Kentucky Irish American. (Louisville, Ky.) 1898-1968, 1913-08-16
REDMOND
Declares Home Rule Is Assured
without Another General
Election.
Liberals and Tories Prepared to
Fight Until Close of
Session.
Belfast PrOtestant's Condemn
Carson's Campaign and
Its Effects.
RELYING ON BASE CALUMNIES

1t is characteristic of the stern
and persistent ferocity of party
passions prevailing at this moment
in British politics, cables Hon. T. p
O'Connor, NJ. p, from the House of
Commons, that although the Parlia-
mentary session gives abundant
signs of fatigue and there is a uni
yersal desire to got away on the
holidays, no large number Of either
party yet has left London. 1t is on
both sides a fight to the death. Both
parties are equally we'll organized,
both are equally vigflant and both
are equally well served by united
band of loyal, energetic and devoted
followers. 1t is also, significant of
the ferocity of party passion that
the Tory newspapers continue the
campaign of personal attack which
was believed finished with the end
Of the Marconi debate. The latest
form of this calumny was a
ridiculous report that the Cabinet
Ministers we're among the clients of
a disreputable woman who kept a
disorderly house, and one Tory pa
per demands in big type the appoint
ment of commission of inquiry and
the publication of all names found
on a list discovered by the police in
the disorderly house. Home Secre-
tary McKenna exploded these
will be continued.
A second remarkable symptom is
the refusal of an indemnity bill to
Sir Stewart Samuel, who unwittingly
voted in the House of Commons ana
incurred heavy fines when his firm
had a silver contract with the Gov
ernment. The whole transaction
proved to be perfectly innocent. In
the debate in the House of Com
mons Sir Stewart resigned his seat
and was reelected. Such Indemnity
for an innocent mistake never before
was refused. Finally the Tories re-
yealed their determination to keep
the Marconi scandal alive by a big
attendance and animated debate
yesterday. But in spite OF all this
the Liberals remain strong and in
high spirits, the Irish party was
even more jubilant, and at private
dinner given him by his admiring
colleagues last Thursday night John
Redmond reiterated his emphatic
certainty that home rule now is as
sured and without another general
election.
Carson's campaign in Ulster, al
though attended in some places by
large bands of Orangemen, begins to
bore the English public, and even
the Tory newspapers now relegate
his dreary speeches, which are all
exactly the same. to obscure quar-
ters of their columns. Carson's deg
perate friends in the House of
Commons and he himself suggest
arrest and prosecution in the hope
of giving a badly wanted fillip to
the campaign by making him
martyr. Chief Secretary Birrell re-
mains obstinately determined to give
Carson no such advertisement. Mean
time everything in Ulster is being
carefully watched, every move is
known to the Government, and the
members of the Irish party con-
tinue to receive private assurances
from leading Protestant business
men of Belfast. They condemn and
dread Carson's campaign and its
effects on their prosperous business.
The revival of Lloyd-George's
spirits, activities and prestige also
add considerably to the strength OF
the Government and his freedom
now to start a big land campaign in
the autumn excites daily a growing
curiosity and hope. The CHIEF risk
of the Liberals during the next few
months is that If Sir Rufus Isaacs
accepts the Chief Justiceship his
seat in Reading Is almost certain to
go to the Tories, and in the present
excited state of political feeling even
the loss of one by-election tells
enormously. But on the other hand
everybody now knows that Asquith
will go straight to the end with his
programme and viii not leave office
until home rule has passed into law.
Apart from his own personal de-
termination any abandonment of his
task would. be visited with enraged
disapproval bv all Liberals. who are
even more determined, II possible,
than he that the Parliament act
shall be used to the uttermost and
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