The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-02

From the Baltimore Evenlng sun. "AITH. and has the Blarney Stone lost it's powe, the Irish tongue its X charm? One might believe so on reading that the Sim Fein society or New York has demanded from John Redmond and T. P. O'Connor-the latter | ,ffectionately known as "Tay Pay"-an | ,ccount of the funds sent from America | to hasten the time when Ireland snail pc rree"-one might believe 1t If the lrisn- | mans love of fight were not so well | known.
 | Surely the members of the Sim Fein society have never seen "Tay Pay con- sume breakfast tea and rolls in the "air- Ivy light of morning { If they had' they could not question the childlike inno- cence of his character, nor the purity or his patriotism, hubbling from his eio- ouent lips like the waters of some oeep | forest spring.
 .Tav Paw should never be subjected to the muck-rake. for the sake Of lrish- men he should not-for one who mas met him feels that of all Irishmen there Is none more Irish than he. So lrisPeis he' indeed. that one feels that If the lrish have faults "Tay Pay" has all of them | (as well as the virtues of the light-heart- ed son of Erin). and that if "Tay Pay were convicted of anything wrong every Irishman would be convicted with him. Let the Irish drop this quarrel! Let | the Sim Feins, for the sake of Erin, ppt their undertakes in hiding and seek ray Pay" and drink tea with him. If that IS done. all will 20 as merry as wake, I interrupted "Tay Pays breakfast one morning and he quit where I found him and gave his big mans mustache one dab with his napkin. had the tray taken away and, tossing thet tails Of his Prince Albert coat out of the way as he crossed the room, sat down beside me and said, Now, what can do Tor you! His face was as smooth and his eyes as clear as a baby's just after It's bath, ana he was just as good-humored. The mem Der of Parliament atmosphere, those littie tricks of gesture and speech which 1t Is so hard to define, but which come of be- ing many times the center of the draw ina-room buzzing, of being forced to move quickly now this way and now that to reply to shafts of both masculine and l feminine wit-these things clung thick about him. Can man who Is gooo-na- tured when interrupted at breakfast have any guile in his nature?
 | No. one is constrained to believe that if there's anything wrong With "Tay
 Pay" it's wrong with the whole Irish | race! IF
 | Some carping critic might be inclined to say that the drawing-room atmos- lphere referred to Is not characteristic of the member of Parliament. They are the persons who do not distinguish with sufficient clearness the difference between American and English-or rather Irish
 politics. Onesknows the Instant ne meets
 MT. O'Connor. M F., that the afternoon tea is In Ireland decidedly more of po- litical battle-ground than 1t Is here. Ana one finds the different order Of politician lit produces an altogether cnarmihs
 study. He has about him something or
 the gossipy whispering with which Mrs. oFlaniran. the wife of the hod-carrier' discusses with Mrs. O'Malley whose nus hand drives a cart, as the two sip tne
 pink beverage in an hour stolen from
 work in the afternoon. the merits or some third woman's husband. He has the same
 
 merry way which characterises these Ia
 dies, of touching you on the knee now
 and thsn. ringing back his head to iauen | merrily and exclaim "Oh. now, go away
 with ye; that can't be truel'
 He has the brogue!
 To be sure, in ''Tay Pays case tnet
 hrogue is softened, but It's there. as rich'
 ss sofl ana as smooth as the Irish char
 acter. And the wit of him! Always
 ready with an answer.
 He's big body of a man-that is,, tall. although not particularly portly-who
 wears his fine clothes and his high silk
 hat with the grace which makes one feel
 that fine things to wear were made espe- cially for the Irish and that the fact that
 others wear them is only an accident.
 And needless to say. he eats more than
 one meal day and enjoys them all, too. especially if bit of cheery talk goes