Kentucky Irish American. (Louisville, Ky.) 1898-1968, 1911-03-25
Healy's Last Fight Was Made
I'm House of Commons
But Failed.
Tories Grow More Confused and
Irish Party Exults Over
Situation.
COLONIES SPEAK OUT BOLDLY

hon' augustine ~. Roche, the
Redmond candidate for North Louth.
has been sent to Parliament unop-
posed. Thus is Tim Hesiy un-
avenged even after desperate
battle. The chances are that he
will now turn his terrible temper
and worse tongue on mis- former
colleague, William O'Brien, The
Healyites foresaw their defeat at the
polls, and to stave 1t off endeavored
to have Parliament disfranchise the
North Louth constituency for four
months.
William Moore, of Portadown, an
Orange leader and head of what is
known as the "Carrlon Grow" party.
led the assault on the rights of the
North Louth constituency. In the
House OF Commons Moore delivered
vitriolic speech for the prosecution.
He distorted all the facts and ignored
the finding Of the Judges. He want
ed the House to believe that a
widespread system of intimidation
prevailed in Louth, and that Prot
estants especially were terrorized
and prevented from exercising their
electoral functions. Two other
eminent Orange leaders, Sir Edward
Carson and F. E. Smith, supported
Moore in his contentious. All OF
them exhausted their powers of
imagination In an endeavor to see
the situation as they pictured It.
The English Attorney General
and his Irish colleagues brought the
cold light of reason to bear upon the
heated argument of Moore and the
other two defamers of the people of
North Louth. They quoted the re-
port of the Judges showing that Gin
the constituency as whole no uu,.
due Influence or other corrupt or
Illegal practices prevailed" and
submitted that II would be unpre-
cedented that 500 voters should be
disfranchised because sixteen per-
sons were reported for illegal prac-
tices affecting as many individual
vote5. H6n. John e. Redmond de-
tended the people OF Louth from the
Infamous Suggestion that Protestants
had been singled out for intimida-
tion at the recent election. He
showed that Healy is, or ought to be,
a Catholic, while his opponent, Capt.
Hazelton, is a Protestant. He also
pointed out that in Louth, with its
enormous preponderance of Cath
olics, men belonging to the Prot
estant churches are among the most
prosperous In the community, thanks
to the spirit of liberation among
Catholics. The motion to dis
franchise Louth was lost by major
lty of more than 100.
This settled the question finally.
Healy and his followers saw they
were up against 1t and allowed
Augustine Roche to be returned
unopposed. Just as soon as the de-
cision of Parliament was announced
Mr.. Roche went to Louth and began
to increase the number of his
friends and supporters. Healy re-
NAMED In London and made no sign.
To add to healy's discontinue
William O'Brien has altered his at
titude toward the British budget.
Heretofore Mr.. O'Brien has worked
on the people of Louth in opposition
to the proposed budget and pre-
dicted many dire disasters II It
passed. Now he has declared that he
would accept the budget rather than
wreck the Government, and thereby
pass vote of censure upon the
irish National party.
over in England the confusion OF
the Tories is growing more and more
bewiIdering Even the most stupid
Tory realizes what mighty as
slstance might be given Anglo
American friendship by reconciied
ireland, but no two Tories can agree
on a measure for reforming the
House OF Lords. The Irish In Lon
don and all over Great Britain are
exultant, and their st. Patrick's
day diners and banquets were larger
and more enthusiastic than usual
this year.
The Irish exult again because -
Premier OF New Zealand and the s1t
torney General OF Australia x At
declared In favor OF home rub sSe
ireland. These are two OF EnRabs sor
powerful colonies. and the efor
the Manchester Guardian
that all the British dominic cs,.s
upon England to give Irelanu
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