The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-12-13
DISCUSSES HIS ExcoMMUNICATIoN
BY THE DUBLIN NATION
ALLST CONVENTION
COHaEET or TIE LONDON PgESS
CONVENTION is REGARDED AS A
VICTORY FOR WILLIAM
O'BRIEN
SAID REDMOND MAY RETIRE
Predicted That He VIII Decline the
Irish Leadership at the Next
Session of ParIia-
ment.

LONDON, Dec. 13-Mr. Healy. in a let
ter to his constituents acknowledging a
vote Of confidence, says:
The seasoning which comes to a cam
pa1gner of old service converts even the
rubrtc of the gloomest executioner into
a source Of gaiety. Indeed, 1 find So
much fun in poor William O'Brien that
L freely forgive him all his incantatfons. >,
Apart from this Characteristic utter
ance the letter expresses virtually the
same sentiments as those expressed in
Mr.. Healy's interview with the repre-
sentative Of the Associated Press.
Commenting on the convention resolu-
ton to abolish dual ownership, the Daily
News says:
''The impracticability OF dual owner
ship is too hastily assumed, but the union
of Mr.. William O'Brien and Mr.. T. M
Russell in demand for compulsory pur-
chase makes formidable combination,
Which may bring the County Ulster Pro-
testants into political agreement with the
home rule Catholics
The Daily Chronicle, which urges the
government to take steps for the COM
plete buying out of the landlords, says:
''The time must ceme when the plunge
will be inevitable, and just now it would
come as one of those graceful conces-
sions for which Lord Salisbury's foreign
nestle
The Standard expresses the belief that
Mr.. John Redmond will decline the lead
ership at the next session of parliament.
VICTORY FOR -O'BRIEN.
The newspapers regard the Nationalist
convention at Dublin IS a victory for
William O'Brien. The Times thinks Mr.
Redmond must regret the candor Of
his opening speech, wherein he warned
the audience that if the proceedings
ended is spectacle of rancor and dis
order the evil effects would continue for
q lifetime.
The Daily Chronicle, always sympa-
thetfc with Ireland and home rule, says:
How long will the tongues of their
own delegates be the greatest stumbling
block the Irish have to overcome in their
struggle for home rule? How long will
Nationalist meetings continue to furnish
the detractors of IrelanT with weighty
arguments for frustra ing reasonable
hopes?'
The Daily News says:
Mr.. O'Brien must henceforth be the
real leader of the Irish Nationalism, and
his formal adoption cannot be long de-
1ayed. If Mr.. Redmond is reelected
parliamentary chairman next session he
will simply be an instrument and puppet
of Mr.. O'Brien. Of his own obvious
fervent patriotism, in the Irish sense,
there can be no doubt. He is a generous,
single-minded enthusiast His sagacity
is less obvious,
HEALY NOT CAST DOWN.
Tim Healy is not a whit disturbed by
his exclusion from the Irish party. lie
has neither the intention of resigning nor
of forming an opposition section. He is
avowedly hostile to Mr.. Dillon and still
more so toward T. P. O'Connor, who, Mr..
Healey alleges, is behind the whole move
ment, and he is utterly hopeless of the
cause of Ireland. In the course of a
lengthy interview, Mr.. Healy said to a
representative of the Associated Press.
care nothing for the action taken
Inasmuch as such action and such scenes
hurt our cause, I shall take no notice
of the resolution; nor. if I can help it,
will any of my parliamentary supporters.
My constituents passed q vote of conf
dence in me last Friday. I shall ac-
knowledge it and continue the best 1
can to help ireland on the line I have
pursued for the last twenty years
Yes, L shall look upon Mr.. Redmond
as my leader, and follow his wishes. But
the O'Brien crowd is not likely to let
Mr.. Redmond continue long in the lead
ership."
PROCEEDINGS OF THE CoNvEN-
TION.
DUBLIN, Dec 12.-The Nationalist con-
vention resumed its sessions today John
Redmond presiding. After resolutions
had been adopted amending the consti-
tuition of the United Irish league and
making the national convention an an
nual fixture, William O'Brien moved a
strongly worded resolution In favor Of
the abolition of landlondism in ireland
and the transfer of the soil to the oceu-
pying proprietary Ireland's struggle, he
said, should continue without ceasing un-
til the landlords were forced to aban-
don their present intolerable system of
dual control.
One branch of the Irish league, con-
tinued Mr.. O'Brien, viii devote its time
to bringing to the doors of landlords, land
grabbers and their castle allies the incon-
venience of landlordism. The resolution
was adopted amid the utmost enthusiasm.
resolutions appealing for funds from
America and elsewhere, to be used
against jury packing ard for the propa-
cation of the Irish language, were adopt
ed.
The convention adopted resolution fa-
voring the abolition of landlordism, and
inviting Messrs. Thomas Sexton and r.
Abbott to return to parliament.
The subscriptions announced to the par
liamentary fund included e100 each from