The Irish standard., 1910-08-13
The Leaders Have Left the Scene of
Their Activities Until
November.
Session of Parliament Just Closed
May be Called Mr.. Redmond's
.. Session.
Lord Grey is of Opinion That Home
Rule in Ireland is
Necessary.

In his special cable to the Chi
cago Tribune of August 7, r. P.
O'Connor writes: Premier Balfour
has gone to take the baths in Bad
gaatem, Mr.. Asquith is visiting at
country houses, Chancellor Lloyd
George is golfing in his native Wales,
and Winston Churchill is yachting,
while John Redmond in the Wicklow
mountains occupies the disused bar
rack where Parnell once shot grouse.
A heavy pail of silence hangs over
the whole political world. The begin
ming of the vacation is made dcadlier
as narcotic to political activity by
the announcement that the conference
on the lords veto issue meets again in
October and once more party conflict
Is benumbed by the transfer of all au-
thority to a secret conclave of eight
men, who, for moment, hold in dele
cation all the powers of the king both
houses of parliament and the British
millions.
The session wound up in an extraor-
dinary transformation from it's OPEN
ing.a During the first six weeks of the
session there was daily possibility of
collision between Mr.. Asquith and
Mfs HzsaHmon HssaH "a, wItn6 long periods OF
divided councils and changing plans in
the cabinet.
The inexplicable hesitation of Mr..
Asquith to accept the realities OF the
situation and announce his determina-
tion to face King Edward with point
blank demand to take sides in the
house of lords battle on the side, eth
er with the peers or with the people,
brought the premier to the lowest point
in his whole career.
When Mr.. Asquith finally announced
his resolve to demand guarantees from
the sovereign, his prestige was only
partly restored. Then came the death
of King Edward and the announcement
of the veto conference once more
brought back the old issues in the
ranks of the ministerialists and again
suspicion and encouragement and di-
vision began to spread through the
ranks with the possibility of a new
estrangement between Mr.. Asquith and
Mr.. Redmond.
Now the government ends the ses-
sion with blaze of prestige and Mr..
Asquith stands out more than any
other man. His transformation is due
to two causes. He managed the Access
sion oath bill with extraordinary tact.
After breaking down the opposition in
parliament and the growing tempest of
no-popery feeling in England, he fin
ally passed it into a law, and every
body sighed with relief at the removal
Of this odious insult to the Roman
Catholic put into the mouth of the
king, and also at the appeasement of
the dangerously rising tide of popular
bigotry.
This is Mr.. Asquith's session, but it
is, perhaps, more Mr.. Redmond's ses-
sion, as every outstanding episode is
due to his influence and policy, at once
sagacious and firm.
Home Rule Doomed.
Mr.. Redmond INDUCED Mr.. Asuuith
to announce the demand of guarantees
and later on induced the postponement
of the budget to the November sittings,
and thus kept in his grip the fate of
the government. AS to what agree
ment the veto conference may an
nounce the negotiators still remain
dumb, but the feeling veers around to
the belief that it cannot separate with
out some agreement. In the meantime
the home rule movement has received
a further accession to it's growing
strength by the publication today of a
home rule manifesto for Scotland by A
majority of the Scotch liberal men,
bers.
The political warfare will not con-
.tinue in Ireland so long as in England.
There are preparations for big meet
ings for Mr.. Redmond to congratulate
him on his extraordinary success at
the late session and as a manifestation
Of the so4idity Of the country in spite