarthy heard.a an eminent writer on po
itical economy laying down the law to
/ him on the imposstbility of the federal
government coming successfully out of
the struggle. The economist arrayed
lfacts and figures together in tbs most
1 appalling way, with the object Of prov
/ Ing that even # the Northern states
should come out of the struggle with ii
technical victory it must be only to sink
| into complete national bankruptcy.
When he found himself growing ex-
hausted for want of breath he closed his
| exposition with the words, Nov, Mr..
Bright what have you to say to that?"
| Bright paused flor a moment as If he
were thinking the whole matter out, and
then blandly replied, 'Well, my opinion
| is that the Northern States will manage
somehow to muddle through"
| One man whom Bright desp:sed was
| Disraeli. Yet even toward Disrae]i his
contempt was for the man in his public
| not in his private character. He could not
admire his novels, even political
! studies Mccarthy remarked to him once
| that after all, and when I'VE had said
| everything we could say against Disraen
az politician, there was something OF
| which ord nary persons might feel proud
| in the fact that by his own abilities he
| had raised himself far above his original
| position in life and had become not only
| the colleague Of peers. but sometimes the
! creator of peers. Bright replied that he
| too might feel proud Of that If he did not
remember something that was said in
Lord Lytton's novel '"Rienzr' about one
who had risen above his own class, but
had only contrived to do so by severing
his interests and his sympathies alto
! gether from theoclass out Of which he had
| r.sen. ,
| ~ $3.50 T~:-
and Disraeli, when they met in the house
Of co nmons, were ton very friendly terms.
Disraeli had as high an opinion of
| Bright's eloQuence any of Bright's
companions could possible have had.
bright told me that he and Disraeli
| In the smoking room of of the house of
communicating, like a pair in Kirke
Whites poem, of various things-of
4 taxes, ministers and kings and, among
/ other subjects, Of the amount of time that
had to be given up to the work Of parlia-
ment. Disraeli paused for a moment and
then said You know, Bright, what you
| and I come here for-we both come here
for fame Bright earnestly insisted that
| he came there for no purpose of the kind;
but he assured me that 1T was impossible
to convince Disraeli that he was serious
! In the disclaimer Disraed ceased a. to
| argue the point and listened with quiet,
half sarcastic smile, evidently quite salts
| fed I'm his own mind that a man who
| could make great speeches must make
them with the desire tof obtaining fame.
Bright;s objection to Disraei was founded
mainly on the assumption that DiSraeli
| was, and must be- a radical reformer at
heart: that a man of his inte1lect could
| not be anything else; and that, therefore
he had become a Tory with the object of
| making his way to a high position in par
Lament and in society. This sort of as
al
Bright's whole habit of mind. and hei
could not free himself from it. He judged,
everybody by a rigid moral standard
which he had set up in his own mind and
which assumed THAT every honest man
possessed of intelligence must really bel
| In favor of an extended electoral suffrage
| In this way Golden had a far more liberia
mind, and was quite able to understand
that a man might differ absolutely from
him on the most essential principles o. !
radica1ism and yet be deserving of co
1ence and admiration
Ma. Mccarthy. has IAN entertaining chap
ter on the exile world of London in 1860
Il. 1t is of Garabaidi that he gives the
most Interesting "reminiscences No for
eigner in his time, he tells us. had SO
splendid reception. Kossuth, indeed,
had been welcomed by all the civic mag
mates. But Kossuth had been ignored by
society. Garabaldl, on the contrary, was
taken to the bosom not only Of the gay
world, but of the more serious
The leaders Of fashion rushed at him,
the chief members of both political par
ties competed with each other for the
honor of entertaining him. The cause of
Italy was just then very popular In Lon
don, and the pope was very unpopular.
GarabalH was welcomed in one coterie
las the man who had led the thousand OF
Marsha to the expulsion of the Bourbon
king from Naples, and by another coteris
hay Yroa f1,as5r 80
Italy, had invaded the dominions of the