The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1905-03-07
GIVES HOME RULE
A GENUINE BOOST
Chief Secretary for Ireland Re.
signs and Redmond Fore.
casts the Result

LONDON, March 6.-Premier Bal
four announced in the house of COM
mons today that Mr.. Wyndham, the
chief secretary for Ireland, had resign
ed. The premier said he had been I'M
able any longer to Withstand the ap-
peals of Mr.. Wyndham to be allowed to
resign. Mr.. Wyndham did not believe
that he would be able to support all
the labors and anxieties of his great
office, but his principal reason for re-
signing was the fact that the recent
controversy had greatly impaired, if
not altogether destroyed the value of
the work he could perform as chief
secretary.
The Ulster unionists do not disguise
their joy at the success of the ma
neuverS to GUST Mr.. Wyndham, but
their happiness, they openly assert,
will not be complete unless Sir An
tony p MacDonnell, under secretary
to the lord lieutenant of Ireland, joins
his late chief in retirement. The de-
lection of the Irish unionists was I'M
doubtedly the cause of Mr.. Wynd-
hams resignation, the split in the min
iSterial ranks being such as to threat
en- the extinction of the governments
majority at any moment. Walter
Long, president of the local govern
ment board, is regarded as the proba-
bic successor of Mr.. Wyndham. John
Redmond, chairman of the Irish par
liamentary party, said today:
Mr.. Wyndham'S resigna ton is an
other evidence in favor of home rule
and a distinct step in that direction
The government has tried its best men
In Ireland. If control of that country
from Downing street were possible,
someone would have succeeded in ad-
juSting affairs to the general satisfac-
ton. Mr. Wyndham was one of the
governments star men and did his
best, but finding that he could accom-
pliSh nothing toward reform of the
present Irish administration he began
to favor home rule This attitude met
with the disapproVal of the Ulster men.
When taken to task in the house Mr..
Wyndham made the fatal mistake of
rounding on his pal which was I'M
pardonable."
Mr.. Redmond thought the appoint
ment would go to some man like Mr.
Long, who, being opposed to the home
rule views of Sir Antony MacDonnell,
would suit the Ulster men. Mr.. Red
mond expressed the belief that the
government would not last through the
session.
Next to Lord Lieutenant
Asked at the rising of the house
of commons whether the earl of Dud-
had resigned, Sir Alexander Acland-
Hood, amid laughter, replied that obvi-
ouSly he was not aware of reSigna-
tons when they were rendered, but
only when they had been accepted"
This equivocal statement is held to
imply that the tale of designations is
not yet complete, but that Mr.. Wynd-
ham will be followed into retirement
by the earl of Dudley, who is taking
holiday in Paris, while, if Sir Antony
MacDonnell does not resign, the new
secretary will probably dispense with
his services. The Ulster unionists are
not likely to be satisfied with anything
less than this. 1t is understood that
the earl of Dudley rendered his resig-
nation on personal grounds before the
MacDonnell affair came into promi-
nence, but was asked and consented to
stay till the end of the Dublin season.
MacDonnell has a powerful friend in
Lord Lansdowne, and Mr.. Balfour's
prolonged but useless fight against the
Ulsterists to retain Mr.. Wyndham is
believed to have been inspired by the
knowledge that if mcdonnell were
sacrificed to Orange rancour Lord
Lansdowne also would resign from the
foreign office. Altogether the premier's
difficult task is in nowise surmounted
nth the mere resignation of Secretary
Wyndham.
Timothy Healy tonight said the
logical outcome of the situation would
be to run Ireland from the Orange
lodges, and that every Catholic official
in Ireland should be dismissed and re-
placed by Orangemen. There are, he
Sald, only two ways of governing Ire
land, either according to the views of
the Irish people or according to the
views of the Orange minority The
real cause of Mr.. Wyndham's downfall
Mr.. Healy added, was the treasury. If
the government had given away
another judgeship or two and paid for
Bann drainage the Orangemen would
not have revolted; but the treasury
spent $4,000 chasing the Mad Mullah
and refused few thousands to save
the chief secretary. But the govern
ment could not last, said Mr. Healy. 1t
was obviously moribund. The earl of
Dudley had appointed his private sec
rotary to a lucrative post, the usual
preliminary to a viceregal departure.
In the Irish privy council today the
marquis of Ormond was sworn as lord
justice for the government of Ireland
during the absence of Viceroy Dudley
The Ulster unioniSts are elated over
the success of their campaign against
Secretary Wyndham, but elsewhere the
greatest sympathy is expressed by the
press and public for the failure of Mr..
Wyndham in his we'll meant effort for
ireland. 1t Is generally considered that
he would have done better by coura-
geously upholding Under Secretary
Macdonald instead Of trying to please
everybody. Lady Long, wife of the
prospective new chief secretary for Ire
land, is an Irish woman, the daughter
of Lord Corks