The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-03-06
Had Been Member of Brit
ish Parliament Nearly
Forty Years
MADE HARD FIGHT
FOR HOME RULE
Had Twice Visited The
United States on Lee
ture Tours
(By Associated Press.O

London, March 6.-John E. Red
mond, the Irish Nationalist leader,
died this morning.
MIR. Redmond. who underwent an
operation in London last Friday,
passed a fair day yesterday and ap=
parentIy was maintaining the
progress shown Monday.
The Irish convention, which had
been supported by Mr.. Redmond, yes
terday adopted a message Of sym
pathy in which an earnest wish was
expressed for his early and complete
recovery.
Mr.. Redmond passed away peace
fully at 7:45 o'clock this morning.
Death was due to heart failure, fol-
lowing the recent operation, which
was for an intestinal obstruction,
This was borne courageously and 1t
relieved the patient but heart fall
ure intervened Tuesday night.
For more than twenty five years
John e. Redmond fought for home
rule in Ireland and for a majority of
that time he was the recognized
leader of Ireland's struggle for lib
erty." AS chairman Of the Irish
Parliamentary party-the national
ists-he exerted a powerful influence
in bringing about the creation Of the
Irish convention organized in July,
1917 to devise a system Of govern
ment for the island. .
When David Lloyd George, the
British premier, in that year offered
two methods Of settling the veXed
Irish question, it was Redmond who,
as spokesman for the nationalists,
rejected the proposition for a parti-
tion of Ireland and, instead, accepted
Lloyd Georges alternative plan for
the convOcation of the Irish conven-
tion in which Irishmen of nearly all
parties and creeds might meet in
the effort to compose their differ
enees and draft constitution that
would AFFORD justice to ALL
Redmond was one of the delegates
to the convention which sat at vari-
Gus times at Dublin, Belfast and
Cork in 1917 and 1918.
His Fight For Home Rule.
Born in 1851, son OF w. A. Red
mond, deceased, member OF the
British parliament from Wexford.
Ireland, John e. Redmond had sat
almost continuously in the British
House of Commons since 1881. There
his parliament fights for home rule
earned for him the sobriquet OF the
stormy petrol Of the house"
Educated in Cl0ngowes Wood col
lege, Kildare, and Trinity. college,
Dublin, Redmond was called to the
London bar in 1885 and the Irish bar
the following year but he never
practiced law. He devoted himself
almost wholly to his parliamentary
and political duties.
Prior to his first election to parlia-
VvnnT VqA aHa
mond was for some time clerk in
the Vote office Of the House of Com
mons. From 1885 to 1891 he repres-
ented North Wexford, but in 1891
he was elected from Waterford and
had been returned from that dis
trict since generally without opposi-
tiOn.
Redmond's eloquence and his
grasp Of parliamentary procedure
won him early recognition in parlia-
ment and when ln 1891 the Irish
party was disrupted. consequent on
the Parnell scandals, he became the
accredited leader Of the Parnellites.
In 1900 he succeeded in bringing
about an amalgamation Of the two
leading nationalist parties and madeI
his position as Nationalist Leader
secure.
Redmond was well known IN the
United States, which he visited in
1908 and 1910, and Australia, where
In 1883 he not only performed great
service for his party in directing the
collection Of a fund OF more than
$4,000 but found a wife in the per-
son OF Johanna Dalton, New South
Wales hefress and beauty.
The Irish leaders first visit to this
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