The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1905-12-30

sured. Nobody since Mr.. Chamberlain's
Radical days has arisen to give the
Radicals the predominance which his
(Mr. O'Connor'sl masterful powers of
debate and sunny personality might
have won for them. II t. p without
a qualm sacrificed his English inter-
ests to become one of the most dash
ing outlaws of the Irish party and
one of the most precious elements Of
tits cohesiveness as we'll as br'lliancy,
Parnells genius is, no doubt, to BE-
thanked for ultimately deciding his
choice, but was wholly without in
fluence over the choice of Galway"
To the present head of the Irish
Nationalist party less space is devote /
than most readers will naturally Look
for. 1t should be borne in mind, how
ever, that the period covered by shis
volume ends in 1888, and that Mr. Red
mond's rise to pre-eminence in Ma
| tionalist councils can scarcely be said
to have begun before what Mr.. 0'B.'ien
calls the foul split of the Home Rulr
party in 1890. The reference in the
book before us runs as follows: An
other of the young paladins of the new
group has come in already for New
Ross in the person of Mr.. John Red
! mond. His frank and handsome pres
ence. his self-restraint of manner and
remarkable faculty of lucid and cap
tivating oratory gave early promise,
which he has not disappointed, of sue
cess in house which has no
means lost the gusto for grace and
ornament of speech"
! OF another recruit to the Nationalist
party who entered Parliament in 1880
Uhe author of the History of Our
Own Times") Mr.. O'Brien says that
those who only knew Justin Mccarthy
from his books or in his own genial
social atmosphere puzzled their wits
in vain to guess what could be the
attraction for this successful and
happy hearted literary man of middle
age in a seat among a set of rough
tongued, lawless Ishmaelites who We're
the objects of all but unanimous de-
testation in the House of Commons
and whose methods better befitted the
backwoods camp than the cloisters of
Academic. We are reminded that by
that time "an enormous Nonconform-
list reading public had come to read
the tranquil pages of The Waterdale
Neighbors' and Dear Lady Disdain'
with the same gentle confidence of
finding there charming philosophy and
sweet reasonableness as If Mr.. Nc
Carthys novels We're newly discovered
apocryphal Gospels. They were al
most as much shocked to hear of their
favorite novelist taking his place
among the Irish outlaws as if they
had found Internal machines planted
under their suburban nowerbeds." Mr..
ing the Irish party Mr.. Mccarthy
parted, at least for a time, with most
of his readers, as we'll as with all his
| pleasant leisure. HE had hencefortn
to write his daily non-political article
for the Daily News at n table upstairs
in the inner lobby of the House of
Commons, from which he could hear
the war raging inside between his col
leagues and the government of which
the Daily News was the chief organ
and. having finished his allotted span
of-'copy,' he would be himself ten
minutes afterward In the thick of the
battle"
| In Il word, no 1rishman of the time
made heavier sacrifices to the Home
Rule cause. That Justin Mccarthy
would not have stopped short of still
heavier ones the author of this book
has no doubt He declares that T. p
O'Connors mot: zone could almost
wish Justin Mccarthy to be hanged
If it were only to show how a que,
man could die for Ireland" only ex-
pre- ssed the feeling of all who ha.
seen him in hours of crisis. His sweet.
mess of nature did not IN the lcas
lessen his firmness upo.. TIL, proper &c.
casion. Mr.. O'Brien recalls that whcr
the intestine conflicts In the National
list party were at their worst, in 1898
Mr.. Healy and one of the most for
midable looking bruisers of his see
ton waited on Mr.. Mccarthy l., war;
him that IL he, as chairman OF tn.
party, took sides against him at ;
party meeting to be held ir th,. after
rucn, Mr.. Healy and min '+.el of hi:
{ ,l,eagues would secedA. That" ~
marked the chairman, ga,l'y s:rokins
his beard. would be very uaforsnnat,
for the nineteen. Time is up for oul
meeting. Tim, let us have glas!
of grog."
!. Our author goes on to relate that
on another occasion, when a passage
of arms took place between Mr.. Healy
whom his friends styled "the man il
the gap" and Mr.. O'Brien himself
, whose forehead had been split open IL
a recent election riot in Cork, thu
ohio irroop Mr. MCCARTHY thraw nj