The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-06-23
by LA aIARaIIsE DE roNTENoY,

- ENERAL SIR WILLIAM BUTLER.
~ who died so suddenly the other
~ day, was. / believe, the only Of
acer of mis- rank in the British
Army who was an openly avowed
Homc-Ruler. being. indeed, known at
the War Department as the Fenian.'
and 1t was on account OF his political
views with regard to Irish affairs that
he was denied an important irish COM
! mand, which he would otherwise have
mirer of Parnell as well as one OF his
warmest friends, and when Parnel!
died. Sir William sent from Cairo.
where he was stationed at the time.
titled THE Chief" for publication in
the only Parnell paper then in exist
ence in Dublin. He made no secret OF
Itials. wv. F. b. with the word Cairo
being sufficient to enable the War De-
partment to identify the writer.
Born and bred in the southwest OF
Ireland. by religion Roman Catholic,
and educated at Jesuit school, he had
all the Irishman's readiness of re-
fighting; and his caustc remarks We're
as much dreaded as his vitriolic pen.
both of which, howaver, Swere re.
deemed BY his, geniality anu his de-
tanned for him hosts Of friends who
differed from him on every conceivable
matter
While no English newspaper has re,
e mis- d1opce win ease e
American newspapers have in their
cable dispatches condemned him for
refusing, when cited as correspondent
to appear in court, and to swear to his
innocence of the charges brought
against him by Lord Colin. Those. who
thus censure him are probably igno-
rant of the fact that he scarcely knew
the Colin Campbells; that at the time
OF the latter's divorce case, one of the
most shocking of the last thirty or
forty years, he had been most happily
married for more than decade BY
his great friend. Cardinal Manning, to
Miss Elizabeth Thompson, the famous M Q, :,
which is as well known on this side. OF
the Atlantic as in Europe, and that the
dragging Of his name into the case as
the alleged lover OF a woman whom ne
whom he had subsequently made e.. u
single short call. on her invitation, was
piece of gratuitous tndignity, Sof
which only man OF such spiteIul am 31.I
could ever have rendered himself
guilty. Sir William, who was Q. deVout
Catholic and a man OF the type 81 ms
old friend, General Gordon, or knar,
toum, resented bitterly being dragsed,
age OF his being abroad to remain
away, realizing that II he appeared ~
court, no matter how much evidence Den .eo nc 9
with Lady Colin, his name would AZ.
ways be associated In the mind OF the
|public as one Of her. admirers J
That his conduct IN the mater Or I yhs
late late King and BY his military sup e.
riors and fellow Officers, is best shown
by the fact that his refusal to appear q :
at the trial never interfered Win N.Y.
ton or with the high regard and re- :,
sspect in which he was held at court UT
and which found expression IN the pc.
stowal upon him of the grand CROSS U.s. y
the Order Of the Bath, and in the kind
patty from Queen AleNandra, trp ~,
] King George and Queen Mary 70 HIS
widow on his death.
Lord Dunsany whose name appears
so frequently in the role OF contrlp-
utor to the London Saturday Kte WI y !,
and whose weird play, 'Ine .efll,eer ~, II
Gate" has Just been p 4Ss friab Wan Naa
| tional Theatre at Dublin, IS the, ,. els.I . !
teenth baron Of his line, an g. ,, one OF OF
the heads Of the great irish tanll,y OF
pnkett Wh1eh es1,eea soms people
may beeas a Mrhe = Gods 81 Regana.
while at Berlin he, Is reme1nper r as
during the last general election four
Years Years : ago, to the German Emperor al /,
"a homieidal maniac, LISTING tn q FOR amr, wa ar
His barony was created y BY II henry ey ",
Plunkett. Of Dunsany Castle, II Coun-
~ Meath, which remains to this day
| the ancestral home Of the Lords s, q 2
Dhnsany, They We're deprived OF thelr
i ninsa of the aeYeptSenth century. IN