The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-09-29
JOHN REDMOND
 UNCOMPROMISlNG
 OVER HOME RULE
irish Nationalist Leader Takes
 Slap At Ulster In Answer To CarSOn'S Defiance.

London. Sept. 29-John Redmond, the Irish Nationalist leader, in a speech at Cahirciveen. County Kerry, Ireland. elaborated the brief state Tnent he made two weeks ago in re- gard to a conference on the Irish question, when he said the home ruie bill would have to be passed first and then it would be easy enough to con fer on the details of it's administra- ton. In his speech Saturday MT. Red- 1nond emphasized his refusal to parti- cfpate in any conference unless the principle of home rule was recognized
 Lord Loreburn'S suggestion of 8 conference, MT. Redmond said, might have averted (aIthough he doubted it) some of the troubles they might have 60 face if it had been received in a spirit of reason, conciliation and friendliness, but it had been rejected with brutal insolence by the only peo- pIe for whom such ~a a conference was supposed to be needed.
 The reception of Lord Loreburn's s suggestion, said Mir. Redmond, must have convinced every one of the true character of the so-called Ulster op- position. It was implacable and ire cOncilable and was not based on rea- son or argument. Its root was the old spirit of ascendeney- It was a brutal, arrogant detern1ination to I the country at any risk or at any cost. AIr. Redmond contended that the ex- fsosure of the attitude of the -oppOs1- ton had rendered the passage of the home rule bill even more certain than hitherto. He suggested that perhaps that was Lord Loreburn's intention in reiterating the offer, which he made to Sir Edward Carson in June, when he expressed in a speech his readiness to discuss with the Ulster -Unionist leader every single provision of the bill with an earnest desire to accom- rnodate the details to the needs and desires of Sir Edward and his follow CTS if they would frankly accept the prfnciple of a local Parliament for Ireland with local powers subject to the supremacy of the Imperial Parlia- nlent. But, said MT. Redmond, the. NaionaIists were now told that they ought to agree to the conference without any conditions and allow the whole question of the principles of horne rule to be put again into the raelting pot
 ..That,' MT. Redmond declared, i've cannot and will not do. Any home rule conference must of necessity be hased upon the admission of Irish Parliament with an Executive re- ssnonsible to it. That is the starting point. After all that has happened there is really no use in wasting any more words on the matt6r. our s11p is at the harbor's mouth, the glass is set fair and the orders are for full steam ahead"
 Carson Gives Reply.
 The Daily Express telegraphed the gist of MT. Redmond's speech to Sir Edward Carson, who replied as fol- lows;
 Assuming MT. Redmond's offer to be as stated it merely amounts to this, that we should accept the, bill subject to discussion of the details That is no offer at all should be quite will ing to discuss any question of the ex- tension of local government, private bill legislation or any measure for the improvement of the existing govern ment of Ireland. provided Ireland re- -tafns her position under the imperial Parliament and is governed by an Executive who will be responsible to