The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-02-08

for the crowd, was waterIogged and l extra supports were p aced under it ] to make 1t more secure. Because of l the threat that an attempt might be 1 made to demolish the tent. guards i were placed around it. The main l thoroughfareS leading to the park were | damned With people. Many were on 1 hand merely ito see the show and l contentLlly munched their lunch as i ,hey held their places along the curb ! and waited for something to turn up. ] A cordon of police was thrown i about the hotel where Churchill and l the -eaders were conferring and en- 1 trance was denied to everyone who could not produce credentials. John Redmond and other National;sts join ed Churchill and all predicted no real trouble.
 Churchill. accompanied by a num- Der of the Liberal leaders, proceeded to the park, being jeered by the Un-
 ionist crowds that lined the route and enthusiastically chered after he en- tered the Nationalist quarter. It was plain from the attitude of the First
 Lord of the Admiralty that he fully realized his significance in view of the utterances of his father, Lord Ran 1olph Churchill who relinquished place in Gladstone's Cabinet saying:
 Ulster will fight and Ulster will be right
 Ihe crowd at the park was chief ly Nationalist in character and Chur- caught them by appealing to both the loyalty and the self-interest of the Irish people to support the govern, ment policy. He criticised the present parliamentary methods of Great Bri- tain. saying that it was not suffi- ciently representative of the local and provincial life of the nation. He commented on the fact that England's two rivals for commercial supremacy, the United States and Germany. re- spectively. are administered, respec> lively by 46 and 23 separate 1egisla> tive bodies.
 In order to keep pace with the world movement. he said, he considered 1t vita-'y necessary for England to learn now to combine the fullest expressions If na tional and local aspira tions and
 activities with tn strongeAt frame I work of imperial unity. Home rule or Ireland he said. he regarded as
 he first milestone along the road to
 he eventual unity of the English
 Churchill complained that the hos
 ile attitude of Irishmen across the seas had on more. than one occasion 1een responsible for deflecting a poli- " favorable to Irish self government by other governments a reference to the Gladstcne plans which was wild
 "At the present time'' he continued. '''the greatest opposition to Anglo American friendship comes from the =. tes am confident that home rule will change this.''
 He stated that the Irish parliament when created, would be given the. re sponsibility of all financial legisla- ton. excepting that of the old age pensions and the land purchase under safeguards adopted to prevent discrimina ton against the north
 J -hn Redmond. who spoke next. en- dorsed Churchills position on behalf of the Nationalists. saving:
 we do not dispute that the imper- ia1 government has supreme power to liament but I want it understood now there has never been any intention on the part of the Nationalists of op- pressing Uls+ resid
 During his speech. Churchill was in- terrupted by delegation of suffra- gettes who. tried to put him on rec ord on the question.
 eve can safely leave the Irish par liament to decide the questions of votes for women.'' spared Churchill, and the clever side stepping was
 Churchill referred to the fear of the ''Protestant North" that home rule will mean Catholic aggression in the
 q am now looking forward to the time when the accursed machinery whereby hatred is manufactured will Ulster residents that the fears that their liberty will be assafled and their faith persecuted are absolutely
 Before the Cabinet minister depart ed for the park to make his speech, a band of workmen. carrying cIuos,
 
 of Churchill on a pole. They were | not molested by the police, who had | orders to make no arrests unless for l actual rioting.
 On the way to the park the car con- taining Churchill was frequently stop ped by the throngs of workmen and women whose lunchhour it was, and they jeered and booed continually. Police reserves were compelled to charge time and again to extricate the car from the crowd. No violence was offered the crowd being content with verbally expressing their opinion of the Cabinet minister who tried to maintain an air of uncUncern through out
 While the meeting was in progress in the park, a delegation of Nation- aIists hung effigies of Lord London derry and Sir Edward Casson, and Captain J. Craig. the Unionist leaders, to wires strung across the street in the Nationalist section.
 The police held the crowd outside of .He park in check and refused to permit buOwn Orange aeitators to erter There were frequent minor clashes.
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